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by barkingcat 16y ago
I'm not sure that's a real excuse for a cooking site to look like that, even if it were in beta. But I accept, perhaps the people who run the site didn't have time (or money) and just applied the default templates, and tried running it to s
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by barkingcat 16y ago
Oh wow. That cooking stackexchange is hideous. There is no visual connection between the topic and the design - why use blue gridlines and pencil shaded widgets for a food and cooking site? It seems more of a drafting or a tailoring site. I
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by barkingcat 16y ago
I actually dislike in-place editors. As a writer of posts, I actually prefer to edit and write text outside the context of a webpage. There's too much visual distraction - images elements, ads, columns, etc that end up cluttering the editin
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by barkingcat 16y ago
For the IPO process, at least in Canada, the 1st sale of stocks are already spoken for - basically, there wouldn't be an IPO unless a certain threshold of institutions wanting to purchase blocks of the stock has been secured. What you see o
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by barkingcat 16y ago
I think one problem they had early on is that technology is not the answer to an editorial and writing problem. Many people on the newslabs lists questioned their experience in journalistic and publishing oriented endeavours - the founders'
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by barkingcat 16y ago
How much money was spent on 40,000 pills? It must be at least a down payment on a house. How did he keep a job with the residual mental effects of the drugs? Or maybe it was family money.
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by barkingcat 16y ago
It's called schematics. There is a huge underground market for system board / chip / electrical level schematics for every single type of consumer electronics in China. Since schematics printed on paper, in a binder, etc are relatively easy
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by barkingcat 16y ago
I doubt that anything is really final in google's hands. just look at how fast android is changing and evolving. Google will do what it needs to do to reach their goals, even if it means that they need to break backward compatibility. This
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by barkingcat 16y ago
There is nothing such as foolproof technology - that's why a large part of the firewall is powered by people. It helps develop computer skills in a large part of the population that would otherwise be out of work, and you reach your censor
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by barkingcat 17y ago
What if there is a close to zero chance of you going to jail everytime you do it? When the government and the banks are in collusion, that's what you get.
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EventNinja - A Mobile Cross Platform App(uxebu.com)
1 points by barkingcat 17y ago|0 comments
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by barkingcat 17y ago
Slicehost and Rackspace are the same company, by the way. They share datacenters, and a lot of the support infrastructure.
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by barkingcat 17y ago
as a consumer destination site and a social networking hub, twitter is much more "popular" than RSS. If we define popularity as being visible in popular media, and generally acknowledged by a large portion of the population around the world
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by barkingcat 17y ago
I was in your shoes years ago. I dropped out of computer engineering and ended up getting a degree in english literature - and I kept improving and learning programming and systems design. Now I am a literature nerd who can also code. That