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Very Specific Generics(thedailywtf.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
I assume this will be a helium-filled airship.
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How I Grow My Blog(20bits.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Can you do handwriting recognition with this pen?
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by xirium 18y ago
I considered this possibility but a casino which is too open to bots could become marginalised. Real players would be scalped too easily and bot writers would be playing a zero-sum game. Both factors would reduce casino turnover and profit.
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Extending Your Wireless Network With Better Antennas(codinghorror.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
> A Laptop and Cell Phone (even the iPhone) are complementary. Not for much longer. Have you noticed that the most capable phones are getting larger and the least capable laptops are getting smaller. And both are available with Windows,
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by xirium 18y ago
The lack of touchscreen interoperability will be a major limitation which will encourage open source adoption. Unfortunately, current client trends are counter to Microsoft's strategy. Firstly, people are buying laptops rather than desktops
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Internationalization: What's Wrong With Turkey?(codinghorror.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
A more active discussion of this topic is available by accessing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178748
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181392
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by xirium 18y ago
> Glue has been noticed by a few commentators (e.g., TechCrunch), who mostly see it as response to Google's Universal Search (or Ask's search interface). I'm glad that someone else has noted that Google intends to copy Ask. If you want
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by xirium 18y ago
There's about 186,000 posts and about 7,000 non-lurking users. So, Google is incomplete and Yahoo is doing something odd. Alternatively, both figures maybe the result of approximate counting artifacts and both could have complete and curren
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by xirium 18y ago
Its not the worst source of funding suggested on this forum. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132400
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The Ultimate Unit Test Failure(codinghorror.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Nice. Could you also do a Hacker News only search?
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by xirium 18y ago
There's also a command line search and web service which searches only Hacker News. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184707 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182374 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183706 There's also www.
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Selectively Ignoring Reset Packets From Your ISP(nnsquad.org)
13 points by xirium 18y ago|6 comments
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Steve Mann, The Original Cyborg(codinghorror.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
> none of the online poker sites have really stepped up to the plate and either a) made bots legal (similar to the way that they're legal on Internet Chess Club) or b) put effective prevention measures in place. That's a tough choice fo
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by xirium 18y ago
You may want to take into account differences in file timestamps because the data was collated over many days.
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What's in a Project Name?(codinghorror.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
For a site search, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184707
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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184707 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182374 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183706 for command line search and current data.
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by xirium 18y ago
Spam.
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by xirium 18y ago
> generating post modernism essays in response to spam emails See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152478
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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95288 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152019
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Y Combinator Command Line Search Utility Version 1.2 Released
4 points by xirium 18y ago|3 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
From the newspaper London Lite on Tue 6 May 2008: "All you have to do is say yes or no to things. It's easy." -- Singer, Joss Stone, 21, has a simple trick when it comes to managing her own career.
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by xirium 18y ago
Scraping in Perl. That's to follow in the next day or so.

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