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The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine(bostonmagazine.com)
45 points by altay 18y ago|36 comments
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by altay 18y ago
i know some folks who'd be good to talk to. toss me an email and i'll put you in touch.
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The CEO Playbook: Smile Through the Mild Discomfort(bretterrill.com)
1 points by altay 18y ago|0 comments
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by altay 18y ago
My photos of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62117375@N00/sets/7215760577449...
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by altay 18y ago
Go LibraryThing! I used to work there and Tim is, indeed, a very inspiring person.
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by altay 18y ago
When you're spending most of your waking hours on a startup, your personal identity gets completely intertwined with your company's identity. So I think the the most important part of recovery is to separate those things. The goal is to i
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by altay 18y ago
Podcasts from www.venturevoice.com. Great interviews with entrepreneurs, and they're each about an hour long -- perfect for road trips. Complete list here: http://www.venturevoice.com/library.html
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by altay 18y ago
Do it. Worst case scenario, you'll learn a lesson or two the hard way. But they're going to be some pretty great lessons, and you're going to meet some pretty great people along the way. (MightyQuiz, winter 08)
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by altay 18y ago
This article, and the one from the other day ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176526 ) inspired a little idea: bite-size exercise. You subscribe to a (Twitter?) feed of simple, two-minute, quick-break-from-your-desk exercises, like "do
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by altay 18y ago
are there any web analytics packages that do these sorts of comparisons? my band played for a crowd of 3500 once -- that felt like a huge mass of people, but it's peanuts in web terms. it'd be fun to see random comparisons to meatspace in
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by altay 19y ago
Whatever his motivations are, the numbers don't lie. The Gates Foundation has the largest endowment in the world, by far, and they've got a pretty aggressive plan to spend it all. Here are some projects they've funded, a number of which s
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by altay 19y ago
He didn't say the chief evil is inequality. He said it was inequity. Those are two different things: http://ninjawords.com/inequity,inequality
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by altay 19y ago
we scale the difficulty of the questions dynamically, so if you're doing well it starts serving up harder questions, and vice versa.
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by altay 19y ago
we're working on it... =)
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by altay 19y ago
Despite the number of people who cared enough to vote in the poll, this actual news item only has 3 points. Should it automatically vote the item up when you vote in a poll? (On the other hand, polls would pretty much take over the front
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by altay 19y ago
Your slashdot.org thing reminded me of this list: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/27MichaelWard.html Email addresses it would be really annoying to give out over the phone.
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by altay 19y ago
http://venturevoice.com There's lots of good stuff on http://itconversations.com , too.
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by altay 19y ago
Uh, I think it was just you. =)
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by altay 19y ago
They're coming out with avatar figurines for Rock Band (the new sequel to Guitar Hero). Saw one the other day, and it looked just great -- bigger than the WoW ones, and cheaper, too. 3D printing has come a long way, and this is just the be
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by altay 19y ago
A lot of programmers seem to think the Facebook API is pretty interesting... and they've found the time to check it out, too.
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by altay 19y ago
Inventor of the light bulb, phonograph... and DRM! Edison was adamant that Edison recordings would be played only on Edison phonographs. His competitors, Victor and Columbia, shared the same playback technique, etching a laterally cut groo
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by altay 19y ago
Elimidate
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by altay 19y ago
The Simpsons
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by altay 19y ago
Definitely -- Tortoise is an old standby. The name "post-rock" feels a little absurd to me, though.
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by altay 19y ago
ummm... well, how might one convert milliseconds to seconds? here are a few ideas: - write a screenscraper to get the answer from here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1000+milliseconds+t... - or perhaps hook your function up to
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by altay 19y ago
any other douglas adams fans in the house? =)
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by altay 19y ago
getTime() gives you milli seconds. you want seconds.
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by altay 19y ago
Why would they need help? Our current president is an expert on The Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90DKubFKwVo
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by altay 19y ago
Also see the absurdly long list of pissed-off bloggers at http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/11/shelfari-spam... (Disclosure: I used to work for LibraryThing... and built their address-book inviter. I'd like to believe we implem
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"Pissing in the well": Shelfari spam and the social contract(radar.oreilly.com)
2 points by altay 19y ago|2 comments

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