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by drtse4 16y ago
Funny conclusion of the paper linked at the bottom of the article: "Although we find no relation between handicap and corporate performance, we do find a relation between handicap and CEO compensation. In short, golfers earn more than non-g
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How'd golf get to be a businessman's sport?(slate.com)
1 points by drtse4 16y ago|1 comments
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by drtse4 16y ago
As someone said below, alternatives are really limited, guess that's the result of inexistent competition.
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Best Buy CEO: iPad is cannibalizing laptop sales by as much as 50%(online.wsj.com)
30 points by drtse4 16y ago|44 comments
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by drtse4 16y ago
Looks like it is/it was a geocaching location http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f13ea...
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by drtse4 16y ago
Even if i had a limited experience with it this doesn't surprise me, i still don't understand how big site can use or have used (list on openx site) this script to manage their own ad network. Lots of issues with the db and with the upgrade
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Google's new data center in Finland(royal.pingdom.com)
92 points by drtse4 16y ago|38 comments
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by drtse4 16y ago
While i guess that at the moment these kind of engines are not relevant, could they be one day? They surely have their niche.
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Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development(halfarsedagilemanifesto.org)
2 points by drtse4 16y ago|0 comments
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Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results(npr.org)
5 points by drtse4 16y ago|2 comments
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Painless Merge Conflict Resolution in Git(blog.wuwon.id.au)
2 points by drtse4 16y ago|0 comments
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by drtse4 16y ago
Yep, thought the same thing.
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by drtse4 16y ago
Cosmonautics Day too, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonautics_Day
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by drtse4 16y ago
Great article with a lot of data. One thing that leaves me puzzled is the fact that an android programmed could earn as much as $3k/month, not the usual low salary that one would expect in china. Edit: After a brief investigation (please co
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by drtse4 16y ago
Not his fault, i tried to post this too a few hours ago but removed it because something seemed to be going on with the redirects, basically there are two pages, one with 's and one with s'... and at the time of my posting the links were co
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by drtse4 16y ago
http://twitter.com/Chad_Hurley/status/24134092111
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Houellebecq borrows from Wikipedia, never cites(slate.com)
25 points by drtse4 16y ago|14 comments
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by drtse4 16y ago
Do you mean that you can't register to checkout and amazon as a seller if you are not an US resident? Because as a buyer i've used checkout a lot of times from Italy, same thing should be possible in other european countries.
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by drtse4 16y ago
This game is nearly everyday on the front-page of reddit/digg/etc... , and a lot of people are making youtube videos of their creations. With all this web coverage he doesn't need to spend money in advertising :). A game that makes people b
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by drtse4 16y ago
Another Paypal horror story added to the list. If someone was wondering (as i did), no, he didn't let 600k on his paypal account. That's what he's earned since they limited his account 25th august. See http://twitter.com/Toucanator/status/
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by drtse4 16y ago
Another big plus will be the huge reduction in latency, it can't get lower than that. I'm wondering at how much they will be able to sell it, from what i've seen working in this field common opto-electrical transceivers are not usually c
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by drtse4 16y ago
Lower total score (higher fp, lower everything else) if your instance has an older Opteron 2218HE (us-east-1b) http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=287900
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by drtse4 16y ago
If you book a reserved instance, the price for lnx get as low as $0.01 ($54/yr). It's a bit premature but for spot instances, atm windows ones are around $0.0135 (linux history is not yet available). As for other instance-types it looks lik
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by drtse4 16y ago
Made me think about foodgawker.com and tastespotting.com,imo you should add some sort of categorization. The average user probably will use you site as source of inspiration, so being able to choose with a tag cloud (or better, a more cleve
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by drtse4 16y ago
The Umeboshi Server ( http://umeboshi-fireteam.no.de/ ) is quite interesting, nice idea.
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by drtse4 16y ago
Thought the same thing here. Usually the process needed to find the cheapest flight is rather convoluted when you have few date constraints: 1-choose a date/2-[wait a lot]/3-check price/back to 1. But with this... easily accessible data via
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by drtse4 16y ago
Additional info on The Register: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635807
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For a software error, UAV MQ-8 reaches restricted airspace near Washington DC(theregister.co.uk)
6 points by drtse4 16y ago|0 comments
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by drtse4 16y ago
This got me thinking that the thinkpad is the only true polar opposite of the macbook from the aesthetic/usability/functionality point of view...
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by drtse4 16y ago
The "ultimate guide to x" would have sound to pretentious, so to be humble and as an attempt to humor they choose this title (usually a guide is "ultimate" until a next and better guide come out). Seems a reasonable explanation...

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