tdonia

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by tdonia 18y ago
down for me too. yet it seems to be getting a lot of points in spite of that.
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by tdonia 18y ago
i find the small wheels on the back disconcerting. presumably they're still working out some bugs keeping it upright, which is understandable as this is clearly a prototype, but the implications there are still troubling. It's too big to
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Does information beget information?(law.duke.edu)
1 points by tdonia 18y ago|0 comments
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by tdonia 18y ago
Does information beget information? If so, their model will probably prove quite lucrative.
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by tdonia 18y ago
http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/index.html#domain-gen... after looking at this, i can't help but to be curious as to what DGA_random_function() & conficker_D_PRNG_function() actually do. if they're not truly random then it seem
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Overview of Confiker Variant C, the post-April 1st Virus(mtc.sri.com)
3 points by tdonia 18y ago|2 comments
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Google Image Search imgcolor= Parameter Allows Results Filtering by Color(images.google.com)
41 points by tdonia 18y ago|11 comments
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by tdonia 18y ago
complete side note - but your favicon has a lot of aliasing when it's on a dark background (i.e. as it is when you have ddg in an inactive chrome tab). the circle looks nice on white, but you may want to adjust it so it reads a little bett
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by tdonia 18y ago
Design, for me, is about evoking interesting stories. Data is an excellent tool for honing those stories but data alone isn't that compelling. Much of Google's success has been reliant on utilitarian pages that are designed to redirect us
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by tdonia 18y ago
this sounds like a diversion - it doesn't address what would seem to be a much larger problem of knowing which conversations are worth listening to. also wouldn't help establish the context of the conversation/decode its actual meaning.
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Copy & paste ux for iphone 3.0(pcworld.com)
1 points by tdonia 18y ago|0 comments
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Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools (online editions)(wholeearth.com)
2 points by tdonia 18y ago|0 comments
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by tdonia 18y ago
they've stated this position before: "Hooked on just saying no" (1989) http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story... to get a better sense of where they're reacting to the full briefing from this weekend's issue is worth
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by tdonia 18y ago
"length" is a strange way to begin the conversation with your audience. i get it, length is critical to finding the right word, but that doesn't make sense until you understand what it does. i would think about this from a user experience
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by tdonia 18y ago
according to wikipedia, technology is "a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its environment" so the football player
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by tdonia 18y ago
while signs didn't stand out in particular i do remember distinctly learning about the idea of "rules" and the way they define a social context. and when i first saw a command line, i couldn't help but think it was a pretty strange way to
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'Falling For Science': Obeying All The Signs(npr.org)
2 points by tdonia 18y ago|2 comments
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by tdonia 18y ago
while it is true that you cannot accurately display Pantone on screen, Pantone colors are essential for getting things printed correctly & good graphic (print) designers know exactly how their screen representation might differ from the
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by tdonia 18y ago
the argument against this is usually performance and code maintenance. writing something in a strict but clearly articulated language means there's a better chance the next person looking at the code will be able to figure it out. that sai
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by tdonia 18y ago
"The 'Dragon' is a metaphor for God." should have been omitted from the preamble. if the reader cannot figure out that the dragon = god the rest of the argument is in more trouble than explicitly asserting that can fix. and for the rest o
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by tdonia 18y ago
just make sure you've accounted for any finite write limitations built in to your solid state drive. sure, it's not likely that'll you reach the limit but if you're successful & relying on a random sector distribution you could get the
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by tdonia 18y ago
My first inclination was the same, but as i read further it became clear that his core argument, under all that chaff, is simply to pick an interesting problem for your new year rather than assuming that a new language for the sake of a new
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by tdonia 18y ago
i wonder if the leap second could be a catalyst, especially if the zune 'year' is really just a collection of seconds sectioned into 'days' meaning december 31st is an anomaly that has been encoded with 1 extra second. http://www.npr.org/t
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by tdonia 18y ago
the appeal of this idea is as old as the web itself - early browsers were as much for editing content as displaying content. [1] this is an important idea to keep in mind when thinking about the growth of a new medium - having the tools to
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by tdonia 18y ago
every device with millions of integral connections between delicate components i've owned has been so susceptible to failure that i've got reason to wonder if this is an untapped market...so far i've not seen a class of consumer electronics
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by tdonia 18y ago
a) i haven't used any php related books, but this is invaluable: http://www.php.net/docs.php i would suggest downloading a version of it for quick reference. it's worth learning the commonly used functions, but a big chunk of php's value
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by tdonia 18y ago
we had some unintended guests and so were 1 berry short and had to share. at first, we weren't sure if it was even going to work. and then, suddenly, it did. guinness & sorbet mixed into wonderful. straight tabasco sauce. straight
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Strong earthquake hits Indonesia, tsunami warning lifted(google.com)
1 points by tdonia 18y ago|0 comments
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by tdonia 18y ago
Your visualizations are interesting - one quick suggestion about the gallery: it'd be nice if the thumbnail's alt tags provided the title of the visualization. Google may appreciate knowing that sort of thing as well.
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by tdonia 18y ago
a summary of what i understood all this to mean: bd+ uses a virtual machine built into a player to load an encryption scheme on a per disc basis. so the folks at doom9 were able to deduce the extents of the vm (input/output/throughput, etc

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