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by jerrya 14y ago
Rob Malda recently moved to the WaPo where he will be the Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large working for WaPo Labs. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/05/202206/rob-malda-cmd... So this potentially places the founder of Slashdot hea
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Oracle/Google jury will be told APIs are copyrightable (Judge will decide later)(arstechnica.com)
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by jerrya 14y ago
Windows and Cygwin/bash However, it only works for those google drive files and folders you are syncing on the local machine. If there are folders you aren't syncing, this command line method will fail.
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by jerrya 15y ago
Really, it works for me in Opera and Chrome. It's a Wikipedia list of Wikipedians by number of edits. In this case, Justin Knapp, who is attributed 1,000,000 edits in seven years, a number that would seem to be highly unlikely, and yet the
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Wikipedia claims one user has made 1,000,000 edits in seven years(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jerrya 15y ago
Making shit work is everyone's job Would someone diagram "shit work" for me? Is it noun verb or adjective noun?
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by jerrya 15y ago
(Okay this is my wishlist feature: I type in the address of some random government agency, and you tell me what elected officials are most responsible for that agency's operation and oversight.)
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by jerrya 15y ago
This is awesome, and I needed it just yesterday to determine who my local representative is. You use a nice large font too, but then I'd suggest making the Federal/State/County/Local tabs a bit larger in font, I almost lost them. All that s
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by jerrya 15y ago
I'd like to see an RSS feed that points first to the ycombinator comments, and second to the original targeted link. From a comment thread, it is of course simple to get to the original link, but not the other way around. With an inverse RS
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by jerrya 15y ago
You may not want to literally jump out of bed. Most heart attacks occur in the morning.
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Bill Davidow - How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers(theatlantic.com)
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by jerrya 15y ago
"The law, at least in Canada, allows anyone to record a conversation they are apart of without the consent of the other party for their own personal reference, or journalistic purposes." In my view, the US Federal and State laws on wiretapp
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by jerrya 15y ago
The article and the one it links to both suffer from fallacy of the excluded middle: the choice seemingly being that offering an API precludes offering the bulk data. Neither article provides an example of a government agency that only pro
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by jerrya 15y ago
Good customer service reaps a customer that makes a lifetime of iPad purchases. Assuming their prices keep up with inflation than every two years that's $500 in today's dollars to Apple for say, 50 years. Your iPad purchases, when you are
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by jerrya 15y ago
Here's a NYTimes article on retargeting: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/technology/30adstalk.html Many people think this is creepy and privacy invasive. For example, in the past I've had a hard time explaining why an ad for silencers
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by jerrya 15y ago
They are potentially useful because, sadly, the President has made them meaningless, and so they can be used as markers in a timeline.
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by jerrya 15y ago
The people downvoting this may wish to consider how it works not just as a cliche about September 11, but as a statement of the significance of Ferdinand Porsche's legacy....
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by jerrya 15y ago
Nothing was the same after 911.
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by jerrya 15y ago
In the mid-80s there were two kinds of lisp machines. Xerox's machines came with a parse tree editor similar in concept to this one. You were always working with the specific parse tree. A terribly powerful concept. The Symbolics machines
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by jerrya 15y ago
It's not that dated. As he says it fits nicely in the midrange of phones still being offered. Here is a brand new 2012 Samsung Pocket. The Nexus One is still way ahead of this thing: http://www.mobileburn.com/18826/news/samsung-galaxy-po
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by jerrya 15y ago
So I upvoted both yours and kurtvarner's posts so you can perhaps determine if your vote counts changed.
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by jerrya 15y ago
That's nice in how it allows you to link to individual paragraphs: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/health/doctor-panels-urge-...
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by jerrya 15y ago
Ask a lawyer if you can counter sue Facebook not just for lawyer fees but for damages for maliciously and falsely accusing you in public, an act that is certain to sully your reputation. Ask a lawyer what's the best way to game this situati
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by jerrya 15y ago
It's a response to arguments that the government has a legitimate need to strip search everyone, regardless of what the charges are against them. The notion some guy pulled over for failure to pay a speeding ticket, or arrested for failure
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by jerrya 15y ago
If Apple gets rid of that button, they would be sued for copying the look and feel of almost every Android 4.0 tablet manufacturer. When Samsung sued them for look and feel infringement, the entire court system would be in danger of dividin
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by jerrya 15y ago
I was driving my car two weeks ago, when I was pulled over for failure to pay a ticket (the officer and their db was in error.) That night before heading out on the road, I shoved some rock cocaine in a balloon up my ass, so I was okay wit
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by jerrya 15y ago
Submitted for your perusal: "As Internet privacy has become a bigger issue in Washington, technology companies have been increasing their lobbying. Google and Facebook recently bolstered their lobbying teams. Google hired Susan Molinari, a
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by jerrya 15y ago
Now, a year from now, five years from now, I'd like someone to explain to me why Google, when confronted with Facebook and Twitter chose to make Google+ a mostly walled garden (can't link to comments, no api) when the "obvious disruptive, j
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by jerrya 15y ago
FWIW, Worked in firefox. Didn't work in Chrome or Opera.
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by jerrya 15y ago
X considered harmful is one of computing's oldest memes, 44 years old this month, and was well sort of co-created by two of its foremost computer scientists. (Dijkstra and Wirth) As memes go, it has a long history. http://en.wikipedia.or

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