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811.
by xirium 19y ago
I am steadfastly in GMT. Wherever I go, my watch, phone and laptop remain in GMT. Even in the summer, in the UK, which goes to GMT+1, I stay in GMT. What hours am I awake? Whatever hours are the most productive. If I have admin tasks then I
812.
by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "Trying to drown it in free lattes. Which I will miss." I miss the huge amount of free tea that I drunk in my last job. I'm sure that the caffeine boost paid for itself.
813.
Airline To Close Website For Three Days(utalkmarketing.com)
3 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
814.
by xirium 19y ago
Don't trust the client. Nowadays, it also applies to Caller ID.
815.
by xirium 19y ago
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization
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by xirium 19y ago
The discussion on the Network Neutrality mailing list suggest that encrypted file sharing would become commonplace if ISPs inspected packets for copyrighted content. This is a case of the music and film industries demanding that something b
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Bored With Cup Stacking? Try Speedcabling(news.bbc.co.uk)
4 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
818.
by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113846
819.
by xirium 19y ago
The book Freakonomics has similar sentiments about charismatic politicians and has supporting evidence.
820.
by xirium 19y ago
The RenderJuice virtual render farm ( http://www.cambrianhouse.com/idea/idea-promoter/ideas-id/VlD... ) is a very good idea. I was discussing this scenario a few days ago and the current barrier is the rendering software. Open source rende
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by xirium 19y ago
That's really clever. If each disk sector has an inode and offset label then fsck becomes trivial. Why isn't it common? Because sector payload is no longer 2^n bytes. Any arrangement of labelling will increase disk head seek operations. Lab
822.
by xirium 19y ago
This technique is becoming increasingly common with the decreasing cost of digital film cameras. Expect a large jump in the popularity of this technique after the release of the next Wachowski siblings film, Speed Racer ( http://www.imdb.c
823.
by xirium 19y ago
I've seen one of these websites in the media. It must be a PR hit because there is nothing new about storing recipes on a computer. It was a common vision of the future since the 1970s to have a computer in the kitchen which would retreive
824.
by xirium 19y ago
Likewise, if Ballmer steadily sold Microsoft shares then they'd be worth almost nothing by the time he finished. 1 million * $1 share != $1 million
825.
by xirium 19y ago
You don't have to be top to be profitable but there are disproportionate rewards from being top.
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by xirium 19y ago
A variation of this has been proposed before. However, it wasn't an auction. The idea was that people could include a micro-payment with their message. If their payment is below your threshold then the message would be bounced. If the payme
827.
by xirium 19y ago
If you make the default public then it would be awkward to take it private. If you make the default private then you either keep it private or you risk looking like idiots and being downmodded.
828.
by xirium 19y ago
Oops. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_M... ).
829.
by xirium 19y ago
Allow the recipient to choose. The default would be private.
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Complete List Of Microsoft Acquisitions(microsoft.com)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|2 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
About six years ago, I worked in a company where the standard desktop setup was Opera on FreeBSD. At the time, Opera's default user agent string was a contemporary version of Internet Explorer. Furthermore, Opera hadn't released a binary fo
832.
by xirium 19y ago
From the article "I know that Firefox still has my comment in memory somewhere. All I have to do is figure out how to get it." cat /proc/foo | strings | grep
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by xirium 19y ago
Having two years of experience in an application or standard is a bad practice propagated by recruitment specialists. It takes a good programmer to spot a lesser programmer. (There are plenty of cases where lesser programmers look equally g
834.
by xirium 19y ago
Google considered fusion ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606&... ).
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by xirium 19y ago
Don't bother obsfucating. A good programmer could make equivalent functionality without seeing a line of code. As an example, if you're familiar with a spreadsheet application then you can code the core functionality without reference to th
836.
by xirium 19y ago
I can see the benefit of Comet in this case but I don't see the benefit of Flash. Please could you explain.
837.
by xirium 19y ago
Hot pocket ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hot%20pocket )? I wasn't famaliar with this phrase. Perhaps, I shouldn't have consulted the Urban Dictionary.
838.
FlixWagon Allows Realtime Broadcast From Mobile Telephone(flixwagon.com)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
839.
by xirium 19y ago
That's almost 25%! ( http://www.bash.org/?2999 )
840.
by xirium 19y ago
From the article "One person (the presenter) is presenting information to other people (the audience). The flow of information is one way, from the presenter to the audience. Because the flow of information is one way, the presenter can and

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