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Akamai close to being acquired by Google(reuters.com)
129 points by scommab 15y ago|43 comments
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by scommab 15y ago
If by Oracle you mean heavily modified version of mysql, then yes. Or if you mean Java, then yes. But if you mean any Oracle technologies that need to be licensed, then no.
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Amazon.com cuts California sales tax deal in stunning turnabout(mercurynews.com)
85 points by scommab 15y ago|76 comments
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by scommab 15y ago
As a follow up, he has been booted out of the rebel army. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/libyan-rebels-...
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American college kid joins Libya rebels for 'vacation'(csmonitor.com)
7 points by scommab 15y ago|3 comments
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by scommab 15y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to Freenet? The FAQ talks about it a bit [ https://gnunet.org/faq/10 ] but for example, I don't understand what "Economics" means in this context?
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VMware Acquires Online Presentation Application SlideRocket(techcrunch.com)
11 points by scommab 15y ago|0 comments
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by scommab 16y ago
Neat this like a more general implementation of the latitude tracking program from XKCD: http://xkcd.com/596/
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by scommab 16y ago
Well to get technical there isn't a "sleep" function in flash. The best you can do is use setTimeout, which will call a function back in a specified amount of time. Everything including screen drawing, mouse interaction, effects/animations,
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by scommab 16y ago
If you want to be super evil about it you could also embed the evil POSTing code in a swf that looks like an unevil ad and then let an unsuspecting ad network distribute it for you. Edit: grammar.
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A job posting for the 21st century(apenwarr.ca)
3 points by scommab 16y ago|0 comments
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by scommab 16y ago
At least at one point facebook gave it's employees a bonus for living close to work. Wonder if will (does?) still exist. If so I wonder if maybe they could start to revitalize the East Menlo Park area.
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AOL unloads 40% of its cash on Huffington Post buy(money.cnn.com)
4 points by scommab 16y ago|2 comments
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SourceForge.net down due to exploit(sourceforge.net)
3 points by scommab 16y ago|1 comments
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Sony's PSP2 announced: stuffed with tech, no price or release date(arstechnica.com)
1 points by scommab 16y ago|0 comments
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PlayStation phone dubbed Xperia Play, looks decent for gaming(arstechnica.com)
3 points by scommab 16y ago|0 comments
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by scommab 16y ago
I assume since they are based in waterloo they are talking about the waterloo coop program [ http://www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/employers/prospective/ ]. Around waterloo it's actually normal for startups to be based around coop labor, they are
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by scommab 16y ago
For those of you wondering why most flash applications leave wmode as window, it's simple because wmode opaque and transparent breaks a bunch of flash behaviors. It creates performance problems, it creates browser incompatibilities, and in
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by scommab 16y ago
It was only on the front page for an hour (at most)*, and then was gone. This entire story only got 18 points. I wouldn't say that counts as a huge story. (Using another metric, slashdot didn't even mention it) The story about reddit being
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by scommab 16y ago
The saddest part of Yahoo being down, is that it's hardly even news (at least for technical people).
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Rumor: Microsoft is looking to buyout Adobe(seattlepi.com)
3 points by scommab 16y ago|0 comments
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by scommab 16y ago
It's not amazingly obvious, but you can do flexible airports by putting in an area code or city that is between airports in to/from fields. i.e. if you do from:"palo alto" to:"salt lake", it will show flights leaving both SFO and SJC that g
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by scommab 16y ago
If you've read the book it's worth it to also watch the free online MIT coure material on them: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/courses/godel-escher-bach/vid... (and maybe even if you haven't) They are very non-technical (annoying so at ti
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by scommab 16y ago
ThinApp [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ThinApp ] is pretty useful when needing to do "classic" browser testing.
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Why alienating developers is a winning strategy (apenwarr.ca)
18 points by scommab 16y ago|11 comments
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by scommab 17y ago
I think you might be thinking of locking up the browers, rather then crashing it. You can easily create a javascript program that will run a loop that will make your browser non-reactive. But this is very different the plugin actually crash
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by scommab 17y ago
Flash is also used to make that popping sound when you get a gtalk message.
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by scommab 17y ago
I still think this is funniest 'fortune' based story: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79993 This also doubles as one of my favorite (publicly tracked) bugs
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by scommab 17y ago
I agree describing it in text might be a problem. I would generate a few pictures showing different ways the "blast lines" interact with the board. I wouldn't go through all the more interesting chain reactions (part of the fun is finding t