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Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority(nytimes.com)
166 points by necubi 16y ago|98 comments
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by necubi 16y ago
Even better, use LaTeX watching (ctrl-cmd-w) with a pdf viewer that supports pdf sync (like Skim) and the output updates every time you save.
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by necubi 16y ago
Do many colleges use NAT? Every college whose network I've been on gives external IPs to each network device.
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by necubi 16y ago
Is there anything comparable for Ruby? I've looked for a nicer irb in the past, but found nothing. Might be a good weekend project.
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by necubi 16y ago
It's a neat concept, but it seems they still have some issues to work out. I'm getting a login error when trying to log in to facebook, and none of the other channels are loading any content. Edit: Facebook's still not working, but the othe
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LightSquared: new national 4G network under construction, no telcos involved(arstechnica.com)
106 points by necubi 16y ago|28 comments
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by necubi 16y ago
I'm very excited to see C-extension support. That might finally convince me to port some of my projects.
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by necubi 16y ago
Incidentally, the iPad has no fan (though I still agree with your general point).
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by necubi 16y ago
Too bad there's no MacRuby, which is probably the fastest ruby interpreter (though it only runs on OS X).
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by necubi 16y ago
Not exactly. The new tight-fitting cap is there to stay, but they may re-open the valves which are presently preventing oil from escaping if the well is determined to be insufficiently sound. In that case, the new cap will still allow them
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by necubi 16y ago
You're actually misinformed about American electoral politics. The Iowa caucuses (and caucuses in general) are only involved at the primary level (i.e., they select which candidate will get to run for each party). Since Obama is a sitting p
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by necubi 16y ago
The admin program (at http://localhost:5984/_utils if couch is installed and running) is such a program.
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by necubi 16y ago
Here at Wesleyan, too, where the kid that runs it, Peter Frank, attends. When Juicycampus shut down he paid them to redirect their traffic to collegeacb, but it seems the deal is off now. However, running this sort of of site is really aski
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by necubi 16y ago
This is pretty awesome, but note this (from the FAQ): "When you sign up for Amazon Student, you'll receive e-mail alerts for discounts and promotions. If you don't want any more Amazon Student e-mails, you may cancel your Amazon Student mem
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by necubi 16y ago
Right, but the text itself (as Twain wrote it) is not copyrighted, only the text as set out in the published version. Which means that scanning the book and distributing a pdf of it would violate copyright, but anybody can edit and publish
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by necubi 16y ago
Zed makes a big deal about getting long-polling for free, but with evented web servers (built on EventMachine, Node, Twisted, etc), you also get long-polling for free, since requests are just objects that get thrown around until they're com
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"Humies:" awards for human-competitive results from an evolutionary algorithm(genetic-programming.org)
2 points by necubi 16y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 16y ago
I can't speak for the others, but TED has HTML5 support and works great on my iPad.
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by necubi 16y ago
> ~ I think the main charge is the fake passport (which the FBI set her up with) ~ of course that charge leads to being a SPY which leads to? life or death in prison Nobody's been charged with espionage, so neither of those sentences ap
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MSNBC.com redesigns story pages and eliminates pagination(mikeindustries.com)
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San Francisco passes mobile radiation law (just in case)(arstechnica.com)
1 points by necubi 16y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 16y ago
Much of the efficiency gains of non-threaded event-based systems like node.js come from not having "the cost of a thread," so creating threads to work around blocking apis would eliminate a large part of the point of having such systems in
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by necubi 16y ago
I'm very excited to try this! Sheet music reader seems like such an obvious application for the iPad. Now I just have to think about how much I trust my shaky stand with my $600 toy.
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by necubi 16y ago
The point is, without the FDA there would be no way to tell the difference between actually effective medicines and snake oil. Since snake oil is a lot cheaper to research and make, economics would dictate that it would come to dominate the
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by necubi 16y ago
Actually, that's exactly true. Without regulation there _would_ be chaos. It's not hard to look back a hundred years[1], before there was an FDA. Instead of real, effective cures the market was dominated by patent medicine, most of which wa
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by necubi 16y ago
Also for layout algorithms. The people behind lilypond have thought very hard about what makes a score beautiful and legible and have pushed the art of computer engraving forward immeasurably. This is the TeX for music. Sibelius, Finale et
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by necubi 16y ago
The only thing that article convinced me of was that Flash is not a good solution for playing streaming video, because it has other priorities and must make concessions to those. But isn't that what the anti-flash crowd has been saying all
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by necubi 16y ago
Except that it's also much, much more taxing on the Mac than other non-hardware decoding players. What seems seldom noted in this discussion is that the only OS X video player that supports hardware decoding is Quicktime X. Anything else—ea
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by necubi 16y ago
Primarily because most of these people aren't really creating things. They're moving money around, but as we've clearly seen in the last few years, they're doing a very poor job of optimizing capital placement in the economy. There's no que
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by necubi 16y ago
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