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by mds 15y ago
I think QR codes have the same problem as the segway ( http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html ) -- it makes the user look like a doofus. Walking up to an ad or whatever and waving my my phone around at it just feels un-cool and socially awkw
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by mds 15y ago
The article was talking about the $79 Kindle not the Kindle Touch for the keyboard point. Not sure why they'd expect the non-touch kindle to have a touch keyboard..
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by mds 15y ago
I took that as part of his point -- there isn't a convenient buzzword or easy label to describe what he does, which leads to fear and "people won't understand".
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by mds 15y ago
The pictures only show the tail section -- that's the rear rotor in the photos..
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One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)(wired.com)
1 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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DabbleDB shutting down(blog.dabbledb.com)
6 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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Awesome Ssh Tricks(criticalfutures.com)
6 points by mds 16y ago|1 comments
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by mds 16y ago
"active content must meet all Amazon technical requirements, not be a generic reader, and not contain malicious code" Depends on how they define a "generic reader" doesn't it?
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by mds 16y ago
No offense intended, but "citation needed". My intuition is that server side Linux is a lot less visible, but outweighs desktop use by a good margin. Eg. I run desktop Linux on 2-3 computers at home, and 200+ servers at work.
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by mds 16y ago
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements is pretty close.
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Cringely: Google entering the payday loan business?(cringely.com)
3 points by mds 16y ago|1 comments
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by mds 16y ago
Their "represent it as a matrix" approach reminded me of this Richard Feynman story: [...] Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the
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by mds 16y ago
Here's a link to the paper: http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/carneyetal.pdf It's about a 5 minute read if you skip the statistics.
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Making a game of getting healthy(kottke.org)
1 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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by mds 16y ago
Also Amazon sells an MP3 collection of "The 99 Most Essential Chopin Masterpieces" for $5. I bought them because they were on sale for $1 -- that was the start of my real appreciation for Chopin. I've started collecting recordings of differ
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by mds 16y ago
They do that to slow or stop traffic when there's debris or an accident ahead.
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Big Round Numbers 08/13/2010(dilbert.com)
5 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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The hackers life – my weekend at Defcon(nationalgeographicassignmentblog.com)
3 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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How do I get coworkers to accept my brilliant new thing?(everythingsysadmin.com)
3 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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Sysadmin Choose Your Own Adventure(xyzzy.ksplice.com)
6 points by mds 16y ago|1 comments
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by mds 16y ago
I'm curious how you got that. Are you sure "a" is on /dev/sda1? What OS and FS are you using? $ du -sh /tmp/a 4.0K a $ tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 | grep "Block size" Block size: 4096
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Downwind 2.5 Times Faster Than the Wind(wired.com)
2 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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Care and feeding of Happy Spammers (expatsoftware.com)
1 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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Visualization of pictures of Locals vs Tourists - a set on Flickr ((flickr.com)
8 points by mds 16y ago|1 comments
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Supersonic Work and the Real-Time Sonic Boom(blog.trailmeme.com)
2 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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The Eight Belts of Information Ninja-hood(blog.trailmeme.com)
1 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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Q&A: Ernest Mueller on bringing Agile to operations(dev2ops.org)
1 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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by mds 16y ago
"I’ve interviewed people with a good deal of experience in industry, with degrees from prestigious universities, who have founded startups or done any number of impressive things, who just melt down when asked to write a simple piece of cod
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Facebook Currently Testing New “Questions” Product(allfacebook.com)
2 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments
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Soldiers, Privateers, Mercenaries and Web Technology(blog.trailmeme.com)
1 points by mds 16y ago|0 comments

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