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by thesnider 13y ago
Google Consumer Surveys: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/publishers
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by thesnider 13y ago
While your analysis of Cassandra's Paxos implementation may be correct (I haven't checked), I've never heard of anyone else (especially not Google) using a model where there is only one Paxos server per datacenter -- usually
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by thesnider 13y ago
It certainly has nothing to do with biology, and everything to do with sociology/history and yes, even politics (shocking that a research institution would be involved in politics, I know). There is, however, a systemic bias tied to th
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by thesnider 13y ago
I will never submit a patch to the linux kernel, specifically, and only, because I cannot support Linus's attitude towards mailing list discussions.
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by thesnider 13y ago
That may be part of the reason, but the biggest reason they're going with Steam for Linux has to be as a bargaining chip against Microsoft, if Microsoft ever tries to go with a Mac-style 'Gatekeeper' solution that requires yo
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by thesnider 13y ago
Only insofar as it is the hallmark of government.
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by thesnider 14y ago
Your statement does not make sense unless you have never watched or heard about House of Cards until now. I highly recommend investigating it before passing judgement -- it's not just another political drama.
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by thesnider 14y ago
I was able to buy a retail copy of 7 Ultimate from MS directly for ~$300.
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by thesnider 14y ago
If that's the really the rule ekm2 is referencing, the rest of his comment falls apart. This rule is found in the first section about derivatives in any college or high school calculus textbook. They lead you on for a good many pages that c
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by thesnider 14y ago
This seems to be false according to the scan here: http://books.google.com/books?id=Tm0FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1#v=o...
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by thesnider 14y ago
Why would you ever set this system up so that the employee would have to remember to claim the bonus unless you never really expect to pay it? Surely the company could very easily determine who is woed bonuses when, and automatically disbur
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by thesnider 14y ago
The one query that literally ALWAYS has lots of ads is 'flowers'. The query that always has product ads is 'dslr'
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by thesnider 15y ago
They don't 'block' most of the searches -- they just put up a CAPTCHA before each SRP.
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by thesnider 15y ago
Yeah, that's because you need to set up a search engine keyword in chrome's preferences. It's under 'Basics'->'Manage Search Engines'. After you do that, all it takes is typing a keyword you've defined into the omnibar, a space, and the
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by thesnider 15y ago
If you are intrigued by this, you owe it to yourself to check out chromium OS's hterm prooject ( http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/platform/assets... ), which already has vt100 compat done.
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by thesnider 15y ago
Well, if you guys ever rethink this, I'll be interested. Until then, I'll just keep plugging along with what I have.
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by thesnider 15y ago
In fact, Python packages do not compile to C, so calling Django Django.C would expose a complete lack of understanding of Python. In fact, batman.js is closer to a Jinja template being named with a .html extension.
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by thesnider 15y ago
Strange. I definitely got a call from someone claiming affiliation with y'all that referenced info about the plan DebtEye generated at 8:19PM Eastern today (8/23). The number was a chicago number that ended in 0969, and asked me to call bac
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by thesnider 15y ago
Ah, ok. Missed that. I knew it had to make sense somehow, just not sure how :)
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by thesnider 15y ago
WTH? I just tried out DebtEye, and without warning or confirmation, they scheduled me for a call with some sort of debt consultant, which happened despite me immediately replying to their email (sent from support@debteye.com) requesting bot
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by thesnider 15y ago
I'm sorry, I don't get it then -- is the plan to force me to enter one before visiting a site? Or are they just display ads with text fields?
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by thesnider 15y ago
Wait, how are DoubleRecall captchas actually captchas? They appear to be trivially easy to OCR.