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by piqufoh 13y ago
Pierre (post author) is an interesting guy, and has been through some seriously tough stuff (brain surgery), but I just can't read his posts any more - he never has anything positive to say! BTW get well soon PI should you see this.
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Pay wall - for a problem generator?
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Hopefully such a bullish and short sighted stance as this is just the thing to get some publicity and traction to boot these idiots out, or at least kick the money grubbing Luddites out and replace them with someone with some common sense.
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by piqufoh 13y ago
> Indeed, public-key cryptography might not even be with us today if Adi had not been involved with Ron Rivest and Leonard Adleman so long ago. There you go, those pesky scientists making the surveillance industry's job that little
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by piqufoh 13y ago
If you're already on a J1 you can only apply to have it renewed, and if you don't you get a two-year visa ban.
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Not big on my US history (not being from the US and all) but my guess is this is something to do with Roosevelt and the coal strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Strike_of_1902
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by piqufoh 13y ago
It's not apparent from OP's web-page that the content is taken from a series of radio monologues, and it's true that sometimes adding a small infographic can help perception and understanding many fold. Maybe try to keep pers
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by piqufoh 13y ago
He/She also says A few people have asked about getting a detailed run-down of my build clearly not always with good intentions. How could you copy a build process with bad intentions? The code doesn't belong to him&#
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by piqufoh 13y ago
I hope this includes the HIPAA NSA backdoor.
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The First 10 Apple Employees: Where Are They Now?(businessinsider.com)
1 points by piqufoh 13y ago|0 comments
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by piqufoh 13y ago
There's a (not so small) online bookseller with the version you're after http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Broken-Sword-Fantasy-Masterworks... Apparently the Gollancz Fantasy-Masterworks versions are true to the 1954 ve
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Where do you choose to draw the line for "writing my own tools"? Your text editor? Your JS engine? I like to think I choose the best tool for the job - if yours are better please let us know :-)
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by piqufoh 13y ago
If this method really works it would be amazing for medical research. For instance, you could take a cancer biopsy and pull out DNA strands for individual cells. Using single molecule sequencing techniques we could then map the change of th
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Big shame - had had a few chats with them, seemed like honest decent guys.
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Work for Pie is Shutting Down(blog.workforpie.com)
42 points by piqufoh 13y ago|40 comments
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by piqufoh 13y ago
A child whose parents refused to vaccinate him travelled to Europe and brought home the measles. That family exposed 839 people, resulting in 11 additional cases of measles. One child too young to be vaccinated had to be hospitalized. Forty
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Maybe this is all a clever government ruse. If DC wants more of Britain's youth interested in technology, what better way than to force them to find ingenious technological solutions to get hold of their porn?
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by piqufoh 13y ago
While you're working on the hardware could you get it to make the coffee too?
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Being told you've got the job, reasonably asking to postpone a final decision for a few days - and then being dropped by a single line email would be pretty frustrating. I find it sad that HR are often too lazy / too scared to off
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by piqufoh 13y ago
There's only one actual scientist in the house of commons (Julian Huppert, LibDem, Cambridge) and he is regularly heckled whenever he gets up to speak about anything. Shameful..
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by piqufoh 13y ago
It is a little late - the article was published in 2002.
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by piqufoh 13y ago
I fucking love this.
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Backing up Google docs with python(dan.iel.me)
1 points by piqufoh 13y ago|0 comments
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Sounds like a fun idea - is it in use anywhere?
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by piqufoh 13y ago
> the idea received minimal support. Title here is slightly misleading...
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by piqufoh 13y ago
I can't imagine how discouraging mobile phones at checkouts could damage business. It's damn rude and kow-towing to idiots like this just encourages their sense of entitlement. Bah humbug!
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Grocery store apologises to rude customer using 'phone(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by piqufoh 13y ago|2 comments
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by piqufoh 13y ago
I love countries where guns are illegal for exactly this reason.
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by piqufoh 13y ago
> make it a paid service instead Taking a pure business centric view - We're not google's customers, advertisers are. If we paid for the service we would expect no advertising - and so google's customers would lose.
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by piqufoh 13y ago
Maybe he's looking to avoid ambiguity.

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