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by naner 15y ago
"For the vast majority of titles, Amazon has reached agreement with publishers to include titles for a fixed fee." So no matter how popular (or unpopular) the publisher's titles are, they get one flat fee for participation in the library.
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by naner 15y ago
As a long-time Linux desktop user (but Ubuntu outsider) I have been watching this unfold for quite a while. I think that Mark Suttleworth is smitten by Apple and desperately wants to create a mostly free-software OSX-ish Linux distro. He co
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by naner 15y ago
I think there are some interesting similarities between Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman: Both are luminaries in computing with significant impact. Both attracted a cult-like following. Both often will speak their mind irrespective the feeli
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by naner 15y ago
Financial-risk models got us in trouble before the 2008 crash Is this accurate? I remember reading that all the alarms were going off, they were just ignored or the models were "adjusted".
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by naner 15y ago
I used a ruby script to auto submit to google bookmark. It took me three days. Google bookmarks has always been able to import from Delicious. It still works even after the crappy Avos rewrite.
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by naner 15y ago
Good call, I didn't even consider the most obvious. They'd likely have many fewer hoops to jump through to get at that data.
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by naner 15y ago
Facebook's massive identity database with linked photos would be useful for this service.
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by naner 15y ago
Jesus man, I'm very interested in this topic yet I still had a terrible time working through that brain dump. Superfluous acronyms, overly verbose, excerpts from (egads!) your undergrad papers! What the hell, man. Are you trying to appear s
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by naner 15y ago
Honestly curious, where did those users go? Back to $40 shitcable? RedBox for Blu-Ray.
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by naner 15y ago
I know LibeOffice is derided for its compatibility issues with MS Office (and its name, and its reliance on java, etc), but this type of thing seems pretty important to me. Free software is very important (IMO) but has severe deficiencies b
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by naner 15y ago
I hardly use that gmail address for anything outside of google groups and github. Tumblr probably has an "invite friends" feature where it offers to suck up your address book. Maybe a few software developers you corresponded with in the p
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by naner 15y ago
I think we discussed the original mockup of this here: http://worrydream.com/ScrubbingCalculator/
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by naner 15y ago
I think an important piece left out was how Amazon ostensibly built the platforms first, and then built their services on top of them to make sure they were robust and viable.
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by naner 15y ago
I've switched to using DDG in FireFox for the past couple weeks. It works fine for 80% of searches and occasionally surprises me with the zero-click box, but the other 20% of the time I have to use Google.
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by naner 15y ago
Is Ballmer delusional? No, this is intentional and something he has always done. He plays up Microsoft's products while downplaying all competitors.
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by naner 15y ago
Or sold on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Giant-Machine-Amazon-com-Story/...
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by naner 15y ago
And if you've ever explored 4chan for even a minute you'll see why this is important, the anonymity there turns those people into, well, freaks. Pseudonyms have been used all over the web from the very beginning. 4chan has problems becaus
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by naner 15y ago
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Very good programming articles. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/ -- Updates infrequently. Good articles on Linux and Programming. Start here: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of
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by naner 15y ago
Seeing those images side-by-side, the matte black with simple icons on the iPad looks clean and appealing and the glossy beveled borders on the iPhone look a bit garish. Also the type for the iPad interface is much more pleasing. I don't th
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by naner 15y ago
The only really valid criticism I see here is the binary blob problem-- clearly this is a poor way to store user configuration data I disagree. Enlightenment has been doing this from the start because it is faster to read and write than a
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by naner 15y ago
It is not his Trademark but it is his trademark. I don't think it is really an issue of it being illegal, it just gives the appearance that this person is trying to sell his wares on top of Mark's reputation.
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by naner 15y ago
Not if the phones are only used internally. You only have to distribute the code to those who recieve the binaries. That being said, they may open source it for wider use. The NSA and DoD were responsible for the creation of SELinux.
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by naner 15y ago
Most of the people around me seem to think that the safest route for me is to go pre-med, because it is a well-defined path that leads to a stable career. These people are idiots. The path to a successful career in medicine is a long and
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by naner 15y ago
Looks spammy to me.
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by naner 15y ago
Sort of. It is a spam fighting measure, I believe. Pretty sure similar techniques are used here.
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by naner 15y ago
The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows — it was built for use atop Linux — and Doug Leland, general manager of product management for SQL Server, told Wired that the company plans to eventually release its work b
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by naner 15y ago
I learned from Gentoo too, after a failed start with RedHat. Basically you would learn from Gentoo's excellent documentation and from constantly breaking things and having to research how to fix them. Though I'm not sure if the documentatio
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by naner 15y ago
For the uninitiated: These articles are written by Daniel Robbins. He was the creator and past benevolent dictator of Gentoo Linux. He left the project years ago and then when he returned he started the Gentoo-based Funtoo Linux. When he wa
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by naner 15y ago
Sam Harris on LSD: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-...
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by naner 15y ago
Exactly why I'm leaving as soon as I can secure a residency permit in my country of choice. I'm pretty sure this counts as "the path of least short-term resistance."

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