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talboito··on Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode
Jumpshot is Avast.

Just a subsidiary.

talboito··on Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
All of the lights in Berkeley are failing as well.

They’re being replaced under warranty.

talboito··on What happened to CouchDB's popularity?
Quentin Tarantino has a movie in production called Django Unchained.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained

talboito··on My Email Canary
I'm thinking of a secondary alarm anytime you get an email that may be a password recovery.

Something like SpamBayes put trained for account related emails from the popular services and banks.

talboito··on What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?
sms
talboito··on GNU Emacs is on Bazaar now
Exactly, committing with no message is poor practice.

That should be: "C-x v v <Type Commit Message> C-c C-c"

talboito··on Whitehouse.gov now powered by Drupal
That was a Simpsons joke.

http://www.snpp.com/guides/flanders.file.html

talboito··on Coding Horror: Has The Virtualization Future Arrived?
I imagine it was a play on "wax poetic", but then this comment should be about the content of the OP's post, not one upping their spelling.
talboito··on Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (1985)
Its tempting to counter with something snarky like a good "whoosh!", but maybe a better response would be to remember that human beings write science fiction and fantasy.
talboito··on What Do You Tell People You Are?
That's kinda how my dad ended up a lawyer.

He called a guy for some legal advice (a taxi had driven through his storefront, trashing the place). He got the lawyers' bill the next week or so.

Decided law school might be a good idea, soon after.

talboito··on One free interaction
As the article mentions. I won't, usually, highlight text in a word processor because I'll sometimes drag the text somewhere.

The interaction isn't free.

talboito··on Is the Euro the New Dollar?
I'd thought the Helicopter Ben nickname was due to his frequent and effective use of Zangief in Street Fighter II.

The Fed's focus over the last 25 yearsish has been on controlling inflation.

Its focus over the last 8-15 months has been easy moneying away from a massive deflationary spiral. I'll take a ride on that helicopter.

talboito··on Anticresis
Seems like what he's describing as anticresis is a form of <a href="http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/639E3D61-87F1-4663-9...">shared equity mortgage</a> enforced by some interesting informal arrangements.

That writeup includes some of today's most astounding terminologizing. I believe "habitation services" sits in logical place of "housing" at some point there.

talboito··on Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Chinese to a monkey."
One of the things that complicates Scheme for many beginners is the prefix notation for arithmetic and such.

It's just not a concept most Freshmen are acquainted with.

talboito··on Obama logo ideas that weren’t chosen
Seems like we'll continue with the red=Republican thing for the forseeable future.

There isn't anything intrinsic about communism that says "red, that's the color!". It was just a useful convention.

I don't know how much the Nike swoosh can say, perhaps movement/agility?. It's always been fairly meaningless to me, aside from the whole being the Nike logo thing.

talboito··on Dave Ramsey: "Why We Don't Take Credit Cards"
Ooh, do I get to call Todd Zywicki a propaganda artist, just because I disagree with him too?
talboito··on Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel prize
"I'm happy with waiting 20 or 30 years and seeing how Krugman's research does. Are you? Or do we have to settle this now for once and all?"

The awards committee cited papers Krugman'd written in 1979, 1981 and 1991 as the basis for their decision.

You can be certain Krugman had such great ideas because his work has been widely cited by other Economists and has been recognized through awards such as the Nobel.

That we're still debating Keynes and Smith only further indicates the far reaching impact of their work.

talboito··on If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform
I imagine he meant major cell phone carriers and their app decks.
talboito··on Ask YC: What's on your "Holy Shit" list?
If that's your reading list, you must often be disappointed.
talboito··on Chandler 1.0 finally released
I don't know if the parent post was edited, but I don't see too many weasel words there.
talboito··on 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
Yes, the majority of other, modern cell phones provide novices "an sdk and a few simple functions to get position via GPS".

BREW: http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/11195

J2ME: http://developers.sun.com/mobility/apis/articles/location/

talboito··on How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand
I would think more influence on English will come from India. They have many more native somthing-like-English speakers.
talboito··on Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina's Body
Wow that site is sure accurate in its domain name.

http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=37043&Posts=...

talboito··on An Open Letter to Facebook's Founder from Professor Davidoff (a lesson on deal terms)
Lurid and uninformed as well.

This is pure speculation with the some definition of terms.

talboito··on Political Loyalties in Web Frameworks
The governing metaphor doesn't work so much. The right/left political metaphor is overloaded enough as it is.

How hard is it to say that some frameworks provide some features that others do not?