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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Krugman has noted Obama's cozy relationship to the bankers before. Just last week he had this to say in his column about the protests: "The Obama administration squandered a lot of potential good will early on by adopting banker-friendly po
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I would have to think people paying the $5 or $10 subscription fee would be listening to more than 11 hours. Why would they price themselves so far under what it would take to turn even a tiny profit?
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
The thing is that Krugman isn't framing the protests or the current economic crisis in traditional partisan terms. His columns and blog posts for at least 6 months now have continually heaped blame on Obama, Congressional Republicans, and E
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
As a related point, podcasts (tech podcasts specifically) have made my driving commutes more bearable. Sure, I can't do actual work while driving, but I no longer feel like I'm wasting my time. The result is less stress. Now when my trips a
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I don't think anyone is saying banks shouldn't loan money to new and growing businesses, it'd just be nice if they didn't crash the entire economy at the same time.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Good point!
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Sad to see that the two most important buttons on the device haven't been improved. I'm glad I still have a working Kindle 2!
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, the German and French personal tax rates are in the area of 50%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
They almost made it the entire article without throwing in a bit of Both Sides Do It nonsense. "In America the Republicans are guilty of outrageous obstructionism and misleading simplification, while Mr Obama has favoured class warfare ov
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
A hybrid screen is a great idea, but the tech must just not be ready for mass production, especially in the sub-iPad price range.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
You're right to say that fast and functional is preferable to pretty, but both are examples of 'design' in the truest sense. Good design really isn't about making things pretty, it's about enablind the user or customer. Usability is goal nu
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
It's a little much to say design is the "least" important part of a site. Good design can instill potential users/customers with confidence, ease the sign-up or purchasing process, and give the site a personality.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Content changes could require new CSS styles (which would require a new round of cross browser testing), image editing, and cleaning up mal-formed text from an email or Word doc. You also need to factor in how much you should charge to make
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
The AJAX content loads were slow, the action buttons were too small and easy to hit by mistake, and I don't recall pinching and zooming being smooth either.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Normally I don't think companies should focus on making tablet specific versions of their site (normal desktop pages work just fine), but Facebook relies too heavily on Javascript for the limited power of today's tablets. Edit: I have an iP
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I like BBEdit, but I think its age is a weakness. Until version 10, BBEdit felt and looked like old software with many bits and pieces stuck on over time with little attention paid to how they fit together.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Frontpage > Homesite > Dreamweaver > Coda > TextMate > MacVim > BBEdit
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I started using a Yahoo Pipe that just gives me a feed with the week's top Lifehacker posts: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=d750264bc19b3a7e5...
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
This news was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955740
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
The pricing structure seems extremely reasonable. I hope Django developers jump on board and keep them afloat. One of the reasons I switched from Django to Rails was because of the community support in the form of awesome tools like Heroku.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
If their market share ever dips dangerously low it could be a good option.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
The model could work like the console market. Sony and Microsoft both initially sold their core hardware at a loss with the hope of making up the difference in game license fees and big margins on peripherals. However, it'd be a pretty tall
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
You can also "Google" the url and view the cached version.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Cool idea, but it looks like the resulting game would be way too easy.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
"With medical and legal professions, the licensing/regulation creates a large barrier to entry" This is the heart of the differences in pay. Expensive certifications keep the supply of doctors and lawyers artificially low and thus their a
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
The trouble with means testing is that you drain support for the program from the parts of the population with the most political clout. In other words, how long does SS last when rich people get nothing for what they put into it?
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Considering the premium price of the Adobe suite, it's fair to expect premium support. Hopefully Adobe will get their software sorted at least as far back as CS4.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
I've subscribed to MOG, and I currently subscribe to Rdio, but I've been itching to try Spotify for what seems like a year now. My early thoughts: 1) The software is snappier than, but not as well designed as Rdio. 2) Their catalogue is mis
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
Leaving aside questions of what constitutes "fair use", I'm arguing that this work should have already passed into the public domain.
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by ChrisLTD 15y ago
It's ridiculous that a photograph from 50 years ago is still under copyright. Copyright law is supposed to encourage artists to create new work. However, it's been perverted to let artists (but mostly large corporations) milk money from

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