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by Elepsis 17y ago
Is it just me or does the CEO here seem a little bit full of it? He's awfully confident about a deal that will hopefully happen in several months and will leave him, along with his investors, with a significant loss. And yet from his comm
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Good point -- it doesn't remove the verbs entirely. However, it removes them from their natural place in the sentence and puts them somewhere where they're likely to be missed entirely. By front-loading the headline with only the nouns, he
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by Elepsis 17y ago
One of the guidelines nearly every publication practices for its headlines is that each one should have a verb (one thing that the BBC also does well in the above examples). The verb enables a reader to quickly grasp the "action" in the sto
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by Elepsis 18y ago
I would argue that "this sucks and needs to be better" is actually not included in Ferriss's definition of a complaint. By saying that it needs to be better you are 90 percent of the way to also stating the steps you'll actually take to i
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by Elepsis 18y ago
This is essentially data Mint publishes on its front page, and has mentioned in press releases before. I don't think that really qualifies as proprietary.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
No, and only occasionally. For the approximately 2 years that I used ma.gnolia it ran ads for less than half of the time.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Actually, at least for me, for a while now the super saver shipping hasn't had the constraint of needing to group all your items. Indeed, they explicitly warn you that your items may ship separately (at no extra charge).
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Don't start till May. Traveling Kazakhstan -> Moldova -> Estonia until then.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
CS, Dec. 2008. :)
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Not to be a pedant, but this post really doesn't read right when you keep using the word 'compliment' when you mean 'complement.' It makes you sound self-obsessed. That said, online friends are definitely not a substitute for real life ones
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by Elepsis 18y ago
I would argue that your social connections are very much based on your competence (albeit in an often different skillset).
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Microsoft stock holder information site: http://www.microsoft.com/msft/default.mspx
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by Elepsis 18y ago
http://spaces.live.com provides a Microsoft-branded and run blogging service.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
By intelligently, you mean by letting the text vanish instead of putting in a horizontal scrollbar? While this is my preferred behavior, I don't think I'd necessarily call it intelligent.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
I don't agree at all. Sure, I can find out what the cheapest possible mac is easily, but how is it as a development machine? Is it powerful enough to deal with all the involved apps? How is the overall user experience from the dev side? Do
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Back when I took my intro to CS class, it was taught in Scheme. I hated this at the time -- and bitched about it constantly. "When am I ever going to need this language that isn't used for anything, and that has such a fucked up syntax)))
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by Elepsis 18y ago
For a little bit of background, here's a brief biography of the author, from Wikipedia: "Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps. She
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by Elepsis 18y ago
I should note that things at Georgia Tech today are not quite so dire as jhancock describes them being. Yes, classes are still quite hard and you still have to take a lot of painful ones to get through (often simultaneously, especially if y
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by Elepsis 18y ago
"Seth Godin is permission-marketing yahoo! at Yahoo!" Wait, what? Since when does Seth Godin work for Yahoo? Did I just miss a memo?
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by Elepsis 18y ago
For what it's worth, the first time I used a Mac quite a few years ago it took me a good five or six minutes to figure out how to log off.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
How is this different from the JVM, though, aside in that Java pretty much never caught on for desktop apps?
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by Elepsis 18y ago
How long are your showers that a person would be able to brute force even a 4-digit pin in the time it took you to come back?
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by Elepsis 18y ago
This is nonsense. Yes, Microsoft is acknowledging that most intranet sites aren't properly configured to work with all browsers/standard compliant. But that hardly means they're breaking the promise to make IE render web pages in standards
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by Elepsis 18y ago
While there has probably been an upswing in "funtamentalist Christianity" in the U.S., I think you have an uphill climb trying to prove that there is really even a correlation between the trends of a decrease in graduate science enrollment
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by Elepsis 18y ago
It means "green" in Japanese. But I don't know what the implications of that are supposed to be with regard to an operating system project.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
jQuery at least claims to be compatible with Opera. It might be worthwhile to do a little bit of research into your issues.
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Just to note, the title of Cialdini's book is "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/006124189X/ )
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by Elepsis 18y ago
Opera doesn't handle scaling well? How are you trying to scale things? Opera supports zoom from 20-900 percent in reasonably small increments, including 80, 90, 110 and 120 percent. I've never had this scaling problem (though granted I have
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by Elepsis 18y ago
The phone numbers are a particularly interesting idea, but how did you intend/did you get in touch with all the people after launch? Did you and a few others manually sit around and call 20,000 people?
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by Elepsis 18y ago
The OpenSUSE models are a fairly recent addition to the lineup, and are still quite limited in terms of hardware options.

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