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by aaronsw 14y ago
https://github.com/Aaronius/Stupid-Table-Plugin/commit/fbf3d... people.
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by aaronsw 14y ago
The details are here: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jon...
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by aaronsw 14y ago
The "What we are doing" section seems pretty weak. The only substantive thing they say is "we have produced new tools which enable us to more expediently relocate database services from a failed availability zone." How exactly are they plan
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by aaronsw 14y ago
The real solution is not to use broken NTP: http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
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Google Compute Engine - Getting Started Guide(developers.google.com)
10 points by aaronsw 14y ago|0 comments
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Hmm, looks like they're competing directly on price: 1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.055/hr (Google) 1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.08/hr (Amazon) Amazon is still much cheaper if you use reserved instances or spot p
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Shorter johnw: I heart Ayn Rand. In particular, I'm pretty sure Stallman (like most Americans) is in favor of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, so trying to persuade him that free software is a bad idea because it's like that see
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by aaronsw 14y ago
This is a pretty crummy article. If you read it carefully, you see: - a woman owns a shady company - she tries to get her friends to write five star reviews of her on Yelp - Yelp intentionally tries to filter out these reviews so the site i
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Presumably because fish hasn't been updated since 2009 and they expect their fork to become the new standard version. http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/beta.html "Welcome to our fork of the fish shell, a command line shell like bash. Its wo
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Actually, Polanski was arrested and released in Switzerland, not Sweden.
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by aaronsw 14y ago
"Swedish law requires a person to be physically present before charges can be laid, so this can only happen once Mr Assange is on Swedish territory." http://www.fairtrials.net/documents/Sweden_QA.pdf
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Did they also hack this to autopost to Facebook?
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by aaronsw 14y ago
And where are they supposed to get all the towers? That's a multi-year construction project and, if they try it, they'll alienate their existing carrier partners. Now maybe Apple thinks they can afford to do that, but it seems risky.
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by aaronsw 14y ago
This is much more likely to be about the VPPA, a law which Netflix believes makes it illegal to provide social features in the US: http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2012/01/netflix-to-testify-tue...
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Is there any reason to believe this h-index method of ranking is a good idea? Why not use PageRank?
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by aaronsw 14y ago
Google offices are apparently marked with surprisingly-unpixelated propellerheads. There's also some custom art for SF landmarks.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
Can we see this in real dollars? Hard to understand the actual trends the industry is facing in nominal dollars.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
The dishonesty of this statement is stunning. IE is designed to only accept the cookie if Google promises not to use it for tracking. Google wants to use the cookie for tracking so they provide a dishonesty promise and then explain they're
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How Amazon's KDP Select Saved My Book(wahoocorner.blogspot.com)
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by aaronsw 15y ago
And Rand has promised this before. But we need 41 to actually prevent a vote, since the Senate has already filed to override the filibuster.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
The actual audio piece doesn't mention SOPA/PIPA or pirates, best I could tell. It was about a cybersecurity data sharing bill and even gave the Tor Project the last word.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
Is anyone making a list of these? http://www.quora.com/What-other-easter-eggs-does-Google-sear...
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by aaronsw 15y ago
I think it's partly an artifact: due to a naming conflict, the git package in Debian used to be named "git-core" and was renamed "git" around then.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
I just discovered recently that Richard Hamming also has a book on this topic: http://www.amazon.com/D/dp/B000P2XFPA%3FSubscriptionId%3D14G...
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by aaronsw 15y ago
This is moronic. Cryptography is very hard and one tiny mistake can ruin everything. In that kind of situation, do you want to do something clever and new that you just thought up or do you want to go with what's been tried and tested by ma
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How many slaves do you have working for you?(slaveryfootprint.org)
11 points by aaronsw 15y ago|0 comments
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by aaronsw 15y ago
The original (one-page) version of this is here: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079799
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by aaronsw 15y ago
No, you can't -- the Supreme Court in 1991 ruled that even wholesale copying of a telephone book was legal, because you can't copyright facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
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by aaronsw 15y ago
One interesting possibility: Google planned to only use the patents defensively but the joint bid would have required them participating in offensive action, which they refuse to do.
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by aaronsw 15y ago
"I suppose some part of me assumed that by 2020+ machines would be making most of what I use, but when I look at the scale of jobless people as a result of it, it really makes me scratch my head to figure out where we fit in the future." Th

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