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by po 14y ago
Well, in the linked article you can see a graph showing the contribution from renewables. You can see it's even growing a bit. It's just nowhere near ready to replace coal just yet. We absolutely should be pushing them and they represent ou
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by po 14y ago
I totally understand the fears behind fracking as well as nuclear power (I'm living in Japan and my family lives in upstate NY) but often the progressive approach to energy policy has been to jump from the pan into the fire. Absolutely the
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by po 14y ago
We're an easy-going group and we just mix about and discuss whatever the hackers and entrepreneurs there feel like talking about (just like hacker news really). If you're new, just ask anyone there for Jason or Paul (me) and we'll make sure
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by po 14y ago
Thinking about this some more the part that drives me crazy is this: Facebook makes $4 per user. The users are customers. That just doesn't follow. The advertisers are the customers. They happen to pay $4 for every person right now. If
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by po 14y ago
I think the valuations are a bit of a bubble, but social media is real. In the dotcom bubble of 2001 I heard the same thing except with "internet" replacing "social media". In the last bubble there were no customers. Facebook makes $4 pe
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Early Startup Time Wasters(talkfast.org)
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by po 14y ago
As Jason's technical co-founder, I can say that a large factor in why I personally decided to start a project with him was because his skills were complementary (read: opposite) from mine. It is easy to overlook all of the non-programming w
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by po 14y ago
There is also Lea Veriou's prefix free project. http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/ I can see arguments for both leaning on JavaScript or doing it server side as this one does. One benefit of doing it on the client is that it only gene
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by po 15y ago
How about "You are the Road" http://www.kongregate.com/games/duckets/you-are-the-road-mol... This game came out of a game hackfest called the molyjam where each team had to pick a game idea from a Peter Molyneux's faker's twiter stream:
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by po 15y ago
If you look at the Django REST Framework project you can see this kind of behavior by default. For example: http://rest.ep.io/pygments/ Notice the OPTIONS button on the top right of the browse-able interface. For example: $ curl -X OPTION
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German scientists link two labs with ‘universal quantum network’(theregister.co.uk)
83 points by po 15y ago|31 comments
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by po 15y ago
If you are a Django developer, please be aware of (and use) the capability to mark data as sensitive to exclude it from error reports. Most people won't need this feature since very often as you don't often define your own new sensitive var
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by po 15y ago
kind of... It was 'with contract' in that you had to bring it home and activate it with ATT. There were no other options. As far as I know, Apple wasn't paying any subsidies to ATT at that time. That was part of how they could drop the pric
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by po 15y ago
I'm going to go and demand they unlock the first generation iPhone I bought the fist day they were released (for the full $600 price) just on principle. Still a bit annoyed that it was locked since it wasn't subsidized at all, although I kn
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by po 15y ago
Windings for the information age. :-) Reminds me of this one: http://www.bissantz.com/sparklines/sparkfonts.asp
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by po 15y ago
I certainly know that blindness isn't binary as my neighbor while growing up was legally blind yet mowed her yard every day with a hand pushed mower. She used a giant magnifying glass a few inches from her eye to read. However, I understand
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by po 15y ago
He wore this at a "Dining in the Dark charity event for the Foundation Fighting Blindness" event? Does anyone think that seems a bit… insensitive? I mean I guess they have audio as well but is version 1.0 going to be blind-accessible?
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by po 15y ago
Under the treaty, they could send submarines through the straits but they had to notify Turkey: Under Article 12, Black Sea states are also allowed to send submarines through the Straits, with prior notice, as long as the vessels have been
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by po 15y ago
What does Django could potentially utilize the security features provided by httpcore mean? Would Django have to drop their own Request/Response objects and adopt the Requests/httpcore provided ones? Was there any discussion with the Djan
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by po 15y ago
Thus, the characters that appear in those positions - including those in US-ASCII - are somewhat "unsafe" in international data transfer ... Systems that support ISO Latin 1 in principle may still reflect the use of national variants of
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by po 15y ago
I wonder why they changed that particular character and not one that is literally everywhere in DOS. I've wondered about that as well. My guess is that they looked at it and thought 'who needs two kinds of slash anyway?' I would love to k
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by po 15y ago
Interestingly, if you ever come to Japan you will find many people expect path separators to be yen symbols (¥). Their windows paths look like: ¥docs¥finance¥ To understand the reason, just check out the table on the Shift-JIS encoding: ht
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by po 15y ago
I think jacques is taking it one step further and suggesting that you think twice before even submitting your data to a company like 23andme at all. It's an interesting point. I'm trying to think of what kind of privacy policy would cover a
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by po 15y ago
You're right that velocity has picked up. It actually picked up about a year and a half ago. I would say the main driver was the Django core expanding to include people like Carl Meyer (look him up on stack overflow if you want to learn how
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by po 15y ago
Yeah, it was the final He had beaten the casinos fair and square quip that annoyed me.
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by po 15y ago
This stuck out to me: Made famous in books and movies, card counting is considered cheating, at least by casinos. In most states (but not New Jersey), known practitioners are banned. The wagering of card counters assumes a clearly recogniz
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by po 15y ago
I worked at Sony Music during the time of the rootkit fiasco and I was a bit surprised by the reaction of the internet. There were many organized boycotts of Sony Corporate, Sony Playstation, etc… while nobody tried to boycott any Bertelsma
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by po 15y ago
Nobody goes to that club anymore… it's too crowded.
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by po 15y ago
Nobody tries to have these kinds of discussions on Facebook because it's obviously the wrong place (my mom doesn't care what I think of bit-shifting). Disqus is fine because it's in the context of the blog post. People have to seek it out.
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by po 15y ago
I love that Linus does his thinking out in the public, but that's nothing new. Google Plus isn't enabling anything that he didn't do before, it's just being exposed to a new audience. Frankly, I love that this new audience is seeing his wri

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