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   by zandorg 17y ago

   When is it cheaper to 'sneaker send into space' on a DVD, than transferring bits?
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   Go to Scroogle and click HTTPS... https://ssl.scroogle.org Problem solved!
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   Not really on topic, but this is a great D&D website.
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   It's not like that. It's just a store where if you get lucky, you get it for a dollar, but it could take months to get lucky. A dollar store is not a gamble, other than gambling the item you bought is worth slightly more than in another s
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   1 part genius, 1 part insanity? As for the parent post, people will get sick of it after spending $12,000 to win an iMac - weeks after signing up. If the house is so greedy to take 12,000, they can't expect this to happen forever. Casinos p
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   Another YC acquisition! Drool!
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   I imagine you could just trace over an existing picture then type X's over the tracing paper, with a typewriter.
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   Thanks, that's really helpful!
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   There used to be a 'Page Info' option on Netscape Communicator which basically told you the timestamp of the HTML/image file. That's not in Mozilla or any other browser I've used (Firefox, Opera, Chrome). I have to load up Communicator when
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    AKA (also known as) Ron Garret.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I had an email saying a Zynga user with my email address had withdrawn money from a Mastercard (which wasn't mine - nor do I own a Mastercard). Emailed Zynga to tell them about this odd semi-fraudulent activity, and they couldn't give a tos
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    A recent re-appraisal based on the idea that loads of journalists were bitching too much about it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/dubai-world-dese...
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Reddit is out? Heh - don't you mean redis?
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Nope! I know Andrew though. Overall, I hardly got any public credit from Ted for my work, but never mind, that's not why I did it, and he has to prioritize who to credit when everyone chips in a little.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I worked with Ted for a few years on and off on Zigzag. He's hard to work with, but the rewards (like free dinners in restaurants, free candy, priceless signed copies of all his books, and high table dinners at Oxford), make up for the 'dif
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Skeptical, I tried 'Crumar Bit 1' and it found the manual for my synth. I already have it stored locally, but this is very impressive and will come in useful for future synths/devices.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    No comments for now, but I'd suggest SSL (https) encryption which should be fairly simple to implement.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    What a mess!
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Very impressive! I once had the ability to find infinite lives, and other cheats, in Commodore 64 games using just the Action Replay cartridge's machine code monitor. I'm not as hot at it as I used to be, though. One important function is t
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I think some people see the Nobel as "Awards for great things", but really it hasn't caught up with the times. Politics is also involved. So it's "Awards for whoever they THINK has done great things" - also bound by categories which don't e
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Some time ago, someone posted to HN a service that could basically find images based on an input image. It worked very well, so it could be that.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I think it's better to take into account a book's longevity. If it is a classic in print 50 years and sells steadily, it could outsell a book in the NYT bestseller list, which might only sell that big for a year or even less.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    But if you had 84 million inhabited planets, with 10 tweets a day, it would only take 10 years (correct me if my math is wrong).
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Yes, now you mention it, the Suns at my University worked that way.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Well thank goodness someone agrees with me. I just hope the Googlers reading this get the idea. And as someone said, a mousewheel is the solution - hopefully temporarily.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I was rambling on about this in 2001. You use Gnutella to search the 'transient web', which is just a bunch of home webservers serving up people's pages. Gnutella would link them all together and perform searches, as it does for MP3s now. N
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Coining the term 'Google mafia'?
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Are they being sold on Ebay?
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    To be honest, all I can think of is weighing them, but they could be filled with lead! So I guess I haven't thought it through... However, the Ebay seller feedback count should be of some use. They could only sell a duff coin once (maybe tw
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    My general impression is that Microsoft don't want to make a PC app store, because they'd rather let a 1000 flowers bloom and for the software developers to market them freely. Also known as 'commoditised' shareware where different apps com