bobwise

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by bobwise 11y ago
Do "Women in Tech" conferences and workshops help to close the gender gap by actively working against the legacy of a male-dominated industry, the same way affirmative action works against the historical disadvantage of minorities
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by bobwise 12y ago
This sentence grossed me out: "The Twitter you experience today is rich and immersive, full of images, gifs, Vines, audio files and videos from some of the world’s most recognizable figures and brands."
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by bobwise 12y ago
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/548140622826459136
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by bobwise 12y ago
This explains the strangely-located hyphens I've been seeing in a book I'm reading currently. This must be exactly how the book was submitted.
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by bobwise 12y ago
Day comes over to shake her hand. Lori is laughing as Day declares her "the greatest Tetris player in the world," then turns to me to add, "And I must say, she's also the prettiest." Maybe if gamers didn't thin
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by bobwise 12y ago
What are the practical consumer-level implications of this? My understanding is that every internet-enabled device needs a unique IP address. If there are no more unique addresses, can no more devices connect to the internet in this regio
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by bobwise 13y ago
Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet
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by bobwise 13y ago
Man what a great title
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by bobwise 13y ago
For anyone (like me) who thought the headline meant that Netflix is no longer available on Chromecast, that is not the case. Google and Netflix had partnered on a promotion to include 3 months of Netflix for free with the Chromecast device,
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by bobwise 14y ago
Well obviously URLs are for people because raw IP addresses are unsuitable, but that doesn't mean that textual URLs as they exist today are our best option. Even well-designed URLs are too complicated. " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by bobwise 14y ago
Got distracted halfway through the thread, came back 10 minutes later, and read another 3 comments before I remembered it was a parody.
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by bobwise 14y ago
Like with "Disney's The Avengers"?
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by bobwise 14y ago
Busted.
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by bobwise 14y ago
It's an app store for apps that only run inside the Facebook app. Facebook is a platform in a platform - the "Inner-platform effect". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect "The inner-platform effect is the tendency of softwa
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by bobwise 15y ago
I was about two paragraphs in before I realized that this has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings.