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by astar 13y ago
The upgrading process seems easy Just have to send your IP address, root user name, password, and license key through a form...and you can do it through the fast http scheme rather than the slow https.
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Complaining Is Hard to Avoid, but Try to Do It With a Purpose (nytimes.com)
1 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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by astar 13y ago
Hmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s... Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so parsing this correctly isn't totally easy. And don'
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Internet Sales Tax Coming Too Late for Some Stores (nytimes.com)
6 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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The Most Dangerous Jobs in America (slate.com)
1 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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by astar 13y ago
Facial recognition is still treated like some magical technology, like the "zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows. I bet Facebook's technology is ahead of law enforcement's in terms of data, algorithm, and refinement
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by astar 13y ago
"This whole time, I worked on the platform source code. I feature-creeped for at least 5 years. I didn't have much of a portfolio to show for it either. " Congrats on persevering for that long but I almost think this is a case example of th
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by astar 13y ago
I thought it was a play of "This next round's on me"...as in, Louis CK is himself responsible for his jokes -- or, in this case, the distribution of the jokes. I thought it was clever :)
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by astar 13y ago
Landing page fail: the only info you have is a video to show the product, and that video has a 30-second beer ad you ahve to watch before you can see the product video. Do you really need the ad money that bad that you'd kill the first impr
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Zombie Dead Blog: A collection of dead but online blogs(zombiedeadblog.com)
1 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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by astar 13y ago
Halo was a standout because of it brought multiplayer to console, wasn't it the first console game to have 16 players? The coop campaign was also really fun. Maybe the article-writer thinks that Halo made FPS too mainstream? Unlike Doom/Qua
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by astar 13y ago
From the article: Since the game’s release, in 2009, Minecraft has sold in excess of twenty million copies, earned armfuls of prestigious awards, and secured merchandising deals with LEGO and other toymakers. Last year, Persson earned over
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Applesoft BASIC in Javascript(calormen.com)
1 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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by astar 13y ago
"Replacing Email in the next two years is going to be the “it” category with everyone scrambling to capitalize on the zero inbox zealots." How big of a market are the "zero inbox zealots"?
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A flood of prank iMessage texts shows the app can be crashed easily (arstechnica.com)
2 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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by astar 13y ago
This senior is getting an early lesson of how far BS on a resume can go in the real world. I think this quote is funny: "I also probably should have started a fake charity. Providing veterinary services for homeless people's pets. Collectin
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by astar 13y ago
"Superfund" is synonymous with "toxic place" but I agree, the problem is that "Superfund" sounds a little too much like "super fun" and not enough like "uncontrolled hazardous waste site that needs federal funds to cleanup" http://www.epa.
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by astar 13y ago
Why does Facebook have to share this data to data aggregators? At some point, the creepy corporate use of FB data will scare people from using FB to the point that the bottom line is hurt. FB just has to shut off the firehose of data, if th
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by astar 13y ago
A list on Github (or anywhere else) is an inefficient format for this...why not a google spreadsheet that anyone can edit, so that you can sort by city, category, cost, etc?
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by astar 13y ago
Google glass is probably about as distracting as the various LED and console displays that already exist, including GPS ones
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Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many (nytimes.com)
4 points by astar 13y ago|0 comments
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by astar 14y ago
If this many Reader users converted in so short of time, then it is amazing that Google could't find a way to monetize the service or at least keep it revenue-neutral, or even have it be a useful loss-leader
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Bioluminescence: Light Is Much Better, Down Where It’s Wetter(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by astar 14y ago|0 comments
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by astar 14y ago
huh? The costs of running a server with even 20x the expected traffic for a few weeks is more than all the time and moey it took to develop the game? This does not pass the smell test at all
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by astar 14y ago
FTA: "We also had one unfortunate incident where a student started saying disparaging things about transgendered people at the same table where one happened to be sitting. " Good for them for calling this out...but it's a weird statement wh
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by astar 14y ago
Didn't expect that "How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's Password with Reaver" would be the top guide for lifehackers readers http://lifehacker.com/5873407/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-...
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by astar 15y ago
Geocoding without a restrictive API, thanks to Twilio/Wigle.net street vector data set: https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2408
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by astar 15y ago
cough gamification cough Just kidding. You could always do a drawing. Ask for a donated ipad. everyone who answers 100 or more catchpas correctly are eligible to be in the raffle.
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by astar 15y ago
heh. I really thought it was 100 (and so does the site because it said I was correct). maybe something like, "How many birthdays has a fourteen year old has?" Or: how many inches of sandwich do you get if you get a half-foot long?
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by astar 15y ago
because they've been raised to be that way since preschool? the few friends I have that are on faculty seem to feel that its just more trouble than it's worth to give students low grades, and then face the evals.

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