jpatokal

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by jpatokal 13y ago
No, they need to pass the three-step test: * The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; * The registrant does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the do
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Unfortunately voice quality is almost entirely a function of the network you're on, which is obviously outside the phone's control. Regardless of how awesome the phone is, call quality will be terrible if it can only suck bits thr
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Culturalism, Gladwell, and Airplane Crashes(askakorean.blogspot.hk)
84 points by jpatokal 13y ago|83 comments
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by jpatokal 13y ago
SOAP is to REST as XML is to JSON. They're all technically 7-bit and notionally human-readable, but SOAP/XML are (well, can be) so verbose as to be near-impossible to parse by hand. Comparing the "Hello World"-style si
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by jpatokal 13y ago
It's not quite that clear-cut even for CoC though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825158
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Installing a plugin and pressing "Sync" may indeed be improvement over manually merging Word docs, although they do gloss over the hairy yet important bit of managing permissions: who exactly gets access to each doc? But having go
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When Mos Def was force-fed Guantánamo Bay-style – eyewitness account(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by jpatokal 13y ago|0 comments
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by jpatokal 13y ago
And why do you think the rupee sign, if successful in India, would not be adopted by the rest as well? "$" is by no means limited to the Mexican peso it was originally intended for. And yes, I do agree that the rupee sign is a li
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by jpatokal 13y ago
As it happens, $ is originally the peso sign. When is the US going to stop using a secondhand symbol shamelessly stolen from the Mexicans? At the end of the day, you don't need unique symbols to distinguish currencies, because 99.9%
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by jpatokal 13y ago
But what's the benefit or rationale for having a new symbol? As far as I can tell, it seems to mostly consist of thinly veiled nationalism: "all the big countries have one, so we need one too". See for example this: Now In
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by jpatokal 13y ago
IEC 8859-1 (Latin1) vs IEC 8859-15 (Latin9) is the main bugbear: whenever you see ¤ instead of €, this is the cause, and there's an awful lot of data in and software expecting Latin1 still out there.
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by jpatokal 13y ago
And there isn't really any technical reason why Glass (or successor technologies) couldn't just record constantly , eg. continually overwriting a buffer of the last 60 minutes, the same way dashboard cams do. If you happen to se
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure this recent trend of coming up with new symbols for currencies needs encouraging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign htt
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Google's enterprise Apps SLA is 99.9%, and last year they hit 99.98%.
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Are you serious? Running my small business, I used email to communicate with my coworkers, potential hires, customers, prospects, partners, potential partners, reporters, accountants, lawyers, banks, web hosts, PayPal, UPS, various governm
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Lost in Translation: DRM e-books by making small, randomized text substitutions(publishersweekly.com)
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by jpatokal 13y ago
From http://travel.cnn.com/rise-big-unnecessary-crazy-travel-adve... : Johnson hopes the walk will help create a name for himself in the Internet industry. He wants to develop cross-platform Web applications that engage
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by jpatokal 13y ago
...and his project has already been banned from Facebook: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100125012078853567494/posts/LS9V...
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by jpatokal 13y ago
to run toward me screaming with excitement after I'd been away for awhile Hint: That's not a 0-4 month-old child... and that's because dad took his four months off after mom had returned to work.
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by jpatokal 13y ago
In Finland, it is the symbol for a place of (usually historical) interest, and it's encoded in Unicode as such: ⌘ PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN (U+2318) http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2318/i
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This is the bead-chain experiment. It's about to melt your brain.(io9.com)
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Lonely Planet was, until very recently, owned by BBC Worldwide.
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by jpatokal 13y ago
So the BBC is... weird. The majority of the operation is a taxpayer-funded public broadcaster with a remit to produce high quality programming for free; but there's a unit called BBC Worldwide whose job it is to battle it out in the r
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by jpatokal 13y ago
A handy reminder of why flight search is Hard with a capital H: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com... (ITA being the company purchased by Google)
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We've named every point on Earth in three words(what3words.com)
2 points by jpatokal 13y ago|1 comments
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by jpatokal 13y ago
That's a convenient excuse. Any state, including Ecuador, could just issue him a temporary passport if they wanted to -- but they're not, and it's obvious they've gotten cold feet. I presume some rather large sticks an
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by jpatokal 13y ago
Srsly? Cheating in China is so entrenched that there was a riot recently when it wasn't allowed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1013239...
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The approaching datacenter zombie apocalypse(zdnet.com)
1 points by jpatokal 13y ago|0 comments
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Senate Approves Overhaul of U.S. Immigration Laws(online.wsj.com)
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by jpatokal 13y ago
If you really want efficiency, eat South-East Asian style: spoon in the right, fork in the left. The fork is used to hold onto larger things and to rake food onto your spoon, but it never goes into your mouth; the spoon shovels food into y

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