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by pinko 16y ago
There needs to be a name for this phenomenon: a phrase being rendered un-Googleable due to overloading by a more dominant homograph. I'm sure there is one in German...
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by pinko 16y ago
Relevant: http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/candea/c... Microreboot – A Technique for Cheap Recovery "A significant fraction of software failures in large-scale Internet systems are cured by rebooting, even when the exac
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by pinko 16y ago
> [...] When you use coupons. Unlike many of your other examples I'm not sure I see how someone using coupons could be considered inconsiderate towards you. It's not like they have a faster option (aside from paying more).
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by pinko 16y ago
How well does its offline support work?
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by pinko 16y ago
Thank you. My intent was not actually to beg for a code so much as snarkily (sorry!) point out my annoyance at the need for one -- but I appreciate the gesture and will check it out.
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by pinko 16y ago
I take your point -- especially in today's market -- but those are selective examples. We don't by and large pay for metered roads or sidewalks or bike paths, for example. There are plenty of other unmetered public services -- and whether
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by pinko 16y ago
Without an invite code, this is indistinguishable from vaporware.
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by pinko 16y ago
If people are really interested in speeding IPv6 adoption, the fastest way might be for government and/or industry to subsidize IPv6-only broadband for consumers (via existing ISPs). Imagine $1-5/month DSL to your home, price-locked for 3 y
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by pinko 16y ago
FWIW, I know at least one person whose considerable SO karma helped them land a job (and who wrote those comments with that goal in mind). It's not all about ego.
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by pinko 16y ago
Got any good examples? Looks much better to me.
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by pinko 16y ago
For some reason I object to this on principle, even though it clearly is a good idea. I want GMail to learn dammit, and do The Right Thing.
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by pinko 16y ago
Why not leave it up to the app developer?
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by pinko 16y ago
Allowing a quick out-of-band reply to invalidate a login from a new device is a great idea.
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by pinko 16y ago
Wouldn't one simple defense be to have the OS pop up a window requiring the user to hit a specific unpredictable key (or short key sequence) when a new keyboard is plugged in?
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by pinko 16y ago
So is selling someone dental insurance. Doesn't mean it's not spam.
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by pinko 16y ago
Given the rate of change in OS and GUI environments, support libraries, and other APIs, most desktop apps don't work very well for long these days either. Of course unlike SaS you can always continue to use an old version indefinitely in a
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by pinko 16y ago
Am I the only person who thinks the iOS usability is declining as its feature set and resulting complexity grows? It's still simple for me, but while my mother could handle the original iPhone, I think she'd get a little confused by the cu
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by pinko 16y ago
Yeah, it took me a while to figure out what he was saying too. He changed the "Buy Now" button to "See it" so people would be more likely to explore before making the decision to buy.
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by pinko 16y ago
"In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system... You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down." I call BS. I know sugar is hard on your b
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by pinko 16y ago
I wouldn't challenge your general advice, as I am just one data point... but just to underscore what a crapshoot this all is, I actually got into to college on the basis of an interview in which my primary schtick concerned why Dungeons and
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by pinko 16y ago
> Plenty of places to find hosted VPN services Care to recommend one? I've had a few unsatisfactory experiences (terrible bandwidth, unreliable servers, etc.) and would love a good recommendation.
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by pinko 16y ago
Sanebox has a nice implementation of the "Hit the snooze button" idea (just tag/refile to SaneLater and it will reappear in your inbox later). Feels great to punt on some emails.
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by pinko 16y ago
I don't understand how you can do the equivalent of TRIM without filesystem support. Doesn't TRIM necessarily rely on knowing which blocks contain live data and which contain deleted data? I.e., something the hardware can't know?
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by pinko 16y ago
Sounds a lot like SaneBox, except with only one level of priority instead of a few graduated ones.
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by pinko 16y ago
How odd. Your results are different (and better) now. When I looked before the first three links were great, after that it was as if they were for a different search.
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by pinko 16y ago
Just tried your site with an open mind (hadn't heard of it before now). Alas, Google Realtime returned much better results. After the top few links, in fact, your results seemed to be unrelated to the query: http://48ers.com/search/?q=sa
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by pinko 16y ago
> A good first step would be to completely abolish fishing subsidies. Especially if you couple it with some form of jobs or welfare for fishermen, so as to decouple the political issues from the goal at hand (saving our fisheries). Bu
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by pinko 16y ago
My fear is that by using Facebook Connect to log into Site X, I will somehow allow Site X to access my Facebook data (my info, friends list, interests, posts, etc.) If I could be assured Facebook Connect was simply serving as an authenticat
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by pinko 16y ago
It's not just about prices, it's about routings. For roughly the same price (give or take $100), I often have 50-100 options for each segment, of wildly varying convenience and robustness (in terms of flight time, layover, delay likelihood
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by pinko 16y ago
ITA Software is one of the few remaining "sleeper" sites I use constantly but few people have heard of. Its routing language and "graphical" view of flight times (which have each been there for what, 7 or 8 years?) are still light years ahe

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