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by ttt_ 15y ago
Given Google's recent change in trend, where do you think it stands? I can see that it would initially be relevant, than it would gradually stray and become increasingly flooded with obvious ad bombarding and irrelevancy, much like what Goo
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by ttt_ 15y ago
I don't know if you agree, but I think that there could be multiple-language lessons where you have the same task to complete in different languages at once, or maybe a multi-part thing where the output from one is used in the other to comp
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by ttt_ 15y ago
Interestingly, as more government entities adopt linux and foss in general, they have a lot more incentive to provide support for that. So maybe in a couple years these government-issued software will target linux distros.
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by ttt_ 15y ago
Big data and user profiling is a somewhat recent trend, if you consider the age of the internet. It used to be that free web services merely showed you ads, and people got used to that. I don't think most of them have realized just by what
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by ttt_ 15y ago
You can skim over the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/chaddickerson/optimizing-for-devel... [linked in the article]
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by ttt_ 15y ago
Wasn't the term 'global warming' been deprecated in favor of 'climate change' precisaly because it is misleading? From http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_oth... >> But temperature change itself isn't the mos
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by ttt_ 15y ago
>> “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next,” How convenient that they have millions of clients paying them to advertise their stuff to
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Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day(arstechnica.com)
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by ttt_ 15y ago
I guess they didn't check this post on HN just yesterday? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733825
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by ttt_ 15y ago
For some reason clients tend to get upset when things that were working suddenly break (they don't even care if it as legacy code base!). Joking aside, in order to effectively prevent that, a test suite must be in place to prevent regressio
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by ttt_ 15y ago
This will only get worse as Google progressively decides to plussify Chrome. Out of all of Google's products, Chrome is the one that worries me the most. Using Chrome means that you just upped Google's reach on you by many fold, they now
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by ttt_ 15y ago
I hope this is some kind of joke that I just didn't get, but otherwise: This is just a guide for you to be hipocritical and a complete jackass to your coworkers while throwing out any values you have out the window. That's the kind of atitu
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by ttt_ 15y ago
The article clarifies that specifically under "Wait, what about Firefox’s Personas?" .
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by ttt_ 15y ago
Within 60 million years isn't it conceivable that the moon would be hit by asteroids/etc enough to wipe out our evidence of ever setting foot there?
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by ttt_ 15y ago
This kind of stuff always reminds me of the movie gataca and how maybe soon our society might transform into a sort of castesized version of itself where only those who can afford it will be able to function comparably to their peers (more
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by ttt_ 15y ago
It would be nicer if it had and actual globe with the highlighted zone.
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by ttt_ 15y ago
Two points: 1) I don't like when people are so sensitive that there's no room for a harmless joke. The joke might seem harmless to you (because your are privileged[1] to think so), but it doesn't mean it is for everyone. Also, if the joke
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by ttt_ 15y ago
>> None of that would matter for the 'dead guy' in the graveyard. That's up for the 'dead guy' and his beliefs to consider.
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Linux Dir Permission Confusion(hackinglinuxexposed.com)
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Why Do The Labels Continue To Insist That 'Your Money Is No Good Here?'(techdirt.com)
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Interview: Richard Stallman by Iranian Linux publication(osnews.com)
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by ttt_ 15y ago
>> There is almost no chance that the parent(s) have actually read the book. It's sad to think that this might actually be true. I can totally imagine a scenario where except for the teacher and children, none of the other parties
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'Dark trade' in Web-censoring tools exposed by Pakistan plan(news.cnet.com)
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by ttt_ 15y ago
There are a lot of girls who would also shy away from that precisely because it's pink. So yes, make the ropes more stylish/pretty, but don't limit it to pink. There are other colors in the spectrum that are attractive to girls (and guys) b
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by ttt_ 15y ago
From the Bangladesh slide: Nature of outsourcing: significant college graduate pool, beginning IT services
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by ttt_ 15y ago
>> you'd be missing the point that the money is just going where it gets the biggest return I'm not arguing with that, just pointing out that the reason why people feel at odds with that practice is not because they don't understa
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by ttt_ 15y ago
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/25/change-security-internet-op... China Cost of labor per hour: $1.27 Nature of outsourcing: general manufacturing, electronic assembly and parts manufacturing, apparel (shoes, socks and clothing)
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by ttt_ 15y ago
>> This wasn't evil Westerners coming in and mercilessly exploiting the natives; this was simply the bog-standard working conditions in every construction site across the country. I think while your perception of the native workin
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by ttt_ 15y ago
It all sounds interesting, though wouldn't it be incredibly hard to identify the same person typing in a keyboard with a different layout or a different device?
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by ttt_ 15y ago
Somewhere out there there's a social model that makes a lot more sense and just works, but we can't fathom it right now because we are so busy worrying about competing over pieces on the ground.

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