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by mindstab 14y ago
I don't know about that. More[1] and more[2] authors[3] these days are giving[4] away their books for free online as a form of advertising. 1: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm 2: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fict
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Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission(networkworld.com)
1 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
> the maps thing is unfortunate, but I'm sure it will get better Based on what? The problem in the first place is that this is an insanely hard problem that is in the centre of Google's core competencies (data gathering, search, data m
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by mindstab 14y ago
Cinnamon 1.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 has been very pleasant for me so enjoy :) (the only thing keeping me from switching to mint is that they don't have a distro upgrade method like ubuntu does and I like keeping current)
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Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name(paulbernal.wordpress.com)
218 points by mindstab 14y ago|156 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
The internet is (obviously) one of the best examples of the network effect. Sure you can technically wall of a subset of it and live on your own, but why would any sane person want to? I mean I get it, they want to limit access to non ideo
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by mindstab 14y ago
if you look at the actual IA website you'll see amazon is there :)
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by mindstab 14y ago
twitter
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by mindstab 14y ago
Kids. Have they never heard of the Streisand effect. It's pretty much in one place now. Take it down and it'll be back up 10 fold on youtube mirrored, and then also on other services like vimeo etc. You can't kill these things. Asking j
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by mindstab 14y ago
Because it's always better for only the "bad guys" to know about these exploits? If it's as dead easy broken as the article claims then you can be damn sure a lot of other people already know about it and aren't advertising it. And with
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by mindstab 14y ago
Oddly Saudi Arabia has just the other mindset, and is being wonderfully effective at working against the US. They are pouring tons of money into their religious schools which in many places are just the only place you can even go for any ed
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by mindstab 14y ago
My point is that that attitude is useless. Great, you feel better for seeing something you don't like and calling it out. You know what you aren't doing? HELPING the victims? You REALLY care? Then step up, and engage. Swallow your pride a
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by mindstab 14y ago
what does that have to do with this board's general close and simple mindedness when it comes to geopolitics and interacting with different cultures. It seems like a lot of the people here have the depth of a tom clancy novel
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by mindstab 14y ago
I don't even know what to say or do about the top comments here: "The people ... are declining to use thoughtful discussion to show that they are anything other than blights on humankind." " It's clear that they're stuck in the Middle Ages,
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by mindstab 14y ago
Maybe Norway, but are you kidding about America? There are tons of shootings in America all the time. Not all are big mass mutli killings. That's how you know there's a problem, merely 4 people dying probably wouldn't even make the news.
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by mindstab 14y ago
You know what? Facebook gives users the tools to block this stuff. You can block all content from an app. Now I know zynga makes a few apps, but not that many Any time some new one pops up in my feed I block it. I haven't had a problem with
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by mindstab 14y ago
Maybe everyone doesn't have a constent quotable filter on thinking "is this quotable?" :P People talk poorly in normal conversation. It takes time to craft a good quote.
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Ubuntu 12.04's default media player still can't properly display song titles(bugs.launchpad.net)
2 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
I'm a little confused. A purely OO programmer mostly in .Net land sees one cute JS trick example and declares Namespaces obsolete? I'm not sure which side of this is more funny/confusing: that there are plenty of other languages doing this
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by mindstab 14y ago
Well this will totally get cut the rope ported... oh wait... it's free... along with most of my favourite apps....
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by mindstab 14y ago
Except this is the actual thread that's still evolving while the other was some cut up quote filled "news" post. The conversation here may parallel the other but I think this link is more valuable.
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by mindstab 14y ago
Sooo you come to a site requiring flash with a add on flash blocker and complain it doesn't support you well... Maybe you're doing it wrong. If you can't get your own custom modules to work either don't use them or figure out how to use th
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Apple awarded $1 billion in patent case vs. Samsung(bottomline.nbcnews.com)
1 points by mindstab 14y ago|1 comments
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McCann: "I am more optimistic about GNOME than I've been in a long time"(derstandard.at)
2 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
Except aren't most of these hypothetical tablets running on ARM so the actual software on the market now that will run on them is 0. Some stuff will get recompiled in ARM for them, but far from all of windows software out now. So we'll see
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by mindstab 14y ago
So does this confirm that it was mostly done to get back potential equity? If so how many of the employees are likely to go back? Or was this done because they ran out of money and it's the only thing to do so most probably will? Except why
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by mindstab 14y ago
Seems a little naive. I don't think our OSs, device drivers, X engines for X in [webbrowser, GUI, 3d engine, etc] will be just... done by front enders... Chicken and egg: will "real coders" will make the last tool and die out to be replaced
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by mindstab 14y ago
The part where Mike Murray talks about it shifting the balance of power from "Companies running people to hopefully people running companies" is ironic considering how Jobs ran Apple once he got back.
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by mindstab 14y ago
I have a desire HD and I have to say Sense UI is poorly programmed garbage. I would really much rather have stock android UI. Maybe slapping an inferior memory eating solution to a non-problem on top of android is their problem? They could
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by mindstab 14y ago
Let's say I were to redesign Ebay as a big picture listing site (ability to bid and buy, coming later) Would anyone consider this a ready to launch replacement? If they don't value commenting as one the of the most core features what hope d

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