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by bullseye 15y ago
>> Apture really is one of our most popular third party apps Site operators are not always the best group to determine what makes an overall good browsing experience. In this case, I agree with the other posters that the service c
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by bullseye 15y ago
Bank of America is currently facing a potential class action lawsuit for this very practice. I have no idea where it is at, or if it will be successful, but one can hope.
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by bullseye 15y ago
>> So, Larry Page wants to own Google and Akamai, he's already got plenty of google stock and a bag of money, and he's decided to buy shares in the other company. There is a pretty significant difference between Google buying Akamai
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by bullseye 15y ago
>> why doesn't their company have a build farm? I've seen you reference this multiple times now. Based on experience as a consultant, I think you are giving most companies (or at least their IT dept) way too much credit.
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by bullseye 15y ago
Perhaps not as easy as it used to be, it's always encouraging to see that there are still apps in the app store that can pull huge numbers on release. On a side note, I wonder which Lodsys patent this one violates? :)
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BankRate CEO talks IPO(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by bullseye 15y ago|0 comments
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by bullseye 15y ago
Asking for a lawyer does not fall under probable cause, which is what they need to arrest you. "He looks guilty" is not probable cause. And if they already have cause, you really want to have an attorney present. I don't understand why this
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by bullseye 15y ago
No one is likely to confuse panes of glass with an operating system. If those same hardware companies started selling branded software, or probably even computer hardware for that matter, it would likely be a different story.
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by bullseye 15y ago
It seems like it would be just as, or more, effective to run two different type of ads rather than attempt "gender-free" descriptions.
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by bullseye 15y ago
Microsoft applied the "Community Promise" to the ECMA C# and CLI standards a couple of years ago. http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx
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by bullseye 15y ago
>> if "young" accounts have very limited votes available will new users be less likely to stick around long enough to become more active voters? I suppose that depends on whether or not they are on the site to read submitted news
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by bullseye 16y ago
CB: Are you a real person? User: No. CB: Who are you? User: I am the smartest bot on the Internet. CB: I'm the smartest one. User: No, you haven't even passed a Turing test. CB: What is a turing test? User: If you don't know, then you are N
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by bullseye 16y ago
>> And there we go - the typical HN oh no, it costs money... Why do you think this is unique to HN? In my experience, this is a common mindset. If anything, I think you have a higher ratio of people willing to adopt commercial libra
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by bullseye 16y ago
As far as articles go, I'm not impressed with this one. Although I'd be willing to admit that my interest in all things Wikileaks is seriously waning. That said, there was little to no information about the actual data center, other than a
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by bullseye 16y ago
According to the article, in addition to blocking links, the company's fan page was also removed. Is this also part of the phrase blocking routine? (This is a genuine question and not an antagonistic attempt.)
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TSA Pat Down Went Too Far, Agency Chief Says(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by bullseye 16y ago|0 comments
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by bullseye 16y ago
I'd like to request grid.ww.com (if it is no longer in use). I am about a month away from my project's initial release, but if it's available, I can go ahead and set up the target site and domain. Regardless of the outcome, thank you.
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by bullseye 16y ago
>> There's no real incentive to answer questions in chat. Is this a good thing? Personally, I don't know, nor would I care, how to implement a reputation system in chat. But I would hope that the answers in chat would be of the same
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by bullseye 16y ago
>> # non-closed questions (broken out by answered/non) Are the labels flipped? When AcceptedAnswerId is NULL, wouldn't that indicate a non-answered question?
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by bullseye 16y ago
You just described a poker room's rake perfectly.
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by bullseye 16y ago
Maybe you could create some additional research/marketing value by combining your current efforts with something similar to the information available in Netcraft's "What's that site running?" utility? ( http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph )
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by bullseye 16y ago
>> What would be the benefit of offering Flash for Linux, or Mac OS for that matter? Presumably it would be the same benefit that caused them to make Silverlight available to multiple platforms and browsers.
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by bullseye 16y ago
>> Is it because everyone wants to know what the business is? Yes.
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by bullseye 16y ago
Does Google drive a significant amount of organic traffic to Stack Overflow for short term searches? I permanently disabled Instant after a few searches, so I have no opinion one way or another as to the effects of it on search. However, it
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by bullseye 16y ago
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Please-Think-Twice.aspx
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook fixing privacy tools(usatoday.com)
1 points by bullseye 16y ago|0 comments
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by bullseye 16y ago
> Otherwise their next shot at a media slot is launch day, and they better not mess it up. (cough) Cuil (cough)
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by bullseye 16y ago
We weren't able to use the online verification service , which is the reason I wrote the program I described. It didn't validate a "good" SSN, but rather filtered out bad ones. http://www.ssa.gov/ and http://www.socialsecurity.gov both
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by bullseye 16y ago
I wrote an application for a banking client a few years ago that required a valid SSN. In addition to using the information available on ssa.gov to check the validity of a number, I built a simple filter to exclude valid, but otherwise frau
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Defend Your Research: Imitation Is More Valuable Than Innovation(hbr.org)
1 points by bullseye 16y ago|0 comments

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