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by awa 17y ago
Well, maybe when he created the account email address weren't mandatory during registration or as eogas said I don't think its hard creating a new account.
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by awa 17y ago
I doubt a college newspaper would rake in the moolah with online advertisement. I remember my college paper getting most of their paid ads from local restaurants and businesses They don't look very smart by not taking Viacom on their offer
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by awa 17y ago
I think its because Apple's main sources of revenue (handheld devices like iPod, iPhone...) are no longer conflicting with Microsoft's. Windows and Office are still huge revenue generator for MS and dominate their market.
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by awa 17y ago
The article seems a little biased to me: For Google: Revenue - Optionally opt for Google checkout, which has been a mediocre product so far. For Facebook: Revenue - Optionally opt for Facebook payments. Early, but we’ve seen good results in
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by awa 17y ago
They can push an update to Android and can switch the search provider to Google with/without user consent.
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Magic Paint And A Loquacious German At Microsoft TechFest (Videos)(techcrunch.com)
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by awa 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jasonmcalacanis If you look at your comment history, this is not true. Some people are down voting you extensively in this thread, this is not true for the whole community or even for your comments o
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by awa 17y ago
I was also interested in his replies, but it seems he has a different answer ready for the HN crowd and different one for the world as pointed by his tweets linked by jfarmer. For me, changing a statement like this is pretty close to lying
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by awa 17y ago
A good way to decrease caffeine intake is to go for a mix of normal+decaf coffee instead of a cup of normal coffee.
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by awa 17y ago
I somehow didn't get the message as you did, it seems to me that he is saying that we are brainwashed to be average and to follow the crowd and working at a job to earn a living is one of the notions that have been put in our head during ou
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by awa 17y ago
A race they can probably never win, people at twitter can post fake stories about the result without much harm to their reputation (apart from a handful of people) and for a hockey match about 50% would be right.
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by awa 17y ago
Again, I see no benefit to MS or harm to EU for using the broken algorithm... It sounds childish that the broken algo is a win against EU of some sort
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by awa 17y ago
Its strange that MS got this wrong as the shuffling questions is quite common in the Microsoft interview (as in many other). Though I do wonder if it makes any difference, may be they are taking this as an opportunity to do some research te
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by awa 17y ago
Same problem here, I have made a rule that I won't buy a book unless I finish one of my to read list. Though I still checkout books frequently from the library.
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by awa 17y ago
"Instead I resubmitted and bypassed the url-duplication filter by adding www to it." Why?
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by awa 17y ago
Link to the real article: http://searchengineland.com/admitting-role-in-google-anti-tr...
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by awa 17y ago
I agree, A common line of questioning Q: Have you ever worked with any design patterns A: Yes Q: Name a couple A: Singleton, Decorator Q: So, can you explain what's the decorator pattern and when it can be useful A:... Of course, the HR per
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by awa 17y ago
He also mentions: the official integration date here in Canada is March 1st, so I won’t ever have actually been an Oracle employee. It seems he didn't really had a chance to meet many people from Oracle, Of course all the Sun people he like
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by awa 17y ago
Actual headline: It’s a Wonderful Life: Mentally Subtracting Positive Events Improves People’s Affective States, Contrary to Their Affective Forecasts
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by awa 17y ago
In my recent trip to India, I found chinese knockoffs of the iPhone selling for about $50-60 in many markets.
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by awa 17y ago
I have tried doing this repeatedly for me individually and every time it has failed. The reasons: 1. Hard to define measurable goals: How many points for a bug fix. What if a bug fix requires 5 mins other requires 4hrs. Its hard to assign p
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by awa 17y ago
Why the downvotes? Don't newspapers also reduce the interaction among customers... I don't mind cafes banning or discouraging squatters or switching off wifi, but why are they stopping people from checking email during breakfast even when t
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by awa 17y ago
http://www.stanleyshilov.com/online-tools/convert-special-ch... in combination with Syntax highlighter http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
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by awa 17y ago
Uhmm... So I believe that newspapers and other reading materials are also banned in his cafe
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by awa 17y ago
Agreed... I stared at it for a few secs... tried to click on the boxes/truck. Then went to the "About" page which says nothing about the site/company but more about the people behind the site (at least I couldn't find anything relevant in
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by awa 17y ago
My father had major health issues after following a reduced salt diet as suggested by doctors due to his hypertension problem as his sodium fell below the usual levels.
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by awa 17y ago
So when you have those $19.99 offer pages and small textual link in the footer to cancel or say no, you consider that stupidity and not malice
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by awa 17y ago
There's nothing like truly owning your content, the content providers are dependent on Google to index and rank their site, hosting services to keep their site up and domain registrars for domain services. DMCA notices can yank any one of t
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by awa 17y ago
Wow! So Google simply deleted the blogs without any kind of investigation. It seems irockcleveland had had received many such notices in the past wrongly, they should have checked with the blog owner if the current one was of similar nature
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by awa 17y ago
From the article: I’m not positive whether 7 million attempts directly translates into 7 million iPhone/iPod touch users it’s entirely possible it’s just ONE GUY who really doesn’t get it

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