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by dbuxton 15y ago
> Investors will be placing their bets on who they believe has the better legal standing and lawyers in this new patent war Surely investors will be placing their bets on what the minimum amount of money that Yahoo! will take to go away
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by dbuxton 15y ago
I have lots of friends who are teachers here in the UK. The only metric that they really care about is whether or not their pupils achieve a grade C or higher at GCSE (age 16). A very high level of effort is focused on D/C borderline studen
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by dbuxton 15y ago
This obsession over theoretical network speeds always surprises me. It seems to me that when 3G is good, it's really good, and that improving things like signal strength/coverage and decreasing network congestion will have a much greate
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What happens when a day goes missing from history?(thesmartset.com)
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by dbuxton 15y ago
Arachnys ( http://www.arachnys.com ) Full time - White Bear Yard, Farringdon, London We're looking for smart Python developers who want to be part of a growing startup solving exciting and technically challenging problems. Our product gathe
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by dbuxton 15y ago
The tone of this entire thread is very paranoid and it's not helped by slightly rash comments like this. The EFF says that you can't be required to unlock encrypted files without a court order. https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privac
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by dbuxton 15y ago
I've never seen this at either the British or the Canadian embassies in Moscow...
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by dbuxton 15y ago
London, UK Arachnys, a global intelligence startup focused on emerging markets business information, is looking for ambitious, multitalented devs. We gather and analyse multilingual business information worldwide to help companies manage ri
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by dbuxton 15y ago
It's pretty obvious that this is Scoopler, no?
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London or Cambridge (UK) - Arachnys, fresh from angel funding, is looking for our first employee - a backend hacker for machine learning and multilingual nlp on big data sets. We're building multilingual search tools for business research i
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by dbuxton 15y ago
I love the idea but I'm not wild about giving my Dropbox key (which has about as much sensitive valuable data as my email) to a random wild application. Dropbox really need to allow users to lock down application API access to a specific pa
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by dbuxton 15y ago
Wow cool unfortunately in the UK not Seattle but a man can dream...
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Incidentally, I would love AirBnB for dogs if someone wants to build it - I hate sending my dog to a commercial kennel but sometimes that's the only option. Surely there are lots of people out there who would be occasional dog hosts and roo
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by dbuxton 15y ago
I was talking about something similar earlier today with a friend from high school. We were talking about how it was totally un-cool to disagree with the "consensus" about which girls were hot and which were not. We were imagining what it m
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by dbuxton 15y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen stuff suggesting that Dropbox occasionally purges copyrighted files from its system (which is made super-easy by the hash fingerprinting system that it uses to deduplicate storage) so I agree that this is not likel
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by dbuxton 16y ago
> The salon scheduling example is particularly naïve, because scheduling software would not add much value to either salon owners or customers. Interestingly, someone told me recently that his sister, who runs a salon, spends a ridiculo
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by dbuxton 16y ago
Until recently, the Oxford All Souls entrance exam had one paper which was a single word that you had to write about for three hours. I gather that they've dropped it now, I assume because it confirmed for many people that the main thing an
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by dbuxton 16y ago
I think this is fun (and I'm glad to see no longer attributed to Shaw). A lot of people - especially native English speakers who apply these sorts of rules without ever thinking about them - would benefit from thinking a bit more carefully