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Regulators want HFT firms to disclose algorithms(reuters.com)
4 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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Kernel.org servers were infected for 17 days(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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Copyright length in different countries(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Not true. According to the git commit history it is being developed pretty actively. The last commit date is July 21st 2011.
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by kia 15y ago
From marketing point of view it's not a wise move. Consider how much press announcing 'Firefox X is here' they lose. And each of these announcements can potentially attract new users. I think Chrome's fast growth can in part be attributed t
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by kia 15y ago
Customers don't really care what technologies a company uses. If a customer uses modern web browser the product must work. Period.
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by kia 15y ago
WTF??? They don't support two most popular web browsers. Firefox 5: "Your web browser isn't supported yet. Download Chrome or Safari below." IE9: "Your web browser isn't supported yet. Download Chrome or Safari below."
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by kia 15y ago
I agree about not getting too excited. But to be precise in this case they are talking about nucleobases [1] which are building blocks of DNA. Amino acids [2] are building blocks of proteins. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase
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by kia 15y ago
Google's mission statement is: "Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." -- Yeah. Show me one company which doesn't have a mission statement like helping people, curing diseases
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by kia 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227045
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Happy Sysadmin Day(en.wikipedia.org)
107 points by kia 15y ago|25 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Yes. Thanks. My fault.
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by kia 15y ago
"In most Silicon Valley Startups, coders know SQL, a major scripting language as well as HTML and CSS. However MySpace had positions solely for just HTML/CSS, a trend that harkened back to the 90s when web pages were manually created." I ho
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Exascale Research: Preparing for the Post-Moore Era [pdf](ideals.illinois.edu)
1 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
This reminds me of my first experience when I started to use Linux (SSH, terminal only) and Vim.
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Poll: Anyone uses Color?
2 points by kia 15y ago|3 comments
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by kia 15y ago
I use Color
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by kia 15y ago
I don't use Color
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by kia 15y ago
Never heard of it
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Office 365 Launched Globally(microsoft.com)
5 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
This is interesting (from Wikipedia article on Benford's Law): In the United States, evidence based on Benford's law is legally admissible in criminal cases at the federal, state, and local levels.
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The Male Biological Clock(online.wsj.com)
9 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Wrong. B has bug X in Beta and supposedly don't have it in final release. It's easy to fix single implementation (Silverlight) in case of new bugs, but it is difficult to fix the standard.
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Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems(arxiv.org)
1 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
All this reminds me the story of this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
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by kia 15y ago
For these the best approach is to write the whole app in some higher-than-C++ level language with performance critical parts (usually less than 10 percent) in C/C++.
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by kia 15y ago
And here is the problem: YOU ARE POPULAR. And because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. Take modern music. A lot of popular singers attract crowds of people and make tons of money. But very often the music just sucks. And people
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by kia 15y ago
It would break many of the programs which rely on 2.6.x naming scheme. Linus always was on the side of not breaking things if they do work. It seems that he changed his views for this particular case.
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Russian most popular search engine has the biggest 2011 tech IPO(bloomberg.com)
2 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Actually the first beta of FF5 is available for almost a month on their ftp here ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/5.0b1/

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