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by dsil 17y ago
Do they include some sort of userID on each question? I'd be interested to see those same results but only including people who asked a question for a language in each group. One commenter hypothesized the difference you're seeing is beca
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by dsil 17y ago
It will mean you can always RT a full tweet, instead of often having to cut off part of it to get it to still fit within 140 characters once you've added the "RT @soandso"
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by dsil 17y ago
For the same reasons you might link to some other website from your blog, or submit a link here.
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by dsil 17y ago
I doubt it. Baseball is declining in relative popularity as a sport, and collectible cards that are also games, like pokemon and magic, are just more fun.
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by dsil 17y ago
I expect this number to be 95%+ at some point, because it's so much easier to scale bots than humans, but that's not necessarily a bad thing at all. I have 3 twitter accounts, one personal and 2 bot-controlled, with one of the bots having
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by dsil 17y ago
Oh my: "The economy is literally nose-diving."
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by dsil 17y ago
Cool idea, but at $3.99/sq.ft that's hundreds of dollars per wall. I bought an 8'x4' sheet of melamine for less than $10, which would have been over $120 for that much paint.
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by dsil 17y ago
"we’re likely to stop supporting IE6 for logged in activity like digging, burying, and commenting. Users of IE6 would still be able to view pages - just not logged in. This won’t happen tomorrow, but we’re thinking about doing it soon."
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by dsil 17y ago
if language == python: self.smile()
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Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour?(scienceray.com)
73 points by dsil 17y ago|34 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
One thing I'd never heard before: at least 9 percent of facebook's staff used to work for google
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What Open Source shares with Science(community.zdnet.co.uk)
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Digital Urban: Google 2009 - Advanced 3D Geo Apps for Web: Earth API(digitalurban.blogspot.com)
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The Secret of Creating Monkey Island - An Interview With Ron Gilbert(scummbar.com)
1 points by dsil 17y ago|0 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." -Kurt Vonnegut
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by dsil 17y ago
It would be (mildly) interesting to see some stats on the difference in votes if pg occasionally posted under some other name. You could experiment over a couple weeks - before each comment flip a coin, heads you post with 'pg', tails with
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Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else?(guardian.co.uk)
6 points by dsil 17y ago|0 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
I don't lump those all together. Why not "useful" if it really is useful, that's a lot different than calling something "essential", since that's a lie.
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by dsil 17y ago
Pretty standard really.
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UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university(un.org)
122 points by dsil 17y ago|41 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
The point is that the one day they were above yahoo is also the one day they launched, and got everyone trying it for the first time and tons of launch-day media coverage. The number could be 100% accurate, it still doesn't mean much.
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by dsil 17y ago
Here's how I prepare for a launch: 1) log on to server 2) svn up 3) go to apache directory 4) bin/restart
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by dsil 17y ago
One of the advantages you have as a start-up vs. larger corporations is that you CAN launch something before it's "ready". Getting feedback quickly and early is essential to evolving your product. It's common knowledge that the earlier a b
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by dsil 17y ago
Cool site, but not a real comparison. I know google does a lot of personalization, based on being logged in or your cookie, but it can't do that on this. I'm assuming the other engines do something along those lines as well.
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by dsil 17y ago
That just links to a big pdf with all the licenses (understandably, it was a pain getting the actual list out of that, but here it is) Apache license Prototype JavaScript Framework Flex Bzip2 Openssl Curl SSLeay Libpcap Fontconfig libxml2 B
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by dsil 17y ago
TV is also delaying adult development.
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Breakthrough In Quantum Control Of Light: Implications For Banking, Drug Design(sciencedaily.com)
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The Economist: Open-source software has won the argument.(economist.com)
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How to Teach a Child to Argue(figarospeech.com)
217 points by dsil 17y ago|54 comments
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by dsil 17y ago
Except McHawaii.com, which is owned my Management Consultants of Hawaii, so McDonalds uses McHawaii.net instead. Trivia!

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