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Android Battles iPhone for Hearts of Lustful Blackberry Users(crowdscience.com)
2 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackety_Hack
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by darshan 17y ago
Coates is pointing out that there are good reasons to suspect strong sample bias. OkCupid didn't address this -- they just assumed an unbiased sample. I find Coates' argument far more compelling than OkCupid's blind assumption. Blacks do l
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Motorola to Milestone developers: "Buy HTC"(androidandme.com)
1 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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The Daily Show and Colbert to Be Yanked From Hulu(mashable.com)
4 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
You mean reek rather than wreak . (I apologize if this was just a typo -- I'm not trying to nitpick, but to inform.)
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by darshan 17y ago
I think a lot of us are still on first generation Android devices. I use the emulator to make sure everything runs smoothly at higher resolutions and on newer releases of Android, but such details simply don't get as much attention since I
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Free second generation Android phones for qualifying developers(sites.google.com)
21 points by darshan 17y ago|11 comments
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The mother of all dictatorships(economist.com)
2 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
Indeed -- it's called eccentric contraction, and the reason you do it is that it works the same muscles in a different way. Exercise routines that combine eccentric and concentric contractions (where the muscle shortens as it contracts) ar
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Debunking the claim that higher income-tax rates reduce GDP(slate.com)
17 points by darshan 17y ago|30 comments
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Financial innovation debate(economist.com)
2 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
That's weird. Bananas are one of the few foods I buy organic -- specifically because they're bigger and tastier than the non-organic ones. My guess is that the fact that the organic bananas you have access to are small and mealy has nothin
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Is America ungovernable?(economist.com)
28 points by darshan 17y ago|77 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
There aren't a lot of details, but Adobe sounds confident that they've made Flash pretty usable for touchscreen Android devices. From the second video here: http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/adobe-teases-us-with-fl... "From a developer
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by darshan 17y ago
The opening line of the article: Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times and winner of a prestigious banking prize (usually mistakenly called a “Nobel”)... What the hell? He absolutely did win a Nobel Prize (technically, the "No
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If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present(techcrunch.com)
1 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
Google doesn't allow porno apps in the Market Yes, that's the point. DHH isn't recommending removing all rules; he's recommending eliminating the approval process to get apps/updates into the Store. Apple would still, of course, have th
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by darshan 17y ago
I don't see how you can be anything but completely wrong on this. Why have none of your predictions come true for the Android Market? (Yes, it's quite a bit smaller than Apple's App Store, but it's still plenty big enough that if you were
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by darshan 17y ago
He's a friend of mine; I can forward him your contact info if you wish. It would also be useful to have some idea what you want to contact him about.
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by darshan 17y ago
It worked for me with chromium-bin-5.0.308.0_p37385 on 64-bit Gentoo. The one thing I had to do (besides launching it as 'chromium-bin --no-sandbox --enable-webgl', as you mentioned) was to create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libGL.so to /
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by darshan 17y ago
That doesn't help much, as the web server just serves the root document in that case.
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by darshan 17y ago
It's definitely the underscore: http://usesthis.com/ is accessible, as are all the other interviews, but http://_why.usesthis.com/ isn't. And it doesn't seem to be the browser's fault: $ ping richard.stallman.usesthis.com PING ric
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by darshan 17y ago
Yes, of course. But it was clearly meant as an analogy. The elements of good coding style that apply when writing a program in C don't necessarily apply to a compiler when it compiles a higher level language down to C. Similarly, the best
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Spotify sets its sights on iPhone(news.bbc.co.uk)
12 points by darshan 17y ago|8 comments
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Detecting underground smuggling with low-frequency radio waves(economist.com)
2 points by darshan 17y ago|2 comments
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Recommendations on using HTML5 today(kpumuk.info)
1 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
I'm surprised not to see MongoDB mentioned; it's the document-oriented database I find most intriguing: http://www.mongodb.org I don't know enough about its alternatives to offer meaningful comparisons, but things I really like about Mong
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Canonical releases source code for Launchpad(ubuntu.com)
3 points by darshan 17y ago|0 comments
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by darshan 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680104 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679937

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