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by phil 18y ago
Notably, "Barack Obama to be Democratic Presidential Nominee" is trading about 10pts higher than its last close right now...
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by phil 18y ago
hmm... NYTimes' data is distressingly behind some of the other media org's
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Live results from tonight's primaries on twitter(twitter.com)
13 points by phil 18y ago|6 comments
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by phil 19y ago
Beautiful stuff, Ashwin!
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by phil 19y ago
Facebook's execs take great pains, at every opportunity, to point out that they don't plan to do this and that they see Facebook as an ad-supported product. I think that they think that charging for access would be a disaster
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by phil 19y ago
Their admissions are need-blind, so they can't "just take fewer students" from a given income bracket.
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by phil 19y ago
One option Joel doesn't mention is to use OpenOffice. It has its own object model (called UNO), which has bindings in many languages. It's not a perfect implementation of the formats, but it's good enough for most things. And has the rather
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by phil 19y ago
He's expanded that article into a book: http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/15942... In it, there's a great heuristic for walking out of your local supermarket carrying food (as opposed to processed "edible foodlike sub
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by phil 19y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. Like tearing down hutongs, this is about presenting a clean shiny appearance while the rest of the world is watching.
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by phil 19y ago
...during the olympics.
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by phil 19y ago
Well, it certainly does suck.
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Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums(wheels.org)
5 points by phil 19y ago|0 comments
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Norvig reviews SICP(amazon.com)
19 points by phil 19y ago|5 comments
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by phil 19y ago
By the way, we've also got a reddit style site set up for requesting features at: http://features.auctomatic.com Thus far we've mostly used it internally to track requests people have emailed us, but it's time to open it up. So, if you s
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by phil 19y ago
Thanks for the feedback! On your points: - To prefix or not to prefix is always a tradeoff (as in, http://twitter.com/ev vs. http://google.com/a/foo.com ). We wanted to keep some of that tasty top level namespace open, and figured /app/
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by phil 19y ago
Here's some fun followup on this steaming pile: http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/09/ben_goldacre_vs_c...
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Cory Doctorow defends Scribd(boingboing.net)
21 points by phil 19y ago|3 comments
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by phil 19y ago
Before you draw any conclusions from this story, you should really have a look at Jim Hansen's explanation of the error and figures here: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/distro_LightUpstairs_70810.pdf Their errors have basically no effect o
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Atom is done(tbray.org)
8 points by phil 19y ago|0 comments
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by phil 19y ago
Are you in SV? The Milk Pail pretty much fixes that problem.
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by phil 19y ago
yeah! way to go, guys!
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by phil 19y ago
This was a fantastic read. Thanks.
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by phil 19y ago
I ended up talking about this with someone and looked it up. The article was written by Jerry Borrell. http://web.archive.org/web/20011031192234/http://www.upside.com/
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Bradley Horowitz on 'internet of things': let's uniquely ID everything!(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by phil 19y ago|0 comments
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5&1/2 lessons that legitimate retailers can learn from pirates [dive into mark](diveintomark.org)
3 points by phil 19y ago|0 comments
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by phil 19y ago
Unfailingly accurate, hoorah!
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Marc Andreessen: The Truth About Venture Capitalists, Part 3(blog.pmarca.com)
19 points by phil 19y ago|1 comments
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by phil 19y ago
Angry and mostly incoherent.
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by phil 19y ago
Plus the candidate pool is of finite size, and Google has been drinking pretty deeply from it for a long time now.
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by phil 19y ago
I'm pretty skeptical too. I don't think Clay gives nearly enough credit to people's ability to learn new things and forget the past. I asked the two nearest people (one young, one old) the VCR/PC and radio/phone questions. The old one answe

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