ignifero

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by ignifero 15y ago
It's a "foreign country" domain (e.g. .ly, .tv, .cc, .co, .cx, .me etc)
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's .info/.biz/.aero etc
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by ignifero 15y ago
Other?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Talk about looking at the finger.
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by ignifero 15y ago
There are cases where navigation codes won't be more practical than postal codes: Old cities with narrow streets and heavy buildings where GPS has no reception. Try navigating Venice, Italy with a phone GPS to get the idea.
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by ignifero 15y ago
...Brought to you by ICANN(R), the organization that managed to make misspellnigs a viable business.
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by ignifero 15y ago
People can register unicode domain names (not tld) for years now. Do you know any major sites with a non-latin primary domain name?
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by ignifero 15y ago
If you are to make such a change, why settle for such low accuracy? What about height/floor numbers? Also, what about geological changes such as the japanese earthquake? thousands of misdelivered letters...
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by ignifero 15y ago
Anyone think it's a coincidence that ICANN does this just after plans are announced by major browsers to eliminate the URL address bar? Are they rushing to sell-off? Also, what about the possibility of disputes? What if both Facebook and tw
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The story of the Gömböc (plus.maths.org)
165 points by ignifero 15y ago|45 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
I was thinking of a peer-reviewed twitter, anonymous of course.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Text engages the brain, and the brain likes reading it. What's wrong with that? People write their thoughts, erratic and pointless, and other people read them. Obviously the signal to noise ratio will be very low, but so what? By the same r
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by ignifero 15y ago
Sorry, I don't subscribe to the intrinsic value theory.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I would like to see an alternative to the WWW altogether. WWW is no longer a collection of hyperlinked documents, which was its initial purpose but a multitude of technologies running on browsers that use HTTP in nonstandard ways because it
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by ignifero 15y ago
You implying that there are things that have intrinsic, non-(social|market)-determined monetary value?
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by ignifero 15y ago
... and the french
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's that fearmongering that keeps greece from officially defaulting though, eventhough it's officially incapable of paying its debt for a year now. It's kind of irrational fear, too. I mean, japan's earthquake alone cost ~300 billion and t
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by ignifero 15y ago
Don't just learn to code, learn to program. I m of the opinion that one starts with the classics, like C, that will make everything else (e.g. Python) fall into place. Also, despite the sex appeal of rails, I'd start with PHP, that will int
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by ignifero 15y ago
For me it's not the stomach. First, breath stops, then for a few seconds numbness in chest and jaw, then face turns pale and soon red. A small nausea follows and then regret sets in. The rest of the day is ruined.
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by ignifero 15y ago
... but celebrations are for extroverts!
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by ignifero 15y ago
No, i m implying there is still pressure to be more extroverted, which, in fact, is not useful.
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by ignifero 15y ago
indeed, all but #9 and #10 are not myths, for me P.s. many introverts loathe themselves
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by ignifero 15y ago
As an introvert, i understand very well how extroverts think. For years i tried to become more extroverted, only to discover at a certain point that it's a dysfunctional path that leads to a superficial, seemingly fullfilling but unfocused
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by ignifero 15y ago
That is a desperate attempt to motivate Europe's lazy youth to actually hack something.
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by ignifero 15y ago
You are right, but its not like ED is attracting the best and brightest researchers nowadays.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I take it the post refers specifically to the bright engineers who work at Facebook. I think he's right. Take Bret Taylor for example. This guy made Google Maps while at google, a tool that seriously changed a business. While at facebook do
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by ignifero 15y ago
True, although they claim they have a trademark in arizona. Their main argument is that of unfair competition, because they prove they are using the bussiness name for years now.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Apple seems to have filed 11 trademark applications for icloud, in sectors ranging from storage, streaming, telecommunications, social networking, entertainment, clothing, footwear etc. So it's not surprising that they will receive tons of
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by ignifero 15y ago
Think of the same object A arriving in B before it even leaves B.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Yes because it would break Causality, you would have the broken cup along with the intact one. You may ask "why have causality"? Well, it's your pick, either FTL, or Causality. btw, a great book about time (and time loops) is Igor Novikov's

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