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by erik 13y ago
As a small aside, I think this is the first time I have seen Google referred to as the Borg. That was always Microsoft's title in the slashdot days. Times have changed.
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by erik 13y ago
In the footer of the page, there is a lists link. The lists page links to the best page, and a few others. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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by erik 13y ago
HN actually does have a "best recent" page. https://news.ycombinator.com/best
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by erik 13y ago
Imagine Apple with a stock symbol of IPOD.
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The Value of Restrictions in Making Game(lifegoesongame.com)
1 points by erik 13y ago|0 comments
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Password Cracking AES-256 DMGs and Epic Self-Pwnage(blog.whitehatsec.com)
75 points by erik 14y ago|38 comments
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by erik 14y ago
John Carmack did post there somewhat regularly. http://slashdot.org/~John+Carmack/firehose Paul Graham used to be a regular user as well. http://slashdot.org/~bugbear/firehose
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by erik 14y ago
I'm confused by what you are saying. Are you suggesting that techdirt should have explained processor emulation in their article?
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by erik 14y ago
I'm confident that resolutions are identical. I am using colspan and rowspan to do two dimensional run-length encoding, which may account for the difference. Even so, it's a surprising result.
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by erik 14y ago
I played with something like this a while ago. Interestingly, I found that my gzip'd table html had a smaller file size than the source png, even after png crush. Though I suspect I was doing something wrong to get a result like that. ht
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by erik 15y ago
I think that the choppiness has more to do with the fact that they aren't using any CGI. Some sort of image based rendering (morph effect) to fill in intermediate frames would smooth out the pans significantly, and give it more of a matrix
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by erik 15y ago
I find this to be an interesting data point: http://www.indiegames.com/2008/02/opinion_casual_games_and_p... A casual game developer dramatically increased their sales by improving the effectiveness of their DRM. I strongly dislike DRM in
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by erik 15y ago
Microsoft bothers with Windows 7 because rent collected from IP, while lucrative, is limited compared to the revenue potential of controlling a dominant platform. Also, I can't imagine Balmer's ego or Microsoft's investors allowing Microsof
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by erik 15y ago
I looked into this recently, and wasn't able to find a DockStar for sale locally. It seems that the reason you could buy them for so cheap was that they were being discontinued. Which is too bad, as it sounds like a very nice piece of har
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by erik 16y ago
Have you considered Reddit's 'best' ranking for comments? http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s... """ Most of the time, you won't notice that there's anything obviously different (it doesn't affect threading or any
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by erik 16y ago
I've never understood the demand for builtin 3G for laptops. I don't want to pay for a 3G data plan for my laptop + 3G data plan for my iPad + 3G data plan for my phone. I want a data plan for my phone, and I want all of my devices to be
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by erik 16y ago
The argument is that spamy sites are filled with Google AdWords. Removing these sites would result in less AdWords clicks, thus less revenue.
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by erik 16y ago
I believe that DEC (Compaq?) shipped very capable JIT recompilation of x86 to Alpha a long time ago. They were trying to get past the hurdle of Intel's lock in. It didn't work.
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by erik 16y ago
"Also, the list of hijacked data just happened to include preselected destinations around the world that encompassed military, intelligence and many civilian networks in the United States and other allies such as Japan and Australia" If thi
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by erik 16y ago
I remember a gap between when I started using Google and when ads appeared on the site. Also, it's somewhat relevant that Brin started working towards what would become Google in 1996.
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by erik 16y ago
> Has anyone used time-lapse screencap software they can suggest? A LD48 regular created chronolapse for this purpose. http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/chronolapse/
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by erik 16y ago
There is a short and entertaining TED talk on this topic. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/catherine_mohr_builds_gree...
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by erik 16y ago
It would take some work to find the historical numbers, but recent results are readily available. In Q3 2010 apple reported $15.7 billion in revenue. $4.4 billion of that was laptops and desktops. Apple retail stores account for roughly 20%
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by erik 16y ago
At KAF in Afghanistan, a friend of mine was able to sign up for non-firewalled, civilian run, wireless internet access for ~$150/month. It was slow, and used a satellite for uplink. But it was good enough that he could use Skype to have v
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by erik 16y ago
He also has a Klein Bottle company, with an entertaining website: http://www.kleinbottle.com/ And he gave a TED talk in 2006: http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything.html
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by erik 16y ago
One of your gender changes was probably a null-modem.
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by erik 16y ago
The article raises some interesting points, but I don't think it explains why traditional advertising generates so much more revenue than digital advertising. Is print advertising overpriced? Are digital ads an inferior format? Is it per
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by erik 16y ago
Apparently a lot of robotics work in Japan is aimed at assisting the elderly and making up for labor shortages.
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A High Level Look at The Conficker Worm(theatlantic.com)
1 points by erik 16y ago|0 comments
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by erik 17y ago
I could see this causing problems on technical discussion sites as it might consider a block of C code a bad comment. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons to post something non-english, like a blob of numbers or some ascii (or unicode) a

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