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or here.... if you don't want to go through itunes - http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-steve-jobs-onstage-full...
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The basic problem with iPhones, according to a Boeing source, is that Apple’s produt uses proprietary software. Each app would carry a $200 charge, the Boeing official said, posing what could be a significant costs to the services. Umm...
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They still milk their engineers for everything they're worth - big or not. Bandwidth is still a finite resource. Your solution would be to hire more people, but hiring doesn't translate to quality of work and often time leads to the opposit
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I wish I knew what this was addressing before actually reading through it. Is there some kind of weird relationship between ObjC strings and C strings... ?
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1. Build stuff - start small, you need incremental achievements and 'wins' to keep motivated. It's a very long road where the highs can be really high ands the lows can be really low. 2. Take stuff apart - its okay if it cost you 100 bucks.
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If they don't want to, I'm sure others will swoop in for an opportunity to get mining rights. There's going to be plenty of suitors because the mining terms will probably be very good since Afghanistan's credit rating is so bad. They're not
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U.S. troops set up bases last month along a dirt track that a Chinese firm is paving as part of a $3 billion project to gain access to the Aynak copper reserves. Some troops made camp outside a compound built for the Chinese road crews, wh
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Yup, here's an article dating from 2009 http://www.sananews.com.pk/english/2009/03/08/chinas-thirst-... China's already built roads to the area, and US soldiers are protecting the Chinese construction effort
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The title of the article's a little misleading. The US discovered some treasure maps with a big red 'X marks the spot' that the Soviets made in the 80's from the second page - In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a
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i'm pretty sure the Afghans aren't crying
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i agree, except that a commodity trader will find a way to get the parties to the table and make everyone money. religious fanaticism and money aren't mutually exclusive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilat_Ashkelon_Pipeline_Company
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if one person does two different things, there's probably a connection. I'm guessing not everyone shares both of the things in this posting.
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Saw Rodrigo Jordan at Stanford a few months ago. Really impressive guy, seeing him speak in person about his experiences and lessons was thrilling. Most of the topics are the same in this video, some of the content differs though. The talk
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very cool. from a personal standpoint, I guess I can understand how doing startups and climbing can fit together.
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wow, thought it was just me. I just got back from Mt. Rainier memorial day weekend. No summit, turned back at the flats, but still had a great weekend. I'll probably go back next year.
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Darvaz: The Door to Hell(englishrussia.com)
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I didn't bother looking at the link, but with regard to the above comment, humans - at a scale - are predictable. We wouldn't have successful fields like psychology and economics if that weren't the case.
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Statements like the title of this article make no sense to me. They suggest nothing ever changes and external forces have no effect. 50 years of technology and markets suggests very few things don't change. Look at the auto industry. Look a
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Any company building enterprise level products puts thought and experimentation into choosing their algorithms. Google just advertises their research publicly as part of their branding.
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db2 and oracle both implement similar compression algorithms. There's nothing terribly special about google's compression algos.
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huh? please elaborate on the specific portion of history you're referring to. If you're referring to any of the historical industrial revolutions, worker conditions tended to be terrible.
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funny... though that was easier to read and less obfuscated and hideous than code i've encountered in real life.
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Anyone ever read the history of the OED? It's a fascinating and ill conceived project that took 70 years to actually yield a product (mind blowing when you compare the time and growth of Wikipedia). If you know a little about it's history,
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looks way more readable than modern patents. Almost like it wasn't written by a lawyer. Only 4 pages.
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AAPL, RIMM, GOOG, etc have the same pattern because they're part of the composition of the major indices, so their typical behavior is to track the major indices. If something causes the index to spike or fall, large volumes of whatever the
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The agenda of press writers is to get readers. Ask any editor that wants to keep their job (just look at Gizmodo and this iPhone 4G circus). It's in their interest to write about the pop culture icons of our industry so they get readers. It
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Lately i've seen several posts related to sleep issues. Is that a common problem around here or something? I've had a horrible time getting to sleep for years.
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I think his point is that Excel is a powerful weapon in the right hands. Most people don't do much with it, but it's powerful none the less. If dollars were points, many trillions in commerce and complex decisions have been made on the resu
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the "gravitational sink" argument makes no sense. you could have said the same thing about microsoft 10 years ago, but look at what a difference 10 years has made. silicon valley and the technology industry is a desert of shifting sand dune
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6 months of intense, hectic, and hard unpaid work? You'd learn more by spending 6 months on your first software or web startup for probably roughly the same cost. If you make no money, you'll still learn a ridiculous amount of stuff in thos

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