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by mariorz 18y ago
How about this one, demanding compensation from being blocked in Denmark and using that to start a grant for danish artists. http://blog.brokep.com/2008/04/14/maybe-a-grant/ Hey brokep: How about doing something similar with the cash from
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by mariorz 18y ago
It would make their attitude seem less hypocritical.
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by mariorz 18y ago
I see no intention or interest at all in maybe piping back some of that money directly to content creators. I'm aware of the logistical problems that would entail, but trying something like that would be truly commendable and even revolutio
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by mariorz 18y ago
I would be more inclined to support the guys if I didn't believe they were making boatloads of money with the site.
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by mariorz 18y ago
>Turns out A->B means that A can be reduced to B (using a "polynomial-time many-one reduction"). So if we assume that B is NP-complete, A is too. It's the other way around. For a given problem to be NP-complete requires that every
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by mariorz 18y ago
FWIW, I think Jodorowsky's films could be more accurately categorized as mindrape movies.
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by mariorz 18y ago
In the case of a B-Tree the data structures are the keys/offsets (and possibly values) that are stored in the tree and not the tree itself. I'm confused, you store values in the tree but in itself it is not a data structure? Plus it is i
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by mariorz 18y ago
"Data structures just are. They don't do anything. They are intrinsically declarative. 'Understanding' a data structure is a lot easier than 'understanding' a function. " I'm possibly damaged from a few years of OOP but how do you separat
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by mariorz 18y ago
"Starting in version 0.4 two extensions are packaged with the main download: a primitive API wrapper for Last.fm Web Services, and an interface to the flot JavaScript graphing library. " (load 'last.fm) (load 'flot) http://code.g
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Js-scheme - a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript(eriksilkensen.com)
29 points by mariorz 18y ago|15 comments
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by mariorz 18y ago
Aquamacs, fn key is meta, panic sans 10 font, <3 fullscreen-mode.
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by mariorz 18y ago
I partly dropped out of CS over windows. All the teachers where dead-set on using it.
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by mariorz 18y ago
Who ever is voting this up: Go away. Seriously, not directed at matt maroon for posting this on his own blog, but I assume most people here have heard of bittorrent and rss before. This isn't new, worthy of discussion, or even vaguely inter
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by mariorz 18y ago
this is no doubt tangential to your original point, but you should stay away from mod_python. You're walking into a version coordination nightmare (apache+DB+python). Debugging is a pain and your apache processes now load a python interpret
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Proposal: Imuse, an IMAP-capable FUSE filesystem(unethicalblogger.com)
2 points by mariorz 18y ago|0 comments
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by mariorz 18y ago
something that takes my last.fm played feed and outputs a feed of new album releases I would like. really last.fm should do this.
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by mariorz 18y ago
> Most people on the leader board, got there from hard work and dedication to make this site a really cool place. Try posting every tc, mashable or rww article you come across for say a week. I predict your karma will go way up and this
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by mariorz 18y ago
Having an absolute karma score and leaderboard no doubt encourage the game aspect of the thing.
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by mariorz 18y ago
see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152500
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by mariorz 18y ago
The success of products like Tivo suggest that dictated scheduling is something a lot of TV viewers are happy to loose.
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Memories selectively, safely erased in mice(my.mcg.edu)
21 points by mariorz 18y ago|14 comments
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BMW seeking partners for open-source car software platform(motorauthority.com)
17 points by mariorz 18y ago|10 comments
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The Great Rose Bowl Prank of 1961(damninteresting.com)
1 points by mariorz 18y ago|0 comments
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by mariorz 18y ago
I think it's great, but don't see it as a viable option for some products. I also think micro-payments can be an option one day when someone gets around to making it less painful and more available. I think this will probably involve cellph
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by mariorz 18y ago
>In My opinion, it can be easier for businesses to reach the tipping point of paying customers (i.e. break even) vs. the tipping point of users (???, profitability?, acquisition?). I think MM touched on this. Completely agree, but the p
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by mariorz 18y ago
Listen, I understand that this is the kind of thing you might expect to read in a 1998 edition of Wired and does not fit with the 'getting real' mantra, but (at the very least) eyeballs are monetizable trough advertisement. It's a time test
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by mariorz 18y ago
Do you have examples of sites with a "fobillion" (or close) users that still failed? I'm really curious. The examples I can think of, like friendster, really went under because of lack of users. I agree that you shouldn't bank on getting th
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by mariorz 18y ago
who cares? The post is either good or it isn't, where the poster works or his intentions are unimportant.
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Why You Might Want a Lower Valuation for your Startup(fiveyearstoolate.wordpress.com)
4 points by mariorz 18y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs Preparing His Farewell?(gizmodo.com)
28 points by mariorz 18y ago|30 comments

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