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by akd 18y ago
Just buy your printer while you're on a road trip, and pay cash. Wear a hat.
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by akd 18y ago
How many people have you teased for being technologically inferior, such as writing "u" instead of you or accidentally installing Gator? When you rip into other people for doing this, even if not directly towards your girlfriend, she sees t
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by akd 18y ago
Oh no, someone's written something on the Internet that's not relevant to wmeredith!
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by akd 18y ago
This article is idiotic, but the higher-level point is that people should kill SMS with applications that send messages as Internet data. This is more likely to be AIM or Yahoo messenger than Facebook chat, but with so many devices out th
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by akd 18y ago
It's precisely because everyone else has thought of it that it's essential if you want to have even a fighting chance.
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by akd 18y ago
Women certainly do have a greater biological imperative to reproduce than men. It's for the very simple reason that a woman's fertility starts declining in her early 20's and bottoms out around age 40 -- a man's fertility erodes very sl
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by akd 18y ago
Make a good story about how you want your work to help other people, and also play up the diversity angle if you have something like an immigrant parent. That's what my NSF friends did (except those who were so excellent that they didn't ha
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by akd 18y ago
The 1% is better than "very rough" :) Assuming 1/3 of Americans go to college, and a life expectancy of 75 years, there should be a little more than 1 million college grads per year, and those schools together should graduate roughly 7-1000
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by akd 18y ago
Best to call her the "co-founder." She's the non-technical head. The technical co-founder is her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, who created the first robust implementation of x86 virtualization. Quite impressive that these two have been togethe
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by akd 18y ago
Ever tried to make an interesting movie about guys who love their wives, are great fathers, and never do anything bad?
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by akd 18y ago
This list has been completely skewed by Turkey; it should be "Turkey's Top 10 Public Intellectuals."
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by akd 18y ago
I think Neil Young is misguided here. He is a very successful musician and has spent his whole life in sound. Obviously he's going to have a much more finely tuned ear than the general population. But the number of people who are like him a
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by akd 18y ago
When your counterparty in a transaction is a $100b business, they have an interest in keeping their end of the bargain. When your counterparty is a 14 year old pimply-faced kid, he has no incentive not to pay. It would only work with a cent
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by akd 18y ago
It's a bit different when you're an NBC / News Corp joint venture. The whole issue of getting your name out there, networking, etc. is not really an issue -- the CEO makes 10 phone calls and has all his content lined up. Also the amount of
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by akd 18y ago
The MySpace audio player is pretty good. It gives you the name, upcoming songs, volume control, etc. all of which are missing from this.
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by akd 18y ago
The nature of phone calls and emails are extremely different. Email is better for articulating complex ideas because you have the time to think them through; phone calls are better for hashing something out with someone live since the laten
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by akd 18y ago
> Past the third generation, minorities stop being minorities. They become culturally indistinguishable from the overall society. Excuse me? Black people are culturally indistinguishable from white people in the USA? And the whole misce
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by akd 18y ago
> I think it is because in 2008, we expect a certain level of uptime for web services. Exactly. Google is free, but what if you couldn't access it one day a month? Sure, you could just use Yahoo, but people would still be steaming mad.
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by akd 18y ago
He probably wants a "green" option so he can advertise it on the site itself -- that will make it popular with the hipster crowd, the kind who has the Facebook widget "My Profile is Carbon Neutral" (ignoring the obvious fact that the greene
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by akd 18y ago
This author seems to be writing software for money, not for love. You can try to achieve both but ultimately one will have to take priority.
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by akd 18y ago
I don't get the allure of Twitter but I know that's because I haven't made the investment to figure it out, and don't actually know what it does. If I signed for an account and started using it I'm sure I'd figure out a way to make it give
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by akd 18y ago
Haha, I can see that. My friend has 10 or 15 Wii games but all we play is Wii Tennis :)
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by akd 18y ago
This is not a rehash of previous topics, but is mathematically flawed. I commented on the blog itself since there were more comments there than here.
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by akd 18y ago
Steve Jobs is notorious for inspecting product prototypes and sending products back to the drawing board because a certain gap is half a millimeter too big. This is pretty much the same behavior as Gates exhibits in the story. This is bad m
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by akd 18y ago
Just post the vulnerability to a forum 14 days after notifying the company.
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by akd 18y ago
If you parachute into mainland Africa, the most likely outcome for you is death. I had a friend who worked in Kenya for a few months and the class conflict was so tense there that he had six armed bodyguards on the advice of his employer.
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by akd 18y ago
No, in the "art" worlds much of what is respected by other artists is completely incomprehensible to ordinary people. Unless you're trying to win design competitions, the measure of a good web design is how well it is received by your site'
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by akd 18y ago
This is an asinine response, especially for the top comment. Of course the only way to learn is by practicing, but the right guidance can enhance the amount of learning you get out of each hour practicing. It's like asking for a violin teac
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by akd 18y ago
Finnish?
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by akd 18y ago
It may be too little too late. Symbian is dead on the smartphone right now, but Nokia's iron grip on the mobile phone market is going nowhere. It will need a complete tear-down and rebuild, and quick, to be effective.

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