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domodomo
17y ago
Unfortunately with businesses that won't be a satisfactory answer, and they will go elsewhere. What's worse, they won't recommend you to other businesses, and as word of mouth is your cheapest and most effective marketing tool...that would
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17y ago
Must recommend this book again... On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/d... As I recall the responsibility of getting the 1541 working with the C64 was the res
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17y ago
You are an ass hat. (Apologies, I just so rarely get to name call in a way that is supported in graph format)
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17y ago
Ah and yet, this still does not qualify as something that "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people." If you don't hear that magical phrase, they don't really mean it. Reference: http://www.danwei.org/foreign_affairs/a_map_of_hurt_feeling
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17y ago
America exports Budweiser to other countries? I'm so sorry.
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domodomo
17y ago
Great! I'm a slicehost user and happy to see them here, but nice to be able to do this stuff in a non-platform specific way.
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domodomo
17y ago
Reminds me of Album-A-Day: http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/
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17y ago
Yea that seems about right for eBay. At least they didn't say the genesis of their company was when Amaterasu-omikami emerged from the cave of darkness, and became the sun over Japan.
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17y ago
Wow, never heard of Twilio before. Good to know something like this exists. Thank you.
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17y ago
I second audiobooks. I read mostly fiction in print form, but I find I have trouble getting through longer (400+ page) non-fiction books in traditional format. However these are perfect for audiobooks, as a good reader can really bring it
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17y ago
Thoughtful comment in source: <!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund -->
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17y ago
Do both sides of a skype call need to use the super wideband audio codec to realize a difference..?
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17y ago
I used to work in IT for a Taiwanese manufacturing company that sold to Walmart & Sams Club, with factories primarily in southern China (near Guangzhou). Spent a fair amount of time in these factories. First thing is, no factory makes
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17y ago
Last book: 1984 Current book: Master & Commander
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17y ago
On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore ( http://bit.ly/11KMaT Amazon). Commodore has been kind of ignored in computing history, but they were the first company to sell 1 million units. This book has a lot of big character
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17y ago
Heh, ah memories, I can somewhat relate. I was a student in Japan, but spent a bunch of time hanging out with Taiwanese business men in southern China after that. The first block of time I spent there (relatively short) I couldn't speak m
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17y ago
Meh, actually that's a good point. My first time living abroad was also in Japan, and come to think of it a good many people there were just there to party. For it to be positive you actually have to try and learn the language and engage
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17y ago
+1 here too. Living abroad and especially learning another language changed me, and a positive way. Not exactly practical for everyone, but if more people did this the world would be a more understanding place. Did it make me procrastinat
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17y ago
Nice job.
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17y ago
Crossing fingers for XBox Live.
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17y ago
Nice. This is application equivalent of a comedian "saying what everyone is thinking". When I lived in Tokyo, I always tried to do these kinds of mental calculations on the train on unfamiliar lines (already 100% optimized by daily commut
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17y ago
Getting back into Django after a long break, this jogs the noggin, thanks.