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by choult 13y ago
I agree that it might open up a "huge realm of creative activity" on the amateur or cottage industry side, but it also removes a lot of content creators' rights when larger corps who can afford licensing fees rip us off. I'm not the biggest
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UK Government passes “Instagram Act”(theregister.co.uk)
138 points by choult 13y ago|79 comments
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by choult 13y ago
Rotating "on call" around sprint cycles, for example, has a lot of potential IMO; as engineers we need to have not only a solid understanding of our product and technology but also of our customers - how can we build the best product for th
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When Your Twitter Friend Turns Out To Be The Boston Bomber(digg.com)
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Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps(richannel.org)
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Introduction to Position Based Fluids(physxinfo.com)
273 points by choult 13y ago|77 comments
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by choult 14y ago
10% is customary here in the UK, but then we do have minimum wage; AFAIK tips are tips. When I was last in NYC the minimum was 12.5%, and that wasn't all that long ago - I was impressed that the bill included tip calculations, but what real
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by choult 14y ago
For some people, tipping isn't patronizing but part of their minimum wage. For others, it's an indication that their service was appreciated. For yet others (NYC I'm looking at you!) it's considered a right: "Would you like change?" Persona
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by choult 14y ago
There is a vast difference in the number of people who can pick locks and the number of people with cameras.
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FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Details Revealed in Court(wired.com)
112 points by choult 14y ago|49 comments
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Turing's Universal Machine voted most important past British innovation(topbritishinnovations.org)
36 points by choult 14y ago|27 comments
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South Korean Wipers and Spear Phishing E-mails(f-secure.com)
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Programming Language Popularity - Github x StackOverflow(langpop.corger.nl)
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by choult 14y ago
They also got BBC Arabic and (randomly) BBC Radio Ulster: https://twitter.com/Official_SEA/status/314745088280522752
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DigitalRev.com served with DMCA takedown notice by GoPro for review(digitalrev.com)
159 points by choult 14y ago|57 comments
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The Obscurest Epoch is Today: SWATted reporter phones his hacker(m.krebsonsecurity.com)
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Gun violence in America: How many years of life have been lost?(guardian.co.uk)
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Reuters Employee Exposed as Anonymous Agent(m.gizmodo.com)
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by choult 14y ago
A boxer's hands are a lot less useful when not attached to a boxer's arms.
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Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5(econsultancy.com)
266 points by choult 14y ago|139 comments
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by choult 14y ago
But the thing is, you can. You can reproduce it verbatim and you can call it your own. That's "stealing" of a different nature. If he's full-on rejecting copyright then I can (with his blessing) take his entire body of work, s/zenhabits/cho
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by choult 14y ago
My current pet hate with a number of sites is the fact that a number have started capturing / for focussing on their site search - where in Firefox it's been Quick Find for ages. Slows me down something rotten.
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Sexism and PHP(blog.calevans.com)
15 points by choult 14y ago|37 comments
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by choult 14y ago
The other benefit of talking to an outsider is you very frequently benefit from rubber duck debugging[1] [1] http://www.rubberduckdebugging.com/
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by choult 14y ago
Sending pointless emails?
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A Visualization of Global "Brain Drain" in Science Inspired by Abstract Art(brainpickings.org)
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by choult 14y ago
What service are you using to collect the data? The public Twitter API or another aggregation service?