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by asto 15y ago
I'm only reminded of their existence when I'm surfing slashdot
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by asto 15y ago
Their responsibility is towards shareholders with voting rights. As far as I know, the voting rights are skewed in favour of Brin and Page. If you don't have a significant voting right, you are a mute spectator at best and if you don't like
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Reasons Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free(photoprofessionals.wordpress.com)
2 points by asto 15y ago|1 comments
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by asto 15y ago
It's one thing to be brutally honest with people and quite another to disown your own child, deride subordinates for silly things, destroy people's public reputation and park in multiple spots meant for handicapped people! People who are ho
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Steve Jobs: Not a very nice person to know(livemint.com)
32 points by asto 15y ago|14 comments
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by asto 15y ago
I thought they just brought the 5D Mark II to show how much the iPhone has caught up to photos taken with a camera. And not to say "hey! we're there now, the iPhone can replace a really good DSLR"
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by asto 15y ago
If the bot posts (legally) objectionable material, I'm guessing it's not the bot that goes to jail.
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Is Google+ deliberately crippling Opera?(blog.arunbalan.in)
2 points by asto 15y ago|1 comments
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by asto 15y ago
I think the reason why many find it useful is the speed at which you can work because of all the shortcuts. I'm still faster on Geany though :-( need to use Emacs more to remember all the commands
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by asto 15y ago
Plenty of users are having problems with a sluggish server. Maybe they just don't have the server resources so accommodate more people.
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Is Apple pushing away professionals?(pcpro.co.uk)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
"Hey! Let me show you a magic technique!" :-) I think of a trick as something only you or only few people know about regardless of how much it gets used. A technique is something that is more widely in use by people.
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Google just wants to be #3. Here's why(memeburn.com)
1 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
Yeah, I always thought Labs was a part of Google's identity. What next, no doodles because it's a waste of time? :-(
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Copyright czar cozied up to content industry(wired.com)
6 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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Why I don't use an i-phone(gdgt.com)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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What is your favourite C programming trick?(stackoverflow.com)
137 points by asto 15y ago|144 comments
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by asto 15y ago
Okay, I'm pretty new here too. Here's the article I'm referring to. It's quite interesting, give it a read http://blog.hirelite.com/warning-signs-in-a-non-technical-co...
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by asto 15y ago
Dude! You're like that guy from that "how to spot a bad non-technical co-founder" article. Pretty sure this is a troll.
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by asto 15y ago
To do away with death is to do away with evolution. Not a very good idea. We should work towards improving the quality of life rather than extend it. Would have been happier if the article was "as more people fall to chronically painful ill
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Enough about html5 video already(streamingmedia.com)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
Premature optimisation is premature until it's not. Caching is an easy boost and is among the first things I enable on a wordpress or drupal install.
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by asto 15y ago
Rather sneaky, that.
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by asto 15y ago
From page 76 (on macros) of K&R: "The expressions are evaluated twice; this is bad if they involve side effects like increment operators or input and output."
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RIM CEO posts youtube apology for Blackberry Blackout(youtube.com)
1 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
That's a bad summary. They ban you in a way that you don't realise you've been bannedd till you look for signs that you have. My blog got banned from there too. I only posted links from my personal blog there and never participated in any o
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Not cool, Reddit(stochasticgeometry.ie)
23 points by asto 15y ago|24 comments
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by asto 15y ago
They did admit it was a mistake and apologised. That's quite a lot of big businesses these days
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by asto 15y ago
I'm a commerce graduate from India. When I graduated I realised the only jobs available to me are ones outsourced from developed nations - uninteresting back office jobs. Since I was pretty good with computers - I use linux, can bash script
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by asto 15y ago
Stick to what you're doing for money. Hack away on the side for fun and knowledge. Joining another firm/company can be quite weird for you. And lonely. I doubt there will be other kids there. I checked out your website. There's still plenty

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