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by streety 18y ago
If this is of interest to you then you may also be interested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=384364
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by streety 18y ago
A less critical commentary has been posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381145 I particularly like this line, "If we could harness 0.1 per cent of the energy in the ocean, we could support the energy needs of 15 billion people."
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by streety 18y ago
I realise you were just copying the page title but it would have been better if you had ditched the "Just Another iPhone Blog" text from the title. It's just duplicating what's automatically available in quotes at the end of every submissi
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by streety 18y ago
"There is one company that makes buses with wheel motors which quadruple the fuel efficiency of the current best diesel bus" Given that buses are surpassed only by garbage trucks in the number of stop and starts they make in a given distanc
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by streety 18y ago
Sounds about right. It's been a while since I last had cause to use the google toolbar but didn't that have a adblocker? This news doesn't seem all that surprising. [edit]Just realised I'm mixing pop-up blockers and adblockers. I don't thi
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by streety 18y ago
Except for mailing lists. In my experience it seems that if To:/CC:/BCC: doesn't contain one of your addresses gmail sticks with your default rather than using the address of the mailbox it fetched the email from in the first place.
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by streety 18y ago
Correct url is http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/11/2...
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by streety 18y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377155
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by streety 18y ago
The article quoted is: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/srizbi_... The important bit for me was: "The problem, FireEye quickly found, was that each variant was designed to seek out a different set of four rescue domain
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by streety 18y ago
I realise I'm stating what for most will be obvious here but there is a reason why they stop selling tickets once they reach maximum capacity. If there is a fire they may not be able to get everyone out safely if there are too many people.
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by streety 18y ago
I've not used nearlyfreespeech.net and they may well be as good as you say but the example you give does not demonstrate this. I have domains with namecheap and godaddy and remember being contacted by at least one of them the last time ICA
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by streety 18y ago
Really? The only place I can find the word 'windows' on the page is in tiny little writing in the categories box. Running with your point for a moment I'm assuming your suggestion is that these projects are unmaintained because they're bui
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by streety 18y ago
As this link doesn't provide much info and the news will likely be taken down from the reuters homepage at some point it might be better to focus discussion over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367013
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by streety 18y ago
"Clearly, an idea that advances the state of the art is unlikely to occur except when attention level peaks." I'm not at all sure this is true. Tales of apple tress, baths and monkeys (or was it snakes?) chasing tails come to mind. In my
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by streety 18y ago
Previous post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=365274
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by streety 18y ago
Perhaps this is what you're looking for? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362657
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by streety 18y ago
Tracking down a likely study is fairly trivial. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120119761/abstrac... Unfortunately it's behind a paywall. This is somewhat outside my field but I do have institutional access. Based on my limited
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by streety 18y ago
The first slide says that the presentation is by Mark Maunder with an email address at http://feedjit.com so I'm guessing that's the site being optimized. The content in the presentation does make sense for what feedjit does.
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by streety 18y ago
http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html "So why bother with estimates from aggregated search queries? It turns out that traditional flu surveillance systems take 1-2 weeks to collect and release surveillance data, but Google search
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by streety 18y ago
Also posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360490 I have to take issue with, "One thing that you'll notice using it is that it's fast. Very fast. I'd argue much faster than clicking into the input area, moving to the keyboard for
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by streety 18y ago
You are right there would be advantages for anyone using a browser that is locked down. I guess it has been too long since I was in that position.
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by streety 18y ago
As a website user what's the benefit to me? Why would I invest time and effort in learning a new language just so I can play with the emaciated relative of javascript? I can envision situations where additional functionality could be creat
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by streety 18y ago
Previous coverage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319975 Generally I don't get much out of multiple stories on the same issue but this post does add a little additional detail. I need to read more into this.
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by streety 18y ago
The journal article is available: http://mic.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/154/11/3319?view...
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by streety 18y ago
http://www.hittail.com is good for checking referrals for further post ideas.
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by streety 18y ago
Although the article is certainly interesting the headline is misleading. The article is from August. There is no news here as to when the LHC will be operational again.
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by streety 18y ago
"It aims to raise the profile of the open MP3 music format and show people what they can do with their downloads." It's quite sad that in the aftermath (can we hope?) of DRM the MP3 format is seen as the 'open' format. "The trade body behin
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by streety 18y ago
I would more loudly broadcast the fact that it is based on drupal. If a user has a lot of success they would want to know that there is a large group from which they could hire developers for customisation. Drupal offers that. The idea of
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by streety 18y ago
Does it have FDA approval?
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by streety 18y ago
I hadn't realised that mturk requests could only be made in the US. I was planning on using it to save myself a little time in a side project I'm working on. A quick google search turns up ways around this though. http://www.hit-builder.

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