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Back in the 1990s there were a few companies that introduced laptops with integrated bubblejet and thermal printers. A few pundits crowed that every printer would have one builtin because it was so useful. Since then, every couple of years
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There are probably several other use-cases, but the one I've run into was where there is a naive implementation of alphabetic sorting (basically character by character sorting), zero padding allows proper numerical sorting to work: 001 002
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For those looking for recent Django screencasts, Buddy Lindsey did a bunch at this site GoDjango: http://godjango.com He covered a lot of stuff including Forms, Formsets, Social Authentication and Generic Class Based Views.
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Python 3 support was --last I heard-- still considered experimental/alpha by the core team in the upcoming Django 1.5 release, so I would assume if it treats it at all, it will be mostly to encourage forward-compatible programming practices
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Haha ... he changed the headline to "Why Apple's Stock is Dropping" and rewrote copy to soften his claims but the CMS retained the earlier "crashing" reference in the URL slug and title element.
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Nice bit of chart manipulation by Blodget, but if you look at the 12 month view, you see that it's not an abnormal hump: http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL If you follow Apple at all, you'd also know that Apple's P/E ratio has been extreme
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That's a relatively recent marketing campaign (unless you're 130 years old). When people talk about "razor-and-blades" freebie marketing it refers to the early-20th century razor market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing#Gille
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Most of the publishers dropped the agency model: http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2012/09/ebook-settlement-big... Edit: additionally, Amazon has their Prime service which gives additional discounts to subscribers who tend to be big purchas
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Just to correct your "razor-and-blades business model, made famous by Gillette" comment, Gillette never did that (which the wikipedia article alludes to). While the blades were very high-margin, Gillette razors were quite expensive, about $
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I'd agree except that it's fairly well established that Amazon doesn't make much money from the content either. They are trying to grow marketshare and build the ebook market, but investors should know that Amazon has razor-thin margins on
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Mozilla also uses a 2 server approach for passwords on their web apps but instead of splitting the password, they introduce an initial HMAC hash stage using a salt that is stored on a web app machine and then rehash that with Bcrypt for sto
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Hard to tell from the post, but it sounds like Rails gave an Exception because it couldn't find should_group_accessibility_children, but that suggests that it would act on something it could find. If there was a parameter that gave a user a
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I seem to remember that the satellite links came later, in 1983 the Winnebiko only had CB radio for communication (no email) and an audio-casette deck to store what he was writing on his stops. Winnebiko 2 added packet radio for email in 19
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I wonder if was because Picton was unincorporated (I believe it happened 14 years ago)
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Depends a lot on what department you're in. There are a lot of Pythoners at Google. http://stackoverflow.com/a/2561008
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Some drugs are very expensive, but most orphan drugs aren't. Average costs are between $25-60 million per drug. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/biosoc/journal/v6/n1/full/b... http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/rnd/evidenceregardingrnd.pdf
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Amazon uses it in the S3 dashboard for their "Enhanced Uploader (BETA)"
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That's a problem if you're living in Wyoming but for the majority of the US population, low population density is not a factor. There are vast mostly empty areas in the US, but people congregate in highly dense cities and suburbs. Take Cali
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Scads of money for you or me maybe, but --for Apple-- how could it even register as more than a rounding error on their revenue? I'll be interested to see if there are any advantages to Lightning once it is dissected or if it is just a lock
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You need a large antenna for NFC: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1#s2013... (hover over the second picture on Step 3) Even if a chip existed, the iPhone 5's aluminum back wouldn't provide a spot to place an NFC anten
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Borland certainly did, but they also had plenty of bad luck. Just as they were getting close to finishing Quattro Pro, their head offices were hit by the 1989 World Series Earthquake (they were very close to the epicenter). Apparently, many
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Anandtech is reporting that the iPhone 5 is using dual-channel 32bit LPDDR2 running at 1066MHz, about 33% more peak memory bandwidth than the iPhone 4s. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6297/iphone-5-memory-size-and-...
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Apple apparently brings in 75% of all profits in the smartphone industry: http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/03/first-apples-rank-in-mobile... So it is hard to imagine how any of the other players have anything near Apple's profit per smartpho
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Cheap relative to their revenue, $2.4 billion is still a LOT of money. Bell Labs in 1982 had an annual budget of $1.6 billion which in 2012 dollars comes to about $3.6 billion. I believe Xerox PARC had a relatively petite budget of $17 mill
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You are technically correct ... and that is the best kind of correct.
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Depending on your temperament his fiction can be either very insightful or a total downer. I've found his non-fiction like "The Rebel" to be very accessible especially as philosophical works go (Heidegger and Kant being the epitome of inacc
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A spanner is also British English for what North Americans call a wrench.
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I'm an atheist myself (born Catholic). I tend to borrow bits from secular humanism and Camus' existentialism, which tell me that in the end, you need to find your own motivation, inspiration and hope. Large groups of people are all capable
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To paraphrase Gibson, "There have always been hipsters, they just weren't very evenly distributed." I offer up Jerry Lewis, Elvis Costello, Cosmo Kramer, Steve Urkel, et al. And I may be going out on a limb, but googling anything before th
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Apple bought P.A. Semi in 2008, a bit over two years after the Intel transition. Apple also bought Intrisity (in 2010) which was made up of staff and IP from PowerPC licensee, Exponential Technology.

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