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Clicking for gold: How Internet companies profit from data on the web(economist.com)
5 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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New rules for big data: Regulators are having to rethink their brief(economist.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent(reason.com)
3 points by yan 17y ago|1 comments
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by yan 17y ago
Noticed my 'go to label' shortcut got updated. I like the new interface much more than what it used to be, but am not a fan of the scroll area jumping around. The 'gl' (go label) shortcut used to display an auto-complete text box in the cen
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Mark Twain on Risk Analysis(schneier.com)
38 points by yan 17y ago|6 comments
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by yan 17y ago
This is exactly why I prefer authoring documents in LaTeX vs WYSIWYG tools: I can concentrate on semantics and not worry about representation. Writing stuff in Word forces you to be distracted by its appearance on the page and can drive me
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Feds Can Search, Seize P2P Files Without Warrant(wired.com)
3 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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Making a bit of me: A machine that prints organs is coming to market(economist.com)
3 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
> I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. > Gmail is where my obsession with email started as an engineering intern back in 2004... That must feel great.
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by yan 17y ago
Sure, this seems like it can be useful, if implemented well. Implementation is almost always far more important than the idea.
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Two Kinds of Status(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
The parent link is to a data visualization blog entry, actual product page: http://www.solidsourceit.com/products/SolidSX-source-code-de...
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'SolidSX is an application that gives insight in large software systems'(visualcomplexity.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|1 comments
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It is assumed that people turn to a life of crime for the money ..(twitter.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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Praise Polymaths(overcomingbias.com)
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by yan 17y ago
A lot of books that are out of copyright are available online for free in open formats that are readable on the Kindle. Project Gutenberg is full of classics that you can (and I do) read on the Kindle.
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by yan 17y ago
I once asked a friend of mine in uni if it was hard to write a program that generates audio from image files after listening to aphex twin.. Later that day he had this completed: http://134.74.16.64/wwwa/web/hardware/soundmural/ edit: sin
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by yan 17y ago
Their C++ is amazing though. Exceptionally clean and well-designed.
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LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts(blog.llvm.org)
138 points by yan 17y ago|44 comments
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Security and Function Creep(schneier.com)
6 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
I don't know off hand how to do it using a vim selection, but you can use screen selections. ^a, [, then navigation keys and space to select, ^a, ] to paste.
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Medical journal retracts study linking autism to vaccine(cnn.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
For those interested about RAM timings, effects of cache, and other low level memory topics explained exceptionally well, check out "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory"[1] [1] http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
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Finding the cause of performance issues in your [Cocoa] programs(cocoawithlove.com)
2 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
In Perl, just like English, this poem parses but makes no sense. :P
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by yan 17y ago
I specifically made zero comments on freenode's policy. My comment was specifically about Bram's demeanor and his interactions with the admin. I realize that he's good at what he does and contributed a lot, but it's like seeing someone bein
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by yan 17y ago
To be fair, friend lists aren't considered very private on facebook.
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by yan 17y ago
"<bramm> and I hope you realize that you just completely pissed off one of the most well known and respected people in the whole open source community" Funny thing about respect, is it takes a while to build up and can be lost in a
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by yan 17y ago
a) this is all extremely speculative and not really based in reality b) this assumes that R&D, software/hardware development and pretty much everything else that goes into making a product is free.
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by yan 17y ago
> All she knows is, "Wouldn't it be cool if my iPad had ... ?" or "Wow, I wish I could ... " And the tool she has not only gives her no ability to explore those possibilities, it looks like it's designed to actively impede her from expl

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