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by glymor 17y ago
The part from AppHash on covers verifying the downloading code matches the externally released / peer reviewed version. He does seem to be trusting twitter however (and twitter isn't host-proof). Spreading out or mirroring the discussion co
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The state of 4G: it's all about congestion, not speed(arstechnica.com)
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Everything you ever wanted to know about particle smashers(arstechnica.com)
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by glymor 17y ago
It's readline that has the vi mode set editing-mode vi in .inputrc will enable it everywhere.
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by glymor 17y ago
The whole point of Opera Mini as an app is for them to rearrange your content; complaining that they can see the content seems schizophrenic.
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by glymor 17y ago
Interestingly you aren't adding another line as communication with the Opera proxy servers is encrypted. Opera is Norwegian. They say they don't store per user data. http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#privacy
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by glymor 17y ago
Your pages are already going through an ISP proxy. And that ISP is also retaining your web activity for at least government use.
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by glymor 17y ago
From 2008: Opera Mini has become the world's most popular mobile browser. Since its worldwide launch in 2006, more than 44 million people have downloaded and used Opera Mini. More than 11.9 million people used Opera Mini in March 2008. I
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Opera Mini for iPhone submitted to Apple for approval (video)(engadget.com)
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Nintendo announces 3DS -- the glasses-free 3D successor to the DS(engadget.com)
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by glymor 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio is more useful for most of the obesity risk factors.
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by glymor 17y ago
On an individual basis waist-hip ratio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio is a better metric. BMI is a tool for populations as a whole.
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by glymor 17y ago
It's true, Chrome is the lightest browser: http://obesitynearme.com/browser/ And Vista is indeed significantly heavier: http://obesitynearme.com/os/ Also people from reddit are apparently fat: http://obesitynearme.com/referrer/ (All
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Platform Preview gives Web developers first taste of IE9(arstechnica.com)
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How robots think: an introduction(arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft tells its Windows Phone 7 Series developer story(engadget.com)
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by glymor 17y ago
France/Germany restricted entrance from the enlarged EU; whereas upper estimates of 500,000 new migrants entered the UK. From an economic perspective the backlash has been undeserved: broad agreement that immigration is likely to have redu
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by glymor 17y ago
Turning compare into a coin flip is a fun way to illuminate the underlying algorithm. IE is said to use a heap/tree related sort[1]. The first thing a heapsort does is swap the last entry with the the front (where the front may have been sw
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by glymor 17y ago
Lomborg work was criticized as scientifically dishonest by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Committees_on_Scientific... in 2003 and by others before and after that. Friel is not blazing new ground here. Friel writes wholly one-sidely.
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by glymor 17y ago
Pitting a political scientist vs a pro-palestinian writer tells us nothing much at all. Except that they both know what topic to go to to sell copy. What state have we reached where replacing science with the truth finding abilities of part
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by glymor 17y ago
success in the first stage of an introductory programming course is predictable, by noting consistency in use of the mental models which students apply to a basic programming problem even before they have had any contact with programming n
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by glymor 17y ago
From the same edition's opinion section: American politics seems unusually bogged down at present. Blame Barack Obama more than the system http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
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by glymor 17y ago
probably would be running [Linux] on my Air right now except that I can’t quite get it to. The 2nd gen Airs are not very kind to Linux at the moment I'm running Ubuntu on a 2nd gen Air. The big problem is getting it to boot. The -noapic
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by glymor 17y ago
The article was arguing that the Windows registry implementation is bad. He thankfully avoided the usual unix vs windows philosophizing. Basically it's a boring debate as Linux does have a number of X windows related registries. For example
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by glymor 17y ago
Even if CRU was full of evil. It's only one of three different sources of the same information. Which is only part of the weight of evidence towards AGW. Given the sheer enormity of attention given to this; that a few non-peer reviewed ite
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RIM demos new WebKit-based BlackBerry browser(engadget.com)
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by glymor 17y ago
The Economist suggested that the rise of national news gives more crime to report on: http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?stor...
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by glymor 17y ago
Steve Balmer from the press conference: "...the innovation of developers is important. We build a new foundation with a rich set of development tools which we'll discuss at MIX next month. [...] we want to take a very big step forward on [
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by glymor 17y ago
From http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/live-from-microsofts-wind... "Here's a look at the browser. This is a much more advanced browser then we've ever shipped. It's based on the desktop version of IE, so it's highly compatible with lot
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Windows Mobile 7 Series(engadget.com)
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