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by cek 12y ago
Watching Cosmos last week had me thinking about how deep we'd drilled to date. I meant to go look it up but didn't. Thanks for posting. It saddens me/blows me away we've only gone 7.5 miles (into the 22 mile crust). It a
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Putin Passes Law Requiring $3.8B Security Payments From Visa, MasterCard(themoscowtimes.com)
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Windows Phone 8.1 is somehow working with Apple's Passbook...?(imore.com)
1 points by cek 13y ago|0 comments
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What's been wrought using the Piece Table?(1017.songtrellisopml.com)
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6 Reasons to call an EMV 'Time Out'(pymnts.com)
1 points by cek 13y ago|0 comments
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Find Work That Does Not Feel Like Work(ceklog.kindel.com)
1 points by cek 13y ago|0 comments
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by cek 13y ago
I'm not sure what this article has to do with Microsoft.
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by cek 13y ago
In firearms circles there's a saying "There is no such thing as a firearms accident. There are only negligent acts." SOMEONE is always responsible, and should be held accountable.
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$100K free payment processing from Amazon Payments and AWS(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by cek 13y ago|1 comments
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The Internet is Fucked(theverge.com)
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by cek 13y ago
This has nothing to do with Microsoft. Due to anti-trust law, Microsoft can't have any influence over decisions Nokia makes before the acquisition[1]. Even if Microsoft hated the idea of Nokia building and Android phone (likely) it co
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by cek 13y ago
Yes, a but is trademarked by Texas A&M and licensed (exclusively, I believe) to the Seattle Seahawks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_man_(football)#Texas_A.26M...
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Boeing paints 747 For Seahawks. Flies "12" flightplan(geekwire.com)
2 points by cek 13y ago|0 comments
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by cek 13y ago
Cool. Within a few minutes of clicking NEXT I started getting duplicates.
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by cek 13y ago
This describes most (not all, but most) of the technical people I've worked with whom I view as heroes. At one point I thought I wanted to be a systems programmer. Then I recognized that I was incapable of the patience, detail orientat
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Portable Class Libraries just got really useful.(hanselman.com)
1 points by cek 13y ago|0 comments
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by cek 13y ago
"Write Once Run Anywhere" is Anti-Customer. [1] Because of continued platform fragmentation WORA has been, is, and always will be a pipe-dream. People have been attempting to create WORA technologies since the beginning of time an
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by cek 13y ago
>> If they ... read HN, I recommend the GPL. What data do you have that suggests the HN audience prefers GPL over other FOSS licenses? I, for example, find the GPL overly complicated and prefer more straightforward licenses such as th
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by cek 13y ago
When this is supported natively in Safari on iOS it will be interesting.
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by cek 13y ago
The only reason Xbox was 'profitable' was due to an accounting trick. The Ultimate SKU of Windows commanded a premium license fee due to the inclusion of Windows Media Center, created by the eHome division. eHome, from an accounti
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by cek 13y ago
You remember correctly (at least your memories jive with mine). UCSD Pascal was, at best, 'functional'.
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by cek 13y ago
I forwarded this to Anders Hijlsberg [1]. It'd be fun if he commented on this here. I cut my programming teeth on Pascal and Turbo Pascal. This is hugely nostalgic for me! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hej
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by cek 13y ago
Techies in NoCal think they carry a lot of weight. If they really do, she will be voted out of office next election. If she gets elected again it will indicate either tech hasn't the voice it thinks, doesn't vote, or are confused
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by cek 13y ago
In 1999 I was deposed by the firm going after Microsoft. I had driven the design & implementation of the <object> tag in IE3, which was central to their case. Coincidentally, and ironically, it turned out my then-soon-to-be, but n
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by cek 13y ago
The revenue from apps/games is tiny.
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Project Spark(joinprojectspark.com)
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Buddy launches 'Sound as a Service' & Lady Gaga investment(geekwire.com)
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How Microsoft Lost Consumer Calendaring to Google(stefann.com)
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The Startup Game An 8-Bit Entrepreneurial Adventure(geekwire.com)
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by cek 14y ago
The sucky thing is ecc memory does not need to be so much more expensive than non-ecc. It is only more expensive because those who make it, and server vendors have conspired to use it as a margin driver.

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