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Facebook Reveals Teens Getting Bored of the Site(nbcchicago.com)
1 points by figure8 14y ago|0 comments
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Massively broken medical insurance systems: Opportunity?(runningahospital.blogspot.com)
1 points by figure8 14y ago|0 comments
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by figure8 14y ago
Here he says: "I would describe myself as being somewhere between a liberal and a Libertarian." http://m.npr.org/news/Books/162594751
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by figure8 14y ago
Sure, good stories have details, but a person's choice of detail reveals how they see the world. The comment's mention of "offshore" clearly serves no purpose beyond encouraging stereotype-based thinking. Knowing this programmer was offsh
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by figure8 14y ago
" that an offshore programmer forgot..." Unnecessarily mentioning a characteristic of an individual is a sign of selfish, biased, and/or malicious thinking. Do you mention "American programmer" whenever recounting their bugs? It appears y
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by figure8 15y ago
Hmm. Thanks for your help; I'm sorry if I'm not understanding. Can't Google make certain (admittedly imperfect) inferences based on seeing the same IP address visit gmail.com, then AllThingsD.com, then CA.gov, etc? (All of which use Googl
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by figure8 15y ago
Furthermore, based on a quick estimate based on my current Firefox cookies, Google is (through Google Analytics) aware of 80%-90% of my browsing activity.
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by figure8 15y ago
Thanks. This was helpful. In theory, I see your point about Google not having direct access to a site's first party cookies, but Google is clever. If you monitor the requested resources when you visit any site with those cookies, you'll n
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by figure8 15y ago
Does my accepting Google's new privacy policy allow them to link information possibly gained via Google Analytics (using their ubiquitous cookies like _utma, _utmb, _utmz) to my other Google product activities?
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The long term effects of spanking(theatlantic.com)
2 points by figure8 15y ago|0 comments
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Brain scan predicts subjective beauty(livescience.com)
1 points by figure8 15y ago|0 comments
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by figure8 15y ago
There are many people who want to have power and control, but don't have the skills or experience to do anything concrete and exceptional. There is an entire management advice industry around finding tools and psychological tricks which al
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by figure8 15y ago
Can this kind of molecular dynamics simulation by done on a simple desktop machine? What system and software do you recommend if I want to experiment with simulation, starting with this "hello world" project? Do you recommend starting fro
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by figure8 15y ago
Seeing that 70% decline in number of developers (on SO) from age 30 to age 40 and assuming they are still working, what do the older "has-been" developers do now and what titles do they have? Perhaps they have never heard of SO? Or they h
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by figure8 16y ago
I completely agree with you. There will always be a contingent of developers who believe enforced standards trump simplicity. As we see here, when the CORBA then SOAP crowd realized they'd lost that fight, their ilk started judging other
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by figure8 16y ago
blog.jess3.com/2010/11/wikipedias-crowdsourced-ab-ad-testing.html
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Genius at work: Transcript of Spielberg/Lucas planning Raiders of the Lost Ark(mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com)
6 points by figure8 16y ago|1 comments