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   by cstuder 16y ago

   I just wanted to post that too, you beat me to it. Seriously, go read it. It's an amazing report.
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   by cstuder 16y ago

   And the service itself: http://socialbicycles.com/
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   Technical details of Social Bicycles(arstechnica.com)

   1 points by cstuder 16y ago|1 comments
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   by cstuder 16y ago

   It's a sort of micropayment service: You sign up and distribute a fixed amount of money per month (I.E. 10€). Everytime you click on a flattr-button (Which seem to shop up on german blogs only, in my experience), they will get a share. At t
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   Flattr is now in open beta(blog.flattr.com)

   55 points by cstuder 16y ago|35 comments
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   by cstuder 16y ago

   Which is kinda weird, since the publisher of Calvin & Hobbes is known to be very aggressive towards this kind of sites. (Or at least they used to, maybe they've just given up.)
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   by cstuder 16y ago

   The one explanation I read on a Star Trek site once (Can't remember excactly where), was that the PADDs basically were a sign of capitulation from information overload: Instead of trying to store relevant information in huge central databas
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   by cstuder 16y ago

   According to Wikipedia[1], about 10% of all gift cards are never redeemed. I am convinced that this factors into the Groupon suppliers calculations too. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giftcard#Redemption_rate
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   by cstuder 16y ago

   Same happened to me when german TV once showed a couple of the few WW2 video recordings in color.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Don't get impatient: For me, there was a delay of several minutes between HTTP-request and its response.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1470665
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Dammit, what shall I fill my blimp with now? Hot air?
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    After some learning, yes, you might understand +/-. But the mapping of the batttery poles to those symbols isn't exactly intuitive. I like their idea.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Yes. Text-only-semi-Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9INmQEi...
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    It's like, quotes from the future about the coming past... My head hurts. (You meant December 2009.)
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Hmm, I didn't catch all of them. Well, none, in fact, except the first: 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell. What are the others?
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    The title is a little bit misleading: Only the email addresses of the owners were reveiled. Not the content of any emails.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Also: If applying for a job, hire a writer.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Yeah, I almost lost focus during this test thinking about the bear.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Speaking of trademarks: Isn't 'iOS' owned by Cisco? Their Internet Operating System is running on their routers...
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Hmm, I fail to understand the 2D-to-1D-mapping.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    The most interesting line was this: > If I had not flirted with Linux during college, where would we be right now? I wonder how much in support just relies on good luck. Someone happily trying out stuff several years back on his own. C
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    All hashes suffer from collisions (Otherwise they would be great compression tools). But a collision to an arbitrary MD5 hash cannot yet be easily calculated. And producing a working (malware) binary with the same hash would be quite a chal
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    They removed the trademark ((tm)) letters from the logo. I'm wondering why corporations keep plastering those all over their designs.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322768 (No new informations.)
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    I especially am looking forward to use files stored on my DropBox in other Apps (Like Air Sharing or Goodreader). It's a nice way to get around the clumsy synchronization via iTunes.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Nothing, this applies only to UK users for the moment.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Imagine servers refusing to serve flash content.
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    Speaking of competition: How is Googles Chrome OS doing? I haven't heard anything about it either. Is there any competition to Apples iPad anywhere? Apart from dozens indistinguishable Android tablets, there seems to be close to no serious
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    by cstuder 16y ago

    And of course: "Real artists ship."