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by ama729 11y ago
> Huberty said that Apple's online services are underappreciated by investors because they accounted for less than 6 percent of the company's revenue over the last 12 months. http://appleinsider.com/articles&#x2
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by ama729 11y ago
Most users would prefer if there would be no ads at all. I don't think putting ads in Firefox will reduce ads on websites.
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by ama729 11y ago
From your first link: > This is still one of our early steps towards our goal of improving the state of digital advertising for the Web – delivering greater transparency for advertisers, better, more relevant content experiences and, abo
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by ama729 11y ago
In 2012 they had a surplus of more than $100,000,000 though... And still, $30,000,000 for administrative cost? $45,000,000 for marketing? (never saw any ads for firefox, did you? I have no idea what they spent so much money on)
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by ama729 11y ago
> But that's not good either? Indeed, it's not a binary decision, there are other ways than just sell you user's data. For starter, Google (and now Yahoo) were giving hundreds of millions every year. What did Mozilla do wi
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by ama729 11y ago
Who in their right mind would push such a thing? How can they think it'll will win them any user? I have no words.
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by ama729 12y ago
Speaking about pizza, does anybody has the perfect recipe for the pie/whole pizza? I saw once here from a obsessed chef but can't remember the link. Thanks!
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by ama729 12y ago
You forget that mandatory voting also mean that minorities and other "difficult" groups also don't have to make excuses as to why they are voting and also that everything is done to make them votes (since it's mandatory)
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by ama729 12y ago
In Vimperator you can do this: :set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs (it will remove tabs and the navigation menu)
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by ama729 12y ago
APNG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apng ) is the answer, but Chrome doesn't support natively.
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by ama729 12y ago
Except an Incredible Journey is not a normal shut down, it's the shutdown of a company, because the buyer took the thing it was interested in and then ran away. So in your case, it should rather read: "After 43 years in business
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by ama729 12y ago
From Predictive Edge website: Many thanks to you all for your feedback & support, and here's to a new chapter! From Our Incredible Journey ( http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ ): An incredible jou
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by ama729 12y ago
Because for all the tech progression in the last 20 years, a javascript heavy page is still really slow to load and use if you have more than a few tabs open.
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by ama729 12y ago
> Of course, when a 9-figure exit happens to someone who can't code as good as you and didn't go to as good a school as you–then it was most definitely luck. Or maybe s/he had a better idea than you had? Doesn't look
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by ama729 12y ago
I have to say, this[1] looks downright impressive. Congrats everyone! Edit: To add a bit more to the conversation, does the change from Canonical to Blue Systems[2] changed much to the development of Kubuntu/KDE? [1] https:/&#x2F
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by ama729 12y ago
> If you check out these hyperrealists (they don't say photo 'cause that's a bad word) you can sometimes catch them with a laptop, image on it squared off, sometimes even zoomed in. How is that different from a painter loo
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by ama729 12y ago
> Paying to other European countries isn't great via the banks How so? With SEPA[1] it's both easy (European wide bank account number) and free (might not be the case if both accounts use different currencies though, but in eur
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by ama729 12y ago
> Is Hurd useful as anything other than a research project? Bear in mind that a research project can be interesting in its own right, not everything has to be about large scale use. Now if HURD is an interesting research, that's an
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The Kozmo Trap(hive.slate.com)
2 points by ama729 12y ago|0 comments
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The Never-Ending Hype Cycle(slate.com)
1 points by ama729 12y ago|0 comments
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by ama729 12y ago
> (Most prominent: not to limit the future chances of the children). Did they specify a reason? There is quite a lot of good schools there IIRC.
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by ama729 12y ago
Because we tried to look for them? I bought a gift card for my ipad and I have no idea how to spend it. Most games on it are bad (I'm tempted to say all of them, but I liked The Room). Same thing for PC indie games (which is why Jeff
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by ama729 12y ago
Notes taking, GPS, music, to-do lists, calls(!), etc. To me it's especially the "don't make sense without the cloud" bit that I find egregious.
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by ama729 12y ago
> I'm as big a believer in the transformational power of cloud computing > as anyone you'll meet. Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and > retrieving data, don't make sense without the cloud, and any
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The Wizard of Minecraft(rollingstone.com)
1 points by ama729 12y ago|0 comments
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by ama729 12y ago
> humans recognise winning and losing positions rather than playing a much longer (perhaps infinite) prove-out game. If true, does it mean a computer (or an Human) could win by just not conceding?
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by ama729 12y ago
Cro-magnon specifically refer to early human living in Europe, seems fair to make the comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon
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by ama729 12y ago
> We still haven't reached the average height we were 40000 years ago[1] Yes we do, there are a number of countries where the average height is close to 183 cm (average in your article, though there are no citations given for that f
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by ama729 12y ago
Considering most of the world use a left to right latin script, I don't see how arabic would spread more effectively than English.
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by ama729 12y ago
Well, at least recycling is still widely practiced by journalists. Every time there is an article about planned obsolescence, we hear about how old appliances lasted forever and how it was better before, yet there is never any actual statis

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