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SteveC
16y ago
I think you mean "Triumph of the nerds". There was a follow up to it called "Nerds 2.0.1 - Brief History of the Internet"
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17y ago
This is a link to an article about hemorrhoids.
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17y ago
"Your website visitors are really confused." No, your website visitors are really confused. i.e. me
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17y ago
"developers love paypal" Do they? Because I've never met one that does.
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17y ago
The printing press. The cause of scurvy and how to deal with it. Canned food. How to use cowpox as a vaccine for smallpox.
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17y ago
It seems that colour blind people can't see css background images either.
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17y ago
That sounded somewhat sinister.
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17y ago
I use PayPal to sell subscriptions. If the card fails it will make two more attempts in three day intervals before cancelling the subscription. You should have been able to cancel any subscriptions when you log into PayPal. Your experience
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17y ago
In the UK what you can do with a pre-nuptial agreement is very limited.
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17y ago
Your problem was that you gave after a couple of days.
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17y ago
Somtimes I start to regret dropping out of education early, until I really think about it and realise that dropping out was the best thing I ever did. I have no student debt, a profitable start up, interesting work, and gave myself a better
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18y ago
I contacted someone with a serious member badge and she says it was given to her for free and she never asked for it.
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18y ago
Did he have an explaination as to why the images are so small on the actual profile?
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18y ago
The worst part of the design is that it squashes the photographs and makes people look awful. The photos are too small as well which makes them almost useless in some cases. The userbase is pretty bad, but that's my personal experience for
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18y ago
You can take them as an adult but you'll have pay for the exams yourself.
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18y ago
I haven't watched it yet but I'm told that the directors cut is much better and should be watched first.
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18y ago
I actually refused to show the third to friends because it was so bad it actually ruined the first a little bit.
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18y ago
Long hair and beards?
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18y ago
It's like the lottery for software developers.
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18y ago
That's when they realise they can't be wasting time on social networking websites thanks to the wife and kids.
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18y ago
I recall a study where they said nobody would live beyond a certain age due to the probability of accidents occuring (the age was something like 200-300 years old).
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18y ago
I heard the same thing about iPods and when I actually used one I found them to be horrible.
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18y ago
I think he just used his superior intellect to deduce where the real killer hid the body.
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18y ago
Paul Allen, who reportly did alot more programming work than Bill Gates, recieved less equity. Allen was working for another company at the time and so Gates argued that he deserved more equity as he was working on Microsoft full-time. The
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18y ago
I've read in interviews with IBM employees that the reason why IBM let Microsoft own the rights to DOS was that they were just coming out of antitrust litigation and were afraid of it happening again, not that they didn't understand the val
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18y ago
No, but I make up for it when speaking normally.
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18y ago
How did you force yourself not to think in bed? My brother who can fall asleep in a few minutes says he can do this but I've never been able to do it once. My mind just wanders the second I lie down.
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18y ago
No one is "required" to use Windows however Microsoft is still a convicted monopolist. Ebay are certainly using their market leader position to lock out competitors in the payment system arena. Anyway, I didn't make the claim that they're a
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18y ago
The first things that come to mind are the raising of fees and locking out payment methods other than PayPal.
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19y ago
A good business mentor/advisor can be extremely helpful at the start, although finding one can be difficult if you don't know what you're looking for, which was my experience. My first business mentor, while excellent at running his busines
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