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by spot 15y ago
I think it's great that they are actually looking at users. Hopefully that will bring it up to snuff. I think they are within shooting distance, and they are moving fast. The other big problem has always been applications. For example, I
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by spot 15y ago
http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/happy-days/
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by spot 15y ago
How do you know they kept the money instead of returning it to those who bought/donated?
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by spot 15y ago
there are two problems with your argument: 1) the technology we have now is inadequate for serious colonization. we are better off investing in basic science, education, health care, and the economy in general. we have to create the peopl
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by spot 15y ago
a long time ago a chess-playing friend of mine said "a good chess player has developed their mind. a great chess player has wasted their mind."
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by spot 15y ago
The last release had some big performance gains for the encoder: http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/03/vp8-codec-sdk-bali-relea...
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by spot 16y ago
maybe you should look into the time he was sued by all his employees. and i don't meant the rule 110 thing, which was pretty lame, i'm talking about the one where he created a shell company and signed over the key assets they had all creat
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Visualization Shop Bloom Announces Seed Funding Round, Led by Betaworks(blog.bloom.io)
1 points by spot 16y ago|0 comments
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by spot 16y ago
Or better yet, keep no data on the laptap. Or just use ChromeOS.
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by spot 16y ago
I learned last week that one of the founders of Etsy is Jared Tarbell, the excellent computational artist ( http://complexification.net/gallery/ , http://www.levitated.net/ ). He wasn't mentioned in the article though, I wonder why.
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by spot 16y ago
1) actually they did force you to use IE, it was called directly by the OS, and some of their online interactions required it. 2) mostly it wasn't forcing you, just making it very hard for you to leave their ecosystem. exporting your email
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by spot 16y ago
a few more bits: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/scribblings.html
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by spot 16y ago
It's called the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules. It's best to have a two-pronged attack, both from the outside (change the rules so congress is less corrupt, appeal to justice and rationality) and from the inside (buy your
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by spot 16y ago
argh it's even worse than that. the app is too big for gmail so i'm stuck. yea of course the app shouldn't be so big but this is testing and i built in some assets in this first draft.
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IPad usability fiasco (safari text size)(everythingicafe.com)
3 points by spot 16y ago|2 comments
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by spot 16y ago
"If NaCl gains enough traction, Chrome could become the next IE6." Since Chrome and NaCl are both Open Source and Auto Updating, this has to be the dumbest analysis ever.
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by spot 16y ago
Kurt Ralske has done a lot of good work in this space: http://retnull.com/
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by spot 16y ago
> Watson is comprised of 90 Power 750 servers, 16 TB of memory and 4 TB of disk storage 4TB disk? something is wrong here.
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by spot 16y ago
Or to put it more simply, humans are the greatest threat to humans. Always have been. When people talk about evolution, they usually use the example of running away from a lion or some such. But it's much more likely you were running awa
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by spot 16y ago
iTunes is like that charlie brown xmas tree that has so many ornaments hung on it that it's fallen over.
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by spot 16y ago
The information flows one way, from Google to Bing. Google is careful not to do this.
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by spot 16y ago
FYI Android started before iPhone was released. It's based on the Sidekick.
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by spot 16y ago
You are reading the title too literally. They just left off "on TV" because it's obvious from context.
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by spot 16y ago
It certainly makes sense that Autosuggest shouldn't pop up any "NSFW" results. There's a difference between suggestion and answering. That explains why the sex/curse words are dropped. But what about the racist results? That's just as ve
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SourceForge Hacked(sourceforge.net)
8 points by spot 16y ago|1 comments
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by spot 16y ago
http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/price-discrimination/ this doesn't address this case directly, but it seems to say it's only illegal if done to harm your competitors.
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by spot 16y ago
And until they "defer" anyone who say uses twitter to promote their business is in violation of the ToS?
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by spot 16y ago
I am still baffled by this term: (i) You may download and sync a Product for personal, noncommercial use on any Apple-branded products running iOS ("iOS Product") you own or control. Doesn't that mean that you can't make commercial use of i
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by spot 16y ago
I didn't name it "Electric Sheep" to comment on the meaning of PKDick's book (or the movie). I use that name because screen-savers come on when your computer goes to sleep.... and dreams.
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by spot 16y ago
Thanks, glad you all like it. This open source network is the popular side of my art. For a peek at the good stuff, see http://picasaweb.google.com/scottdraves/Presskit02# including the recent projections at MoMA. You can download a samp

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