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This is why I won't recommend Android to any friends or family. Being the most technically literate person most of them know, they all come to me for help fixing problems with their computers or phones. The UI changes in iOS7 caused a
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He's referring to the picture of the hard drive above that line when he says "these guys". It took me a couple reads through that sentence to grasp the meaning = "Why are we still using spinning metal contraptions to sto
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This struck me as the most important part of the article: Liu pointed out that while research surrounding marijuana's cancer-fighting properties is nothing new, his team is the first to document its effect on the disease when used alo
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> Slavery is not an easy thing to define. People also do a good job of rationalizing slavery into something else. The Swiss verdingkinder (child contracting) program existed until into the 1970's and some people still don't bel
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This blog post by Alexey Andreyev goes into a lot more detail: https://code.facebook.com/posts/360346274145943/introducing-...
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API Versioning is for your clients, not your code. The only reason to change the version is if you're going to make breaking changes that old clients can't process. It's possible to rewrite an API in a different language and
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Here are a couple more lists of Best Practices for REST APIs. http://blog.mwaysolutions.com/2014/06/05/10-best-practices-f... http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-res... T
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It's surprising that these companies aren't openly supporting net neutrality (instead of "behind closed doors"). It seems like the only companies openly against it are telecoms and cable companies - generally the most ha
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This virus may also give us more clues at which parts of our DNA affect intelligence - something that has difficult to pin down: http://www.nature.com/news/smart-genes-prove-elusive-1.15858
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If true, that deal actually seems reasonable. Can't believe they couldn't come to that without six months of mudslinging.
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After all the speculation about engine failure, it sounds like the culprit is a combination of poor design and pilot error. The "Feather System" was unlocked by a pilot too early in the flight, then air currents caused it to activ
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> PIPs are a disgusting, spineless tool used by disgusting, spineless people. PIPs are often required by HR to get rid of even terrible employees. They suck, but it's a cover-your-ass tool so that the company has explicit proof the
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"Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all t
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.NET Framework 4.6 and its Reference Source source is being relicensed under the MIT license, so Mono (and you!) can use the source code to the .NET Framework. Link: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETa
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What is Alibaba's take from those sales? Is it a straight percentage, or scaled based on the vendor's volume?
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This could be very dangerous in a narrow spear-phishing attack against people with important credentials, but it's unlikely to ever be a widespread issue for a couple reasons: 1) Apple puts limits on the number of enterprise certificat
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Thanks for the link to "Mad Jack" Churchill. That guy could easily be inspiration for "The Most Interesting Man in the World" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the... ) After
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Book Titles are not copyrightable, even though they are arguably the most important part of a creative work. While APIs are not a clear analog to titles, they are a huge exception to the copyright law, and it seems like APIs need this excep
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”The kid-gloves approach that the DOJ and the SEC take with Wall Street is as inexplicable as it is indefensible,” says Dennis Kelleher Well said. Here's hoping this will result in some civil suits against individuals at Citi, if no
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They changed it with the release of Yosemite. It's now free for anyone with iOS8 or OSX 10.10
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> Instead consider them to be a team of people. It's easy to tell when a manager thinks of you as a "headcount", and it definitely doesn't inspire hard work or quality work. In the process of connecting with your te
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Google Docs have always been free, three weeks ago Apple's iWork suite went free, and now Office for mobile is free. Competition is a wonderful thing - hopefully it starts to bring down the price of Microsoft's cash cow, Office.
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Unfortunately Keynes didn't take into account human nature as well as Parkinson: http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 TL;DR: Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time avail
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"The odometer on this thing reads about 60 million miles." That was John Grunsfeld - he used to work on his car at Hacker's Haven in the late 70's (a DIY garage that Ray and Tom ran in Cambridge for a few years). That&
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Thanks! I didn't even notice the link at the bottom. The second page is about Blockbuster struggling to turn it around, and is actually more interesting than the first. *Interesting side-note: This is the third article I've read
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Their assists animation looks interesting, but I will wait to judge until I can actually try it. The Apple calendar looks great, but feels really clunky to add and edit events. (Especially on a Mac!) For pure usability, I haven't fo
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Looking more into their design turns up all sorts of issues with nitrous oxide as a propellant. It's used all the time in dentist offices, so it's easy to misunderstand as an innocuous gas. At higher pressures and relatively norm
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The only good experiences I've had with recruiters has been with those employed directly by the company they're hiring for. There probably are good independent recruiters out there, but they're overwhelmed by the shysters.
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While I'm happy this may finally allow me to watch live sports over the Internet, it sucks that they're limiting it to "linear programming".
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Apple won't ever admit it, but I'm sure they're loving this turn of events. Having potential competitor stumble before it's even launched is great publicity.

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