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by dataminer 15y ago
I have accounts on Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger since their early days but my use of both of these services has diminished over last couple of years. I have observed the same attitude among my friends and family, all of them still hav
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by dataminer 15y ago
Ryan Singer http://twitter.com/rjs if you are into design, interfaces, software engineering and getting things done
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by dataminer 15y ago
and as reported by BBC, he left the city to live in peace and quiet for a while.
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by dataminer 15y ago
I have worked in two different kind of companies during summers while I was in highschool, a Japanese auto parts manufacturing company had a very interesting structure, from the President to the temp assembly line associate, all wore white
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by dataminer 15y ago
Its a similar case in Canada, even though we produce and export oil, gas price here are usually a dollar more than US gas price because of higher taxes.
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by dataminer 16y ago
Does Paypal website payments pro offer transparent redirect like Braintree?
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by dataminer 16y ago
I doubt if Lazaridis response would have been any different, since he is quite defensive these days, but BBC could have framed it as a privacy issue which is a more accurate description.
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by dataminer 16y ago
Actually eBay is quite safe to buy if you pay via Paypal. eBay has a policy of 45 day return period during which you can file a case in eBay resolution center under "item significantly not as described" and send the item back to the seller,
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by dataminer 16y ago
Sequoia invested in youtube and it turned out very well for them. Color is more likely the next youtube instead of next facebook. I haven't tried Color yet, but from what I have read it makes it dead easy to share photos and form social gro
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by dataminer 16y ago
I am using firefox 4 beta and its almost as fast as chrome plus some extensions I can't live without are not mature enough in chrome for example pentadactyl + nosquint (hinting doesnt work well with vimium + autozoom), gmail checker (checks
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Verifone asserts that Square has a gaping security hole(youtube.com)
2 points by dataminer 16y ago|0 comments
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by dataminer 16y ago
Beside having very thoughtful founders, I think US revolution succeeded because the power was not concentrated in federal government, states were more or less as powerful. Most other revolutions failed because a dictator was removed to inst
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by dataminer 16y ago
I am on Teksavvy and a Netflix subscriber. I found Netflix catalog to be quite good, it may not have any blockbusters from the past few decades but it has a very good selection of indie, foreign and old movies. Netflix Canada also has good
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by dataminer 16y ago
This is a great alternative to vimperator, just switched to pentadactyl and really like numbered hinting.
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by dataminer 16y ago
The author concluded with "because real change in the world is a rare thing, and it’s a shame that people would miss the chance to watch it unfold." I really hope that real change happens in Tunisia, most of the revolutions even though succ
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by dataminer 16y ago
noscript + flashblock + adblock give me a faster browsing experience too. I do disable adblock on nytimes, reddit, google and any other site which provides good content so that it keeps on getting revenue from ads.
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by dataminer 16y ago
I invest in antiques toys, watches and watch parts and some metal by buying antique silver coins and gold coins. With advent of ebay, antiques have become quite liquid. However, just as with any other investment vehicle, antiques require du
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by dataminer 16y ago
Its a good idea to use Keepass and Keyfox to generate different secure passwords for every site instead of using one weak password for all the sites.
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by dataminer 16y ago
I make it 6 :)
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by dataminer 16y ago
This might be slightly off topic, but I see Ryan's name in the announcement, he did a very interesting talk about "Designing with Forces: How to Apply Christopher Alexander in Everyday Work" http://vimeo.com/10875362
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by dataminer 16y ago
What a wonderful suggestion! Thank you, I have just read the first chapter and it was an eye opener.
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Ed Catmull on Why do successful companies fail and how to avoid it(youtube.com)
2 points by dataminer 16y ago|0 comments
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by dataminer 16y ago
Khan Academy on Chartbeat http://chartbeat.com/dashboard2/?url=khanacademy.org&k=0...
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Getting Financing for a Movie (Children of Invention) by Tze Chun (youtube.com)
1 points by dataminer 16y ago|0 comments
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by dataminer 16y ago
This might be helpful http://blog.iteleportmobile.com/quality-over-quantity-how-we...
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Vista Speech Recognition - Perl Scripting (youtube.com)
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by dataminer 16y ago
There were couple of points he attributed to the success. 1) Eyecandy (he said it is 50% of the battle, on iphone people love eyecandy) 2) Getting genuine reviews on the blogs which allowed the app to go viral 3) Make an app for yourself, i
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by dataminer 17y ago
Then find a niche which doesn't interest the guy at other end and grow from there.
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by dataminer 17y ago
This is awesome, I can read books, watch videos in my backyard under the sun. I want this tablet