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by smokinn 17y ago
Is CutePDF any better than PDFCreator? I've been using the latter for years; it does the same thing and works very well.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I still don't know what the issue with supporting multi-touch devices in North America is but I strongly suspect it's because of software patents. Anytime a corporate rep is asked why their device doesn't support it they hem and haw and say
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The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures(blog.okcupid.com)
357 points by smokinn 17y ago|126 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
It's not a "gentleman's agreement", it's promotional material. The porn sites themselves build the picture sets and if you have an affiliate account with them you see the available material (along with all the relevant html code that you ca
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by smokinn 17y ago
Are you somehow implying that a pay-wall can't be built? Porn sites seem to have figured it out quite a while ago so I don't see how NYTimes would be any different. Of course they aren't going to be able to stop people copy/pasting articles
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by smokinn 17y ago
It's a pretty good start but I would suggest doing the same as for new events with the bars and restaurants. When I clicked on the "are we missing" link, I expected a form where I could add one (either automatically or moderator-approved) b
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by smokinn 17y ago
Any idea what caused that huge spike in late August/early September?
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by smokinn 17y ago
Elizabeth Warren wrote an excellent article about that last year: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-witho...
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by smokinn 17y ago
If it's possible for somebody else to copy your invention without reverse-engineering your product, then you shouldn't be granted a patent. No, you should be awarded the patent. It's the person who reverse-engineered your invention and di
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by smokinn 17y ago
Thanks for the list but he said 6 digits... So the format is probably dd-mm-yy.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The difference is that valve's software has to have a build installed on the client's computer or worse, a disk you shove into a console. On the web, your releases update 100% of your client base instantly. Though I do agree that depending
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Avi Bryant - Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal(vimeo.com)
13 points by smokinn 17y ago|0 comments
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Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB(mysqlperformanceblog.com)
2 points by smokinn 17y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
What database did you plug Pentaho into? Like I said earlier I was thinking of using LucidDB but according to this benchmark: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/01/07/star-schema-b... it seems InfiniDB might be a better candidate.
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by smokinn 17y ago
But there's a big difference between asking those questions yourself because you care enough about them to remember what they are and just handing a sheet or reading from one that was clearly printed off the internet.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I've been looking into it a lot as well. It really depends what your BI is supposed to handle. Is it analytics with very wide but very flat tables that you don't join much (or at all)? Is it complex queries joining many tables together to r
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by smokinn 17y ago
I do that a lot too. I have a lot of spicy chili in my freezer along with a batch of rigatoni that I use mostly for lunches. I also have a lot of small portions of meat (french steak, pork chops, etc) that I just fry up with potatoes or occ
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by smokinn 17y ago
This is where good voice recognition would come in handy. I'm interested in the topic but I'm not the least bit interested in watching a 10 minute video; I'd much rather have the text.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Facebook tried this already. They called it Beacon. It was a colossal failure.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I like cooking something great, especially when I have people over or just when I feel like eating something really good but I hate everyday cooking. It's so boring. The processed foods you can just throw in the oven for 30-40 mins are gett
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by smokinn 17y ago
Here's a question that no one has asked yet: Why should content sites be compensated at all? When I first read this topic, I thought it was content sites as in nytimes going into Iraq and reporting on the war or netflix/ireel streaming holl
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by smokinn 17y ago
I wasn't sure this was at all newsworthy. Turns out the "newsworthy" part is that they're claiming copyright infringement by a greasemonkey script that plays the game for you automatically. They got what they wanted because the script creat
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by smokinn 17y ago
Dr. Greg Wilson (editor of the Beautiful Code book that spawned Beautiful Architecture later) is working on a new book that talks about exactly this kind of thing. http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/2910.html Basically, he says that
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by smokinn 17y ago
The vast majority of jobs will give you food a roof and a bed. People start doing the jobs they don't want because they want a large house, two model-of-the-year cars (leased of course), the 40+ inch HD tv, etc etc etc. Doing what you love
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by smokinn 17y ago
My Archos may be much less relevant when the Xperia X10 comes out (which I plan to get) but until then I have a dumb phone and want something to do on my 40 min ride to work. The Archos right now is my only good option. Even when the X10 co
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by smokinn 17y ago
Try using a netbook standing up on the metro on your way to/from work. Tablets work fine for that though. (I have an Archos 5 I do exactly that with.)
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by smokinn 17y ago
I suppose that could be the case, or maybe it's the fact that Verizon has sold nearly a million droids in the past month: http://gigaom.com/2009/11/30/droid-q4-sales/ Personally, I think it might be the latter. Android Market sales were s
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by smokinn 17y ago
I get tired of the "green" push when I see the "green" label on absolutely everything in the store regardless of how much pollution it may or may not create. It's become utterly meaningless. That, and the push towards biofuels has nothing g
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by smokinn 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that whole "pedestrians defining the sidewalks" thing is actually a myth. It may happen sometimes nowaways since the myth is now so widespread but it's associated with so many schools now that I can't possibly tell if any of
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by smokinn 17y ago
I somewhat enjoyed Greg Bear's Blood Music book, but not enough to buy another from him. I'll definitely give him another change and check out the ones you recommend though, thanks.

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