Ahmes

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by Ahmes 14y ago
Similarly, I always feel a bit bad for Jon Rubinstein when I read articles like this. Tony Fadell didn't take over the iPod division until the 3rd Generation (the one with the funny buttons lined up above the scroll wheel).
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by Ahmes 14y ago
Is it just me or does this author have an affiliation with TechStars? (For instance: see http://vimeo.com/5346690 )
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by Ahmes 14y ago
These "gift" investigations and the game theory behind them are somewhat troubling. Most medium to large sized technology companies that get big enough to attract parasites will gladly cooperate with an investigating authority (such as the
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by Ahmes 14y ago
I'm pretty sure there is an XKCD about this. Didn't we conclude yesterday that there was a fundamental flaw in the original author's assumptions in how tips get reported and preliminary evidence suggests Taxi drivers are now making less ?
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by Ahmes 15y ago
Flag this voting ring.
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by Ahmes 15y ago
There is a fascinating documentary/long-form article in VICE about another Nike missile silo in Kansas that was backed by a VC and fronted as Y2K fallout shelter/precision spring manufacturing facility for NASA but was in fact producing kil
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by Ahmes 15y ago
>>So to my mind this was relatively innocent activity and I would have never thought... Whether or not you are genuinely naïve about the terms connotations, I suspect there is a perception that you are trolling. This is in part beca
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by Ahmes 15y ago
This article is riddled with fallacies. 1) Because a government can implement a genocide, a region with no government won't be subject to genocide. (See historical territorial annexations.) 2) Because the Wiemar Republic's constitution was
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by Ahmes 16y ago
The problem doesn't end there. Once these drugs' exclusive rights expire and "generic brand" prescriptions are allowed to compete, most insured patients will still prefer the "name brand" as they are only charged co-pay. Some insurance prov
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by Ahmes 16y ago
You'll probably be waiting longer than that. One of the reasons China opted for the hand drawn approach is it lets them control what is and (more importantly) isn't shown.
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by Ahmes 16y ago
Oh FFS, really? Really?? There are an infinite number of ways to communicate how not to do things. Enumerating them only serves to decrease the entropy rate. What I suspect is most people enjoyed this article because VMware made a fool of
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X.509 Style Guide(cs.auckland.ac.nz)
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by Ahmes 16y ago
I'm sorry, but how is this news worthy? As far as I can tell, some guy bought a copy of VMWare Fusion with a moderately poor customer experience, can't activate it within the first half hour, writes a blog post to complain and gets his budd
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by Ahmes 16y ago
You're not a big fan of packing light, are you?
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by Ahmes 16y ago
Free startup idea: wordpress blog giving a $10 bounty per back scatter image submitted, post adwords, simultaneously profit and raise an uproar.
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Al Qaeda's First English Language Magazine Is Here(theatlantic.com)
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by Ahmes 16y ago
Unless you already have the partnerships with the credit card processors and the capital to protect yourself from fraud (90% of the work) - I would release the design as open source and make it compatible with Square. This will at least let