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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces [video](youtube.com)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Editorializing the headline, no thank you. "Microsoft Courier tablet designs leaked" or the original "Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet" would have been better. From the guidelines: You can make up a new title if you want
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by danw 17y ago
That's a bit of a scammy looking url. At a glance I thought it was a ycombinator.com link
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by danw 17y ago
It's both. I hear from some friends at mobile operators that the radio network code on the iPhone is pretty troublesome compared to other vendors. At the same time iPhone users use more bandwidth than certain operators planned for. Operator
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by danw 17y ago
I've used this before. It's got a lovely api but uses far too much memory.
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by danw 17y ago
Quick, let's post all the dilberts and xkcd. That will get us karma and contribute to the quality of news.yc!
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by danw 17y ago
I'm more concerned that this is a single anecdote. If it was an explanation of the fascinating government subsidized insurance model that the german health care system uses I would approve.
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by danw 17y ago
This seems rather off topic.
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by danw 17y ago
I think you'll find that's a feature, not a bug
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by danw 17y ago
Also see tools like R3 - http://developer.yahoo.com/r3/
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by danw 17y ago
"Schools need wireless networks; the pupils need a device (handheld computer, or laptop) each, which they have access to whenever it is needed" Why do we need one laptop per child in a school? Computers are useful tools but hardly central
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Government by Iteration(aza.etherpad.com)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Personally I love Faber Finds for their dynamically generated covers http://www.faber.co.uk/faberfinds/
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by danw 17y ago
I've attended both the London Yahoo hackday's myself and found them wonderfully well run by lovely people. Personally, I would feel terribly uncomfortable if they had booked dancers like this for entertainment. It is a bad idea for two diff
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by danw 17y ago
Check out "CoinFlipper" [0] - a series of machines designed to flip coins to land on the side you specify. They're so brilliantly delightful. After months of testing, experimenting and usage the coin only once landed on it's edge with the m
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Facebook's Snazzy New HQ Unveiled(unplggd.com)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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What would Clay Shirky do?(russelldavies.typepad.com)
2 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Ah, sorry. Hadn't realize the instapaper text view needed login.
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by danw 17y ago
See Panda for another example of this http://pandastream.com/
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Just sell it(russelldavies.typepad.com)
14 points by danw 17y ago|5 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Better column width and no full screen adverts: http://www.instapaper.com/go/12579157/text
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by danw 17y ago
> The fact is in spite of the heavy retweeting, although it gained the attention of people for a short time, its actual impact is not much more than #MUSICmonday or #Followfriday Normally yes, but in this case it nudged other news outle
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by danw 17y ago
In which case pointing the story link at wikileaks which carries the report, the MPs question and a link to the Guardian "we're gagged" story would have been best.
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by danw 17y ago
Turning a few hours of online outrage into something actionable that fixes the problem is hard. Like with the Iran elections.
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by danw 17y ago
Here is the question asked in the parlimentary records: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/newhtml_hl?DB=... And here is the report in question on wikileaks: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_dum... Wha
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by danw 17y ago
That's an useless submission headline. Switch it to something that tells us what the article actually is.
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0870 iPhone App Sales and Revenue Stats(simonmaddox.com)
2 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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The two App Stores(marco.org)
64 points by danw 17y ago|12 comments
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by danw 17y ago
My local blackwells has had a similar service for a while. The trouble is they charge more for an on-demand book than an off the shelf one. I've never seen anyone use the service.
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by danw 17y ago
Your service is opt-in, people choose to RT your messages. That's seemingly fine. The problem is twitter is a broadcast service. If one of the people I follow chooses to use your service then I also get to see your advert. Admittedly this i

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