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by cooldeal 14y ago
I believe he means that he needs to discuss this issue in person and will need a physical meeting, not that he invested without meeting them.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think the focus of HN and Reddit should be to surface content that is interesting to HN or to the subreddit. The rest of things like user karma, etc are(and should be) secondary in pursuit of the primary objective of the site - surface re
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by cooldeal 14y ago
My timestamps show a 3 minute difference. Reading the very short article and submitting the article via bookmarklet takes only one to two minutes.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think Live Messenger(the product) succeeded immensely with tens of millions of users. However, Live Messenger(the business) failed. People don't like to click on ads, and the server and engineering costs are non trivial. I don't think AOL
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Which also means that they can switch to a Macbook or a Windows PC whenever they want instead of a Linux machine. How does that help Linux?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
So you mean SJVN, HN etc. would cheer on a Windows RT laptop if it were THIN and CHEAP and allowed the user to install Ubuntu? Somehow I SERIOUSLY doubt that.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Funny to see something even more locked down than Windows being cheered by the Linux crowd. There are no native apps,you need a Google account to access it(don't know what happens if your Google account happens to get disabled for whatever
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Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work [video](youtube.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Here's more videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTS1f8vqAo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8vfzurnKw
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MacBook Sales Decline 6% Over 2012 Holiday Shopping Season(iphoneincanada.ca)
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From http://www.google.com/about/company/ "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
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It was working fine enough before they started doing a user hostile redirect on the maps site. Here's a video of it atleast being functional on maps.google.lu just today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DyYYVl8x6g
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Al Jazeera completes deal to buy Current TV(latimes.com)
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> Nokia has started discounting recently launched Lumia phones, indicating that they’re not exactly moving like hotcakes Huh what? The Lumia 920 is selling so well that it's going out of stock and Walmart increased the cost to $240.00
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A few thoughts: Is it sustainable as a business? Anyone know if Google is subsidizing these or if there is a profit margin, however small? I think it's all about attracting people to Google Apps for Business but if a lot of folks just load
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Success of the Chromebook? Sure there needs to be more data than being at the top of Amazon bestsellers list? Real hard numbers from Google would be good but I don't think they're going to release them(no Nexus sales numbers). Statscounter
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Ubuntu teaser counts down to January 2nd launch, hints at touch-based OS(engadget.com)
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MSE is effectively bundled with Windows 8 as Windows Defender.
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The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard(blogs.windows.com)
1 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>..trying to stop Windows 8 machines becoming as closed as iPads before they even get a chance to take off the ground. Better (and easier) to kill off a bad idea early on. Huh? Where can I access the option on an iPad to turn off secure
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Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot(fsf.org)
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> The fact it comes from person X instead of person Y, and person X is not like person Y. When you see it enough times, you start hypothesizing about why it happens. Then you share notes with others in your situation and your hypothesis
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>That's just one way sexism rears its ugly head at times in my experience Sorry but what in your story shows that it's sexism? It could easily have happened to a guy or been done by a lady security expert and is more a symptom of a supe
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by cooldeal 14y ago
What I learned from the post is the absolute lack of organizational structure or delegation for "Cryptoparty" with everyone going off to do their own thing. This is why structure is super important to organizing events. Coming to sexism, th
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In the video, they again claim that all the games will be free to play when they mean that all games will have what is essentially a demo version. Saying they're free to play is misleading.
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MS Research Offloads GPS Data and Calculations to the Cloud to Save Battery Life(technologyreview.com)
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Steam Hit by "No Connection" Error Worldwide, Some Users Locked Out Completely(news.softpedia.com)
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Microsoft's cloud-based GPS gets your location with a tiny fraction of the power(theverge.com)
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Microsoft's cloud-based GPS gets your location with a tiny fraction of the power(theverge.com)
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Microsoft Releases Wordament, The First Xbox Game With Achievements For iOS(microsoft-news.com)
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