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by troymc 15y ago
My favourite part about using DDG is the !bang operators. Now I can search Wikipedia, Amazon, Google, etc. from the same "command line" (i.e. my Firefox search box). Awesome. https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
902.
by troymc 15y ago
In the metric system, 1 mm = 0.001 m = 0.001 metres but 1 MM = 1000000 M = 1000000 ?????
903.
by troymc 15y ago
The authors mentioned CTE but didn't spell it out, so I looked it up: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopath...
904.
by troymc 15y ago
I asked a bricklayer what he was doing. He said he was laying bricks... duh! I asked another. He said he was building a library, where one day his grandchildren might discover Hemmingway.
905.
by troymc 15y ago
I don't follow the car business; Is it normal or unusual to have a car launch event like this?
906.
by troymc 15y ago
"He belonged to no organizations other than the New York Athletic Club however he had never been in the New York Athletic Club and knew nothing with regard to their membership policies." Why was he a member of the New York Athletic Club? Di
907.
by troymc 15y ago
"At the time of his dismissal [from Apple Computer] he was the general manager of the Mackintosh Division of Apple..." Did they spell "Macintosh" with a 'k' back then or did the FBI person spell it wrong? The fruit is spelled "McIntosh".
908.
by troymc 15y ago
If you've got a Mac or a Linux machine and some neat game is only available (for you) via the Chrome Web Store, it seems like a fine option. People already spend lots of money on browser-based games.
909.
by troymc 15y ago
If packet timing or sizing gives away the protocol, then it seems to me that one could re-rig it to mimic the timing and sizing of another protocol.
910.
by troymc 15y ago
Dan Meyer is the guy who gave this TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.... He taught high school math between 2004 and 2010, but became frustrated and is now studying at Stanford on a doctoral fellowship,
911.
by troymc 15y ago
You wrote, '"Web 2.0" is all about new ways of computing which exploit parallelism.' I've seen many descriptions of "Web 2.0" but that's a new one to me. Or to quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you
912.
by troymc 15y ago
There are many other changes happening in the rendering world. Two others are: - More accurate calculations based on the physics of the light in the scene (i.e. techniques which tend to produce more "real-looking" renders). Ideas for how to
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by troymc 15y ago
Is there a website where I can go to see when normal retailers have had sales in the past, so that I might predict the arrival of the next one? Better yet, imagine this data set: the price of every consumer good sold in retail stores, as a
914.
by troymc 15y ago
My local Best Buy used to have the Apple products (iMac, iPod, iPad, etc.) all by themselves, off to the side. The other tablets were about 40 feet away, with dozens of models of laptop computers in between. Now all the tablets are in the s
915.
by troymc 15y ago
While some app developers put free apps in the app store, they do so with an expected return on the investment, perhaps in the form of in-app purchases, in-app ad revenues, subscription fees, future contract work, or sales of related non-fr
916.
by troymc 15y ago
PLoS, the Public Library of Science, is now over five years old, and is financially sustainable. Perhaps Cornell Library could look at whatever PLoS is doing. http://www.plos.org/
917.
by troymc 15y ago
Not exactly. Check out the Dwolla FAQ: http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/87210-dwolla...
918.
by troymc 15y ago
After reading the piece, I think a good case could be made that Visual Studio 2010 is, in fact, a game. I'm already imagining two lawyers presenting their cases to a jury. (If you think such things never happen, consider the case of Nix v.
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by troymc 15y ago
Indeed, there's a new ebook-production service (still in beta) named Vook which aims to give authors the ability to produce ebooks in all the major ebook formats, including EPUB, Amazon's formats, and now whatever Apple calls their new iBoo
920.
by troymc 15y ago
Yahoo! is a media company, and media is a business where brand recognition matters. Petrochina is not. That said, Yahoo! does have some strong brands. Yahoo Finance, omg! and Yahoo Mail come to mind. (Yahoo Mail is second only to Hotmail in
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by troymc 15y ago
You may not want increased visibility or findability online, which is fine, but for any person or business who does, these changes from Google mean they have stronger incentives to use Google+.
922.
by troymc 15y ago
You should have read the whole article. The author does cite numerous third-party sources of evidence.
923.
by troymc 15y ago
For me, this story isn't so much about "Google makes search results more personal" as "Google makes SEO all about using Google+ more". (We now have stronger incentives to use Google+.)
924.
by troymc 15y ago
You make some excellent points. Some of the recommendation engines out there (and it seems everyone has one these days) are really good at figuring out my tastes and preferences. Netflix, Amazon, and hunch.com (now owned by eBay) come to mi
925.
by troymc 15y ago
As usual, Wikipedia has a good into article about this, if you know where to look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
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by troymc 15y ago
Similarly, it doesn't seem to work in Safari on my iMac, or in Safari on my iPad 2. (This isn't surprising given the names of the CSS selectors, i.e. -moz-stuff and -ms-stuff but never -webkit-stuff.)
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by troymc 15y ago
Check out Gary Will's blog: http://blog.garywill.com/ and StartupCampWaterloo: http://startupcampwaterloo.org/
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by troymc 15y ago
Some commentary at SemiWiki: http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/941-economist-arm-vs-i...
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by troymc 15y ago
I hadn't noticed that until the last subheading: The chips, like dust -- references The Stars, Like Dust, a 1951 book by Asimov. And then the rest became clear: Empire and foundry-nation -- probably a play on Foundation and Empire, the seco
930.
by troymc 15y ago
Here's an idea: Sell physical placeholders that look like books, along with ebooks. You can put the placeholder "book" on your bookshelf to remind you what you own, decorate your room, and give your kids some reading ideas. The placeholder

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