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by pitchups 15y ago
Yes you should be able to run Vnc from a browser using the java viewer. I have done this in the past - when VNC was free and open source. However, it appears they have now gone to a paid model. You would have to make sure the school allowed
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by pitchups 15y ago
You could use the free edition of VNC http://realvnc.com
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by pitchups 15y ago
I am pretty sure I have seen the exact same "trick" being used on sites here in the US - including Kayak, and Orbitz etc. So I don't think Cleartip in the only travel site that does this. And probablly that is how Cleartrip got the idea fr
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by pitchups 15y ago
One of the best - easiest to understand - explanations I have seen anywhere for Gödel's theorem.
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by pitchups 15y ago
Yet another blog post that wonders why the author's Google+ stream is so barren. Not sure why this is not obvious to most of these authors - If you do not want your Google+ stream to look like a ghost town, you have to follow/circle active
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by pitchups 15y ago
A partial list - - Albert Einstein (relativity) - Bohr, Born, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac (quantum mechanics) - Kurt Godel (incompleteness theorem) - Alan Turing (universal computer) - Steve Jobs, Bill Gates (computers, software/phil
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by pitchups 15y ago
Just for reference Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity - does not strictly prohibit the existence of particles that travel faster than the speed of light, it only prohibits acceleration in an inertial frame to reach the speed of light
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by pitchups 15y ago
Can it be used to scan a web page and send you an alert if the page has changed?
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by pitchups 15y ago
So what happens if they make a small error in their calculation (in the thousandth decimal place) and send that asteroid straight to earth?
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by pitchups 15y ago
Pay her - or you are a worse person than a Domain Squatter.
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by pitchups 15y ago
Not again! 2011 is shaping up to be a record year for the number of large attacks of this kind.
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by pitchups 15y ago
Experts and pundits are actually worse in their predictions than others. In fact, ironically there is an inverse relationship between how popular an expert is and their prediction accuracy. This article explains why - http://www.thedail
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by pitchups 15y ago
Try and spend some more time in the shower - your next big idea my come there. Also this essay by Paul Graham talks about how to get ideas for startups http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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by pitchups 15y ago
I get all my good ideas in the morning - when brushing my teeth or in the shower. Research has shown that you get good ideas when your mind is unfocused and relaxed - and away from distractions of any kind. I guess in today's connected worl
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by pitchups 15y ago
Perhaps someone can use Rosetta code as a starting point (their content is GNU licensed) and build a site that does what you are suggesting - where it only shows you the features for the languages you want to learn, based on the ones you k
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by pitchups 15y ago
As long as you had 0 liability for taxes - which would be the case if you had no payroll, there should be no penalties, even if they are filed late. AFAIK.
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by pitchups 15y ago
Wish there were similar ones for all the other languages - PHP / Python etc. I always thought that most programmers and web developers experienced in one language can quickly pick up the major features of another lanaguage, if there was a
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by pitchups 15y ago
There are a few glaring, obvious questions to which I have not seen any answers so far - or maybe I have missed them: Why was it difficult for Airbnb to immediately have the person that trashed the place arrested? Don't they have the per
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by pitchups 15y ago
You do need to file the Federal 941/940 Payroll/FUTA - quarterly withholding forms - will all zeros if you have no employees and no payroll. You should be able to download all the forms and instructions from the IRS website. You may also ne
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by pitchups 15y ago
I too was an enthusiastic Quora user early on, but hardly visit the site any more. It suffers from the same problem most sites that follow the social model (of followers/following) - "celebrity" authors get substantially more upvotes for
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Facebook is stoppable since it does not model real life social networks(arunshroff.com)
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by pitchups 15y ago
What is the profitability of the site - say as % of revenue. Most buyers would want to pay a multiple (say ~12x) of the net profits. Also they would consider if it would be possible for them to run the site without your contribution.
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by pitchups 15y ago
The best layman explanation for the Higgs Boson : (from the second link on that page) Higgs proposed that ".. the whole of space is permeated by a field, similar in some ways to the electromagnetic field. As particles move through space the
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by pitchups 15y ago
It seems like the RPI.edu server hosting the original article is down - thanks probably to the link appearing on Hacker News..
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by pitchups 15y ago
This is based on a computer model/simulation. One of the assumptions in the model was that if a person talks to 2 people who hold a different opinion than him/her, they will then change their opinion. I am not sure how realistic that assump
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by pitchups 15y ago
You do not need to add anyone to the circle. Keep the circle empty and it will still work. This is based on a hack published originally on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/107797841320768724118/posts/ghXafbr4...
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by pitchups 15y ago
You can also use it to save voice memos from your mobile phone to Google+ - in your own private area.
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How to use Google+ as your own private Scrapbook/Bookmarking Service(plus.google.com)
1 points by pitchups 15y ago|1 comments
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by pitchups 15y ago
If it is even half as good as the video demo, it will be a huge success IMHO.
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by pitchups 15y ago
Interesting idea. One suggestion - the distinction between awards/uplaudes was not very clear when you first visit the site. Also, have you thought of making this into a Facebook app - rather than a standalone site, since the social/viral a

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