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Facebook and Twitter's New Rival(nytimes.com)
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Why isn't Haskell popular in industry?(palgorithm.co.uk)
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Air New Zealand's outage last fall(danweinreb.org)
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The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide(caliban.org)
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Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring(wired.com)
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Anybots launches "telepresence robots" to handle your business travel(venturebeat.com)
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Rethinking the iPad Browsing Experience(blog.arc90.com)
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The Search Engine Backlash Against 'Content Mills'(technologyreview.com)
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by ab9 16y ago
My story is quite similar to yours. I was a software developer for several years. It was intensely disillusioning and after thinking the same thoughts as you, I quit. I've been unemployed for the last year and a half, trying to "figure thin
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Up in the Future (2009)(xavvy.com)
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by ab9 16y ago
I think that remained true at least until the early twentieth century. My high-school Russian teacher said this was because wealthy Russian families often employed French nannies, who taught some French to the children. You can see this in
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Hacking the Papal Election (2005)(schneier.com)
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"Reshare" in Google Buzz(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
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A Dao of Web Design (2000)(alistapart.com)
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HP subdivides the world(theinquirer.net)
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Turn on, tune in, drop out(avdi.org)
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by ab9 16y ago
Zuckerberg acknowledges that complex privacy controls are a problem. But I suspect that's only true because the defaults are evil. If users didn't have to worry about being deceived, they wouldn't complain about complex controls because the
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The Unanswered Questions About Google TV(newteevee.com)
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How froc works (functional reactive programming in OCaml)(ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.com)
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Extremely preliminary look at Twitter's Annotations(mehack.com)
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Facebook's High Pressure Tactics: Opt-in or Else(readwriteweb.com)
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Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"(eff.org)
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Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy – Prepare to Fork(devver.net)
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by ab9 16y ago
"Here in Canada we take the term fairly seriously (it's copyrighted)." Wow, I can understand a tweet being a creative work and therefore copyrightable, but a single word ?
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by ab9 16y ago
This is a duplicate submission. The original is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286952
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by ab9 16y ago
Interesting. I've read that under the rules of Islamic finance, which forbid lending at interest, people have exploited similar loopholes. In the UK, HSBC (I think) offers an "Islamic mortgage" product, in which the bank purchases the house
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by ab9 16y ago
"Biblical prophets instituted a similar custom, the Jubilee, whereby after seven years all debts were similarly cancelled.... As economist Michael Hudson has pointed out, it seems one of the misfortunes of world history that the institution
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by ab9 16y ago
I think the distinction, from Gruber's point of view, is simply that Gruber is not violating any laws or contracts, while Gawker is. Presumably, Gruber has never stolen any of Apple's property and is not under any contractual obligation to
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by ab9 16y ago
Ah, I didn't think of that. Thank you.
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The EURion constellation: how photocopiers avoid counterfeiting(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ab9 16y ago|0 comments

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