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by mherdeg 14y ago
We've just passed the four-year anniversary of the bug that made me abandon Firefox on Mac: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541 If you are an extremely fast typer, pretty much any time you use Firefox on OS X to "Save As"
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by mherdeg 14y ago
So just to spell it out for other readers: * This item links to a blog post published 3 March 2013 and fictitiously dated "1998" at the top as a rhetorical point. * The original title of the link as originally submitted was "The World Wide
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by mherdeg 14y ago
(Actually the explanation at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5311430 looks a lot better. I do wonder what's up with the DoI's recent "security concerns").
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Conversation from three days ago at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/169405/google-indexi... suggests that the best hypothesis is that at some point in the past, www.doioig.gov was compromised and maybe redirected to StackOverflow.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
That was a great FAQ to read through. I'm really impressed with the organization's communication.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
In case anyone is wondering, if I am reading their FAQ correctly, they don't actually wait until the crowdsourced treatment is 100% funded before they provide medical care -- per https://watsi.org/faq#am-i-really-funding-medical-care-for-t
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Hmm, I may be a little more cynical than you here. To my eye practically all journalists are sloppy: when I read a newspaper article about a topic I know well, it no longer comes as any kind of surprise to read something inaccurate or incom
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by mherdeg 14y ago
An issue here which fascinates me is -- how closely do we expect any subjective narrative to match the facts? I'd love to see an experiment where you ask ten people to drive a car for 300 miles and write a story about how their trip went;
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by mherdeg 14y ago
There's a name for this product space! "Spreadsheet controls" describes the product space inhabited by various products that aim to help businesses manage the terrifying, complex Excel workbooks whose contents influence business decisions i
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I'm surprised there isn't already a Streisand-like term for "misappropriating something very common as your trademark", as in the hypothetical "did you see last week when Oracle tried to Space Marine the Internet Oracle archives?" I guess N
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I kinda liked old content at scroogled.com (now available at http://www.scroogled.com/Shopping/ -- see archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20121201162336/http://www.scroogl... ) because it told me something I didn't know, that the Fro
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by mherdeg 14y ago
As a corollary to your awesome "don't stalk a psychiatrist" tip — if you're going to stalk someone, don't stalk a federal agent! A close friend was stalked for years by someone who sent increasingly threatening e-mails to him, his ex-girlfr
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by mherdeg 14y ago
There's a great early science fiction novel about the possible effect of semaphore communication technology on the Roman empire — L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall . In the novel, de
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by mherdeg 14y ago
There is a lesson to be learned here about using third-party vendors in sensitive parts of your business. IF you're a news outlet and you're going to let people publish "sponsored stories" and promise them the ability to moderate comments,
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Just as a heads-up, his last name is spelled "Swartz".
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Reading a manifesto is probably not a good introduction to the site — it's a bit "tell" instead of "show". Submitted to news.ycombinator about ten hours ago, the qz.com "Check your US tax rate for 2012-and every year since 1913" might show
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Tom Ewing's paper ( http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/feldman-giants-among-us.pdf , datestamped Jan. 2012) says they've identified 1,276 shell companies, which is quite a bit lower than the 2,201 items listed by PlainSite. (In his interview wi
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Just for example — to steal shamelessly from Reddit — you could call this product "Twitter gold". "Give Twitter gold to this user".
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Speaking of which, how cool is it that Instagram's official blog is a tumblr? That infrastructure is everywhere!
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by mherdeg 14y ago
The nice thing about America is that you can sue anyone for anything (even if the case has no merit and goes nowhere). But winning a libel suit is no panacea — it doesn't magically make your life better. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mherdeg 14y ago
It has only recently become clear in the U.S. that federal law permits the use of eminent domain to help private parties do economic development. Have a read through the Supreme Court case Kelo v. City of New London , 545 U.S. 469 (2005),
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Interesting. Delivering six-packs quickly is a core part of Instacart's fundraising pitch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/
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by mherdeg 14y ago
FYI, you will convert 37% better if you change your call-to-action wording to "You should visit my website at www.bltrg-app.me".
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by mherdeg 14y ago
CNN's blog editors should be ashamed at having allowed this paragraph: "The metapaper also advertises itself as a healthy alternative, since it claims to reduce a person's exposure to electromagnetic waves. Scientists behind the product poi
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by mherdeg 14y ago
If you like this stuff, recommend you read Hamming's "You and Your Research" ( http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html ), which is thought-provoking and approachable. Ha, Sir Michael Atiyah's advice to a young mathematici
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I often find that when people discuss studies they rarely get beyond the abstract (and sometimes not even past the title!) Just to get you started and maybe entice you to read the paper, the abstract says: "We observe interesting data patte
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I don't know how to articulate my aversion to this tool but I think it has something to do with the phrase "sunk cost fallacy". Maybe I would find it more useful if the number it showed were instead "the next 5 minute discussion will cost $
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Well, we'll have to see the paper to know more. For an example of one of the classic kinds of "debunking" that this kind of research tends to get, see "Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon:
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by mherdeg 14y ago
In case anyone else is curious, the section you're thinking of is ""F. Voices. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you may use the system voices included in the Apple Software (“System Voices”) (i) while running the Apple S
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by mherdeg 14y ago
It was a sad, sad day when they shut down the old http://matrix1.itasoftware.com/ interface. It was much more keyboard accessible with faster navigation between inputs, and the forward and back buttons always did exactly what I expected.

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