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by GavinB 16y ago
Or you could buy an android phone and have it break with 5 months to go on your contract. You can't get it repaired because the warranty is expired, you can't upgrade without paying full price of $500, and you can't leave the contract. So y
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This bothered me, until I realized that I should be reading books by people with whom I disagree. The oddity of it is, one of the great things about his books is that they show perspectives much more alien than mere human political differ
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Facebook - Developer driven Apple - Designer driven Google - Data driven Amazon - Testing driven Zappos - Service driven You could argue semantics on these, but it seems clear that they are all successful and yet all put the greatest focus
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The article states that "none of the special lending programs has lost money," implying that they were all loans, and are all being paid back. Bernanke and co deserve huge credit for sticking to their guns throughout the crisis, despite cri
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I basically agree with you, but I'm guessing that the important thing isn't saving disk space, but freeing up usernames.
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a protest has defied the law and the Government has reacted by giving the protesters what they want http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_peace_march http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall#The_Fall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ros
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Is this happening because start-ups are getting series A financing later in the life of the company? It used to be that you needed VC just to build and launch a business, but these days the business can be much more real and the founders mo
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Clickable: http://rclayton.net I think it's very elegantly done. Kudos.
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Or better, give the option to change to a vanity id.
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It's not that hard to parse most answers into the common categories of male and female. For those whose answers can't be easily sorted, they were the ones who didn't want to be classified in that dichotomy anyway. And if you choose to answe
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Nitpick alert! Competetive bearding is not a sport... yet. It's spelled "competitive."
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This is what Google does. What you search is becoming a better and better predictor of what you will do. Most searches are based on future plans, purchase, or interests. They even know your current and future locations if you use google map
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Maybe the solution is to obscure the text somehow, so that a spammer can't read the text to grab a token . . . .
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A couple of issues with this: 1) Past peaks aren't relevant to the value of options granted at today's prices. The question is whether GOOG will be higher or lower next year. 2) Options and equity that Facebook gives its employees aren't fr
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Go with $2 bills at $3 w/ free shipping. Some people would order it just to have $2 bill.
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1. Act rationally. Let him see you making rational decisions, and searching for explanations. 2. Make him talk for himself. Encourage him to meet and talk to as many different people as possible. This starts early, when he wants to hide beh
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In the modern business world, you often have to jump organizations to get more money or the position suited to you. That's how an efficient market works. People are jumping back and forth between Google and Facebook because they are so si
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Looks great. Makes me wish I had something that needs icons! The one thing that was a bit odd to me was the way the tiled icons don't often fill out the last line, even when there are many more pages of results. Typically an incomplete grid
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Image that there are several different ways to meet these energy requirements, and mitochondria just happened to occur first. Mitochondrial life was first and so it had a chance to evolve and optimized itself. Any new systems that arose thr
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More interesting to grasp is that even rand() * rand() / rand() is less evenly distributed than rand(). It does seem like it should be possible to remap the numbers onto an even distribution if you knew how uneven to expect it to be. That w
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Packard wrote one of the first known books of this type, Sugarcane Island, in 1969 and saw it first published in 1976 by Vermont Crossroads Press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard It seems to me that the two ideas developed mo
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I guess this is the one story on which Arrington doesn't mind getting scooped.
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Sounds like this may be just a client server of the same concept as BeeMP3, MP3hunting, etc. Someone is posting the music to various filehosting sites and the Mulve Client downloads them.
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http://www.sharespost.com/companies/facebook I think the simple summary of your point is this: Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, not what other people think they should be willing to pay for them. Facebook is worth
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In a work context, helping people with their computer problems isn't a bad thing. If it sounds like something easy, help them fix it. If it sounds hard, refer them to tech support. Also, if someone walks by struggling to carry a heavy packa
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I would love to be able to give this toolset to people in PR and Corporate Communications. The ability to edit a static, professional looking site as easily as updating a blog would be a huge benefit for them.
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Note that they already have a lot of music available: http://www.musopen.com/music.php You can even listen to their radio: http://www.musopen.com/music_overview.php
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Perhaps a more complete definition of altruism would be this: you are altruistic to the degree that your personal welfare is driven by your observations of the welfare of those around you, and the level of action you take as a result. This
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The FTC probe may well have been prompted by all of the complaining. They don't exist in a vacuum, even if it sometimes seems that way.

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