theltrj

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by theltrj 2y ago
Thank you for writing this! Getting users to implicitly trust clicking a link as a login mechanism....what could possibly go wrong?
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by theltrj 3y ago
the first line of the article "a record 300,000 electric cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023"; the spreading of FUD around EVs continues, nothing new here; this time it is from the opposite end of the spectrum from th
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by theltrj 5y ago
effectively you've created your own personal Sales/Marketing DRIP campaign, neat, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_marketing
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by theltrj 5y ago
Is there something new here from the April announcement? Did something change?
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by theltrj 6y ago
Pidgin? What year is it again? Glad to see it still around.
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by theltrj 7y ago
Not sure, but there is an argument out there that a cell phone + social media is as addictive as a slot machine, read some of Georgetown's Comp Sci Professor, Cal Newport: https://www.gq.com/story/cal-newport-digit
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by theltrj 8y ago
wants? this is the way it has been done for a long long time in the US (the first US patent grant was from George Washington in 1790), there is Property category where there is at least Real Property & Intellectual Property, patents whi
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by theltrj 12y ago
boo paywall
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by theltrj 13y ago
It is interesting to see the electronics/computer science side of the patent debate. On this side of the argument there is a desire for a short duration, very narrowly tailored patents (for some that is even too much) because technolog
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by theltrj 13y ago
Why does this have to be framed as people being ignorant? Could it be they don't want to have to give up the limited rights they still have left? Microsoft wasn't forced to do anything here. They overestimated the value of their p
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Google's Motion for Declaratory Judgment in Opposition to FISA Orders(scribd.com)
2 points by theltrj 13y ago|0 comments
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by theltrj 13y ago
The whole argument is a non sequitur. The products and companies the author is hoping people defer too, are not prevalent in mainstream society yet. Ubuntu and Arch Linux do not have stores in the mall. Sparkfun is not making arduino based
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by theltrj 13y ago
supercaps need waaaaay more energy density before they are going displace batteries.....there is a lot of published research into battery/supercapacitor hybrids, the benefit is primarily seen in short transient charge/discharge mo
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by theltrj 13y ago
"Folks who buy $90,000 cars tend to replace them every few years, and the bid for a four-year-old Model S may prove disappointing if it's going to need an expensive new battery in a few more years." Seems odd that there are t
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by theltrj 13y ago
i guess in 2013 iTunes overtook piracy in crushing the music industry because I see one of those articles every year, what exactly isn't crushing the music industry?
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by theltrj 13y ago
I think many want to learn so quickly because we need to run faster and faster just to stay in place within the technology fields....just look at all the new things we see on hacker news each day
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by theltrj 13y ago
love the target audience
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by theltrj 14y ago
I'm a little unclear, can i connect via an IRC client to this?
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by theltrj 14y ago
Definitely seen this before as well, not interesting then, not interesting now...
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by theltrj 14y ago
tragic, so sorry for your loss, thank you for sharing
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by theltrj 14y ago
SAP Hana
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by theltrj 14y ago
is there a library out there that mimics this visualization? very powerful stuff
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by theltrj 14y ago
what a bunch of bullcrap....facebook login required to vote = no vote
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by theltrj 14y ago
"....shown next to an oversized novelty quarter for size comparison." Was a novelty foam finger not available?