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by decode 14y ago
> And if they are kings, they're leading a dying kingdom. Have you seen the iPad sales numbers recently? Here are the Q1 2012 numbers: PC sales [1]: 88.9 million iPad sales [2]: 11.8 million About 13% as many iPad sales as PC sales. Whi
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by decode 14y ago
The definition I'm familiar with for Jewish Diaspora (which is corroborated by all the Google hits on the first page) is the dispersal of the Jewish people starting in the 6th century BCE. Where do you get the connection to World War II?
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by decode 14y ago
Reminds me of a quote from Lawrence Lessig in this talk at Occupy DC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZPB6DqCO6M#t=08m29s "It is the first time in American history where we have seen a collapse followed by no fundamental reregulation of t
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by decode 14y ago
> PowerShell, the current standard shell for modern Windows version is really powerful. Get with the times. Do you actually use PowerShell as an interactive console on a daily basis? When I tried to learn it, it seemed powerful for scr
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by decode 14y ago
> Darcs is not "another", it is "the first distributed" version control system that gained some traction in open source projects. Wasn't BitKeeper in use by the Linux kernel for several years before Darcs came out?
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by decode 14y ago
> a cheap room with a beamer A tip for you, and maybe other German speakers here: "beamer" is one of those German words that seems like English, but it's not (like handy). In English, the word is "projector", whether it's analog or dig
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by decode 15y ago
I'm using the Firefox add-on version 1.7.8, with the default URL Components settings (subdomains not enabled), and it uses "bbc.co.uk" as the domain for "www.bbc.co.uk" and "evil.co.uk" as the domain for "evil.co.uk", so the problem you des
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by decode 15y ago
> The problem is when some site has unusual password requirements that SuperGenPass can't support. Then I must make up and remember a password for that site. :( PasswordMaker is similar to SuperGenPass, but you can create exceptions to
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by decode 15y ago
> One of the first principle that I hold is that the products of an individuals labor should belong to the individual and she should have control over it, regardless if it is a wooden spoon or a work of art. In common law countries like
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by decode 15y ago
> A point which seems to be missed (and which is, thankfully, made in the podcast) is that these terrible conditions are better than the alternative. This is often brought up, but strangely "the alternative" is defined as "the way thing
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by decode 15y ago
> sudo apt-get install unity-2d You may have to add this PPA first: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/unity_2d?dist=oneiric Then choose Unity 2D in the window manager options from the login manager.
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by decode 15y ago
Since the article mentions this, in what way is it not quite right? "The National Institutes of Health in the US oblige anyone taking their grants to put their papers in an open-access archive(17)."
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by decode 15y ago
It also seems clear that VARA doesn't apply to the photograph in question. From your link: "Under VARA, moral rights automatically vest in the author of a "work of visual art." For the purposes of VARA, visual art includes paintings, drawi
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by decode 15y ago
I think this is already happening. There are successful niche social networks broken up along at least two lines: 1) Geography. VZ-Networks' sites are bigger than Facebook in Germany, Vkontakte seems to still be #1 in Russia. 2) Activity. C
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by decode 15y ago
You misspelled your word in the link. Using a z instead of s indicates the software is cracked or pirated. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/warez
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by decode 15y ago
I know some people like the author, people who never listen to their voicemail. I call and leave them a message and they call me back without listening to it. When they do this, they are communicating to me that their time is more importa
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by decode 15y ago
I consider myself a power user and I've been happily using Gnome for several years now. It's got just enough room for customization that I can configure it to be a very efficient workspace, but it doesn't require me to spend days or weeks
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by decode 16y ago
That's definitely an issue, but there's a workaround if you want to do it. You need to VACUUM the sqlite database like this: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-...
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by decode 16y ago
He got the information from The Cloud Market and they outline their process here: http://blog.thecloudmarket.com/post/208291539/where-do-we-ge...
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by decode 16y ago
Silverlight looks fundamentally different than any other product, except WPF. Back when my company started using Silverlight, I was surprised to learn that none of my coworkers knew it was almost the same as Adobe Flex. I think this sort
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by decode 16y ago
A combination of private charity and vigorous markets have provided quality universal food and entertainment. I can't think of a single country where there is no government food assistance and no one starving to death. Where are you thin
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by decode 16y ago
On the (somewhat new) T410, there's a ring around the power button that does the breathing blink thing when the laptop is in sleep mode.
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by decode 16y ago
I think it would be very difficult. Arguably, by controlling access to their network, Google is putting access control and restriction on all of the works in their web cache. Similarly, requiring a login on a server restricts access to th
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by decode 16y ago
"There is no great literature, there is old literature and moving literature, but they are not the same thing." And when most people talk about great literature, they aren't talking about either thing. Most people mean something like Adler
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by decode 16y ago
That seems like a fun game, though I don't have any opinions on Continental Philosophy. I don't speak French well enough to do it in the original, so I'll have to try in translation: "And even if one wished to keep sonority on the side of
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by decode 16y ago
I prefer this version, since it lists each item in the pictures, as well as breaking down the expenditures by category: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952 Some interesting bits: The German family spends more on v
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by decode 16y ago
I'm not sure you can do very complex things with a hammer. You can really only hit things and pry things. Those are very simple tasks. Of course, combining those simple tasks in complex ways will give you complex results. But then you've
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by decode 16y ago
"the piano has an incredibly intuitive interface" I prefer not to use the word "intuitive" exactly because it has no definition and leads to such miscommunications. You're saying the layout of a piano keyboard is arranged by a system that
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by decode 16y ago
You're right to some extent, but there is definitely a tension between the two things. This is true with all tools. If a tool enables doing something very complicated, it is almost always hard for beginners to use. Think of musical instru
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by decode 16y ago
In his video interview for Reddit, I thought Rowe came across as exceedingly genuine and self-aware of his position as actor and television personality, rather than worker. He also expounds on the things he has to say in the TED talk in a

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