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You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome(nytimes.com)
11 points by A_A 14y ago|0 comments
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by A_A 14y ago
I have to say, this is one sad day for American culture. These guys, Click and Clack the Tappet brothers, were a constant presence for some 25 odd years. Always entertaining, sometimes insulting, and nearly always humorous. I loved their ta
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Car Talk guys are retiring...(npr.org)
2 points by A_A 14y ago|2 comments
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by A_A 14y ago
That's right. the Beer game is one of the first things taught in Operations Management in most b-schools, as an example of Supply Chain Management. [I was fortunate to have been introduced to the subject by John Sterman] In general, delays
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Nitrozac: When Creepy Apps Get Creepy(allthingsd.com)
3 points by A_A 14y ago|0 comments
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by A_A 14y ago
Has anyone used TrueCrypt for full-disk encryption on Mac, or MacBook Air (SSD)? Any experiences to share? Anything positive/negative /etc? Would appreciate comments, esp on compatibility with non-Mac devices. Thanks!
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by A_A 14y ago
this looks sweet. Thanks. I had been manually downloading the vids on my PC, but I hope this tool will now reduce the pain.
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by A_A 14y ago
Hats off to Jessamyn Smith. Great way to respond to sexist stuff.
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by A_A 15y ago
Thanks! I'm getting the book for myself, as well as for my young nephews/nieces who I'd like to introduce to CS.
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Red wine research may have been falsified(boingboing.net)
2 points by A_A 15y ago|1 comments
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Apple Wins ITC Ruling of Narrow Patent Over HTC Android (fosspatents.blogspot.com)
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by A_A 15y ago
Thanks for setting this up. This looks good. I think I'll be there.
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"What Is Steve Jobs Up To?" (1997)(businessweek.com)
2 points by A_A 15y ago|1 comments
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Larry Lessig on How We Lost Our Democracy(rollingstone.com)
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My Favorite Mistake: Dyson on his mistakes while re-inventing vacuum cleaner(newsweek.com)
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by A_A 16y ago
I'm surprised there aren't any listings for Marcus du Sautoy. "The Num8er My5teries", "The Music of the Primes" - are delightful. Also, "Fermat's Enigma" by Simon Singh is riveting. My other recent favorite: "Incompleteness: The Proof and P
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"Understanding Current Causes of Women's Under-representation in Science"(pnas.org)
3 points by A_A 16y ago|2 comments
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"Low Orbit Ion Cannon" - WikiLeaks supporters milk Twitter API in DDoS attacks(theregister.co.uk)
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by A_A 16y ago
If you can allow people to simlpy browse the website without logging in, that would be the first great step. Thanks.
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Using the Canon Hack Dev. Kit -- Enables Cameras to Perform Neat Tricks(spectrum.ieee.org)
14 points by A_A 16y ago|5 comments
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by A_A 16y ago
Some of my favorite "wrong" or erroneous 'beliefs' (apart from the Flat Earth, and geo-centric beliefs) -- Luminiferous ether: that light propagates via the "ether" medium -- "Bad air" theory of infectious diseases (which is still held in m
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by A_A 16y ago
Indeed. What struck me as I was ogling at the Macbook Air 11" in an Apple store in my neighborhood was how Steve Jobs still holds true to his artist vision of a beautiful product - one that is both externally (visually, viscerally) and int
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by A_A 16y ago
Consider the innovations at that time (c 1988/89) "It sports the first commercially available erasable optical drive and advanced VLSI (very-large-scale integration) technology, and it comes with a built-in digital signal processor. On the
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"Steve Jobs' New Machine for the '90s: the NeXT Computer" (BYTE magazine)(simson.net)
45 points by A_A 16y ago|35 comments
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Why I Wrote "The No Asshole Rule" - Bob Sutton(blogs.hbr.org)
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