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by pinko 15y ago
Edit: sounds intriguing, especially if it doesn't require any kind of vendor support and I can forward it anything. I would love to beta-test, if anyone's listening.
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by pinko 15y ago
I'm a big fan of Apple tech, but if this turns out to be true, I hope they throw the book at Apple.
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by pinko 15y ago
What I want is something that will parse and auto-categorize my Amazon purchases based on their emailed receipts, and somehow get that info into Mint.com. (Or another app that can replace Mint and also do this.) Right now Mint does a decen
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by pinko 15y ago
The big problem with TIPS is that the government gooses the CPI formula to understate inflation, so they're really providing an (inflation - n%) return, not an (inflation + n%) return. That being said, I also own a small amount of them.
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by pinko 15y ago
Amazing! I'm guessing 99.9% of Groupon users don't know this. I also can't imagine why Groupon is so generous in this respect, relative to other companies (even if it's clearly the "right" thing to do).
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by pinko 15y ago
How could anyone function without it?
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by pinko 15y ago
FWIW, the same question has been asked on SO, and despite lots of answers there, no one seems to have data. < http://superuser.com/questions/128323/why-does-microsoft-win... ;
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by pinko 15y ago
What realistic recourse does anyone have when a sender violates this requirement?
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by pinko 15y ago
"But the sheer levels of emotion she's experiencing over an event where, basically, her stuff got trashed, suggests to me that she probably had so many emotional stability issues to begin with that..." Being traumatized by someone violating
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by pinko 15y ago
Wow, really? MOG has Dylan and Floyd (but obviously no Beatles). I assumed their catalogs (and anyone's other than Apple's) would be pretty similar. What explains the very different licensing these different streaming music apps are able
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by pinko 15y ago
Our data center, which is powered by gas turbines, uses its waste heat to heat nearby buildings in the winter, and to cool the data center in the summer (via absorption chillers).
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by pinko 15y ago
That's funny -- I love it. I rarely swipe off the home screen; I just find it easier/quicker to launch all other apps by name. Usually just takes a character or two, since it seems to prioritize past selections when sorting search matches
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by pinko 15y ago
I've been pretty happy with MOG's library. Nobody but Apple has the Beatles, but MOG has all the major label stuff and better coverage of my obscure tastes than I expected. I've also been impressed with their response when I've contacted t
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by pinko 15y ago
As someone completely unconnected to the company, I don't understand how MOG has totally failed to get any mindshare. Same product, same price, but has been available in the US (including on the iPhone) for >1 year. I assume it must b
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by pinko 15y ago
My experience with VMWare is that they do a very good job estimating the TCO of N physical servers and then they charge you such that it's ~90% of that cost to virtualize them. I.e., VMWare is usually a better deal, but just barely . Driv
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by pinko 15y ago
Lower effort per interaction is only a net win if the value of interactions remains constant and the number of interactions doesn't scale up to compensate for the decreased effort. In short, my experience has been that as communication in g
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by pinko 15y ago
This is a great example of Apple's detail-oriented focus on real-world user experience, and helps explain why people prefer Macs even if they can't always explain why. Lots of little things just work better. You (where "you" == myself and
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by pinko 15y ago
I have to admit being somewhat surprised to find a concise, interesting debate where neither side is being particularly dumb or unreasonable. Of course by the time someone on HN reads this and follows the link, this may have changed.
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by pinko 15y ago
From the article: "Legally, in the USA and Australia, it’s shaky ground to discriminate on the basis of someone’s name, even if that name is a pseudonym, as a pseudonym has the same legal weight as any other name you might have, in those tw
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by pinko 15y ago
For anyone wanting to try this out themselves, Jon Kabat-Zinn is one well-respected long-time researcher into this effect, and I recommend his materials. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn&#62 ; NOTE: I don't know the man and
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by pinko 15y ago
FWIW, you've got a glaring typo (to me) on your firm's web page: s/Our job is articulate and defend those positions/Our job is to articulate and defend those positions/ Normally I wouldn't mention it, but since we're talking about both lega
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by pinko 15y ago
The "extra credit" question at the end is a fascinating one, I think. I would /love/ to hear the opposing side's answer, since we know the first image is not acceptable to them and presumably the final image would have to be.
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by pinko 15y ago
Symbolics made Lisp machines. Great company (for some definitions of "great"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
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by pinko 15y ago
What a simultaneously mean-spirited and content-free comment. Not appropriate for HN.
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by pinko 15y ago
Syracuse University recently did this for their campus data center: http://www.progressiveengineer.com/features/Orange-Goes-Gree...
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by pinko 15y ago
http://www.lo0.ro/2011/cookiejacking-stealing-cookies-with-i...
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by pinko 15y ago
Interestingly, my bias has always been that hardware de-dup (if available) would always be preferable to software de-dup like ZFS's own internal implementation, for performance reasons. Not so, apparently.
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by pinko 16y ago
Since you didn't indicate you'd already seen it, here's the same question twice (with some useful answers) on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2627387/is-there-a-decent... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2019887/alternatives-to-
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by pinko 16y ago
Great idea -- I've long wanted a tool to help organize voluntary, opt-in communal cooking around where I live. It's beyond stupid for 100 single adults within a block of each other to cook 100 single servings every night. But this could en
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by pinko 16y ago
I just checked, and Google gets it wrong even when you prepend a tilde! I.e., ~organise does not find organize. That really surprises me.

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