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by ascott 15y ago
About a year ago, I did a project for de-duping customer entered contact info. We had less than 100k records for any particular region (Bay Area, New York, etc.) From what I recall, we were able to confirm identity in about 80% of cases usi
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by ascott 15y ago
I have had a car here in SF for the last few years, and only use it to go shopping, or get out of town. Last month I picked up a little motorbike - it is super convenient in the city. Parking everywhere, and for the most part, motorists are
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by ascott 15y ago
There has been some excellent feedback on this topic already. I just want to point out a distinction that has been glossed over - OSX laptop users have a very different scrolling experience than Windows users (laptops or desktop). The two f
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by ascott 15y ago
This doesn't surprise me, I live in San Francisco, and my neighborhood has only one option for internet connectivity: comcast cable. Well, that or tethering via my cell phone.
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by ascott 15y ago
I think he's alluding to mining bitcoins with electricity (cpu / gpu farms). The energy companies certainly haven't come out behind.
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by ascott 15y ago
For me, this further confirms the value of usability and design. Facebook did a better job, and so people used their service. I can't help but draw a parallel with what is currently happening in the tablet market. There was a quote posted o
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by ascott 15y ago
This is great, I love browsing the articles through the terminal.
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by ascott 15y ago
Gak! Thank you so much, I downloaded and installed their software this morning. I've deleted it and changed my skype password, I hope that's enough. Version 2.8 can be found on Skype's website (Techcrunch linked to it in a recent article):
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by ascott 16y ago
There was a study of the town Roseto, Pennsylvania in the 1950s that may explain why this is the case. They ate a traditional american diet, exercised the same amount as other americans, etc. But they had almost no heart disease, which was
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by ascott 16y ago
I disagree with the author, and think that he hasn't used google image search very extensively. "Instead of the single page of thumbnails, you get over 20 pages of large thumbnails all on the same huge page." The (near) endless scrolling mo
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by ascott 16y ago
What about all the people who shoot in jpeg instead of RAW? Also the camera manufacturers who don't enable RAW on their cameras, they are stealing our data! Revolt!</sarcasm> I was a professional photographer before becoming a progr
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by ascott 16y ago
Interesting perspective, customization and optimization is fun. On that note there are a few UI customization programs that I find useful on OSX: nocturne - invert or dim the screen, helps your eyes stay relaxed in different lighting situat
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by ascott 16y ago
I wouldn't mind seeing single sentence google adwords in the comment sections, perhaps 1 for every 30 comments. Bonus points if they got worked into the pun threads.