jccalhoun

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by jccalhoun 13y ago
Next you'll tell me that their movies are compressed and not at the same quality as blurays!
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by jccalhoun 13y ago
Nice. I was going to complain about how terrible question headlines were but I didn't know there was a name for them.
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by jccalhoun 13y ago
Because it is gluten free which is trendy (I'm not saying there aren't people who do have heath problems with gluten) and it itself is trendy.
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by jccalhoun 13y ago
Actually, I think that if you want to live off of making music you should think like an artist and plan on making most of your money by actually playing music instead of hoping that you can make a living off of music you played decades ago.
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by jccalhoun 13y ago
So he's complaining about still getting paid for a song he released 20 years ago? Damn. Wish I had problems like that...
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by jccalhoun 13y ago
The question is then why would anyone buy their just announced PS3 bundled with GTA5 for $299? Do they figure that since GTA5 comes out in September that they can get a couple months worth of sales in before the PS4 launch?
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by jccalhoun 13y ago
Notscripts hasn't been updated since December of 2010. ScriptSafe (used to be scriptno) is still being developed https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmn... However, the author of noscript has said that it isn't techni
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
He had a daughter who went on to have 4 kids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Scott_Fitzgerald So presumably they get the money.
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
they've also always been used as scapegoats...
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
"Mozilla, if you act on your plan to block third-party cookies in your Firefox browser, thousands of ad-supported small businesses like us may be forced to close." Yes, small businesses. Like the ones the people on your board of directors w
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
mendeley has always been closed source for-profit. They may have gotten a new owner but it isn't like they were ever doing it for altruistic reasons. Hopefully this will be good news for zotero which is open source. And hopefully it will be
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
so he was working for the company that made the hardware and was shocked to find out that the company was very invested in maximizing the market for their hardware?
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
"After some deep thinking, we decided that serving our customer base, who legally buy large amounts of assisted-opening knives, was more important than continuing to advertise with Google. For this reason, we decided to not remove the knive
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
I really Google Scholar doesn't go away. While there are other academic search sites, most of them seems to be science-focused. As someone in the humanities, I don't find these to be useful. The university library has lots of database searc
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
I haven't taught a MOOC but I have "taught" a more traditional online course with 20-some students and I don't think it was really all that great. The reason I put "taught" in quotes is because it was a standardized course where all the sec
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
If this is as successful as their Digg reboot then I'm sure it will have hundreds of users...
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
The problem is that bad sites with horrible popups, popunders, page takeovers, random words highlighted to look like links but are really ads and all sorts of other crap drive people to adblockers. So people just install it and forget it so
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
This kind of thing happens all the time. I know Microsoft has been caught using stock images of people using macs to advertise Windows.
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
I'm really surprised that the people teaching at Harvard don't seem to be putting forth any effort to make assignments that are at least somewhat difficult to cheat on. I'm only a grad student at a Big Ten school but I always try to make my
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_documentary_films_about... An interesting one is The Red Chapel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Chapel where two Korean-born Danish-adopted guys travel to North Korea. Because they are of Korean
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by jccalhoun 14y ago
It isn't really an either/or. Yes The Daily's operating expenses were way too high but being limited to the ipad and a couple other devices didn't help things.