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Got this one from Bill Burr's podcast: Never order scrambled eggs. They usually get made ahead of time in large quantities and sit underneath a heat lamp.

List of open-source Android apps

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124002

http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_th... Note that the RI has a very specific purpose (eg, to serve as the RI) and is generally not updated except when/if the specification is revised.

So OpenJDK may be adequate as a RI, but will be unstable to use in a production environment.

A similar thing happened to me as a seller. I saw that one of my old textbooks was selling for a nice price, so I listed it along with two other used copies. I priced it $1 cheaper than the lowest price offered, but within an hour both sellers had changed their prices to $.01 and $.02 cheaper than mine. I reduced it two times more by $1, and each time they beat my price by a cent or two. So what I did was reduce my price by a few dollars every hour for one day until everybody was priced under $5. Then I bought their books and changed my price back.

Hard to believe the company is so young.

Founded only two years ago by Andrew Mason. Built on collective buying technology that he built for a site, The Point, that he started only a year before in 2007.

http://www.groupon.com/about

tar ball http://www.foo.be/docs-free/morris-worm/worm-src.tar.gz

Defending Your Life

From IMDB: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.

Albert Brooks dies and has to prove that he has conquered his fears in order to "move on" or get smarter.

He looks back on his life and sees how things could have been better if he'd just had more courage.

They wait until the end to say that it could be just a neutron star.

Although the evidence points to a newly formed black hole in SN 1979C, another intriguing possibility is that a young, rapidly spinning neutron star with a powerful wind of high energy particles could be responsible for the X-ray emission

I haven't studied Prop 19 at all, but my guess is that its primary purpose is to get democrats to the polls. It's just like all the 'defense of marriage' propositions that were on the ballot when Bush was trying to get reelected to get republicans to the polls.

If so, that's quite a way for a libertarian to waste $100k.

edit: I love the open debate. Yeah, legalizing pot is definitely the most pressing problem facing our nation, so let's downvote anybody who says differently. HN is turning into Reddit.

I'm missing something. Apparently the plan was to prosecute people for posting classified documents to Wikileaks. Diabolical stuff indeed.

The Ten Roads to Riches by Ken Fisher http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Roads-Riches-Wealthy-Investments/d...

It was actually 35% off when the program started (it was called Live.com back then). You can see the original Fatwallet thread here http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/arcmessageview.php?catid=18&...

During a few periods, Ebay was handing out 10% off coupons that could be stacked with the cashback program for incredible deals. I bought so much stuff that I maxed out my account the first year ($2500).

Yodlee is highly regarded and has been around longer than Mint. Their primary business is running back end services for banks and financial institutions (Bank of America, Scottrade, E*trade) while offering the personal service for free. They have forums to get more info http://forum.yodlee.com https://moneycenter.yodlee.com

I watched the first bit to find out how Vernor pronounces his last name--turns out the 'e' isn't silent.

We should dismantle the Department of Education. I suggest waiting until next year on February 6th, which would be fitting.

Mine is unique too. Only 7 other people at the time of my test had the same plugin profile, and nobody had the same exact fonts (only thing I've knowingly added are MS fonts and ProggyCleanTTSZ).

every one of PHP's advantages is offered by other languages

Speed in a shared hosting environment. I've read about developers running multiple commercial sites from a single Dreamhost account e.g. http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/01/04/how-much-mone... . That's not realistic with Java, RoR, or Perl.

Probably the most persuasive essay I've read in favor of patents is by pg.

http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html

I'm still not in agreement, but he he makes a good case.

What are people's favorite guides for setting up Ubuntu? http://www.funnestra.org/ubuntu is really good but they don't have a 9.10 update yet.

The Sanmina/SCI fiber cable used is only .25mm diameter and 11 km of the stuff weighs only .173 kg (less than 1/2 pound).

These aren't the forums you're looking for.

You can go about your business.

Move along, move along.

They don't mention that Comcast charges more for broadband if you don't have cable service. You can opt for BASIC1 cable and pay less overall than if you had no cable service at all.

Besides that, using OTA only works well if you a) have a good line of site to the broadcasting tower (trees create multipath signals, which give you ghosts) b) aren't too far away (25+ miles) c) don't mind storms interrupting your TV shows and d) can find some way to snake coaxial cable into your house since e) you'll want a good outdoor antenna (Channel Master makes great ones), not some bunny ears.

The nice thing about having BASIC1 is that you can pull the HD channels off your cable connection without paying any additional fees. Often, the bit rate isn't as good as OTA but it's a more dependable signal.

I usually avoid politics, but since we now seem to have an administration that's open to suggestions, I'm going to risk making one

If your goal is to persuade as many people as possible, insulting the previous administration and by extension those that voted for Bush is a bad start. I was already opposed to your idea before the second sentence, despite the fact that I'm an advocate of increased legal immigration.

There's no way that a book on Perl 6 makes 400k/year!

Norvig is head of research at Google and the author of a leading book on AI.

based on this analysis, he said, "it's possible the Ripper could be female".

Based on this quote I've concluded that the Ripper was either male or female. Startling information indeed.

Yes! It's the cheapest entry into owning a Mac at a time when people are looking to spend less money (e.g. netbooks).

More info here http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-P4P-Tests-Boost-P...