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Its the concept of the long tail. I miss

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-botto...

Without these three, its jarring to use Firefox for me. But there is no other user in the world with my browsing habits. After including the most used extensions, Mozilla is showing no interest in getting more extensions. It's quite frustrating.

The other way to go about it is to shrink the screen from 14" to 12". I would prefer this configuration.

There is indeed a problem that the article describes: book pirates with very little oversight selling books on Amazon and making a profit for both. A result of this practice is that people get substandard copies of books with typos.

The headline suggests that these typos are sinister ("newspeak"). If that were true, that would be an entirely different and also disturbing problem. I did not find any mention of these errors to be so.

I noticed some time ago that I do not learn more about a topic the more frequently I check on it (i.e., multiple times a day).

So, I make it a point to only visit websites that update daily (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper) or weekly (https://asia.nikkei.com/Print-Edition). I also started to read news in the morning for 15-30 mins from a paper subscription (Financial Times).

I hope this kind of news consumption catches back on.

No, you are not. The extensive problem sets at the end of each chapter is main contribution of this work (imho). However this is not a shortcoming these days.

I spend upto ~1 hour on each problem. And then I google keywords from the questions. Someone somewhere has one possible solution. Usually , this is enough to set me on the right track.

Yet another. West coast I think. http://www.daveskillerbread.com/secondchances/

$35 per month for the digital subscription is comparable to the Financial Times subscription. It looks like they are going after that reader demographic.

If I do not have a facebook account, does this change anything?

There are facebook pixels all over the web. Do I need to continue deleting cookies to stop the tracking?

This is not surprising at all. Another interesting problem that you can solve is using your social media friends' cars to predict an individual 's political leanings.

I assume you guys (or gals) are single or DINKs :)

School districts are by far the biggest driver in South bay.

I'm personally not sure about SF.

Given my technical background (SWE), I have found only one useful tip for salary negotiations during a job offer: get atleast two offers and play the companies against each other. I've found nothing else to be effective.

My creepiest experience on LI: my six year old niece is a recommended connection.

Thanks!

I was searching for a link to download the data (a csv maybe) for me to play with. Did someone find a link?

Transaction Fraud Detection

http://www.fico.com/en/Products/DMApps/Pages/FICO-Falcon-Fra...

From the source:

"To be clear, I'm talking specifically about the user interface -- the look and feel of the platform. Most of the actual ICS features are present in Samsung's TouchWiz-modified Android 4.0: You will get things like the new multitasking menu, the revamped lock screen with optional facial recognition, and the improved system settings."

Doesn't sound like that big a deal.

"I have a recurring daydream where Android incorporates the best of WebOS into its next release, and it's suddenly far-and-away the best mobile OS."

Its happening already. Matias Duarte ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Duarte ) has been working his magic for sometime now.

I am a big fan of webOS, so my views may be off. I am not a developer, just a consumer, so my comments may even be irrelevant to the OP.

webOS definitely had its rough edges. The phone app will be sluggish (what jwz was referring to, try answering a phone call by tapping "pick up" several times without any response as the phone keeps ringing), in USB mode the phone shuts down and directs all voice calls to voicemail, the entire OS does not have a position indicator to tell you how long and where you are in the page, etc.

However, all initial releases of software are buggy. As someone already mentioned in this thread "I think instability is less a sign of architectural problems than of simple failure to iron all the bugs out". I think everyone at Palm expected to be able to release updates and get the OS up to speed.

However, Google started cranking up on Android and left everyone (including iOS) in the dust. I am not talking about UI here. I am talking about sheer speed in the software turnaround cycle. In seemingly no time, Android had Cloud syncing, Maps with Navigation, features in the photo app like red eye removal etc. etc. They just blasted away with these updates. To me it is astounding that a complex mobile OS used all over the world can be developed in such speed. After this effort, webOS just had no chance.

You need apps for the tablet but without a successful phone ecosystem, the touchpad was definitely a tough sell. HP thought their "channels", "marketing" would amount to something. It just wasn't. A CEO wanting to get out of the consumer space finally stopped the bleeding. Maybe if HP had been going for another 6 months and risked another $1 billion (I feel stupid just typing that clause :) ), webOS could have gotten lucky.

I get the feeling that HP does not care about the phone market too much. However, the table market is something they are scared will eat into their PC business. So, I expect HP to push the TouchPad with all its might. If that happens, an iPod touch device seems the next thing they will release. I am looking forward to that too!

You have been able to buy the unlocked Pre2 for quite some time: http://www.shopping.hp.com/store/product/product_detail/FB32...

There are lots of reasons to avoid webos; but this is not one.