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by dmnd 17y ago
You should try Firefox's Smart Keywords for searching directly from the location bar: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords Using these, I type "gs <search terms>" for Google. I also have this set up for Wikipedia, Go
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by dmnd 17y ago
"What if I buy the phone full-price?" I ask. "Do I pay the same rates, even though I’m not getting a discount for the phone?" Yes. Same rates, even though I’m no longer amortizing a phone. There doesn't seem to be much to gain by owning
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by dmnd 17y ago
My hypothesis is that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is much more applicable to programming than natural language. edit: after I wrote this, I realised it's just a restatement of PG's Blub paradox.
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by dmnd 17y ago
The site's been going up and down all day, despite a server upgrade. I'm not confident it will be up when the sale starts...
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Interesting analysis of how Google's apps on the Nexus One change the market(radar.oreilly.com)
4 points by dmnd 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmnd 17y ago
Keep this Readability bookmarklet on your browser toolbar. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by dmnd 17y ago
What version of Chrome are you using? I don't have this option in 3.0.195.38, which I assumed was the latest.
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by dmnd 17y ago
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but you need a better explanation than you have offered olegk. Google wrote their quick link feature with the intent of applying it to all URLs they index. Torrent index sites categorise their content with the inte
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by dmnd 17y ago
The implementation details of category or quick links shouldn't matter. How do you know that a particular torrent index's frontpage category links are not also algorithmically generated?
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by dmnd 17y ago
Notice that the GMail tab is just an icon. I wonder if that's a replacement for a bookmarks toolbar? Possibly, Mozilla is planning for the tabs & bookmarks toolbars to be combined in the same way that the quicklaunch & taskbar toolb
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by dmnd 17y ago
I agree with these recommendations, but if you're trying to introduce boardgames to friends, start with one of the 'gateway games': Settlers of Catan, Ticket To Ride, or Carcassonne. T&E and PR should be saved for later.
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by dmnd 17y ago
Risk and Monopoly take so long to finish that player elimination is a necessity. Games of Settlers where one player has no hope of winning aren't common, as long as players are of relatively equal skill.
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by dmnd 17y ago
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Risk and Monopoly have player elimination which is anti-social. Settlers also packs in way more fun per minute of time spent playing. The rules are no more complicated, either. Just make sure you're getting t
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by dmnd 17y ago
Some observations from that report: When they tested the filters they reported "less than 3.4%" of innocuous URLs were mistakenly blocked. They say this is too high (no kidding!), but that "blocking rates of below 2 percent would be conside
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by dmnd 17y ago
To respond to one of the article's examples, maiden names and family relationships simply should not be used for security purposes. Making this information public by default will be very beneficial for genealogical purposes. Why prevent thi
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by dmnd 17y ago
Offtopic, but ITWorld redirected me to a full-page ad before I got to the article. Above the ad, it said "the page you requested is loading" as if this excused the presence of the ad. Are people really more amenable to looking at an ad if t
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by dmnd 17y ago
The point was that, for most users, Google is an abstraction over URLs, just like DNS is an abstraction over IP addresses.
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by dmnd 17y ago
Or just use an anonymous type: var simple = new { Field1 = "foo", Field2 = "bar" };
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by dmnd 17y ago
Can you even get 3G data service from AT&T without first buying 'minutes' though? I can never seem to use up the minimum amount of monthly minutes so this has no bearing on my own monthly bill.
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by dmnd 17y ago
Why? What's so terrible about finding out about how those more experienced than yourself do things? I'm assuming, of course, that sound reasoning is supporting the practice rather than simple cargo culting.
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by dmnd 17y ago
The latest release of F# assumes #light as the default.
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by dmnd 17y ago
Inspired by the recent Haskell and Clojure versions.
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Pong in 83 lines of F#(github.com)
5 points by dmnd 17y ago|3 comments
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by dmnd 17y ago
Scrolling up means that you rotate the top of the wheel away from you. As things move away they become smaller, not bigger! I think Firefox has it correct, and the other browsers are wrong... Similarly differing interpretations of controls
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by dmnd 17y ago
MATLAB's Simulink[1] is a graphical programming environment that allows you to create, name and reuse abstractions. Look at the picture[2] on their site for a simple example. [1]: http://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink/ [2]: http://w
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How work expands to fill available time (1955)(economist.com)
52 points by dmnd 17y ago|3 comments
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by dmnd 17y ago
I am running Windows 7 on a SSD right now. While most of the author's points aren't based on the assertion that this is impossible, such a poorly researched argument makes it hard to take the rest of the article seriously.
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by dmnd 17y ago
I don't know where I picked this up, but I use asymmetric whitespace around the assignment operator: a= b. It provides a subtle hint that assignment is not equality.
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by dmnd 17y ago
The Finder has at least something on Windows Explorer: one thing I always miss on Windows is the ability to drag a file or directory onto an open/save dialog and have the dialog immediately navigate to and select that file or directory. Sav
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by dmnd 17y ago
I doubt it's intentional. Pornography is illegal in India (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_india#Online_por... ). Microsoft is being conservative when complying with the Information Technology Act of 2000. "According to the

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