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by yungchin 16y ago
That's an interesting parallel. Are you shouting "bubble!" then?
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by yungchin 16y ago
Exactly - it sounds like he might have stumbled into the wrong lab. Like you, my experience has been very different, but I've certainly heard stories like his from house mates. It seems we were lucky. The other thing that occurred to me whe
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A new spot market makes cloud computing a commodity(economist.com)
29 points by yungchin 16y ago|12 comments
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Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical(networkworld.com)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
Their margins are so thin because in reality they all compete with The Pirate Bay. It's only when you take that competition into account that the 30% starts to sound unreasonable.
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Nokia and Microsoft: good for Finland, risky for Redmond(arstechnica.com)
4 points by yungchin 16y ago|1 comments
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8.5W Core i3-based desktop computer(ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net)
3 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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Measuring password re-use empirically(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
3 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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"99.95% of daily listeners at Magnatune are listening for free"(blogs.magnatune.com)
2 points by yungchin 16y ago|1 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
I suppose the Netherlands have double-taxation agreements with many places in the world, see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Double_taxati...
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How does Weave use Cryptography?(kix.in)
5 points by yungchin 16y ago|1 comments
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2010: The Numbers We Saw(blog.opendns.com)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
What are you trying to say? That there are things that we know are not carcinogenic, such as wifi signals, and therefore, nothing is?? I think it was a perfectly valid comment: we really don't understand biological interactions at nanostruc
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Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms(unhosted.org)
82 points by yungchin 16y ago|46 comments
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Try Ubuntu 10.10 Server in Amazon EC2, entirely on our dime(10.cloud.ubuntu.com)
125 points by yungchin 16y ago|29 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
The article seems to be a re-hash of a Linux Journal blog post from February 2009: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-hijack-eu-open-sourc... - just the introduction was added. (to be fair, the blog owner hints to this, crediting Gly
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Try Ubuntu Server in the Cloud on our Dime(blog.dustinkirkland.com)
3 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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The end of software ownership(techliberation.com)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
Yes, the hardware isn't very old at three years, but one year without security patches is a pretty long time, considering that most people rely on their router for DNS-caching and such.
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by yungchin 16y ago
This guy lists some good starting points: http://cptl.org/wp/index.php/2010/03/30/tuning-solid-state-d...
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ARM Aims at Intel, Cortex A15 Headed for Smartphones, Notebooks and Servers(anandtech.com)
5 points by yungchin 16y ago|3 comments
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Are you watching the banners? At least the banners are watching you(crisp.tweakblogs.net)
2 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
To be fair, note you're (accidentally) pulling up a subtle strawman: the original quote said "amount of labour", not "hours".
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I spent 29 years in solitary confinement | Robert King(guardian.co.uk)
42 points by yungchin 16y ago|5 comments
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by yungchin 16y ago
Hi, thanks. I completely agree, if you have been given more responsibilities, that should (in theory) imply that you're good at what you do and so your hours are worth more than the average (I didn't just think of performance, but value in
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by yungchin 16y ago
> we'd see some people making 10, 25, 50 times as much Ha, I hadn't thought about this aspect at all, thanks. But would you necessarily need to assume the pay should be directly proportional to performance? Perhaps earning double as muc
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by yungchin 16y ago
> ompeting neck & neck with people twenty years younger willing to work 60+ hours a week for half your salary My probably naive question is, how come you earn twice as much in the first place? Shouldn't salaries reflect the value yo
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by yungchin 16y ago
Wow, that's pretty cool, I didn't know any of that. From the wikipedia link, it seems this should still be consistent with lotusleaf's suggestion: the avian sex chromosomes are thought to be related to the autosomal chromosome 9 in mammals
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by yungchin 16y ago
I don't get it either, looks like more than one person misread your comments[1]. Here's a nice and brief starting point with some citations for further reading: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/E101.full [1] and in any case, I think dow
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by yungchin 16y ago
It's not a mistake: the development deb for Chrome did exactly this - installed the repository key and a cron job to "protect" the apt-sources entry. Of course it's not really doing this secretly, in that you can read about it in the post-i

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