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by v21 15y ago
Google knows about my Twitter account because I gave them my homepage, which has semantic markup that exposes my FOAF data, linking to that account (and others). I was actually quite impressed by it...
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by v21 15y ago
Even the East India Company fell eventually.
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by v21 15y ago
Ah yeah, that perspective makes sense. But on the other hand - what business model doesn't degrade over time? What magic that would be!
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by v21 15y ago
But who says the system self-destructs? The market has worked in this case - computers are yet cheaper, without a loss in quality. What outcome would be preferable?
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by v21 15y ago
The other important measures are also more falsifiable, and more changeable between companies and industries. Every company has margins and revenues. You could argue that investors ought to understand the businesses they own, but that doesn
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by v21 15y ago
it's worth noticing that ASUS didn't have to be scheming for the end result for that to happen - each stage involved them acquiring a bit more business, and making a bit more money. Their actions needn't have been the result of long-term th
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by v21 15y ago
It does not! But the usual way people get around this is connecting to IRC using an IRC bouncer or irssi on a server somewhere and then connecting to that. This way you are "online" the whole time. But it's a thing everyone has to set up in
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by v21 15y ago
This looks like an excellent place to link someone who knows a bit of HTML, maybe some Javascript, but is curious about "real CS stuff".
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by v21 15y ago
The authors picture looks like a woman to me.
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by v21 15y ago
(worth noting that two dudes had their stuff deleted - on paid on time, and the other hand paid for most of his services, but due to a PayPal error was unable to pay for all of them.)
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by v21 15y ago
Yeah, that's a pretty stupid mistake. My bad! I still stand by my other, less retarded point, though.
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by v21 15y ago
If 1% of sign ups complete the course .. that's still 5800 people. Which is pretty good reach. And then add in all the people who didn't complete, or look at the materials afterwards, or who are otherwise affected by the project... These pe
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by v21 15y ago
But the displayed URL is truncated with an ellipsis at the end. The OPs URL is likely long enough to trigger that. Sometimes a long URL is all you want to share, but that is now impossible to do. A tweet saying " http://hotchickswithstubbed
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by v21 15y ago
Lua wins for in-game scripting and embedded devices. In these places, it's Lua, or hacking onto the C/C++ engine/framework code. Or, now, MoonScript with some extra fuss. Mind, Lua isn't terrible, so I think I'd stick to Lua and avoid the f
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by v21 15y ago
> If google simply wanted to be immune to claims from the Novell patents, they could have joined the group and saved money (vs. bidding by themselves against the group.) But what if they wished to grant immunity to Android manufacturers
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by v21 15y ago
What dangerous materials? They checked the apartment and did not find significant levels of radiation.
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by v21 15y ago
I'm not sure that's as pertinent a question as "do patents stop your ideas from being ripped off?" And as it currently stands, I think the answer to that is no. But I also see companies innovating like mad. Maybe the pace would be even fast
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by v21 15y ago
There's not many games released for Linux, so when they are released, people get very excited.
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by v21 15y ago
And once you're in jail... > With just 5 percent of the world’s population, the US currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners. In 2008, over 2.3 million Americans were in prison or jail, with one of every 48 working-age men beh
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by v21 15y ago
If you don't have friends to talk to and to listen to on a social media service, don't be on that social media service.
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by v21 15y ago
I'm an indie game designer, and I find this is by no means an uncommon view among game designers.
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by v21 15y ago
Tokenism indeed. I'm hoping similar fishy stories emerge from the Sun - but not that it'll close even if the exact same stuff happened there. To lose one red-top looks like misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness.
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by v21 15y ago
Yeah, the Telegraph have been going great guns recently. But the Guardian have been hammering away at this for yonks. (I am reminded of the expenses scandal - The Guardian had a journalist who was petitioning the government to release the e
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by v21 15y ago
Competition sure can be a wonderful thing, when it happens.
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by v21 15y ago
I use Chrome, and this is the first time I have been ignorant of what version number my browser is on. So yes, most users don't know or care. But now, even techy users don't know or care. It really is a step change.
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by v21 15y ago
You might be right: http://sunday.co.uk
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by v21 15y ago
Why, yes it is. But less important to them than losing the BSkyB merger. Or, it would seem, Rebekah Brooks. And the paper was largely finished by this point. No advertisers, no readers, an utterly tarnished brand... But yes, the Beeb has ju
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by v21 15y ago
Not sure - it may indeed not have been them. But it may have been done for reasons of plausible deniability, or by a different set of people than normally handle DNS stuff, or it was just a canny domain-squatter. (was also registered with 1
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by v21 15y ago
Some (unknown) person registered the domains thesunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.com a few days ago. ( http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunda... ) And a few weeks ago Rebekah Brooks announced that editorial roles
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by v21 15y ago
I'm not sure the usual analogy between household and nation's spending is useful. Countries work in fundamentally different ways from people.

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