bconway

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by bconway 15y ago
It's interesting to revisit events like this in the present-day US. One can only wonder what sort of change might take place if rather than giving up 50% of what we make, we were allowed to reinvest it into our homes, businesses, and commun
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New Zealand police seize shotguns, money, cars in raid on Megaupload(washingtonpost.com)
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Demise of Kodak isn't merely the classic disruption story(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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June 6th is World IPv6 Launch Day(worldipv6launch.org)
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by bconway 15y ago
What's the concern for lock-in here - how difficult with DynamoDB be to migrate away from? Amazon seems to be increasingly catching the App Engine Syndrome, though to be fair, it's been mostly network traffic-style functionality in the past
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Microsoft offers some competition to ZFS, Btrfs(phoronix.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
How many attacks and/or suicide bombings have taken place during your time there?
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Return Path Expands To Austin, Acquires TC50 Finalist OtherInbox(techcrunch.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
$ telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu bash: telnet: command not found Heh, guess it's been a while.
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by bconway 15y ago
The variant (and converse?) I prefer (though not mine): After so many failed Google interviews, I found it easier to build a company and sell it to them, instead.
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by bconway 15y ago
Consider setting the Click-to-play option in about:flags. It's a built-in Flashblock equivalent for Chrome.
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by bconway 15y ago
Did you have it positioned in the sun/on the dash?
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ADHD drugs are now so over-subscribed, we're starting to run out(slatest.slate.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
Rather than shelling out £12 a month for a broadcast TV licence for my new house Could you explain this for those of us not familiar with the UK? You have to pay to watch TV that is already broadcast OTA?
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by bconway 15y ago
try treating the object as the first data type you expect, and catching the failure if that type wasn't that type, and then try the second. This allows users to create objects that are close enough to the types you expect and still use you
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Canonical to forcibly remove Oracle/Sun Java JDK from Ubuntu users' systems(h-online.com)
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Just closed more funding? My condolences.(codeulate.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
I think the problem was not in what you said, but the way you said it. Rather than slipping in a plug at the end of your post, I've noticed that posts with the style of "I agree this is a problem, here's a company/project I've founded to do
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by bconway 15y ago
I see this as a triumph of the Android ecosystem. Carriers (Verizon) have the option of doing the right thing and not inflicting this invasive tracking software/rootkit on their users. With Apple's our-rule-is-law, whether you're on AT&
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DNS Seizures Take Out MegaUpload(torrentfreak.com)
8 points by bconway 15y ago|1 comments
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by bconway 15y ago
Original link: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-dropping-Co...
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CEOs: Burning bright or burning out?(cnn.com)
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Why Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the next Steve Jobs(cnn.com)
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Jobs regretted not getting surgery earlier for cancer(cnn.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
It seems that you still can't get a gaming-worth MacBook (upper model discrete GPU) for less than 2500 bucks when spec'd appropriately. A PC-based laptop with Core i5 and AMD HD6630M (also used in the upper model Mac Mini) goes for $950 and
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Students blame education bubble on Wall Street(businessweek.com)
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Motorola sued by Google-funded company over Android patents(zdnet.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
Many states allow you to opt out of paying for schools in your property taxes after a certain point (usually retirement age). It drops the tax rate significantly for older folks, obviously shifting the burden to those in child-rearing years
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1 Semester Startup - 77 students and 20 startups(engr.utexas.edu)
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by bconway 15y ago
why do FB users care about seeing the updates of just anyone in their friend list? If the things they're saying aren't (regularly) of value, they wouldn't be on my list.

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