ra88it

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   by ra88it 16y ago

   scalper: someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost.
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   by ra88it 16y ago

   DA stands for District Attorney.
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   SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud(sec.gov)

   270 points by ra88it 17y ago|153 comments
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   by ra88it 17y ago

   Do you know that you can tap and hold on a hyperlink to bring up a context menu which offers the option "Open in new page"? Where 'page' is functionally equivalent to 'tab'.
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   by ra88it 17y ago

   3. Give me an alert notification based on my GPS coordinates (ie., remind me to install updates on my parents' computer next time I'm at their house)
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   by ra88it 17y ago

   Worth checking out if only for the entry from Fake Steve.
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   by ra88it 17y ago

   I was expecting to find a listing a which sites were being visited by iPads. (In addition to where the iPad requests came from.) Am I missing something?
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   by ra88it 17y ago

   The iPad is a genuinely new web user-agent. It will have an impact, possibly major, on the way the web is consumed. It's about to embark on its initial adoption curve. These early usage patterns should be interesting to hackers, especially
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   by ra88it 17y ago

   Flash is not The Next Big Thing (it's been falling from prominence by almost every measure for quite some time) and I'm not convinced that any significant segment of the market is actually demanding it. I've heard more iPhone owners applaud
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    by ra88it 17y ago

    I suspect the word "fork" was deliberately excluded from the article because it would be less provocative. Atwood appears to be more interested in starting controversy than actually solving problems. [edit: Ok, so it does appear in the quot
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    by ra88it 17y ago

    I guess not - it worked when I followed your suggestion. Thanks! I was naively cranking out a bunch of tabs in Firefox really quickly. :) I guess Firefox doesn't make concurrent requests when it's the same URL...?
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    by ra88it 17y ago

    The 'Hello World' example (at the top of the front page of the Node.js website) is a server that listens to http requests, waits 2 seconds, then responds 'Hello World'. The server is supposed to continue responding to incoming requests even
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    Highlights from Palm's interview with All Things Digital about the Pre(d7.allthingsd.com)

    1 points by ra88it 17y ago|0 comments
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    by ra88it 18y ago

    Are we still talking about Numenta? Their website links to several papers that address all of your questions: http://numenta.com/for-developers/education.php