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by fixermark 13y ago
I think the key word is "App." There is a difference in nature between a web app and a web page. Both can be built using the same underlying technologies, but the goals are very different. Knowing which one is building can greatly
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by fixermark 13y ago
Yes, the dreaded 2,146,316, as foretold by Nostradamus.
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by fixermark 13y ago
"“Don’t ignore your kids,” Ms. Norman said, “even if they seem fine.”" That seems like the best piece of advice in the article.
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by fixermark 13y ago
So some new scientific knowledge has come out of this unfortunate death. That's good.
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by fixermark 13y ago
How does this differ from credit reporting agencies and other forms of legal public spying and data collection?
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by fixermark 14y ago
Seeing this reaction coming and not caring is a reasonable strategy. In free software, RMS holds a lot of philosophical sway, but Ubuntu operates in the larger open-source ecosystem. Let's say that free software adherents decide that Ubuntu
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by fixermark 14y ago
I believe that for nonprofits, the policy at http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html is still in effect.
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by fixermark 14y ago
(Replying to my own comment as basically every response raised Bell's Theorem) This is what I like about Hacker News; when I ask a deeply technical question in a field removed from my own, there are plenty of people who can point me in an i
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by fixermark 14y ago
One thing I've never understood about interpretation of quantum entanglement experiments: Based on what I've learned of these experiments, it seems to me that the least mind-bending interpretation is that the entanglement event results in t
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by fixermark 14y ago
" I was approached by a person who runs a contracting “company,” hiring video game testers to work at various game companies." ... which is where the story starts to go bad. Videogame testing is a notoriously terrible space with incredibly