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by scw 12y ago
That'd also overlap with 31C3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Main_Page
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by scw 12y ago
> The Guardian witnessed this practice on a three-day visit to the company’s Los Angeles headquarters last month, as part of a trip to explore the possibility of an expanded journalistic relationship with Whisper. So they look to partner
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CITIZENFOUR, a documentary on Edward Snowden(citizenfourfilm.com)
2 points by scw 12y ago|0 comments
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by scw 12y ago
Here's hoping that the roughly quadrupling of resolution (167dpi to 300dpi) will make reading journal PDFs tolerable over the current generation of Kindles, where it's obnoxiously cumbersome (it requires rotating the screen and vi
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by scw 13y ago
Perhaps they can follow up with a "Code for Amtrak" on-train hackathon. Amtrak is part of our civic infrastructure, perhaps Code for America could run it.
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by scw 13y ago
That's an interesting idea. Are there past documented instances of the editorial board being used in this capacity?
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by scw 13y ago
I disagree, there doesn't seem to be a clear relationship with affluence. Here's the list along with GDP PPP per capita at a country level [1]: Helsinki, Finland 11/12 35771 Mumbai, India 9/12 3843
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by scw 13y ago
Yes, the horse could pass a sword through its neck, and urinate after drinking. Here's a translation of his original design: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211200948/http://www.histor... and a vid
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by scw 13y ago
Isn't Monday and Friday 40% of the work week?
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by scw 13y ago
A service I'd pay for: Mailing list management that doesn't suck, and isn't Google Groups. Something that can be backed up, and has a web interface. Mailman is still king in this niche, and I'm not entirely sure why.
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by scw 13y ago
It makes sense from an historic and signals intelligence perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunia_Regional_SIGINT_Operation... I'd imagine this would have some bearing on it as well: http://www.s
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by scw 13y ago
Packaging is starting to come together, but still has a ways to go. The Setuptools-Distribute merge was just announced a couple months ago, we still have 6 ways of doing things that are mostly incompatible. Packaging is mostly solved if you
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The Open Code: A Digital Copy of DC Laws(macwright.org)
1 points by scw 14y ago|0 comments
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by scw 14y ago
Why was it deleted? But yes, that does illustrate the issue.
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by scw 14y ago
Mr. Trololo himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil
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by scw 14y ago
I've been using ag for the past year or so, and it's great. One pain point remains the lack of Windows support, so I'm back to double-slow cygwin grep when on Windows.
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by scw 14y ago
Some of the code is based on Postgres, based on their own marketing materials: "Paraccel has leveraged Postgres for some of its parsing and planning functions". So the head node continues to have Postgres origins, but not the compute nodes.
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Counter-Strike: Source now available on Linux (German)(heise.de)
2 points by scw 14y ago|0 comments
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by scw 14y ago
I also had this issue, in my case the culprit was the Kill-Flash extension. Adding nytimes.com and brightcove.com to the whitelist made everything work.
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by scw 15y ago
I agree, and its nice to see open source projects which had naming collisions but blossomed with a new name: it's hard to imagine Firefox being 'Phoenix' or 'Firebird', both seem generic now that we know the strong identity of Firefox.
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by scw 15y ago
Presumably this is to prevent naming collision with the existing Tesseract, an OCR engine. Its generally worth searching "my new awesome name" "software" prior to picking a name.
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by scw 15y ago
I found this Wikipedia article helpful in explaining the roles of the DSPs in the games that used them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_c...
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by scw 15y ago
Ambient has always been great for coding, a few of my favorites: múm - Finally We Are No One Dirty Three - Whatever you love, you are Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Four Tet - Rounds
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Qute, a Markdown with TeX formulas editor(inkcode.net)
1 points by scw 15y ago|0 comments
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by scw 15y ago
Back in the days of phreaking, this was called a 'Cheese Box' and was used to great effect by calling two locations of any chain. From what I recall, a report in Phrack called two 711 employees who started yelling at each other 'NO, THIS IS
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JSTOR Opens Acess to 500K Public Domain Articles(libraryjournal.com)
2 points by scw 15y ago|0 comments
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by scw 15y ago
Right, the control group is required to tell you what the YC influence is (which is probably quite significant). Charlie Munger once said you could lock up the smartest students in a closet for four years instead of sending them to college
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by scw 16y ago
For someone who espouses libertarian ideas it does seem strange to be investing in companies which erode privacy.
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by scw 16y ago
This isn't the first instance of Apple as the Thought Police -- what will the yarrow sticks show today in the iChing?
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by scw 16y ago
They've put the source code for the project up on bitbucket for anyone interested: https://bitbucket.org/charliehoey/gatsby/src

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