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871.
by seldo 17y ago
Quite. The point is not that plastic is bad, it's that plastic as supplied by Visa and Mastercard is a monopolistic rip-off of consumers and merchants by those two companies and the banks.
872.
by seldo 17y ago
Could people who are building big new projects in perl today please chime in? I would like to know what motivated your choice of language. I haven't seen anything new and interesting built in Perl in upwards of five years, but I'll be first
873.
by seldo 17y ago
I really don't think that's true. The "average" MySQL user has never heard of Monty -- I used MySQL for more than a decade before I heard the name of its inventor. MySQL's battle for the last decade has mostly been getting enough brand reco
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by seldo 17y ago
This is why I know we live in the future: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/05/dean-kamens-rob/ This dude is a cyborg. Not a technical "oh you've got eyeglasses" cyborg. Not a wannabe Kevin "I've implanted a subcutaneous neurochip" Warw
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by seldo 17y ago
Of course, you can get your astrology too: http://shine.yahoo.com/astrology
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by seldo 17y ago
The science museum in London has a really beautiful stainless-steel model of a combination lock similar to his wooden one. The first time I played with it and saw the bar fall into the slots was one of those wonderful "holy cow!" moments wh
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by seldo 17y ago
Another useful tool along these lines is http://domai.nr/ , which searches all the available TLDs, not just the big 5. However, it expects you to have a full word in mind rather than suggesting things.
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by seldo 17y ago
Pretty much spot-on apart from the strange (and repeated) prediction of giant fruits and vegetables (I guess you could say the green revolution provided similar quantity, if not on a per-fruit basis) and the failure to predict the popularit
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by seldo 17y ago
This implies there is currently some functioning central government, which is mostly a polite fiction. One of Afghanistan's fiefdoms is centered on Kabul, and we pretend that one is the government.
880.
by seldo 17y ago
Agreed on Google and Microsoft; I don't think we have found this decade's Google yet.
881.
by seldo 17y ago
Basically, this guy isn't a web developer. He's an ex-chef who has a degree in software engineering. There's no indication that he's even built a website. I really feel for him and his family, but it's not like this indicates a problem for
882.
by seldo 17y ago
This is one of my favourite stories about how to get really good at something. I frequently say it to myself when I discover I have thrown myself in at the deep end of a technical problem :-)
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by seldo 17y ago
I think it would be helpful to summarize: "Western education forces lifelong Muslims to more thoroughly analyze their beliefs, which until that point they just accepted without questioning. They then go to one extreme or the other: either t
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by seldo 17y ago
Awww, what a shame! The sea lions were the only genuinely nice thing about that whole miserable tourist strip. I loved watching them just lie there, completely chilled out, with no cares in the world except whether they wanted more fish yet
885.
by seldo 17y ago
Who calls people? My iPhone is a wireless Internet device, which comes with a hugely inconvenient tax of 400 unused voice minutes every month. I cannot WAIT until somebody releases a good phone with a data-only plan (maybe the Nexus?)
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by seldo 17y ago
I think using the phrase "IP terrorist" rather than "patent troll" would make it much easier to sell to congress why these patents are a bad idea.
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Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’(daringfireball.net)
80 points by seldo 17y ago|38 comments
888.
by seldo 17y ago
This year the Sunnyvale campus is having some maintenance work done to the power systems, so it's actually completely shutting down, but with lots of people working remotely during that time.
889.
by seldo 17y ago
There was mandatory time off last year, too, they just didn't say when it had to happen.
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by seldo 17y ago
As a Yahoo, I assure you this is in no way "as the Internet company searches for new ways to cut costs during the recession". We do this every year, as do other companies -- like Apple, I believe.
891.
by seldo 17y ago
Hum. Somehow, I got redirected to: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-op... Which is the same post, on a different Google blog, with a different layout.
892.
by seldo 17y ago
His claim that opening their algorithm would expose them to gaming of the system is hard to rebut, however. Search spam is bad enough already.
893.
by seldo 17y ago
"Posted by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management" is the second line after the title.
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by seldo 17y ago
There is much to admire here, and his admittedly grandiose words about the open being the future of government, commerce, entertainment and culture generally sound great to the optimist in all of us. I have a few minor quibbles with conflat
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by seldo 17y ago
Many of the reviews of Avatar have focused on the (over-)simplicity of the plot. I don't understand these people. Avatar is packed with so much visual confection that I could barely process half of what I was seeing; I wouldn't have had any
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by seldo 17y ago
A few problems: 1. It seems to ignore the idea that some clothes need to be put on hangers so they don't wrinkle. 2. Not everyone tumble-dries everything (some clothes shrink, and all clothes wear out faster when tumble-dried -- that blue l
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by seldo 17y ago
I think there is definitely a difference in personality types between "Computer Science" people and "software engineers", which the author is characterizing as white and blue collar. However, I think the white/blue distinction carries overt
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Twitter's own account caused blackout, says DNS provider(computerworld.com)
3 points by seldo 17y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 17y ago
Sure, and I'm clearly not a lawyer, but it seems difficult to say that you don't make any representations about them when you did exactly that 3 lines earlier. For example: "This car is the best deal on the lot!" "I have made no representat
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by seldo 17y ago
Not really a fan. The W3C does so much that their past homepages have suffered from a mass of undifferentiated links. This design attempts to solve the problem by taking down the number of links, but the dearth of contrast and colour means

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