cssndrx

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by cssndrx 12y ago
Reminded me of Hamming and Bode saying "Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest." http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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HotelTonight: Impulsively Book a Hotel Room, Save Up To 70%(mashable.com)
1 points by cssndrx 15y ago|0 comments
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by cssndrx 15y ago
I'm probably going to get down-voted to hell, but I'm not sure what this counter experiment is trying to prove... we all already knew it is easy to take from Jonathan's card. When people noticed that money was disappearing off Jonathan's ca
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by cssndrx 15y ago
Re #4: I don't mind the name "leaky"! I took it to mean that you guys are leaking the information that insurance providers don't want consumers to easily get, to the consumers.
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by cssndrx 15y ago
Ah yes, you're right. The hole was supposed to be on the toner, but the hole no longer existed on the toner required by my printer (judging by toner/hack pictures I found online and threads discussing the hack for my make). Glad it worked o
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by cssndrx 15y ago
I can confirm that Brother printers stop working even though the toner still prints perfect pages. I couldn't believe that a company would program a functional product to suicide, so I did some searching on the subject. There used to be a h
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Watching NASA backwards(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by cssndrx 15y ago|0 comments
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IM Status-- How You should Use It(lifehacker.com)
5 points by cssndrx 15y ago|2 comments
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by cssndrx 15y ago
But it was wrong of me to post such a cavalier comment on such a serious discussion thread.
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by cssndrx 15y ago
"Troll" as in I'm pretty sure she was making the story up. Judging by her perfect writing style and the degree of tech-literacy necessary for her to find the narrative to begin with.
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by cssndrx 15y ago
You've gotta check out the troll comment by emmarose on that page... highly recommended.
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by cssndrx 15y ago
Heard of one game manufacturer that willfully distributed a version of their game on torrent. The torrented version of the game came bundled with a live webcam virus. They then made a website to stream the pirates on webcam. Ouch.
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Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks(gamesradar.com)
18 points by cssndrx 15y ago|6 comments
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by cssndrx 15y ago
Interesting, but I'm surprised the guy sounds so angry. PageRank gets credit for being an engineering feat not a mathematical wonder... When people refer to PageRank as "elegant" they are commenting on its simplicity of concept.
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Europe’s Highest Apartments Pierce Clouds in London’s Shard(bloomberg.com)
2 points by cssndrx 15y ago|0 comments