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by dminor 17y ago
My brother and I grew up eating the same foods, but he had 17 fillings by college, whereas I had none. Our dad is a dentist (and now my brother as well), so we had pretty good oral hygiene growing up.
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by dminor 17y ago
Nobody expects a journalist/blogger to have a knowledge of dentistry. But at what level of professionalism do we expect them to track down a dentist for a quote?
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by dminor 17y ago
Yes, but many of the questions raised by the justices were skeptical of patenting abstract ideas. I think the consensus is that Bilski will lose, and the real question is how narrow the Supreme Court's decision will be.
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by dminor 17y ago
The ratio of existing to new homes makes sense since no one's been building the last couple of years, but that shadow inventory is definitely worrying.
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by dminor 17y ago
Assuming Apple asked them not to do multitouch, probably just a decision that the rewards outweigh the risks.
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Android: Fragmentation? More like Fragmentawesome.(replicaisland.blogspot.com)
35 points by dminor 17y ago|15 comments
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by dminor 17y ago
Ah, was wondering why java.sun.com is unavailable. Some network issues to work out, no doubt.
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by dminor 17y ago
It's getting more and more difficult to send legitimate email to a list through your own server these days. MailChimp's free tools have been helpful, but I think we'll have to bite the bullet and go certified soon.
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by dminor 17y ago
Seattle gets less rain than NY.
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by dminor 17y ago
Hopefully Congress gives the FAA the authority to do auctions - would be especially cool if they used combinatorial auctions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_auction
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by dminor 17y ago
Google says otherwise: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-... No doubt they must use other indicators to ensure the authoritative source.
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by dminor 17y ago
Or include a rel=canonical link in the head.
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by dminor 17y ago
Compatibility isn't much of an issue unless you are doing something low level with the NDK, or are using an API that has changed significantly between versions (most are fairly stable). Otherwise just follow the recommendations from the And
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by dminor 17y ago
I'd say it depends on your tastes and circumstances - do you care what carrier? Do you care about the price? Do you want a physical keyboard?
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Sparkfun looking for Web Developer(boulder.craigslist.org)
2 points by dminor 17y ago|0 comments
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by dminor 17y ago
If you go to Nart Villeneuve's blog http://www.nartv.org/ , which Google's blog post linked to, he's got a cool pdf on tracking GhostNet (Chinese government cyber-espionage network). The command and control servers that were discovered in
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by dminor 17y ago
How in-depth is the iPhone app review process? Would they catch something trojaned into an otherwise legitimate app?
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by dminor 17y ago
In theory this should be no worse than a game at a brick and mortar casino, but more of a problem than current online poker sites, who have access to everyone's hand history and can analyze data after the fact. If you look at the number one
769.
by dminor 17y ago
Sadly it falls apart as soon as someone decides to quit (or loses communication) in the middle of a hand, making it unsuitable for internet poker. I did run across an interesting "dropout resistant" variation once where the missing player's
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by dminor 17y ago
Barring a major change in government, likely not. China allows citizens to build up wealth, while North Korea tries to prevent it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/03/north-korea-won-...
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by dminor 17y ago
Just checked out an upcoming game that I'm planning on attending and wow the interface rocks! At all the other ticket places I have to look at the list of tickets, see what the section is, and then find it on the map to see if the price and
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by dminor 17y ago
Couldn't get past the credit card page. Guess I'll get back to work now.
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by dminor 17y ago
This reminds me of trying to buy playoff tickets online - an exercise in frustration that probably just ends up pissing off most of your customers. Although the PR might end up being worth it.
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by dminor 17y ago
> The alternative would be to actually balance the federal budget before taking into account entitlement surpluses That's what I meant by a more accurate definition of deficit. You could call it "gross deficit" for instance, just like "
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by dminor 17y ago
Android limits the available CPU time of background tasks, and will kill them if it needs memory for the foreground task. It also has stats on which applications have used the battery (and how much) since you last recharged.
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by dminor 17y ago
Nobody "raids Social Security" -- please stop perpetuating this silly meme. Social security and other entitlement surpluses are automatically loaned to the government in exchange for non-marketable debt. The alternative would be a larger de
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by dminor 17y ago
Or perhaps they're paying tribute to me!
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by dminor 17y ago
So it's an HTC phone built with Google's input, will be carried on T-Mobile, and Google sells an unlocked version. The G1 could be described in exactly these terms!
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by dminor 17y ago
Perhaps it's a fear of the Bilski outcome that's motivating the "sue everyone" strategy -- squeeze out some payments before SCOTUS rules.
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by dminor 17y ago
IE6 is just about the same as Firefox on per visit value, and amounts to 7% of our revenue. We can't ignore it (yet), but we certainly don't optimize for it.

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