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We have computers in our pockets that send a signal to space to locate us anywhere on the planet within a couple of feet, then tell us how to get where we want to go. We can communicate instantly, instantly with people on the other side o
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15y ago
Yes, it's essentially federalism in practice. Working as intended.
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> Get rid of your stuff. You need a suitcase of clothes, a computer and, well, that's about it. The more of the rest you can get rid of the better; Don't deal with the hassle of selling it on craigslist, just take it all to Goodwill an
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15y ago
So when faced with a sticky situation, he does what he thinks is ethically right, then makes $78,000,000 (with six zeros). If someone can't step back and evaluate that situation for what it is, they have a serious issue with perspective.
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> is either a very dedicated audiophile or just has a lot of time on his hands. Why this passive aggressive line in an article praising how cool and pretty this amp is?
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> Generalists like Hillman Curtis, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are becoming more and more uncommon. Citation needed. I'd argue that they've always been uncommon, which is why you know who they are.
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15y ago
> Often, people wonder why I spend $50,000 a year going to design school, when I can learn how to make things that are just as shiny by reading psdtuts.com. How is this relevant? Also, no one wonders that.
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15y ago
Afterparties have been great to me. I've made a lot of good connections and had a lot of doors opened for me that couldn't have happened during a lightning talk. Talking over drinks really makes it easier to speak confidently about oneself.
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> To be clear, this is R&D – it doesn’t in any way involve a product at this point, and won’t for a long while, if ever – so please, no rumors about Steam glasses being announced at E3. http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/13/2947088/va
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I didn't realize the New York Times was the yardstick that we use to measure the worth of tech startups.
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15y ago
His tone is so arrogant and condescending. >I recommend all the ethical distros — namely, those that are 100% free software. i.e.: Any distro that uses anything that I don't like, namely 100% free software, is unethical. >If you don
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15y ago
So let me see if this makes sense. This article is talking about how stomach turning and skin crawling Girls Around Me is. To demonstrate this, the author writes a wordy, boring blog post in the style of a short story and posts pictures of
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15y ago
This article reads like a rationalization by a college student who is basing all of his knowledge of these places on second-hand accounts and stereotypes. Does this guy really think that San Francisco isn't diverse? Does he really not under
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15y ago
> without forcing everyone to become serfs. Calling people who willingly cede less than a third of their profits for access to the giant infrastructure and advertising Apple has at their disposal is a bit of hyperbole. It's a mutuall
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15y ago
The cynic in me says that facebook is doing this because the employers didn't go through the proper channels (i.e. pay facebook for that kind of access) and it's a message: If you want that kind of data, you have to pay for it. I hope this
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Maybe he's always been just an arrogant grad student: >Re 2: your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. I can only hope (and assume) that Amoeba doesn't suck li
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>(for instance: job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass; I was, fortunately for all involved, in a different state when that happened) Why? Because you would have beat his ass? Cause you would have s
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FTA: >During our tests, I held the new iPad in my hands. When it was at its hottest, it felt very warm but not especially uncomfortable if held for a brief period.
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Beautiful infographic, but I wish I could get more information on what it means. Without knowing how buzz was measured and calculated, the stats on the graph don't as mean much. I understand that it's basically an ad for tracx and figuring
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...Redditors find some way to blame Apple and "hipsters"
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That last two paragraphs really sum it up: We have no idea why this happens, all we know is that it's really really important because everyone (except for a few crazy libertarians) says it's a big deal. Even people who used to like Ayn Rand
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This article completely misses the point of why people buy iPads. Nobody buys an iPad because of the specs, or the innovation, or how many graphics cores it has. People buy iPads because they are awesome little computers that are easy to co
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>Hmm, I disagree. In my opinion, 'clean' web design means the now sadly old-fashioned approach of: have some text, marked up to indicate emphasis, headings etc., then let the damn browser decide what it should look like. What you're des
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>This brogramming thing would definitely turn off a lot of women from working" at startups, said Chipps. How about, change women to everyone - no one wants to work with an egotistical douche who thinks he's special. Especially if he thi
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I don't understand why people get mad at Apple. Get mad at American consumers for demanding, no worse, feeling entitled to paying extremely low prices for very high tech things. Apple could use American manufacturing and either produce crap
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I mean, the guy has a huge banner with a picture of himself on every page of his website. He seems to think that developers who are into music creation are unique to Rails (it's been my experience that there's a high correlation between pro
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15y ago
Bronto - http://bronto.com - Durham, NC. A marketing platform specializing in email. Our clients include Etsy, Trek, Sam Adams, and Armani Exchange to name a couple. We provide a web app with which allows our clients to send email, SMS, a
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>Except for creating an HTML-file and understanding how all that works. Using chrome? Hit [ctrl+shift+j|cmd+option+j] and you can write JavaScript without any HTML necessary. Other browsers have similar consoles that need no HTML to wri
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15y ago
Come work with us at Bronto! Code reviews required before commits, new development laptop every 18 months, mature SDLC, fantastic QA team that has your back, phenomenal engineering management, and an awesome culture (free beer on Fridays).
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Until I use this, I'm going to hold off on the excitement everyone seems to have for it. The tagline is "The Device the developer community is waiting for." That's great for the developer community. Unfortunately, the developer community is
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