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by nhebb 14y ago
... and normalized against the frequency of each letter in a dictionary of common English words. Most likely, 'e' is common in programming because it's the most common letter in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency
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by nhebb 14y ago
Let's face it, the only petition that will make a difference is the big one on November 6th. I'm amazed the TSA's policies and practices have not become a campaign issue. If you care about this, then petition the candidates to take a stance
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Historically, contributions by the RIAA have been pretty evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Lobbyists care more about influence than they do about the R or D after the name. Politicians care more about reelection campaign fundi
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Funny, the ad I see displayed with the search results is: Upgrade from IE6 Today Microsoft.com/IE9 Say Goodbye to Outdated Browsers. Download the Latest IE Browser Now!
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Ken Auletta of The New Yorker spoke about this on Charlie Rose a few years ago. He explained that while the operating costs for online news is lower than printing press / hard copy distribution, the advertising revenues are even lower sti
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I had a door desk in college. It was solid core with a flat surface. You could buy them at a deep discount if you found one with surface defects. I used cinder blocks to support the corners, making it cheap and portable. Simply put, it was
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Nexium is a patent extension of Prilosec. In order to patent Nexium, they had to alter the chemical structure and run clinical trials to show that Nexium was an improvement over Prilosec. Some critics argued that the trials inflated the dif
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by nhebb 14y ago
I'm about half way through the Git Immersion tutorials [1], and so far it's been pretty good - clear explanations of what you're doing and why you should care. [1] http://gitimmersion.com
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> Sources A Reuters wire story.
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According to other news reports, this is just the latest in a string of attacks on American companies in Greece. McDonalds, Citibank, and Starbucks were hit in Athens. If this continues, you might see multinationals scale down operations or
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> youtu.be/umFnrvcS6AQ Or, you could just watch "The Trouble with Tribbles"
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Wow, 10-15x is an impressive markup. I'm skeptical that those rates will hold after the newness of Flipboard wears off. Your typical marketer might want to see those rates justified by proportionally higher conversions.
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by nhebb 14y ago
It would be interesting to know how they analyzed this decision. Besides losing readers to the web, one of the major problems newspapers face is that web advertising revenues are much lower than print advertising revenues. With a revenue sp
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by nhebb 14y ago
The software in question appears to be Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway. From the features page [1], it states: "Forefront TMG 2010 blocks malicious sites more effectively by using aggregated data from multiple URL filtering v
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by nhebb 14y ago
Iowa's not looking too good in this survey. Maybe we should rethink their pecking order in the presidential elections.
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I can't really take this article seriously. There are millions of Windows developers, and you can't make broad, sweeping statements like he does about a group that large. If there's money to be made, developers will target the platform.
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This isn't really surprising when you think about human nature. We tend to create rivalries where none should exist. Country vs country, state vs state, college vs college, high school vs high school, team A vs team B, boys vs girls, compan
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by nhebb 14y ago
Programmable foot pedals have been around for a while now [1]. Some are surprisingly expensive, though, and this option looks cheaper. https://www.google.com/search?q=programming+foot+pedal
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Martingale strategy never pays off It did for me. I used it at the roulette wheel on my last trip to Vegas. I knew the strategy's critical flaw, but thought I would try it for a while. I went up over a $900 and quit for the evening. T
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So the next hot facebook app will be a photo tool to make your face unrecognizable by facial recognition software.
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> why are they all trying to re-invent how we're launching applications? I understand that they want to grow the tablet and mobile market, but forcing a tablet interface on desktop users seems like a serious strategic error on their par
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The difference this time is that many of the bad reviews are coming from historically pro-Windows sources.
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Another solution is to get a dog. Marsha will realize that sitting in wet dog slobber is far worse than having to put the seat down occasionally. (At least, that's the rationale I use for leaving the seat up in my house.)
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It's not just the meaningless stubs that I found fishy. It was the same article, posted twice on the same day to two different URL's, by the same person - the author of the article.
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I've spotted The Atlantic going some cheesy things, and as much as I like some of their content, it really dims my opinion of them. For instance, take a look at these two submissions on the same day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407
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That's a good idea. I'll write a postmortem after the fact, but right now I'm busy reverting the site to its former state. Conversions dropped ~75%, so it's beyond the point where its practical to tweak the design in order to get it back t
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I updated my circa 2007 website design last week to a more modernized look based on twitter bootstrap and my sales plummeted. Does that count?
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I guessed it was dynamic keywords, and the comment by Andrew Taylor of GoToMeeting confirmed it: "We do not use competitive names in search ads, but we do follow the common industry practice of bidding on competitive terms. In the instance
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Because they keep acting like it. As say this as someone who develops Windows desktop apps. You might have valid counterarguments to that, but that is the perception I have and I don't think I'm alone.
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It breaks normal usage. Tab to a normal Select, press 'n' 3 times and you get New Hampshire (the 3rd item starting with 'n'). Tab to Select2 press 'n' 3 times and you get nothing.

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