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Twitter to add in-stream ads from accounts you don't follow(allthingsd.com)
3 points by skimbrel 15y ago|1 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
If this actually works as advertised, I hope it makes it to market as fast as possible. I'm pretty much done with the days of having new cavities, but I have composite fillings for all the cavities I did have, and ten years down the line th
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Wow, thanks for the link. I'd never heard of sorting networks before. The first thing I thought of was "use an XOR swap to cut memory accesses"...
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The Tacit: hand-mounted sonar for the blind(techcrunch.com)
1 points by skimbrel 15y ago|0 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
In theory, yes. But can you name a place you've worked where this was actually the case? If push came to shove I could probably take vacation even if my manager didn't think it was a good time, citing mental health/family issues/whatever. B
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Someone who can turn over design of both hardware and software to a single team with a clear vision and give that team the authority to make any and all of the tough decisions required. So far I haven't seen this from design-by-committee Go
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Yelp has had this for a while: when you visit a business page, the first reviews they show you are ones from your friends, if available. It's a good way to make sure you're not seeing spam reviews right off the bat, but it does rely on you
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by skimbrel 15y ago
It definitely doesn't mean employees get to unilaterally declare when they're taking time off, if that's what you're wondering. I still have to go through the discussion with my manager about "No huge milestones coming up then, right? Your
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by skimbrel 15y ago
My employer recently changed to a take-what-you-want vacation policy. So far it seems to be working well, with my French co-workers leading the way in using upwards of four weeks off. The part I really like is that they're tracking our time
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by skimbrel 15y ago
This is awesome. Especially the bit where they point out exactly why a modern semi-automatic is more efficient than an open-design revolver. (Hint: where does the gas go?)
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by skimbrel 15y ago
I wouldn't be complaining about having taken that shot. It's pretty great. Also, it's not like NGC7000 is about to go anywhere. Do it again tomorrow night!
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Told that there were three groups and how they were distinguished, but not told their relative sizes, we have found that computer scientists and other programmers have almost all predicted that the blank group would be more successful in t
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by skimbrel 15y ago
That's one hell of an SLA to commit to.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Why is it that designers have managed to make this the accepted (and expected) reaction to this kind of exploitative stunt, but not writers? There was a small kerfuffle over HuffPo's treatment of volunteer contributors back when Aol bought
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by skimbrel 15y ago
At first glance it looks like doing a query involves streaming the entire dataset into memory while selecting and projecting on the fly. If that's true, what happens when you have truly massive rows (i.e., things containing MEDIUMTEXTs or w
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by skimbrel 15y ago
None of these are good reasons for Microsoft to buy the failing RIM. The Playbook is a joke, the distinction between enterprise and consumer is rapidly fading, and while yes, RIM is profitable, they won't be for much longer. And re-energizi
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Successful? Yes. Safe? Not for everyone. Repeated studies show caffeine to increase panic and anxiety symptoms in people with depression, panic disorder, and related mood disorders. I stopped taking caffeine when my psychiatrist told me it
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by skimbrel 15y ago
I cut caffeine out of my life completely when I went to see a psychiatrist about my anxiety problems and she told me one cup of coffee was enough to trigger a panic attack. A year later and I still don't consume it. I sleep better, go to be
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Another Google account deletion(twitlonger.com)
7 points by skimbrel 15y ago|0 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Yes, the iPhone is currently just a camera chassis, but it's a network-enabled camera chassis. As the article said, they want to write an iPhone application to do the analysis immediately instead of offloading it to a desktop computer. If t
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by skimbrel 15y ago
>The grammar reference section states that the only constructs allowed within a Block are Statement constructs, and that a FunctionDeclaration isn’t a Statement. Huh! Never knew that. I wonder what their reasoning was when they decided
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Maps of Twitter vs. Flickr usage(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by skimbrel 15y ago|0 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
That's sad. I'd like to be treated as a person, not a "resource", and the zeroth step in that is respecting my wishes. When I want to make a career change, I will make said desire known. Is there anything I can start saying to recruiters th
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Wow. I'm no huge fan of recruiters, but I'd also never send anonymous hate mail to one. Sorry you had to deal with that, and I'm glad you're making the effort to stick around on HN. If I can ask one question, though: Why do some recruiters
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Agreed! My state, like a few others in the US, has voter initiatives that become constitutional amendments. The last one that made the news was the one that made it illegal for me to get married. Another initiative from a few decades ago is
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by skimbrel 15y ago
You're not a terrible programmer, just an uninformed and/or slightly Anglocentric one. Just last week, my co-worker had to waste two days debugging a two-year-old Sphinx setup (the person who implemented it no longer works with us) because
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Twitter's URL shortener is a phishing vulnerability(shutupandclickit.com)
2 points by skimbrel 15y ago|0 comments
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by skimbrel 15y ago
The story I've heard to explain this is that it isn't the growth rate so much as the turnover. I have friends who joined Zynga straight out of college (Berkeley) and are looking around for something new a year later, now that they have some
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by skimbrel 15y ago
Well, that's one game I won't be getting through GameFly.
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by skimbrel 15y ago
While it'd be great to see this show up everywhere, I'm not holding my breath. Mostly because of the spectrum issue -- from the article: In the demonstration, 60MHz of aggregated bandwidth was used, compared to the 20MHz maximum that is cu

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