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by xirium 19y ago
> I do not want to throw excessive cash at something that possibly could not have a chance of bringing money back. You may need to invest significantly more than that. You may need to throw your career at the project.
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by xirium 19y ago
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdownforeveryo...
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BT Phorm Advert Trial "Illegal"(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by xirium 19y ago
What was the total number of submissions?
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: It's not a company, it's a cult, and frankly I can appreciate that because we're a cult too Satirising two large companies so comprehensively in one sentence is brilliant.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Batching An acquiantance planned to start a business making kites. He planned to use an idustrial glue and designs which required gluing on both sides. He devised a technique where he could batch 10 kites in the time it wo
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Every Major Web Company Started Locally(okdork.com)
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Can P2P search scale? P2P search request bandwidth can be huge and this creates an emergent property in many P2P protocols that clients split into highly connected shards during periods of high load. This can happen dynami
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Even the 3ds Max 9 and POV-Ray rendering tests seem slower in 64-bit mode. Rendering using many instances of many data structures. This requires a large number of address pointers. When you move from a 32 bit environment t
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: that elusive space between laptops and smart phones Well, the laptops are getting smaller and the phones are getting bigger. It should be obvious that they'll meet in the middle.
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Living With Autism(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: I'd rather own 94% of a watermelon than 100% of a grape. That's a very good metaphor and a very good explanation of why you'd want funding.
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by xirium 19y ago
Another difference is that dating sites typically "borrow" the images of very hot young ladies. That's certainly a much greater level of deceptiveness.
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Hexadecimal Playing Cards(gandalf.user.xirium.com)
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by xirium 19y ago
Spam filter -> Elisa -> postmodern generator -> spammer distracted by unlimited number of fools errands. Genius.
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by xirium 19y ago
> every website that depends on community activity, starts as a ghost town, with fictional accounts Apparently, this is very common practice on dating websites.
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by xirium 19y ago
I can think of other explanations including April Fools Day, data corruption and a problematic upgrade which affected accounts and logins. Alteratively, given the essay What You Can't Say ( http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html ) and the rec
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by xirium 19y ago
Major urban areas, such as London, can be three degrees centigrade warmer than the surrounding region partly due to dark synthetic surfaces which absorb extra energy. Dark tarmac roads cover a significant proportion of urban areas and there
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by xirium 19y ago
From the comments: have you also considered that its 1st of April today and that this might be a joke? Its slightly harder to distinguish Apple related April Fools, partly because Apple was incorporated on Thu 1 Apr 1976.
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by xirium 19y ago
You may also enjoy http://www.limerickdb.com/?77 and http://www.limerickdb.com/?103
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by xirium 19y ago
Is this an April Fool? In either case, here's some suggested searches: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/chachacom-ge...
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by xirium 19y ago
Is this article on infoq.com plagiarised ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=145142 )?
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http://www.halfbakery.com/
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by xirium 19y ago
Spam!
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125816
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by xirium 19y ago
> "Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos" They may. They may not. Unlike smoking, it would be entirely foreseeable. > If everybody has a mobile phone, then it's impossible to limit the cause for their hea
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by xirium 19y ago
I've had four laptops: two Mac Powerbooks, one iBook, one IBM Thinkpad T43. The T43 was definitely the worst. With the T43, recovering from suspend was the most dicey and the build quality was junk. I hear the quality has declined since the
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by xirium 19y ago
You're asking the wrong question. Why do modern computers burn so much energy? 12 years ago, I was using an Amiga600 which came with a 15 Watt power supply. Nowadays, try finding a laptop that has a power supply less than 100 Watts. Further
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by xirium 19y ago
> They may just be probing you to see if you will lower your rate. That could be out of genuine ignorance. A friend referred potential clients who had purchased "a set of integrated scripts" for 200 pounds (approximately US$390) and "ju
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by xirium 19y ago
Given the way that Google is heading ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149894 ), you should have started at least six months ago. Regardless: 1. 10 years ago, at least 99% of web pages failed validation. Nowadays, the majority still f

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