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by akldfgj 14y ago
Nice PR hit for Goog! > Employees at Google, for instance, are offered the chance to nap at work because the company believes it may increase productivity. What percentage of employee-days at Google actually involve a nap? 1%? 0.01%? Is
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by akldfgj 14y ago
not entirely randomly, but processing stuff that's been "on your mind" and not packed away in long-term memory. I imagine it (non-scientifically) as the brain's trash compactor, finishing up all the half-completed thoughts of your day, not
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Contactually has a creepy mannequin, though.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
I'm fairly certain that Shuttleworth is coming to realize he'll never recoup his investment in Canonical, and his goal is to drive Ubuntu into the ground so he can close up shop and stop hemorrhaging funds.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
You credibly describe the flaws of the prison system, but you don't offer any alternatives. Frankly, given the choice of a rock and a hard place, it is better to have a criminal in jail half his life and terrorizing society half his life, t
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by akldfgj 14y ago
To quote the patron saint of Hacker News, patio11: If you don't like it, maybe you aren't in their target market. Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browsers buddy, or sally forth into the unknown. OK, pardner?"
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Ctrl-Shift-C in Chrome, or Ctrl-Shift-J in Firefox, will give you a programmable computing environment more powerful and expressive than a 20-year old Atari, Commodore, or Apple.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Those are different. Phishes strive for perfection, because they win as soon as you log in to the fake site. These "long con" 419 scams need to rebuff intelligent/savvy people and only attract rubes.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
I get that deployment is easier when it is vendor hosted, but this really should be a local app using local storage, withe maybe transient server-side storage for syncing between machiens.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989803 "Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online" May 2012
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by akldfgj 14y ago
What's not their ambition? http://cloud.google.com/products /compute-engine.html /cloud-storage.html /big-query.html /more-products.html
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by akldfgj 14y ago
It is ACID. It is a DBMS. It's not a Relational DBMS.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
In order to keep it to what purpose? To make money .
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Wow, so the trains don't run on time, so they make the time run on the trains?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
How does Google get satellite view data without suppliers?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
With strechy jersey sheets with deep sides, it doesn't matter if you apply them 90-degrees rotate.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Why is it obvious that memory foam is cheaper per cubic inch than a spring assembly?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
`man bash` , search for "<<" see the "Here Strings" section. You can also search https://www.google.com/search?q=bash and follow links to "Documentation" xargs echo <<EOL > line 1 > line 2 &#6
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Aha! In zsh "=(cmd)" does that, but "=" doesn't work in bash. "<(cmd)" works everywhere... why did zsh trick me with "="?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
S/he could ask him at 10:15 each morning while he eats a snack, like any executive assistant does.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Which browser is the shining beacon of light for HTML5?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Eh, seems plausible that Jamie got >$150 worth of return for his advertising spend on the survey. I'm sorry, did you think that there was science happening in the HN self-promotional echo chamber?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
What does fault have to do with self-reliance? Fault is in the past, solving problems is in the future.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Gold mine. Under CAN-SPAM, spam is worth $500 per message, if you can identify the sender.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
Does that mail get labelled Inbox, or Spam, when it is first delivered?
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by akldfgj 14y ago
This is in fact the intent of Gmail's spam button design. Gmail's definition of spam isn't tailored to Federal law, it's "whatever messages our users are likely to mark as spam"
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by akldfgj 14y ago
It's only easier if the recipient is web browsing, and wants to risk getting cookies and malware from a known-malicious entity...
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by akldfgj 14y ago
They didn't stop.
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by akldfgj 14y ago
This is not Gmail's designed or advertised behavior. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... Either you or your friend is misspelling their address (more common than you might think, I get opt-in mailing-list mail

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