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by jnord 13y ago
George Orwell's book "1984" (written 1948 and prior to the formation of North Korea) outlines a state eerily similar to North Korea with its erasure of people's past, punishment for not clapping enthusiastically and gene
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by jnord 13y ago
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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E.U. Imposes $2.3 Billion in Fines Over Rate-Rigging Scandal(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by jnord 13y ago|0 comments
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by jnord 13y ago
Welcome to 24/7 customer service - a sales rep handling multiple chat sessions and failing to context switch between them.
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by jnord 13y ago
Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digits of the phone number.
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Lights out for byte.com(byte.com)
1 points by jnord 13y ago|0 comments
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by jnord 13y ago
What a wonderful story and presentation - thanks for telling it.
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by jnord 13y ago
When checking out the site that was mentioned in the article, I mispelled the URL slightly and ended up at mikerowsoft.com which the AVG virus scanner reported as an "attack" page. Now there is something for the Microsoft legal te
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Snowden is 'not on plane' to Cuba(bbc.co.uk)
16 points by jnord 13y ago|3 comments
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Java on Raspberry Pi(drdobbs.com)
3 points by jnord 13y ago|0 comments
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Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github(github.com)
288 points by jnord 13y ago|85 comments
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by jnord 13y ago
Having done three courses with both Coursera and Udacity, I can honestly say that my biggest gripe with MOOCs is their emphasis on transmitting information sequentially, that is, via video lectures. Seriously, what is wrong with putting up
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Coursera was down(coursera.org)
8 points by jnord 13y ago|2 comments
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by jnord 13y ago
Unfortunately, Zeo closed down last month: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/lights-out-for-zeo/
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Amazon to pilot TV comedies and children's shows online(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jnord 14y ago|0 comments
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Scientists guilty of manslaughter for not predicting earthquake(brisbanetimes.com.au)
1 points by jnord 14y ago|1 comments
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Movie "JAVA 4-EVER" - Official Trailer (youtube.com)
5 points by jnord 14y ago|0 comments
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Gartner Hype Report Predicts HTML5 Still Years Away(blog.ness.com)
3 points by jnord 14y ago|0 comments
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by jnord 16y ago
Aitutaki, Cook Islands, South Pacific. Expensive ASDL but beautiful location, pop. 1500, all English-speaking.