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The Chief Complaint: Dr. Otis Brawley - Features - Atlanta Magazine
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, an Emory professor and former Grady cancer director pulls back the curtain on the medical machine
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The Complete Works: Ranking All 62 Stephen King Books -- Vulture
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"I wonder if Oracle followed that link, because if I were Oracle, it's the last thing I'd want the public or the jury to see." (groklaw.net)
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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What if Darth Vader had been around for Luke Skywalker’s childhood — not as a distant threat, but as a loving and devoted father? That’s the concept behind “Darth Vader and Son,” a new book from comic artist and writer Jeffrey Brown. The book reimagines the Dark Lord of the Sith parenting an adorable 4-year-old, his days filled with potty breaks, Lego, bicycle riding and bedtime stories. Brown, the author of “Clumsy” and “Bighead,” chatted with Hero Complex about the book, “Star Wars” and fatherhood.
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I pasted some richly formatted text into Sigil but it's only pasted as plain text?
Don't paste rich text directly into Sigil. It doesn't work as well as it should, since Webkit takes over this functionality and it's hard to go around it.
Instead, export (or convert) you text to HTML and then import that directly (. This will preserve all formatting.
Why do some of my non-ASCII characters appear correctly in Sigil, but show up as question marks on my Reader or in Adobe Digital Editions?
ADE doesn't perform font substitution. A mobile version of ADE's engine is also used on the Sony Readers and the vast majority of other portable reading devices that can display EPUB books. So unfortunately all of these devices inherit ADE's shortcomings.
In Sigil, if the font you are using does not have the required glyphs to render a character present in the text, glyphs from a different font that can render it are used. This is called font substitution. So as long as some fonts on your computer can display these characters, so can Sigil.
ADE on the other hand only displays a small subset of Unicode characters by default. The supported characters are listed in the Adobe PDF Reference v1.7, Appendix D, tables D.1 and D.3.
If you want other characters than these to display in ADE, you will have to embed the required fonts. Sigil currently doesn't have official support for font embedding due to a bug in the Qt framework. This will hopefully be solved in time.
Monday, April 23, 2012
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BitTorrent Magnet Links Explained - Softpedia
Anyone following the BitTorrent scene has been noticing some interesting developments lately and three new technologies in particular have stood out. A couple of them, DHT, PEX, are new ways of finding peers (users with copies of the file you want to download) without relying on the old BitTorrent tracker system. These are very important to the actual downloads but work mostly hidden from the user who may not even now when they kick in.
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How to Create a Torrent: 7 steps - wikiHow
If you've ever wondered how to create a torrent, you've come to the right place. This article will explain how to create a torrent and use it to upload whatever you want to people all over the world!
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Kopimism, Sweden's Pirate Religion, Begins to Plunder America - US News and World Report
'Kopimism' gives internet piracy a place to worship
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Read This Before Naming Your Startup
I’ve learned a lot from the development of NameLayer, and I’m ready to divulge every trick in my arsenal. In this guide, I provide realistic solutions to the frustrations encountered when naming a company. Plus, I’ll have some fun analyzing both good and bad company names.
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Cat in New Mexico Weighs In at Nearly 40 Pounds | Photos - ABC News
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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John Cook: Why and How People Use R | Lang.NEXT 2012 | Channel 9
R is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its niche?
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Infected Mac network may be expanding, not shrinking - Technolog on msnbc.com
The vast network of Apple Macintosh machines infected by the Flashback Trojan may be going dormant instead of shrinking, a Russian information-security firm said in a blog posting Friday.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
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Gloomy Negative Automatic Thoughts PWND | MetaFilter
"SPARX is an effective resource for adolescents with depressive symptoms. It is at least as good as treatment as usual, would be cheaper and easier to disseminate, and could be used to increase access to therapy. It could provide access to treatment for young people who may be reluctant to have more conventional therapy."
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'War on women' rhetoric turns nuclear power spat radioactive - CSMonitor.com
The head of the US nuclear power watchdog on Friday refuted allegations that he bullies women colleagues in a controversy that involves several political subplots.
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Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve
It all started with Snow Crash.
If I hadn’t read it and fallen in love with the idea of the Metaverse, if it hadn’t made me realize how close networked 3D was to being a reality, if I hadn’t thought I can do that, and more importantly I want to do that, I’d never have embarked on the path that eventually wound up at Valve. -
APIs take center stage at Oracle-Google trial | Mobile - CNET News
The scene of the Oracle-Google trial Thursday was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs.
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Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War - Forbes
April 20 is the counter-culture “holiday” on which lots and lots of people come together to advocate marijuana legalization (or just get high). Should drugs—especially marijuana—be legal? The answer is “yes.” Immediately. Without hesitation. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 seized in a civil asset forfeiture. The war on drugs has been a dismal failure. It’s high time to end prohibition. Even if you aren’t willing to go whole-hog and legalize all drugs, at the very least we should legalize marijuana.
Friday, April 20, 2012
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Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies | poster
print one out for yourself!
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The curious case of the DES algorithm - good coders code, great reuse
I was implementing password authentication for VNC in node.js the other day and faced a problem where it would just never successfully authenticate. I checked my implementation several times and it seemed fine. Then I tried to implement it in Python just to see if I was missing something obvious. It also didn't work. Then I tried doing the authentication through openssl and it was also giving a result I didn't expect. Finally I found some old C code and wrote node-des, which worked. I still haven't figured out why it didn't work in node, python and openssl. Perhaps my readers can help me understand what was going on!
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http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-Trial-GoogleOpeningStills.pdf
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The fall of 2011 I suddenly had a lot of work to do. Being self employed in a newly started company, that’s usually a great thing. This time it was a little bit too much. As the sole developer, I had to finish a new project under a strict deadline, alongside with another long overdue project with the customer growing impatient.
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Facebook, Google Must Adapt as Users Embrace 'Unsocial' Networks - Businessweek
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Food Deserts and Obesity Role Challenged - NYTimes.com
It has become an article of faith among some policy makers and advocates, including Michelle Obama, that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Pakistanis revolt over Great Firewall plans • The Register
Pakistanis revolt over Great Firewall plans
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Oracle v Google could clear way for copyright on languages, APIs • The Register
Oracle v Google could clear way for copyright on languages, APIs
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A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 1
I’m a former high frequency trader. And following the tradition of G.H. Hardy, I feel the need to make an apology for my former profession. Not an apology in the sense of a request for forgiveness of wrongs performed, but merely an intellectual justification of a field which is often misunderstood.
In this blog post, I’ll attempt to explain the basics of how high frequency trading works and why traders attempt to improve their latency. In future blog posts, I’ll attempt to justify the social value of HFT (under some circumstances), and describe other circumstances under which it is not very useful. Eventually I’ll even put forward a policy prescription which I believe could cause HFT to focus primarily on socially valuable activities.
Also, after you are done reading, go read the HN Comments. Many of them are excellent. In particular, some clarification and correction is made to what I’ve posted - e.g., Midpoint Passive Liquidity orders are discussed, which is a partial exception to my talk of the subpenny rule. -
A case that could turn software industry on its head
A case that could turn software industry on its head
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15 MIT Research Projects That Will Make You Say 'Whoa' CIO.com
Ghosts of the Past
Despite having a name fit for a horror flick, Ghosts of the Past is likely to be used more often for reliving the good old days. Rather than trying to verbally describe a situation, event, or even a person whose name you might not recall, Ghosts of the Past projects video from a previous event against a backdrop image of the very setting in which it occurred. Through this website, those backdrops (called “canopies”) and video clips (or “panoramas”) can be paired for viewing on an iPad. QR codes add another layer, allowing the user to print and paste a copy in that very same location, so others can experience your birthday party even if they weren’t invited.
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