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by noibl 14y ago
I think Tim Bray said it best: "Kontra genuinely loathes Google right down to the ground." [1] Why this should matter to anyone is a bit of a mystery. But he seems to have something of a following so I'm posting this because it's the secon
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by noibl 14y ago
> CSS fallbacks don't work. [IE6] http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/fixed.html (Not that it matters anymore.)
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by noibl 14y ago
A pretty shameless rip-off of Trello, yet it makes sense. I'm just about to set up collaboration using Bitbucket and Trello* and there's too much manual linking involved. At the moment it looks very v0.1 though. I'll wait for the release ve
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by noibl 14y ago
Harr. :)
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by noibl 14y ago
if (document.querySelector('h1').innerHTML.match(/^Is .*\?$/)) { console.log('Probably not.') }
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by noibl 15y ago
The article uses the analogy of road traffic congestion being defeated by autonomous vehicles with swarm-like intelligence enabled by centralised computing. Which is interesting.
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by noibl 15y ago
"I'm going to fucking kill Google" -- Steve Ballmer[1] "I'm here to destroy [Google]" -- Steve Jobs[2] Maybe not the coziest of cartels. [1] http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/09/ballmer_throws_a_c... [2] http://9to5mac.com/2012/04/0
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by noibl 15y ago
> we are only sexually attracted to people who are attracted to us Taken literally, this is a pretty absurd claim. I think your post would be more convincing without it.
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by noibl 15y ago
The problem with the healthcare bill wasn't voter apathy, quite the opposite. It was more-or-less successfully resisted (we'll see what SCOTUS does) by a handful of Blue Dogs who were forced to listen to their relatively conservative consti
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by noibl 15y ago
Richard Clarke's take: “The U.S. government is involved in espionage against other governments,” he says flatly. “There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of cyberespionage the United States government does and China. The U.S.
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by noibl 15y ago
> I basically guarantee that somewhere down the road Google will abandon their "only for defensive purposes" stance. I basically guarantee that that statement carries no weight at all.
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by noibl 15y ago
As personal appeals go, I'm just not sure. On the one hand it's almost impossible to sympathise with the guy's crazy predictions or hurt feelings. It definitely needs a big watery-eyed photo of him across the top or something. On the other
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by noibl 15y ago
Feel free to say something that could actually be responded to whenever you get bored with trolling.
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by noibl 15y ago
TL;DR: As I enter my twilight years, I know that Star Wars will continue to comfort me long into my dotage. raganwald: 50's nothing, get back in the game. America: The Cold War is over. There is no Death Star to blow up. You can't fight for
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by noibl 15y ago
This sounds very similar to the way Chrome handles Google's own malware-servers list: "If you have phishing and malware protection enabled, then Google Chrome will contact servers at Google within five minutes of startup, and approx
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by noibl 15y ago
And yet on WinXP it's the inverse: http://i.imgur.com/fge34.png
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by noibl 15y ago
This is Twain's chapter on wily coyotes: http://www.mtwain.com/Roughing_It/6.html Interesting... 'then that town-dog is mad in earnest, and he begins to strain and weep and swear, and paw the sand higher than ever, and reach for the cay
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by noibl 15y ago
> Legally, they can't give money directly to candidates or even coordinate with them. Only traditional PACs can do that. Pretty sure I covered that point. > Giving ad time or ad space directly to candidates, as Joel proposes He didn
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by noibl 15y ago
Political Action Committees can raise unlimited sums from corporations: 'In 2010, the landmark case filed by Citizens United changed the rules regarding corporate campaign expenditures. This ruling made it legal for corporations and unions
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by noibl 15y ago
The point is to make such laws unworkable through practical measures, not to generate political anger in the uncertain hope that that will balance the efforts of proprietorial lobbyists and state security extremists indefinitely.
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by noibl 15y ago
Heh, I just found this too and added it to my default omnibox search in Chrome. You may have to add your own to the list: hXXp://www.google.com/search?q=%s&le=en&start=0&tbs=li:1
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by noibl 15y ago
To say that a suicide was caused by depression and that we knew the person was depressed because they claimed to be suicidal is circular. I qualified the term because there are other components to that statistic which it would be wrong to d
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by noibl 15y ago
> certainly has the numbers on his side That statistic presents a somewhat circular logic, with drug abuse (mainly alcohol) and mood disorders (depression: uni-/bi-polar) making up the bulk of the 'mental disorders' figure (FTA). Since
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by noibl 15y ago
> I'm not saying they've achieved anything. Clearly you're not aware of the CADIE incident a couple of years ago. http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/ Be sure to check the blog. (By far my favourite piece of Google whimsy,
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by noibl 15y ago
> Am I missing something here? I believe so: the importance of open data. This finding is a perfect example of the fascinating insights you can get when you combine big, seemingly disparate datasets. I'm not sure where you would go to
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by noibl 15y ago
I had just finished reading your post from the link further down and I agree with its content. This is not a new problem for journalism. The solution is to leave all that lovely money on the table and keep your reputation intact, or change
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by noibl 15y ago
The notion that Mike, or anyone else, investing in a company would dictate some sort of giant conflicted agenda is laughable. Literally. If Mike tried to get me to write some unreasonable post about a company he had invested in, I would la
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by noibl 15y ago
I read the whole thing, waiting for the casual but gruesome murder scene and it never happened. So is this not the teaser for a new Brett Easton Ellis novel? Is such flagrant vacuity Where It's Really At? Well I let my pointless comment sit
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by noibl 15y ago
This seems to be an iteration on an 800lm/12.5W version which they examined in [detail][]. There is an incredible amount of electronics packed into these things but they seem to do a better job than CFLs of replacing ye olde tungsten-filame
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by noibl 15y ago
Hyperbole: I've seen worse.[1] [1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/21/apple-declares-war-on-adob...

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