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by dmboyd 15y ago
Another reason to go for open source software. I use homebank and the files work seamlessly across platforms (linux mac windows) and they accept qif, csv etc imports. GnuCash is actually a pretty decent clone of quicken if you are more use
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by dmboyd 15y ago
From the look of the article the google maps solution is using lagged traffic flow data as a basis of directing waves of traffic. I think in practice, if this had a large uptake rate, by directing cars to areas with low traffic rates, you w
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by dmboyd 15y ago
I think im seeing the same vacuuming footage. Slightly off topic, but what's with all the people wearing baseball caps indoors. Wouldn't it obscure a large portion of your vision?
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by dmboyd 15y ago
The fact that the preview is flash just shows that they arent serious.
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by dmboyd 15y ago
All apple need to do is somehow "crowd-source" tweets into their own db as part of their "anonymous diagnostic and user data" clause and then cut them out like they did to SkyHook.
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by dmboyd 15y ago
It may be implicit, however some tax laws (I'm Australian, not sure of how this works in the states) can look through contracts and treat them as employment arrangments unless the contracts specifically allow for the ability to subcontract
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by dmboyd 15y ago
check the absorption spectrum : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Water_absorption_spectrum.... Which also explains why the ocean is blue.
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by dmboyd 15y ago
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=id:6n3Ji59CZ3S&... Did hemorrhoids cause the GFC?
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by dmboyd 15y ago
What are the risks of this? there was an article(1) a while back which went through the google hits of "free wordpress themes" which had either base64 obfuscated js code directly in the theme code. What are the chances of code allowing othe
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by dmboyd 15y ago
TIL about http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Main_Pag... I cant help but think that a wiki isnt the best platform for this. It needs something more analogous to pen-and-paper proofs. ie. discrete steps with the possibilit
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by dmboyd 15y ago
Its either hours times rate (which sucks imho, because it creates a perverse incentive for laziness) or you go value billing and have a set of agile steps with dollars and time expectations. Its easier to relate to and easier to bill if you
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by dmboyd 15y ago
LAC: Location code CI Cell ID MCC: Mobile Country Code MNC: Mobile Network Code I cant see primary on my db copy, and my wifi location also contains 33000 MAC addresses. Indecently, couldn't get the py script up and running on win7, but if
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by dmboyd 15y ago
The application to healthcare is essentially a product of the problem that Watson solves. i.e. an abstraction of a set covering problem, which along with applications in pattern recognition(which is roughly the field that Watson is solving
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by dmboyd 16y ago
Nice thought, but It seems like a misdirection of effort. How can you trust malware/trackers not to track you? Isn't it no different to the flawed model of a server trusting a client to perform its own authentication?
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by dmboyd 16y ago
related: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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by dmboyd 16y ago
I love this bit: appleMenu: IF NOT Monkey THEN BEGIN IF active THEN BEGIN KillStuff; ...
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by dmboyd 16y ago
I think the best freemium model which with my previous comment would be to pick about 10 "dynamic" topics, along the lines of say todays current google trends http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends which would give people enough of an ind
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by dmboyd 16y ago
Just an idea, charge for the API. I can easily imagine this being very useful for a feed/content provider to automatically source an automatic image related to a news feed/ or product.