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by oniTony 13y ago
Facebook WiFi doesn't take over HTTPS traffic, so I can continue to browse HN comments without Facebook signin. Actually following links doesn't work as well on average (even with HTTPS Everywhere).
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Anti-Patent Troll Bill Passes The House(techcrunch.com)
160 points by oniTony 13y ago|40 comments
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by oniTony 13y ago
Mentioned elsewhere in the discussion — Tesla is fighting to take the dealer out of the equation.
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by oniTony 13y ago
But that's exactly what Rockstar does. From the article: > Part of the company's strategy is avoiding a patent-countersuit by not having any operating businesses. Essentially, Rockstar wants to enjoy the same advantage patent t
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by oniTony 13y ago
For those wanting a hilly work out — check out http://www.walkscore.com/bike/CA/San_Francisco and pick your own combination of hills and availability of bike lanes.
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by oniTony 13y ago
As claimed by someone who... > haven't worn Glass.
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by oniTony 14y ago
So there's Walk Score. Apartments near (Washington) metro example — http://walk.sc/YPUq1a This doesn't really solve the problem of Craigslist hoarding all their data to themselves (as pointed out numerous times already), but there are eno
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by oniTony 14y ago
I actually got the same email for being in the "top 10%".
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by oniTony 14y ago
For me, it's: "well-priced, DRM-free copy of Indie Game: The Movie (Soundtrack)". So far it's been a pretty good album as background music for work.
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by oniTony 14y ago
They don't yet break out AWS revenue, keeping it in the "Other" category "Includes non-retail activities, such as AWS in the North America segment, advertising services, our co-branded credit card agreements, and other seller sites in both
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by oniTony 14y ago
I bet that Target and Walmart have a very different ratio of Engineers to labor workers, than what Amazon has. Comparing revenue per employee is very misleading here.
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by oniTony 14y ago
While at it, is "2.8 million bottles of 1966 Dom Perginon[sic]" supposed to be easier to understand than something as abstract as 5.6 billion dollars?
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"I'm here to patent infinitesimal calculus for solutions to physics problems."(smbc-comics.com)
3 points by oniTony 14y ago|0 comments
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by oniTony 14y ago
And the competition has quickly sued the government over Wind not being Canadian enough. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/court-sc...
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by oniTony 14y ago
Where are you sourcing the exchange rate data from? Since August CAD has been above USD, but the app shows it at ~$0.98 instead.
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by oniTony 14y ago
The use of Android/iOS app stores likely ties you into the U.S. jurisdiction, which allows for an Australian company to sue a Swedish company in the state of Texas (Uniloc v. Mojang).
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by oniTony 14y ago
> I told them both I'd work for low/no pay remotely to prove myself before I relocate. Interns get paid more than "low/no pay". I can't know this for sure, but that point might have came across as "desperate for experience" rather than
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by oniTony 14y ago
Amazon Cloud Drive has recently launched in UK, DE, FR, IT, ES (and Cloud Player is available in UK, DE, FR). It's certainly not just in US.
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by oniTony 14y ago
Described design hack in action -- http://xkcd.com/993/
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by oniTony 14y ago
Crazy shipping prices would only happen with shady 3rd party merchants. Filter with "Prime eligible" to only get items that are shipped out of Amazon's fulfillment centers.
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by oniTony 15y ago
Amazon Cloud Drive is also hiring -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=100...
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by oniTony 15y ago
The typical answer is: "it depends on the team". Is there a particular part of Amazon that you are interested in?
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by oniTony 15y ago
The post seems to discount using EC2, for it being lumped together with Heroku's free tier as the same kind of a PaaS. The post also does not talk about elasticity (the E in EC2) -- how easy is it to add (and later remove) that extra dedica
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by oniTony 15y ago
Pff, try "1st ave", "1st avenue south", and "1st ave N.". Yup, 3 different (albeit connected) streets in Seattle.
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by oniTony 15y ago
Why is it any kind of "evil" to get objective input?
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by oniTony 15y ago
Here you go: "Musical training-induced functional reorganization of the adult brain: functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation study on amateur string players."[1] [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15
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by oniTony 15y ago
This is really really messed up. Besides the usual patent troll options of: - (costly) settle - (costly) fight There is now a third option of: - (profitable!) join the bandwagon, not get sued (by this particular company), strengthen your ow
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by oniTony 15y ago
I think they defer to the fact that both Apple[1] and Google[2] also have the same feature in their App Stores. Edit: [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358134/Apples-Jobs-co... [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/07/google_
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by oniTony 15y ago
2008+ version -- throw your assets into CloudFront (or another CDN of choice), let CDN handle the caching. ;)
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by oniTony 15y ago
Spinning off research as a business is somewhat different than entrepreneurial students starting their own ventures. At the very least, it sounds like the University gets to hold on to the IP. Besides, it's #1 (by whatever metric) out of ju

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