oxtopus

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by oxtopus 15y ago
Stored Value Card? http://www.fms.treas.gov/eaglecash/svcfacts.html
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by oxtopus 15y ago
Google, Apple, Adobe, Pixar, and others settled with the DOJ on charges of collusion related to alleged mutually agreed hiring practices.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
Same here. My first reaction was, "Surely it means to say I got one wrong out of nine." But I don't know which one.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
Ah, you're right! Comment updated.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
I've been wondering about that myself. iPhone (1) -> 3G (2) -> 3GS (3) -> 4 (4) -> 4S (4) -> ??? (5) The 3G made sense as it isn't the third iPhone, it just marked the transition to 3G. 4 Made sense as it was actually th
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by oxtopus 15y ago
Aside from making the trip out to Rehoboth Beach, how might one try it? Do googlers get dibs?
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by oxtopus 15y ago
Meanwhile, some people do count up from zero. At least in numbering floors in a building. I know in Europe and other parts of the world the ground floor is the zeroth floor, and it goes up from there.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
$10K? A bargain if you ask me. Especially considering the current cost of Leukemia treatment.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
Works great on iPad.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
I got it too. Not something I'd ever hope to see in a trading market.
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by oxtopus 15y ago
That your cell phone reports on your location is old news -- you do have to connect to a geographically dispersed network of cell towers, after all. Assuming Apple (and other vendors) aren't using the data for evil (if at all), might it be
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by oxtopus 16y ago
I plotted the week's hourly average Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) as reported by ERCOT, looking into the "rolling blackouts" in Texas. http://bit.ly/f1lXqk
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by oxtopus 16y ago
In Qwiki's defense, perhaps what they have been demonstrating is only one manifestation of the technology behind the scenes. The stated mission is to improve the way people experience information, with an emphasis on valuable information --
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by oxtopus 16y ago
I still remember, vividly, the reaction of my professor in a graduate-level CS course at UTD upon realizing no one (myself included) had ever used a debugger. Needless to say, it was a real wake up call for me.
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by oxtopus 16y ago
"php.js is an open source project that brings high-level PHP functions to low-level JavaScript platforms such as web browsers" Wait, what?
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by oxtopus 16y ago
Wait. That was real? After having watched through most of it, I thought it was a mockumentary. I never finished watching it.
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by oxtopus 16y ago
You can always add && say Done to the end of long-running commands and it just works.
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by oxtopus 17y ago
I second that motion. Go to Fry's, spend $200 on a micro-ATX form factor barebones machine and an LCD screen, mount it to the wall, put ubuntu on it and autostart a browser primed for use with the Google Chart API and meta-refresh.
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by oxtopus 17y ago
Great story! Have you considered video? http://videocarlot.tv
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by oxtopus 17y ago
YouTube has a big problem of third-party sites that blindly index their content for the sole purpose of selling ads on traffic derived from organic search results. From personal experience in working with google legal, I can tell you that
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by oxtopus 17y ago
I second that. I'm on vacation.
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by oxtopus 18y ago
I've seen this guy speak and read Turing. Looking forward to Logicomics.
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by oxtopus 18y ago
Doesn't that make sense? Before the launch, weren't they in stealth? Shouldn't it take time for the index to catch up?
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by oxtopus 18y ago
Spam?
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by oxtopus 19y ago
SiSTeR Technologies, best known for our videocarlot product. Link: http://videocarlot.tv
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by oxtopus 19y ago
There are some notable startups, but no real Startup Culture to speak of. There are some ++s: - Cost of living is relatively low - Modern luxuries, infrastructure, mobility, etc. afforded by a large metropolitan area. - Central location, wi
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by oxtopus 19y ago
We use cvsdude.com
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by oxtopus 19y ago
This begs the question: How the heck do you become a 23 yr old former NASA roboticist?