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by wooster 17y ago
It's interesting to compare this to the Apple acquisition of NeXT, wherein the NeXT engineers wore t-shirts depicting the NeXT cube eating the Apple logo.
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by wooster 17y ago
I wouldn't judge any city by what I find in a hotel bar.
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by wooster 17y ago
Um, no. Some of these "datasets" are links to web sites: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/england-national-crime-mapping Some are applications based on UK data which are run by non-governmental organizations or individuals: http://data.gov.uk/
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by wooster 17y ago
"your mail will usually get through" Not in my experience. I have been on both sides: sending mail, and implementing IP based filtering. It's a clusterfuck.
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by wooster 17y ago
I still get requests to my dedicated server at Softlayer for the Facebook app which used it before me. I've had the server since mid-2008. Really, this seems like a problem on Facebook's side. The bigger problem is trying to run a mail serv
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by wooster 17y ago
My rebuttal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings Short version, for those unfamiliar with the story: IBM approaches Digital Research to license CP/M, Digital Research refuses to sign a fairly standard NDA, IBM licenses
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by wooster 17y ago
Wrong parent post? SSL != SSH
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by wooster 17y ago
"The first scenario is just very unlikely." From another perspective: I worked on the content filter for Parental Controls at Apple. My understanding is that every filtering proxy product with SSL support requires the installation of an ins
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by wooster 17y ago
Let me present issue 395, the most starred issue on the Twitter API bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=395 Also fun: if I have an iPhone client app interacting with Twitter and also with a web service that
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by wooster 17y ago
FWIW, I have friends that work at game studios in SF, and they're generally happy (and mostly ex-EA employees). These are indie studios or companies that get contracted out by companies like EA to do "hard stuff". That said, I don't know an
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by wooster 17y ago
I once had a blog post get 100,000 uniques in a day: http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h... That was back when Digg could still drive traffic. The Apple interns e-mail list liked my post, and they all upvoted it o
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by wooster 17y ago
http://tweeteorites.com/ - builds timelines of what your friends are favoriting on Twitter http://amid.st/ - social placemarking app
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by wooster 17y ago
Mountain View requires phone systems to pass fire inspection in office buildings. Employees generally need a system by which to contact emergency services. Labor laws in some jurisdictions cover employee expectations by the employer. If the
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by wooster 17y ago
I hope nobody takes this blog post at face value. You may, depending upon jurisdiction, be legally obligated to provide the following: * Vacation policy * Phone system You may need to have the following documented, to comply with labor laws
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by wooster 17y ago
Yeah, Pixel Qi is fabless, so any production is done by someone else.
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by wooster 17y ago
There are more risks than nuclear war. For example, asteroid impacts, pandemics, ecological disasters, etc. Even in the case of nuclear war, it's much easier to detect and destroy an incoming nuke from another planet than it is to hit one t
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by wooster 17y ago
It reduces the risk of total species annihilation.
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by wooster 17y ago
Amazing and humbling. """Another argument for the surgery is like the rationale for sending people to the Moon, Dr. Emond said: “Understanding things better or extending the limits of care in these extreme situations somehow moves the whole
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by wooster 17y ago
"And the old privacy settings are still available." So where is this setting: "Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads" ?
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by wooster 17y ago
Right, my wider point with that was about generalizing your personal experiences to the rest of the population. And good on Extreme Blue for taking a wider selection. This event was almost 10 years ago. Now I feel old. :p
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by wooster 17y ago
I take it you don't go to Harvey Mudd then? There's a fairly wide variation in grade inflation between schools, which is why a lot of the top grad schools will adjust GPAs for students from schools with grade inflation, or lack thereof, com
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by wooster 17y ago
"They don't ask for cameras because there are no cameras at Apple: Employees are not allowed to get into the campus with them." I mean, really, come on. That's just laughable.
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by wooster 17y ago
This is wholly-fabricated nonsense. I worked at Apple for 5+ years and, besides for knowing what actually happens in these situations, there are a couple of dead giveaways that "Tom" was never an Apple employee (or, at least, not in Cuperti
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by wooster 17y ago
I suppose that would be one way to ship OS X for non-Apple PC's. (Disclosure: I used to work there, but definitely not on anything like ads for OS X.)
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by wooster 17y ago
From the review martey linked ( http://paulstamatiou.com/review-att-3g-microcell ), it looks like the price is currently either a one time $150 payment or $50 + $20/month for unlimited calls while connected to the femtocell. That seems real
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by wooster 17y ago
Forgive me if I'm skeptical of someone whose account was created 17 minutes ago and has only made 1 comment.
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by wooster 17y ago
It was going to open 9 popups for something kind of cool, like the rest of the site.
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by wooster 17y ago
There have been fairly cogent cases made elsewhere that having too many young unmarried men in a society is a setup for international aggression. For example: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38... Hudson and
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by wooster 17y ago
"high taxes on the land you're using" Lines (power, telegraph, gas, etc) are generally run on easements purchased from the underlying landowner. Right-of-ways and property for railroads were often government-granted, so it was easier to neg
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by wooster 17y ago
What other inputs? Sunlight and water? Grass is an efficient way of harvesting solar energy. If you're talking about a growth cycle which doesn't involve animal fertilizer inputs, you've got to have a huge external energy source involved to

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