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The next billion dollar SaaS company? Try looking in Canada (theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Teens Are Innovators Of A New Public Form Of Privacy(fastcoexist.com)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
I thought he was joking at first, as in satire that shows how silly the rest of the "secret laws" are (like NYC's classified FOI system).
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by mindstab 13y ago
http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/ amazon supports MFA, but the site seems to not know that...
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by mindstab 13y ago
I was really excited about learning/using some of the new stuff coming in c++11 and so on until a new job introduced me to Go lang. Now it seems like all of that stuff and more, elegantly built in instead of bolted on. To be fair I thi
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Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast(beta.slashdot.org)
3 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
he was affected by their addiction and its affects on their lives, which the difficultly played a part in the cycle of.
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by mindstab 13y ago
Charlie Stross on the topic: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/rule-34-... 'For starters, it turns out that 3-11% of Yahoo! webcam traffic involves "undesirable nudity"&#
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Run, Hide your children from math with letters(goodmath.org)
3 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
I bought a DepthSense 325 which is the chip behind the new Creative / Intel 3d cam coming out http://www.softkinetic.com/en-us/products/depthsensecameras....
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by mindstab 13y ago
A little regulation and over sight might have prevented all this. And with out it going forward all anyone can do is advise best practices, and then watch as some ignore them and also have their money stolen. Very wild west. Totally someth
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by mindstab 13y ago
actually the latest banking disaster was largely due to a decade prior of deregulation, and the economies of other counties who came through it best had retained a lot of their regulation (Canada).
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by mindstab 13y ago
this is a bit weird. it should be unrealted and way too soon for microsoft to get their hands on it and two data points a pattern does not make, however: fairly reliable skype had a big outage the WEEK microsoft bought them and now WhatsApp
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by mindstab 13y ago
you can remove it already, and it's about the first thing I don on all my new computers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282659
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by mindstab 13y ago
Already right now you can remove Unity's global menu, it just takes some work $ sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt firefox-globalmenu
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by mindstab 13y ago
"But even for people who liked the design, it has grown more problematic over time with the proliferation of bigger monitors" Yes, this. I think in everyone's rush for "convergence" they just forgot about the deskto
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by mindstab 13y ago
... and things like this do to a point hilight why there is a lot of regulation around money and trying to create a new "freer" currency is actually really dangerous. I'm pretty sure his operating practice of keeping all the
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by mindstab 13y ago
This seems like a good place for a kickstarter?
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by mindstab 13y ago
It's weird, I switched over to reading slashdot through an RSS reader (desktop app, then Google Reader, now NewsBlur) like 7 or 8 years ago. Mixed in with everything else the content is still decent and original and different enough I
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by mindstab 13y ago
there's a lot more "governance" when it comes to money transfer apps than say, games
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NSA Reforms, or the lack thereof – Notes from a strange world(medium.com)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
Maybe ICAAN's strategy of making loads of TLDs is their best attempt at a way around this, maybe they hope that eventually most of the TLDs being used won't be hosted in the jurisdiction of and controlled by any one governmental o
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Skyrim virtual reality demo uses Oculus Rift and omnidirectional treadmill(geek.com)
1 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
I think the headline reads a bit differently. Mexico, in tapping its own deep aquifers is proving it's possible and desirable, is now saying to the US "watch it, that water of yours you are polluting? you might actually want/
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by mindstab 13y ago
The CBC had a great re-imagining of the speech "The state of the union speech Barack Obama would never give" http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-state-of-the-union-speech-b...
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Apple Originally Tried To Give GPL'ed LLVM To GCC(phoronix.com)
19 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
More software is slowly making it's way onto it. I only own a Wii and the Ouya and my friends have actually enjoyed some of the multiplayer games (Bomb Squad and Tower Fall). It's getting used several times a month when they come
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by mindstab 13y ago
the answer is a number
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by mindstab 13y ago
imho static page generating sites is optimizing at the wrong level. That's what app caching, caching servers and CDNs and such are for. Static page generation like this is ok at a very small level/scale but doesn't scale us
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Mars One needs your help - Help the first manned mission to mars(indiegogo.com)
1 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments

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