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by halo 19y ago
Alternatively, if you're on a Unix-like system, you can download them all easily using wget: wget -nd -A.mov -r -l1 -np http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/ For anyone who doesn't know wget, this can be dissected to: -
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by halo 19y ago
eBay also own the reasonably successful UK-based Craigslist-imitator Gumtree
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by halo 19y ago
You make it seem like it's open source thanks to their own good will - it's based on KHTML, the Konqueror rendering engine, which was LGPLed.
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by halo 19y ago
I'm not against patents per se (they're a necessary evil, I believe that shortening their length and/or adding a forced licensing clause could improve them), but the problem is that software patents too often do the opposite than what they'
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by halo 19y ago
No idea, but I can certainly see how they could make money - context sensitive ads in their e-mails. You know where the person is going, for how long and how frequently they make trips, amongst other things.
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by halo 19y ago
Slashdot is happy to criticise Digg's approach, but for a long time /. was swamped by reposts and commenters still regularly criticise poor moderation decisions (grammatical mistakes, misrepresentation of articles, trollbait, blogspam) that
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by halo 19y ago
I disagree that it is that clear cut. As a recent counter-example to the blog, view the UK's introduction of a relatively high minimum wage in 1998 which, despite above-inflation increases over several years, have caused little-to-no proble
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by halo 19y ago
I agree that setting up straw men and other fallacies is a bad thing. There's two sides to every argument and they should be heard without reducing the argument down to insults or misrepresenting the other side's point of view. On the other
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by halo 19y ago
IIRC, there's been a semi-private beta of the new version available to certain members for 6 months, so this isn't really surprising anybody.
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MySpace to form start-up incubator named Slingshot Labs, financed by News Corp.(techcrunch.com)
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The downside is if their website design is anything to go by, it'll be as ugly as sin and have severe usability issues.
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by halo 19y ago
Who gives a shit? Hackers. And, y'know, with this happening to be Hacker News and all, it works.
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That's because Android doesn't use the JVM, only the Java language.
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by halo 19y ago
OiNK's tracker was rewritten in its entirety by one of the admins. I seriously doubt they spent $30k/month on server fees (citation?), but it wouldn't surprise me if they spent a lot - do consider they needed to servers with an ISP that wou