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by ntownsend 15y ago
The LulzSec twitter feed now appears to be empty.
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by ntownsend 15y ago
Lesson learned: the public can (and must) stop big telecom putting Canada in a digital ghetto.
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Taking on Big Telecom: A Trip to the CRTC's UBB Hearings(torontoist.com)
1 points by ntownsend 15y ago|1 comments
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by ntownsend 15y ago
Alton Brown is the reason I started caring about food preparation. Good Eats is unlike most food shows in that its primary motivation is teaching the audience about food and the hows and whys of its preparation. I find that most food shows
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by ntownsend 15y ago
Libertarian clap-trap. Governments and pies only become a bad combination when there is no meaningful oversight or regulation. Your point of view makes sense in America where this is the case.
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by ntownsend 15y ago
The case is similar in Canada. I think this recent article by Jesse Brown reflects the reality for a lot of broadband-connected Canadians with similar viewing habits to broadband-connected Americans: http://www.torontolife.com/daily/inform
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by ntownsend 16y ago
RIM has extremely talented engineers and developers, but it does not have a culture where engineers can say "We are doing the wrong thing" and have any decision-makers take notice. This is the fundamental problem with RIM. They have complet
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by ntownsend 16y ago
And on that note, the creator has made the common mistake of performing the calculation speed_of_light * age_of_universe to determine the radius of the observable universe. Space has expanded during the lifetime of the universe so the objec
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by ntownsend 16y ago
I had very similar thoughts when I read the book. It seems to me that if there is no desire for class mobility then strata are not evil. However, humans being what they are, it seems impossible to guarantee that lack of desire. This is (kin
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by ntownsend 16y ago
You can set a few other parameters like your size, too. Unfortunately, no one else can see it. I was the biggest sperm you never saw.
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by ntownsend 16y ago
...we'd need an impossible computer that could simulate years worth of exact quantum-level physics in a cubic meter of space... ...it might take a little more than the ten years to come up with any sensible code with hope of growing into
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by ntownsend 16y ago
In 2006, nearly half the population of Toronto was a "visible minority". It's estimated that more than half are now. Similarly, half of the population is foreign-born.
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Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay(worklessparty.org)
146 points by ntownsend 16y ago|103 comments
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How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone (and how it can be fixed)(technologyreview.com)
1 points by ntownsend 16y ago|0 comments
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AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
12 points by ntownsend 16y ago|7 comments
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Scientists devise algorithm to detect sarcasm(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by ntownsend 16y ago|1 comments
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by ntownsend 16y ago
In JavaScript, Arrays are not actually arrays. They're not a contiguous block of memory. They're just Objects (i.e. hash tables) that key on integers. If you look at the indices it will look like you have a bunch of undefined elements in th
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by ntownsend 17y ago
Whoops. You're right. I'm embarrassed because I do know the difference.
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by ntownsend 17y ago
The argument that XML can have various different structures for storing a person's name, while JSON provides one simple solution, doesn't fly. You could run into something like { "Person": { "property": { "type": "first-name",
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Ask HN: What's the culture like at Amazon?
3 points by ntownsend 17y ago|0 comments
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Rumor: Microsoft looking at purchasing Research In Motion(tech.blorge.com)
1 points by ntownsend 17y ago|1 comments
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by ntownsend 17y ago
I found that book a little too precious.
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by ntownsend 17y ago
Yes. Yes, it is.
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by ntownsend 17y ago
Relax, buddy. It's a joke.
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by ntownsend 17y ago
I've just thought of the first app I'll make for the iPad. It will be a version of top . Seeing as the thing only runs one process at a time, it should practically be a one-liner.
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by ntownsend 17y ago
In the case of real-valued functions of one variable (which is the case at hand), if the function has a minimum and is convex then the minimum is global. If the function is strictly convex (also this case) then it will have at most one glob
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by ntownsend 17y ago
No, in this case, a convex function is one where you can draw a straight line between any two points on its graph and not have the line intersect the graph at a third point.
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by ntownsend 17y ago
I don’t have a paper to show you, some great insight into how von Neumann architecture is totally lame. If it weren't for the von Neumann architecture the author wouldn't have pretty code to look at. I suppose he could write a post about
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by ntownsend 17y ago
For those interested in learning more about the character of Perleman and some of the controversy surrounding the Poincaré conjecture and it's proof, here's a great article from the New Yorker (dated Aug. 28, 2006): http://www.newyorker.co
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Social Isolation and New Technology(pewinternet.org)
1 points by ntownsend 17y ago|0 comments

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