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by libria 15y ago
> Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network. I'm hoping that was a joke. Having the government investiga
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by libria 15y ago
Reminds me of Asimov's "psychohistory". He conceived of a science capable predicting future events with probabilities but two of its foundational principles are that 1) the population sample is sufficiently large 2) the population is unawa
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by libria 15y ago
The author's genes may not behave the same way as Asprey's. George Burns consistently smoked and lived to 100; not everyone's genetic makeup will allow this. I remember hearing a story of a professor who would throw asbestos into the air d
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by libria 15y ago
Just a nitpick: JSON doesn't have functions and implies serialization. I'd just call it a javascript object.
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by libria 15y ago
I really do find the design creative and well executed, but I think Apple should not officially support it. In my eyes, any variation of a company logo weakens the brand. Yes, Google has a variation of theirs every week it seems, but it's
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by libria 15y ago
Wow, does that mean we finally get full text search (i.e., LIKE '%%')? Bonus points for OR, JOIN's and multiple inequality filters. Since they forbid these operations on the datastore, I'm guessing this will either not scale as well or b
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by libria 15y ago
Also unheard of, Microsoft.com has a link on their homepage. Amazon, normally squeezing money out of every pixel has reserved a block for him (and it doesn't link to a book). Oddly, Pixar has nothing.
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by libria 15y ago
His python RSS parser, http://www.feedparser.org/ website is down, too.
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by libria 15y ago
> Many felt the software should be bundled with the machine and the current distribution method was Gates' problem. Others questioned the cost of developing software. So the rebuttals were "it's hard to get" and "it shouldn't cost tha
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by libria 15y ago
Of the 30k they're planning to lay off, they may want to whitelist a few network security guys.
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by libria 15y ago
No, there is something fundamentally wrong with fanboism. Imagine a company very similar to Apple that suddenly came into existence; call it "Orange". Suppose Orange had products nearly identical to Apple in quality/UX except for a few inn
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by libria 15y ago
For text only, in console: $('body').html($('aside').map(function(x,y){return $('<p>'+y.innerHTML+'</p>')[0];}));
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by libria 15y ago
So Wendy's is named after Dave Thomas's daughter Melinda. That seems to raise more questions than it answers.
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by libria 15y ago
This is unexpected given their position on it before [1]: Google was about to launch a project it had been developing for more than a year, a free cloud-based storage service called GDrive. But Sundar had concluded that it was an artifact
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by libria 15y ago
This exactly. Why the anonymity with web service vendors? I was looking at fiabee.com the other day and "About Us" and "Contact" give the impression that the business owners have something to hide. Even the blog is written "by admin". W
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by libria 15y ago
Also need to consider that the ships that find port in the storm are more likely to set sail when it subsides.
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by libria 15y ago
I find the last bit the most poignant observation there. "Monkeys pounding on the keyboard" has been taken to mean an unintelligent being diligently typing at random. That experiment showed that one monkey probably leaned on the "s" key f
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by libria 15y ago
I'm not familiar w/ Android Market; is it possible for someone to cybersquat popular/known package names, like people do for domains?
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by libria 15y ago
D of earth = 12756km, and assuming a sphere (my physics prof would be proud), I'm computing that 730km covers a ~6.6 degree arc. Also assuming a 100m underground tunnel, the distance would be 21m shorter than its above-ground measurement.
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by libria 15y ago
On the other side of this, those who signed up for Computer Science are also equally unhappy having to settle with the often pedestrian world of cookie-cutter-CRUD web development.
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by libria 15y ago
Why the iframe? If I bookmark the home page and keep browsing, the cookies (or whatever mechanism "remembers" the last tab) bring me back to last page instead of what I bookmarked. You lose the behavior most web users have been trained wi
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by libria 15y ago
If your profile is suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile such as Google+, Buzz, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, like Gmail. From t
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by libria 15y ago
Are there any vendor rebuttals to these claims? I suppose if you're spending $30k for Wilson Watt Puppy's, then $2.5k is chump change ( http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethernet-Connect... ). Otherwise, I don't see how they cou
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by libria 15y ago
> If you're in it for the money (passive side income etc.) I would go for iPhone. I wonder why this is. The culture of those who would buy Apple, would by apps? $100/y dev fee ensures greater quality apps than Androids 1-time $25? iPhon
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by libria 15y ago
DELETE isn't supported by HTML forms. You'd have to submit it through ajax or Mozilla Poster/Chrome XHR Poster.
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by libria 15y ago
Ads are Google's cash cow; they'll care. BTW, it has to be uninstalled. Patrick Altoft notes that it still affected his search results even after disabling. http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-partners-with-amazon-to-sh...
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by libria 15y ago
The clip showing hunting pack behavior, http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RjweUYtpNq4&t=3m17s , really makes them come alive, almost like they'll run off the page. Chilling. Reminds me of George Martin's "Sandkings" (don't go to Wi
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by libria 15y ago
Well, at least they're using it. It hurts adoption if people perceive Microsoft to be tepid about WPF or Google with regards to Go. But Adobe is clearly dogfooding.
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by libria 15y ago
That factor is exacerbated on a smartphone. Plus, some of them pay for bandwidth.
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by libria 15y ago
...says a guy who submits non-hacker news to Hacker News. =)

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