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Superman Attempts Hacking, Destroys Earth(people.csail.mit.edu)
1 points by scw 16y ago|0 comments
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by scw 16y ago
Jaron Lanier recently gave a talk at UCSB, and he mentioned that Microsoft is be funding a lab he's setting up in SF to explore new avenues of perception opened up by Kinnect. He mentioned using it to see the world as a lobster, or understa
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by scw 16y ago
What do you dislike about him?
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by scw 16y ago
The library they're using, b3, was developed by some of the same folks as Protovis. Protovis looks interesting, thanks for the link.
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by scw 16y ago
Petty perhaps, but it strikes me as a difficult name to pronounce: I kept reading it hɪk-ify not haɪk-ify
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MathJax, beautiful math in all browsers(mathjax.org)
318 points by scw 16y ago|36 comments
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by scw 16y ago
On his site he mentions: Coming soon? This doesn't really need an introduction... but it probably needs permission. I wasn't intending it to go live before I'd heard back from Notch. http://mindvirusgames.com/products.php
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by scw 16y ago
Many US high schools don't rely on hourly scheduling, so classes may end at arbitrary times: I finished at 2:11pm daily.
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by scw 16y ago
Mint prominently provides privacy and security information, and background on how they secure the system. You should similarly provide something on the front page, providing some of the details you've mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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by scw 16y ago
s/ll/le/
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by scw 16y ago
I've used beamer on occasion and think its great, albeit because I use LaTeX elsewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX) If you want to go the HTML5 route, I'm guessing pulling the relevant code out of the Google presentation
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If Windows 3.11 required a 32-bit CPU, why was it called a 16-bit OS?(blogs.msdn.com)
21 points by scw 16y ago|7 comments
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by scw 16y ago
Firefox has also had this feature for a while, right click > 'Add a Keyword for this Search' which is indispensable.
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Tim Bray on the iPad: Memory Matters(tbray.org)
13 points by scw 17y ago|7 comments
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by scw 17y ago
I'd recommend starting by reading this article about how Google approached educating its employees on investing: http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll... And this talk by Charlie Munger on stockpicking and the art
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by scw 17y ago
Paypal's operating rules may have changed, but I've similarly been bitten by money lost due to Paypal. Here's how the scam works: someone buys something from you on eBay, pays you via Paypal. You diligently send off the good, and delivery
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by scw 17y ago
I agree, it reminds me of Netscape's decision to spin off their code base into open-source Mozilla. Arguably the web benefited greatly from this decision, but at the time it produced a four year delay in a new version at a time Microsoft wa
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by scw 17y ago
The original piece is "The Aquarium", by Camille Saint-Saëns, a part of the Le Carnaval des Animaux suite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Carnaval_des_Animaux
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Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing?(rc3.org)
4 points by scw 17y ago|0 comments
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by scw 17y ago
There's no non-developer release yet, and the browser isn't feature-complete on non-Windows platforms. For example, on Ubuntu I can't open links from other programs with Chrome, and asking it to restore tabs when opening the browser doesn't
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by scw 17y ago
The components in a 16GB 3GS are estimated to cost $178.96: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/06/24/apple-ip...
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by scw 17y ago
It seems that the more practical answer to this problem which bypasses the problem is to make friends with people in fields you think may have lasting impact: if they do come across something marketable and you have capital, they'll turn to
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by scw 17y ago
Electricity has only been widely available in the last eighty years or so, and the internet the last fifteen, but neither of those obstacles prevented great accomplishments or happiness to flourish. I'm guessing that the limited social inte
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by scw 17y ago
Check out Jared Diamond's "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race": http://www.awok.org/worst-mistake/
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by scw 18y ago
Thanks for the excellent article. This parallels nicely with Nassim Taleb's work on black swans, how statistical knowledge fails us when unpredictable extreme events are present. I recently attended a talk by an economist who advised Green
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by scw 18y ago
They mention a company doing just that: http://www.stickK.com/ The idea of using people's innate biases to help them is compelling, I especially enjoyed that the 'anti-charities' of causes you dislike had the highest success rate.
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by scw 18y ago
If we want a community of intelligent, civil posters, asking its citizens to look beyond titles and examine the articles themselves seems like a reasonable expectation.
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by scw 18y ago
Until we can remove the leverage that intellectual property holders currently have, they will fight ruthlessly to retain 'their' property. Compare the economically optimum copyright length ( http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/resear
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by scw 18y ago
Primarily for two reasons: difficulty in comparison between charts, and because comparing area is more difficult than comparing length. The Wikipedia article has good background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart
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by scw 18y ago
They embed their movies using the Flash Video format ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video ) which is a container format for multiple audio and video codecs. These are licensed by Adobe, and indirectly to purchasers of their software.

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