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by pierrefar 16y ago
Valid question. There is a bug in the Android SMS app that sends your text to unintended recipients. See: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392 http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/android-still-has-horribl... http://www
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I've had hotel wake up calls NOT happen. For really-must-wake-up-on-time situations, you need to diversify: phone + hotel + a tiny clock.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Wiktionary does provide equivalent terms in other languages. For example: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trawl . The problem is that this feature is no where near as ubiquitous as it needs to be for it large-scale use.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Would WordNet or Wiktionary work for you?
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by pierrefar 16y ago
As I understand it, the JS DOM implementation does not have the quirks of the different browsers. So theoretically, you could write a test that passes and works in browser X but does not work in browser Y. My understanding is that jQuery sp
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by pierrefar 16y ago
In terms of relationship, my advice will be the same whether you're starting up or working in BigBoring Inc. It boils down to 3 things: 1. Time: Make time for each other. Schedule it as if it's a big important meeting with an investor if ne
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by pierrefar 16y ago
For those who don't know, what is so special about this camera?
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by pierrefar 16y ago
One step further is to make email as the username. This removes a field from the form and also improves the chances that the email given is really used.
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Spokeo: Not your grandma's phonebook(spokeo.com)
1 points by pierrefar 16y ago|0 comments
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by pierrefar 16y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=headlines+linkbait
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Yeah the page is clearly built for SEO purposes and the links out are designed for padding the page view numbers.
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Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions Of 2010(glassdoor.com)
14 points by pierrefar 16y ago|12 comments
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A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning(nytimes.com)
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I know who's involved. Your point about dirt is very valid - I didn't think of it because a patent troll crosses a line after which he doesn't value friends.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
MS is sitting on a few tens of billions of dollars in cash. How cynical do you need to be to think this pile is off limits for patent trolls?
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I did note that MS is not listed as one of the defendants.Odd as I'm sure a cursory look would find an infringement of some sort .
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I tried it with the WordPress rewrites ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks ) and I couldn't get it to work. I think the problem is that I didn't know what to put in REQUEST_FILENAME. I tried the following: REQUEST_FILENAME: I tr
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UK Cards Association wants to block card security MPhil thesis(guardian.co.uk)
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by pierrefar 16y ago
A few candidate papers pop up in this search: http://www.bmj.com/search?fulltext=drug+names&submit=yes...
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Some users might be happy to know that the service got bought out. Take it in reverse: if they were closing down due to personal illness or death or something else horrible, would you still argue that the users don't care? I doubt it. Custo
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by pierrefar 16y ago
They could have easily said we have been acquired and we are shutting down. No ambiguity.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
So why the oddly worded shut down message on their website? Why not announce the acquisition?
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by pierrefar 16y ago
My experience with "just in case" things I take on trips is that they become a distraction. The best trip I ever had was one in October where we went to a hotel on a remote island without any internet and absolutely no phone reception. It's
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Microsoft confirms 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 handsets sold since launch(thenextweb.com)
27 points by pierrefar 16y ago|48 comments
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Gotta love the co-founder reviewing the service as a happy customer: I have been very pleased with my own work. I syndicated my startup by hand and got over 50 reviews, mentions, tweets, and backlinks. I got a few hundred visitors and a ha
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Monitoring America(projects.washingtonpost.com)
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by pierrefar 16y ago
If it were only a trade off between money vs travel, then it's down to whether you want/can travel 100% of the time. Personally, I don't want to be on the road all the time but would love traveling a bit. But I suspect this is not the only
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Yep. What the post described as the final solution was bringing down the running time from 24hrs to 10min using straightforward optimisations. I would guess moving from 10min to 30sec would take doing it differently.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I've always explained to my friends and family that the only real requirement of one passing a PhD is stubborness (or tenacity if I'm feeling charitable). It's certainly not intelligence that's the determining factor, although there is a mi
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Before we get all up in arms about governments taking monopoly, we should remind ourselves that the "bottom up" approach being championed here gave us the Google-Verizon open internet proposal in August. As I understand it, the proposal hav

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