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Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong(blog.streamingmedia.com)
3 points by sxp 13y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 13y ago
This is the main reason why I haven't bothered switching to GAE for my static website. AWS + S3 + Route 53 allows hosting naked domains: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/12/27/root
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by sxp 13y ago
Why would you think a designer would have no justification for a change beyond “it looks nice”? What would you assume designers don’t understand issues like pixel alignment or designing for multiple devices? Why would you think designers w
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by sxp 13y ago
So why should you move that button? The article doesn't actually answer the question. If a UX designer just says "move the button by 3px because it looks nicer", then there is a good chance that someone higher up the hierarch
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Realtime physically-based rendering on an XBox 360(research.tri-ace.com)
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by sxp 13y ago
It took him 9 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=p8A-peQi220#t=407
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by sxp 13y ago
>While they are active, however, these accounts may have informal restrictions placed on them — some self-imposed — so they do not draw the scrutiny of bankers who may file suspicious-activity reports or would be required to report depos
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The Inverse Amish and Special Innovation Zones(twitlonger.com)
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Almost Human: The Surreal, Cyborg Future of Telemarketing(theatlantic.com)
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Using the Kaiser calculator linked on that site, it looks like the subsidies are properly phased out. Increasing my income causes the subside to gradually go down and I don't see any major inversion in that calculator. There might be s
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>The cheapest insurance plan they can find through the new federal marketplace in New Hampshire will cost their family of four about $1,000 a month, 12 percent of their annual income of around $100,000 and more than they have ever paid b
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Meta unveils next version of augmented reality glasses for $3k (spaceglasses.com)
76 points by sxp 13y ago|68 comments
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Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that(ted.com)
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The FDA Could Set Personal Genetics Rights Back Decades(slate.com)
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The IPO of You and Me: How Normal People Are Becoming Corporations(nymag.com)
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Silicon Valley's 'Ultimate Exit': secession from the United States(theverge.com)
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The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army(dailydot.com)
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http://web.archive.org/web/20130112204225/http://www.fantast... has a backup.
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>To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2,560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data That would take an
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If the company is formed purely as a shell, then the courts can target the underlying shareholders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
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https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en
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by sxp 13y ago
There is also the opportunity cost of homeschooling. By homeschooling, the parent is reducing their ability to work full-time or part-time so they are losing money. So the true cost for the parent would be something like $20/hour * 5 h
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The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts(nytimes.com)
1 points by sxp 13y ago|0 comments
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The submitter only posts stories from this website: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=SPYBOT
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Gut feelings: the future of psychiatry may be inside your stomach(theverge.com)
6 points by sxp 13y ago|0 comments
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Syria opposition claims 1,300 dead in chemical attack(google.com)
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A demo at All Things D 2 years ago: http://allthingsd.com/20110602/demo-at-d9-ubeam/ The design in that video involves transmitting ultrasound from a central charging station to an ultrasound receiver and that rec
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From http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-... : Jennifer Hepler left BioWare this week to begin work on a book about narrative design and do some freelance work. Her most recent jo
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A better UI would be something like the Hydra. There was a cool hack where someone used one Hydra controller to track the user's body while the other was used as a gun: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/45
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Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents(dkriesel.com)
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