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by mrduncan 17y ago
The original posting (as best I can tell), which has additional information, is at the following site - http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2009/12/27/tsa-... This blog appears to have just repeated what was posted there.
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Based on the title of the post, I'm sure that's where part of the inspiration for this post came from. That said, great book which I completely recommend.
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Of note, Ron Conway invested in YC (albeit somewhat indirectly) earlier in the year. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/y-combinator-gets-the-s...
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Inc and Fast Company at the moment. They are usually a mixed bag of good and not so good. For the price though ($12/year) they're tough to beat for decent on-the-go reading.
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The payment for most of the tasks on Mechanical Turk and other things like it is just not worth the time for almost any task I've seen. While that may be true for you, there are plenty of places across the globe where $1 (with a chance of
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by mrduncan 17y ago
The Wikipedia article for Thorium as a fuel is surprisingly detailed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle
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by mrduncan 17y ago
According to Wikipedia: "Hotmail originally ran on a mixture of FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems. A project was started to move Hotmail to Windows 2000. In June 2001, Microsoft claimed this had been completed; a few days later they ret
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The additional details are pretty interesting also: About: http://blog.360cities.net/the-largest-panorama-in-the-world/ How it was made: http://blog.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels-how-it-was-ma...
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Nationwide BIS Outage Reported For Most Carriers(crackberry.com)
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I was going to give a similar comment but you summarized it much better than I could have. Thanks for that.
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Judging by the number of people here who've noticed it in their friends I'd say it's probably due to malware. Take a look at the font of "facebook" in the images and compare with the header bar - 2 distinctly different fonts. Edit: Also not
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Step 4, most importantly, should be to verify those backups on a regular basis. All too often, people lose data due to a failure and then a backup which was failing or corrupted.
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Also, if you don't regularly test backups they might as well not exist.
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Product design debt versus Technical debt(andrewchenblog.com)
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My wild speculation would be that (related to tc 's above) it's a mutual "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" with the DOJ. I'd be surprised if there weren't regulations in place which required them to keep the data for that long.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It sounds like the interview which was done by CNBC during their hour-long special about a week ago on Google. I'll check when I get home since I have it on my DVR, but they usually re-air their specials every few weeks so keep an eye out
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I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet, but one correction - John Resig is the original author of jQuery, Yehuda is on the core team.
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Attempts to improve the internet as a whole may not directly benefit Google, but as an internet company, they will almost certainly indirectly benefit them. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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So I finally tried Wave...(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
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I also have to wonder if Google moves a little faster when high-profile Microsoft employees are involved I would imagine that they move quickly when high-profile employees of any (tech) company are involved, not just Microsoft. Being a b
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I took the liberty to clean up the formatting on that, hope you don't mind: This edition captures the changes in AI that have taken place since the last edition in 2003. There have been important applications of AI technology, such as the w
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Also worth noting that timsort is used for array sorting in Java 7. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view%5Fbug.do?bug%5Fid=68041...
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I'd imagine that CNBC chose the location and not Gates or Buffett. It seems like the most obvious place for them to hold an event such as this (excluding perhaps the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting). Edit: Apparently that came off as sar
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It's interesting that although this list seems a little vague, other than "iPhone" I'd argue that this would have been just as accurate 10 years ago. Does anyone know if the BOS talks are going to be available online?
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Right, but keep in mind that (as Derek Sivers put it so well) 1% isn't the smallest percentage that you can get. Zero is also a percentage.
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We now auto-insert Stack Overflow affiliate info into any amazon book links posted on Stack Overflow I'm curious how others feel about this. To me, it seems like Stack Overflow is taking the affiliate credit for something that a user pos
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New Resque Web UI(github.com)
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According to Marissa Mayer's tweet, Google is doing a week worth of doodles (which would end on Nov. 10th). http://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/5427907816
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Although not quite the same situation, this reminds me of the fiasco around GetSatisfaction at the beginning of the year. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=540540
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Twitter lists and real-time journalism(cnn.com)
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