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by bl4k 16y ago
A foursquare joke? what is this, 2010?
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by bl4k 16y ago
Note: IF you have flash disabled, you will not see it, since the 'listen' feature is a flash applet The easter egg is a simple 'beat box' icon below the original text much like the 'listen' icon under the translated text. Edit: somebody in
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by bl4k 16y ago
If I were to write a book, either technical or a novel, I would be tempted to hire a freelance copyrighter, editor and publicist, then list it on Amazon, Safari etc. myself. You can find these people on Elance and similar sites, but there i
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by bl4k 16y ago
I would guess that in such a case the largest portion of cost would be bandwidth.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Facebook is worth $2B This is ridiculous! It is not sustainable! Facebook is worth $5B Oh, come on, its a social network! Facebook is worth $10B There is no way it can ever really be worth that much! Facebook is worth $15B Oh now
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by bl4k 16y ago
Ye I think that is the difference. Most resources stocks have risk built into the price (from nationalization through to a drop in minerals demand) but Facebook hasn't done much wrong in the past 5-6 years.
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by bl4k 16y ago
It means most non-tech people spend all day on the damn site, either on their laptops or on their phones. For a lot of people today Facebook is the Internet
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by bl4k 16y ago
You can't really treat Facebook stock in that way, for two reasons: a) They aren't putting in financial performance to impress investors. They are growing the company. b) Treat it more like a resources stock were they have large mining leas
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by bl4k 16y ago
The images are not originals. I think ZDNet scanned original photos
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by bl4k 16y ago
Dart shots are not evenly distributed. You are more likely to get the height wrong then the width - this is because of how the dart travels. Darts dip a lot in flight - they do not move side to side as much. As a dart player, I guesstimate
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by bl4k 16y ago
It is obviously low-voltage halogen downlights, to the extent that this kid is either a paranoid schizophrenic or is trolling everybody. I scanned through his blog (which is a good read) and couldn't find anything that somebody would kill h
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by bl4k 16y ago
Any other Python devs still going to stick with 2.x despite this? I know I will be, for the foreseeable future. This was a big step for 3.0 adoption, but there is still a long way to go. It reminds me of PHP4 v PHP5, but with far less clear
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by bl4k 16y ago
That is more accurate. In terms of hardware + software it is closest to the Sun storage appliances which are Solaris or Linux with ZFS plus management tools. The Sun promotional literature[1] refers to 70%+ cost savings on their units over
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by bl4k 16y ago
> (does it count as commercial when they are not charging users for the video, but are monetizing the site with advertising? Yes. The license[1] mentions both 'free television' and 'renumeration from other sources' [1] http://www.mpegl
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by bl4k 16y ago
and everybody else this sloppy article missed nice to have a catch-all for your mistakes (btw the mistake they made is that they are taking pre-dilution percentage figures from 5-6 years ago and adding them to more recent percentage figures
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by bl4k 16y ago
"Man, making money like this is sooo easy it should be illegal!" "ah, Mr Cent.."
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by bl4k 16y ago
I have been without flash for almost a year now and I can't remember the last time I had a problem playing a video on YouTube. It has happen possibly twice.
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by bl4k 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Kordestani
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by bl4k 16y ago
Make something that is noticed. They will find you. 6+ years ago I went from knowing nobody in the valley to almost everybody within a few days. Just generate buzz and build a good product. Silicon Valley is tiny. You are only an email and
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by bl4k 16y ago
Users shouldn't need to know what RSS is to use it just as they don't need to know what HTTP is to read a website or what SMTP is to send email. The interface to using RSS has always been flawed, that is where the problem is.
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by bl4k 16y ago
I didn't say I agree with it - I said that is what you hear a lot of. Zuck and Bill deserve absolute credit for their successes.
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by bl4k 16y ago
It seems you can't be successful, especially in tech/web, without a dozen people hanging onto your coattails claiming that you stole the idea or that you were lucky. MySpace were written off as lucky spammers, Zuck a theif, Bill Gates stole
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by bl4k 16y ago
Yes, they are all in a race to the bottom, mimicking each other. I wish one of the blogs would hire a good roster of tech writers and put out 2-3 good articles a day, instead of 10-15 gossipy and poorly written articles a day.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Good list. I thought all of the usual tech blogs have been very weak and most good tech writing is coming from traditional sources or individual bloggers.
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by bl4k 16y ago
and to think, if the scammer had just bothered to write a poem he may have gotten the $2000
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by bl4k 16y ago
I found that AOL was nowhere near enough, wasn't 'true network' (I understood this at 10), was heavily criticized by the PC media because of this (which I also used to read) so I switched it off and discovered BBS's The BBS's were the found
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by bl4k 16y ago
And if they canned online - all the pundits will be saying: "Google is beating Microsoft because Microsoft DOESNT EVEN HAVE A MAPPING PRODUCT OR SEARCH ENGINE.. they do not see the FUTURE IS ONLINE.. blah blah blah.. " This is Microsoft p
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by bl4k 16y ago
Most of these guys were born and already famous before the steam engine patent - let alone the real industrial boon The Wikipedia summary isn't wrong, it is just misleading. The inventions and innovations that lead to the industrial revolut
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by bl4k 16y ago
or why to not put autoincrement id's into your webapp routes
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by bl4k 16y ago
There are some interesting points, but the wrong conclusion. The conclusions and lead-in should have been that as with the desktop market, on the web do not trust the platform providers. reply

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