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by nsns 13y ago
And yet, a whole series of such "unintuitive" devices is what led to the iPad.
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by nsns 13y ago
"Spreading communal hatred" is the usual euphemism for anti-Muslim rants.
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by nsns 13y ago
Not sure bureaucracy's the reason for that; most probably it's the (not unrealistic) fear of a Chinese/Pakistani attack.
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by nsns 13y ago
How can this - http://i.imgur.com/0mTa36W.png be better than this - http://i.imgur.com/FvnkaWX.png ?!? There should be some serious psychological research into the possible causes for such glitches of common sense.
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by nsns 13y ago
Thanks to the ubiquity of Captchas, we all perform such tasks these days.
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by nsns 13y ago
...à la dinosaurs as birds?
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by nsns 13y ago
There's a certain confusion, or duality, in the way Wikipedia links work. If you access a director's page for example, and a sentence states he has made "20 movies", clicking on "movies" can either take you to his separate filmography page
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by nsns 13y ago
OT: I was using Wikipedia the other day and it occurred to me how primitive it is to have all the inner links to other Wikipedia articles defined manually, surely these should have been automated by now (i.e., marking a word or two would li
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A Dumb Proposal for the NSF(pipeline.corante.com)
1 points by nsns 13y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 13y ago
#include <sarcasm.h>
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by nsns 13y ago
I guess this is mass media gone nuts: When you aim for the lowest common denominator, but your target audience is every human being on the planet, you end up serving nothing at all.
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by nsns 13y ago
I think it is worth mentioning that once the bombers were identified, Reddit did an amazing job covering the manhunt in real-time, I think it was a first, and a great achievement. With live reporting, pictures, videos and police scanner str
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IBM And The Limits of Transferable Tech Expertise(pipeline.corante.com)
1 points by nsns 13y ago|1 comments
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by nsns 13y ago
I think most facts point to two very confused and deluded youngsters, it's a joke even calling them "terrorists" or "Jihadists". Their madness adopted an Islamic tinge because of their roots, but IMO they're not very different from all the
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by nsns 13y ago
This reply is becoming generic here, and has a lot of truth in it. It does ignore however Google's part in actively and quite insistently tempting users to adopt its services.
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by nsns 13y ago
Critique of the linking to Chechnya from Aljazeera - http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201304200024-0022691
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by nsns 13y ago
>>Since quantum mechanics appears to be a true theory of nature, it governs all physical systems... That's quite naïve. I'd say quantum mechanics seems to be the best description we currently have for the laws of physics on a micr
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by nsns 14y ago
Working links: before - http://i.imgur.com/FvnkaWX.png after - http://i.imgur.com/0mTa36W.png
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Gmail: Design breakdown?
1 points by nsns 14y ago|4 comments
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The Internet has changed, to become the frontier of modern capitalism(jacobinmag.com)
1 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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Mali has announced its .ML domain will be free(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
In fact, that's perhaps the best mode of action now: to propagate the article in all other languages.
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by nsns 14y ago
It's like in Germany in the 30's.
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by nsns 14y ago
"Hindi" is made up of Marwari, Mewati, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili, Bundeli, awadhi, chhattisgarhi... all of them different language with their own history and literature. This was done in '47 mostly for political reasons, to stop Bangla fro
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by nsns 14y ago
Very good overview of Spamhous' practices in Ars today ( http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/when-spammers-go-to-... ).
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by nsns 14y ago
This title could be nicely used as a mirror for personal prejudice. If you manage to see through the lazy dust of anthropocentrism, you'll read it as full of horror and pain.
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by nsns 14y ago
Wireless terminals? Logical conclusion: If you can patent a vision, without actually inventing it, then anyone can manufacture it afterwards, provided he/she doesn't envision it in the process.
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by nsns 14y ago
...only to cancel it at some random future time, mid-drive.
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by nsns 14y ago
I believe most users are currently in a "searching" phase, and have joined more than one alternative, so this sudden growth might be misleadding. That said, for now, Feedly is my favorite alternative, so good luck.
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by nsns 14y ago
It seems that every decision that betters Google+ hurts the Google brand. If Google+ is the new Google, then Google is now Google-, obviously. The fact that they are (allegedly) surprised at the amount of people using Reader is a tastement

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