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541.
by pooper 12y ago
Isn't Microsoft just supporting them to counter Google? I read somewhere (I have tried to find it again but I have failed so far) that Bing's cost of operation per search query was more than ten times that of Google. I understand
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by pooper 12y ago
thank you. I can understand (not agree with but understand) some people insisting on writing name of companies with plural verbs like Google are and Microsoft have but a battery bell is a singular word no matter which way you slice and dice
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by pooper 12y ago
How do we know that he isn't getting a bigger piece of the pie without knowing the details of his contract? You guys are idiots.
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by pooper 12y ago
> [y]our terms with the label [is] a private business negotiation and not related to my point > Trent Reznor went back to record labels because he's going to make more money with a record label, even if he's going to keep le
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by pooper 12y ago
I can't tell if you are being serious but it can't be a white list. We'll have too many false positives.
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by pooper 12y ago
I assume he'd be mysogynist if him beating the reporter was related to the reporter's gender. In any case, the ex-CEO didn't serve time so I'd say he got off pretty easily.
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by pooper 12y ago
> The cost of not being visible where customers are actually looking for you is very high indeed. Does it constitute a monopoly though? I doubt the folks at Google love Amazon.com but if this became the sufficient to declare Amazon.com a
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by pooper 12y ago
I didn't realize Amazon.com's valuation was $143 billion. I thought the 10 billion figure was relevant since they included it...
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by pooper 12y ago
Sorry, not a shill. Just expressing an opinion. (Sadly I can't prove it as it is probably what a shill would say)
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by pooper 12y ago
Hachette [...] is part of a $10 billion media conglomerate. I think it is Hachette which is trying to strong arm the up and coming Amazon.com
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by pooper 12y ago
Can you force Walmart to put your products on shelves? How is it OK for Hachette to force Amazon.com to put the physical books on shelves? One easy way to fight Amazon would be to include a DRM-free digital copy download for free with every
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by pooper 12y ago
It is sad that hachette is getting authors to write badly about amazon on blogs and on facebook. It is evident that Amazon.com is right and hachette is wrong. Why do we need these scummy publishers anyways? Good riddance.
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by pooper 12y ago
If I remember correctly even Steve Gibson, who sang praises of the Apple security apparatus saw the iCloud as a weak link in iOS security in his three part series (sn 446 through 448) on TWiT. Thoughts? https://twit.cachefly.net&
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by pooper 12y ago
Instead of starting from scratch, we could build up on epub. It should already be possible to read DRM-free books on Apple's iBook app. It'd be nice if Amazon.com supported epub natively.
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by pooper 12y ago
Perhaps in a few years we will have a "Thoughts on books" similar to the "Thoughts on music". In my opinion, if the iBooks experience is really good, people who love Apple will continue to use iBooks even without the sha
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by pooper 12y ago
Slightly relevant since you mentioned Quora: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796834 Scribd and Quora considered harmful Specifically, @nelson suggests "And instead of Quora use Ask MetaFilter or StackExchange.&qu
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by pooper 12y ago
Downvoter, please comment on what you think I did wrong here? You clearly have been here long enough to get downvoting privileges but I guess you failed to learn proper etiquette? Maybe they ought to consider raising the bar to something li
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by pooper 12y ago
I used to only get those once a week but now it has come to about once every two days. Good thing I don't actively monitor my "all mail". Lately, I use the search feature in my gmail quite often. People will hunt me down (in
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by pooper 12y ago
Just something good to know if coming from tfs side of things :)
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by pooper 12y ago
For people coming from TFS who might think stash is similar to shelve... stash is local. It does not go to your remote (origin?) unless you do some special gymnastics. I don't know if it is even officially supported to push a stash to
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by pooper 12y ago
> The 'matching' option is the default behavior in Git 1.x. Is Git 1.9.2 (latest binary release for Windows) actually Git 2.x? By definition, shouldn't 1.9 do matching rather than simple?
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by pooper 12y ago
I can't think of a set of rules to make passwords secure. It all feels like smokes and mirrors at this point. Are we going to have a blacklist of passwords that you can't use as passwords anymore (and require users to change passw
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by pooper 12y ago
I don't mean to be rude but from what I've seen our SharePoint guy get drug through at past jobs, I'd rather get an exorcism than let anyone know I have any knowledge of SharePoint. (Nothing against the tool, everything again
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by pooper 12y ago
I won't say it works for everyone but on my Lenovo y510p, I can change the settings for the ELAN pointing device to disable my trackpad when there is an external mouse attached. If I have to use the computer for more than a few minutes
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by pooper 12y ago
I didn't know about Burma and its problems with metric system. Apparently[Burma], they started the process in late 2013. Given that the US started this in 1975 and still hasn't made much headway, I am not too optimistic about it.
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by pooper 12y ago
Slightly off topic but If I remember right, about a question of viability someone at Justin.tv (I guess now twitch) said (this is about four years ago) that playing like a thirty second ad clip can more than cover their operational cost of
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by pooper 12y ago
It is probably not something you can extrapolate on but I know a couple of people who watch ESPN SportsCenter every single morning (as far as I know).
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by pooper 12y ago
My thought was to piggyback off of web rtc and other free software projects already available just to learn more about it. I'll be pretty happy to just get it working so two clients can watch a stream. I was already looking to learn so
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by pooper 12y ago
On a back of the napkin calculation, how much outgoing throughput would one need to be able to stream to ten clients directly on say 720p (~30 frames per second)? I was wondering if it would be possible to create a set up where people can s