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by additive 14y ago
Is it faster than pdftohtml?
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by additive 14y ago
It's amusing to see Bill Gates upset about college students not learning much and many not finishing. He's a billionaire. But he's also a dropout. And now he's reading self-help books. I'd like to see Bill Gates go back to school and ear
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by additive 14y ago
Yeah, I knew that. I didn't mean to imply it was a separate entity for doing basic research. What I meant was the fact they closed it seemed to suggest that the idea of research for its own sake is not really somethng Google is interested
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by additive 14y ago
From the indictment: JSTOR is a not-for-profit (=no tax liability?). JSTOR charges universities annual subscription fees as high as $50,000. Are we told anywhere what JSTOR's actual costs are for scanning documents and serving PDF's? Yes.
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by additive 14y ago
Good points. But... why did Google kill Google Labs? Why not have a separate entity for basic research, like Bell Labs? There is no shortage of funding. I do see a major difference between selling ads to advertisers (and organising the w
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by additive 14y ago
Hypothesis: Limbo --> Alef --> Go? Is this wrong?
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by additive 14y ago
I'm pretty confident all the data in PACER will be made public at no cost at some point in time. I think the $.08/page charge is supposed to cover the administrative costs (like paying for photocopies) but the PACER program actually runs a
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by additive 14y ago
Thanks for this. I was just curious. "Abusing trust" is exactly the type of thought I had when I first read about this case. It sounded to me like MIT is very generous with letting people use the computer labs and he really took these pr
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by additive 14y ago
This is one of my favourites. So many nuggets in there. A very nice interview. Programmers like Thompson are the only thing that keeps me interested in computers. It's really sad that the loudest voices in computing are no longer thinker
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by additive 14y ago
While I do not disagree, one point I would like to add regarding the notion of "breaking into a computer closet, etc.". Someone, a Harvard student, recently posted to HN a "love letter" to MIT. The letter went into detail about how libera