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by shaddi 17y ago
The site seems to be slashdotted, here's a better link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free...
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by shaddi 17y ago
Thanks for your clarification -- I was a bit unclear about exactly what the author was referring to in this post. Given what he's created I can definitely see now how companies would try to exploit his expertise.
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by shaddi 17y ago
The internet is based around people doing things for free for the good of the larger internet community. We all benefit from the free contributions of others. While I can't tell for sure, it seems this person is unhappy with giving out his
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by shaddi 17y ago
Potential to make money is not making money, particularly without any idea of how to turn the former into the latter.
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by shaddi 17y ago
It bears repetition: make things people want and sell them at a profit.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Your hack is broken: run -> ruun?
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Google Wave's 'Fail Whale'(wave.google.com)
70 points by shaddi 17y ago|39 comments
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The Internet is 40 years old today (by 'first message sent').(cnn.com)
2 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
Mission page: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/flightt... Congrats all around on a beautiful launch!
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NASA's test of Ares 1-X a success(cnn.com)
4 points by shaddi 17y ago|2 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
I think "messages without a recipient" have been around for quite a while, and we call them broadcast messages. DHCP does this. Radio does this. Blogs do this. I'm not saying that Twitter doesn't have an interesting innovation here (I perso
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by shaddi 17y ago
Seriously. I have used/seen the exact same functionality from other services for at least a year, and they give you a shorter url to boot. What's new about this? Sparseness?
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How user feedback shaped the Win7 final release(arstechnica.com)
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by shaddi 17y ago
Just add &pws=0 to the end of your query if you want to view unpersonalized results.
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Fun with publicly accessible webcams(sha.ddih.org)
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by shaddi 17y ago
Then perhaps there will soon be a market for automated coin-flipping machines that impart a consistent, if unknown, bias into every flip!
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by shaddi 17y ago
If you've taken a basic probability class, then you probably know the solution to this issue of obtaining a fair toss with a biased coin. Flip the coin twice. If both are heads, or both are tails, discard the pair of tosses and try again. I
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by shaddi 17y ago
What it really should, and does, look like is: Hardware | OS | Software | User Your OS is there to provide protection between programs and provide an interface to system resources. The OS is "so
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by shaddi 17y ago
Enterprise wiki, sharing, and collaboration. From Microsoft, which the buying of never got anyone fired for.
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Making things fun causes people to do things they normally wouldn't.(rolighetsteorin.se)
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"It seemed like a good idea at the time": Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes(news.bbc.co.uk)
24 points by shaddi 17y ago|19 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
If you can save 1-1.5k in purchase price than over the life of the computer you've saved 1-1.5k, especially if you can't perceive or don't feel any difference in quality. For most people that's a significant chunk of change.
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by shaddi 17y ago
It'd be cool if you could sort by average karma. You'd obviously need some way to compensate for users with only a handful of comments that happened to be highly voted up, but this would still be nice to see.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Stole the words from my mouth (er, fingers?). I love this motivational on this quote: http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/08/hemingmoac...
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by shaddi 17y ago
Guy had a lot of symptoms, no doctors really knew what he had. Eventually he found a doctor who said "You have a lot of diseases, but they are treatable." Guy now is improving, but still has serious, permanent health problems due to his awf
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by shaddi 17y ago
I am sure many of us look to our parents, grandparents, and other relatives as heroes. For me, I look to my dad as a hero, which is kind of funny considering how often have disagreements. I'm reminded of that line from Randy Pausch's last l
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by shaddi 17y ago
I largely agree with your pen point, but I couldn't imagine (yes, I've tried) writing notes, for instance, without a pen. Perhaps, though, that's not really the best use of a tablet, which seems to be the premise that most tablets out there
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by shaddi 17y ago
I don't buy this article. I'm sitting on my tablet writing this. Handwriting recognition in Windows, in my experience, is anything /but/ mediocre: in fact it's really quite fantastic in Win7. It's the only reason I don't run Linux exclusive
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by shaddi 17y ago
Go for it: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/freespirit/ :)
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by shaddi 17y ago
Just thought I'd point out (as a departing JPL intern...) that Spirit just reached sol 2000 on Tuesday, more than five years after its original 90 sol mission. Even though it is still stuck (Free Spirit!), it's still performing useful scien

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