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Cracker of Apple’s fingerprint scanner to win booze, cash, and bitcoins(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dean 13y ago|0 comments
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by dean 13y ago
" please don't set up a strawman about how it's not statistically valid when in fact there is no way any such endeavour could be. " So you agree that it's not statistically valid. Therefore it's not a strawman
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Webcam spying goes mainstream as Miss Teen USA describes hack(arstechnica.com)
2 points by dean 13y ago|2 comments
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Once the province of Windows XP, Web servers are hackers’ target of choice(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dean 13y ago|0 comments
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by dean 13y ago
" 50% of your capital gains are taxed " True, but that is an exemption that gets used up. There is a $750,000 lifetime capital gains exemption. Which most people don't hit, but a successful founder could.
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by dean 13y ago
Nice idea. I like the clean interface and it's very responsive. Nice comparison feature as well. I think you need some kind of canonical name resolution though. For example, searching for 'Moscow' returns nothing -- but it is
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A Technical Dictionary That Fits the Definition of User-Friendly(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by dean 13y ago|0 comments
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TripAdvisor tries the smorgasbord approach to hiring software developers(boston.com)
1 points by dean 13y ago|0 comments
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Banff motorcyclist pursued by ‘massive’ grey wolf along B.C. highway(ottawacitizen.com)
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THE SECRET WAR(wired.com)
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by dean 13y ago
Just that I would point out that Peter King (R-New York) has supported terrorist organizations himself, namely the Irish Republican Army. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_I... http:/&#x2
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by dean 13y ago
The reproduction or the distribution of copyright material is a felony. (Who knows, the MPAA and RIAA might be up on Capitol Hill as we speak begging for access to this data.)
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Business Grads to Wall Street: Drop Dead(wired.com)
2 points by dean 13y ago|0 comments
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How Pinterest Drives Ecommerce Sales(shopify.com)
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by dean 14y ago
If you like the vim key bindings, and you use Chrome, you should check out Vimium. It will let you browse without ever touching the mouse.
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by dean 14y ago
Actually, if you are in 'insert' mode in Vim all the time "you're doing it wrong". Vim shines when editing and tweaking existing code. You should be in 'normal' mode almost all the time, where you do your "thoughtful, creative, deliberate p
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by dean 14y ago
The author's point that the most successful forms of Bayesian statistics accord much better with sophisticated forms of hypothetico-deductivism is reminiscent of the epistemology of normative value(s) which furnish a provisional lens for th
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A better Google News experience on tablets(googlenewsblog.blogspot.ca)
1 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments
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Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments
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Reselling E-Books and the One-Penny Problem(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by dean 14y ago
Depends how you look at it. A minute and a half a day? Doesn't sound too bad when you say it that way. A 3-hour outage every 4 months? My cable company can barely do that.
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by dean 14y ago
Five nines will cost you a lot of money.
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by dean 14y ago
" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
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What Is the Point of Google’s Chromebook Pixel?(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments
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by dean 14y ago
Yes. From the fourth bullet point in the article: " Systems administrators are the most sought-after Linux pros "
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Research: Web Browser War, Security Battle in 2011(gfi.com)
1 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments
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by dean 14y ago
Agree. Most iPhone users don't care at all. This non-issue sounds to me like a designer who has gotten tired of the look of iOS. Which is fine, but don't make it sound like a technical issue with the platform.
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by dean 14y ago
I deny the premise of the OP's doctor analogy. Given a rare liver disease, and the amount of information available on the internet, and access to doctors to ask questions to, a motivated learner could become quite proficient in understandin
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False(plosmedicine.org)
1 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments
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How to Deflect Killer Asteroids With Spray Paint(wired.com)
2 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments

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