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by GavinB 16y ago
This is very cool! It's addictive to keep adding words. If you start at the edge and build outwards, it seems pretty easy to go on indefinitely, continuing to add on points without even thinking of particularly high-scoring words. Maybe the
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by GavinB 16y ago
We all thought it was dead, but it's still ranked 194th by compete.com, with over 6 million uniques per month.
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I think people who tell themselves ‘if I make $X million, then I’ll stop working and do what I want’ never make that $X million. If that's the case, then why do so many start-ups sell to bigger companies? Every month we hear about another
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by GavinB 16y ago
There's a difference between "getting rich" enough to be able to retire and handle health issues and building an empire. All of the possibilities you mention are much more likely to be handled by a) Good budgeting b) A solid career as an
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This may be true for some bosses, but it's not a good general rule. You often don't hear about it, getting an outside offer and a raise happens all the time, and within a month it's pretty much forgotten. If you present it by saying "I real
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There are very different regulations in each separate country, and sometimes even in regions within countries. For instance, you can run a contest of skill (which this is) in Canada, but you have to exclude Quebec. Also, the laws are always
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by GavinB 16y ago
It's hard to think of it as a monopoly when the same services can be performed by a rack of servers running other software. For any type of data processing that mainframes perform, I'm sure you can find examples of similar jobs running in s
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It’s telling that the criticism surrounding this issue has shifted, quickly, from speculation about a technical defect in the iPhone 4 hardware to criticism over the tone of Apple’s response to it. The conversation shifted because the
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This isn't really a fair comparison. More people use Facebook than they do any individual cable company. I don't have an opinion on airlines that I've never flown or cable companies that only exist on the west coast. It would be more inte
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Another important quality for a sticky idea is a cool name. Intriguing names is one of the qualities that makes TV Tropes so addictive.
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by GavinB 16y ago
I think reddit made a mistake in setting the default as a one time donation rather than a recurring one. You want to get people to commit to a relationship when they are thinking about it and are motivated. I donated, but who knows if I wil
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There's also the problem that split brain patients ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain ) exhibit some nonstandard behaviors, but nothing that would indicate lack of conscious thought.
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We work with the polish office of a development shop. They get more done faster, and with more agility and creativity than anyone else we've worked with--and all this having seamlessly stepped into a code base that someone else built. It's
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Kindle for Android now available(engadget.com)
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If Karelis is right, taking $50 from a poor person won't hurt them at all - what's one more bee sting? Karelis's viewpoint is that they wouldn't have spent the $50 to alleviate the bee sting. They would have spent it on something that did
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I'm getting "No Results Found. The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post." It seems appropriate. Though I suppose every millionaire became a millionaire in three year
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People get other offers and counteroffers and stay at their jobs all the time. In most of corporate America, this is one of the primary ways to get ahead. Maybe not at the most enlightened employee focused development shops, but most progra
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You sound conscientious, competent, and reasonably experienced. That's worth a lot more than what you make. Apply for PHP development jobs in the geographic area to which you can reasonably commute. Network locally, but forget the blog stuf
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I would have gone with "Less.js Will Render CSS Obsolete."
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Don't know how I missed that the first time. ( http://veehd.com/video/4117770_Pioneer-One-S01E01-2010 ). I would recommend putting it up on one on Vimeo that doesn't require installing the divx plugin, but this is good enough for me.
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by GavinB 16y ago
Why does Pioneer One have a video blog on Vimeo, and yet the only way to view the actual episode is through a torrent for a 1.1 gig file? Why do I have to wait an hour or more when videos on Vimeo start immediately? Even platforms like Hulu
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The real danger here isn't spam, it's false flag attacks. If something offensive appears on your posterous under your name, will anyone believe you when you claim it's a hack? On the other hand, maybe it provides a convenient excuse if you
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by GavinB 16y ago
My first name is spelled with a $10 bill. It's pronounced "Gavin." My last name is a picture of a flower. If you represent it at less than 1000x1000 pixels or with washed out colors, you are insulting my heritage. My middle name is a musk o
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If you're on Firefox, Auto-pager will make it all better. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925/
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This is a bizarre comparison. The problem with the oil spill isn't the lost energy, it's the destruction and the cost of clean-up. The implication of this article is that retrofitting 75k homes somehow cancels out or equals an oil spill. At
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I find it a bit odd that Gruber fails to mention the obvious motivation behind this: to get people to click on the links and increase their traffic. It's not about SEO black magic or increasing their ability to track links, it's including a
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It's worth noting that crackers have been working on the Starcraft 2 battle.net for months and still don't have working multiplayer. Server emulation is a lot harder than cracking a single player game. The future of profitable software is i
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This is based on the number of items shipped. B&N needs to outfit every one of their stores, while Amazon only needs to supply a few warehouses. Also, Amazon has a headstart on production and may already a large number of kindles on han
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It doesn't hurt that Bing is highly regarded. You've managed to work on one of the best technical successes that Microsoft has pulled off in the last few years.
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The problem isn't the organization, it's the depth. This site is based around news items and self-submissions that act like news items. 25-48 hours after submission, no one will bother commenting on an item. There's no room for depth of dis

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