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by flocial 15y ago
I've given up on reading books with the Kindle before even buying it. I actually bought it to read The Economist and The New York Times (via Calibre). The ability to carry a catalog of back issues, read without squinting at microscopic te
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According to the other post (Q&A), if Jonathan reported it as theft it would become a police matter. I think that sums it up in moral terms. If he bought himself $625 of coffee probably not. A nasty prosecutor might treat each cash t
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All in all a brilliant experiment illustrating the possibilities and pitfalls of social gifting. This is something a company like Foursquare can improve on.
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This being London and with their libel laws the author could indeed be setting himself up for trouble.
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It's like a homeless guy taking a gift of food and selling it to buy drugs rather than eating because to him "drugs are more worthy"
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I feel sorry for the moron who thinks he's making a statement with this. The card was a brilliant social experiment regardless of critics claiming it a stealth marketing campaign. People who participated felt good giving whether someone w
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by flocial 15y ago
git annex might be of interest to some: http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011.html#Handling_my_music_c...
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by flocial 15y ago
I don't think evade as in tax evasion is the right word nor circumvent more like bypass. Honestly, Apple should come to their senses on subscription content and just lower their take to something like 10% because they have make no significa
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by flocial 15y ago
Powered by cold fusion? This is similar to eneloop batteries I suppose where the energy circulates back in. Self-charging anything would change history.
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Lucas was a leading developer at mog.com from the early days and more of a Ruby hacker at the time.
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Before patent trolls, old school video game edition(1up.com)
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It's just one of those things that people say it's not a good idea then get used to it. However, it does provide a great way for spammers to get into your activity stream. It also gets in the way of twitter's casual model of following and
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From self-pics to startup(businessinsider.com)
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These Mac/iOS apps are great but making their site mobile compatible would benefit more people immediately IMHO.
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How does Scala drop these from the JVM?
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I love the design from a pure aesthetic point of view but if you're going for commerce it's "test or die" because at the end of the day conversion metrics rule your business. I'd like to know how this new design contributed to their bottom
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by flocial 15y ago
Well, if you yelled "down with government" on a street in North Korea you wouldn't be anonymous for long. If you yelled "f*ck the police" in the hearing range of an American cop you'd probably be identified and harassed. What's at stake is
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Twatlr: share Twitter conversations (example)(twatlr.com)
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Kindle edition https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle
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There seems to be a lot of obsessive passionate types in middle management though. I suppose they're hard to tell apart in the eyes of upper management.
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This is wonderful actually. I don't believe Google's motives are altruistic for a minute but the only way to make this debate stick is by having one angry giant of a corporation against it and lucky for everyone Google is the one. The syst
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Wow, that's just a straight up talent acquisition maybe with some patents thrown in for the impending legal meltdown. Remember the first acquisition Parakey? It was going to be a web OS of some sort so even Grandma can easily share pictur
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Well, just because some prominent luminary says it shouldn't be done never means it's always a bad idea. A lot of the basis against rewrites are for relatively mature projects still on a high growth trajectory or large installation base.
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They did what they had to do to turn this around. I think it came out a lot more expensive had they been more prepared and $50,000 is one whopper of a liability. Hopefully, they did some simulations for worst case scenarios. One thing is,
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Why can't something be medical AND psychological? Stress, bad diet, lack of social interaction, etc. Our bodies and minds are legacy material thanks to the technology we created. What I don't like about the medical profession is how they
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The real nightmare is Airbnb's handling of this situation. Slow and inadequate response, a founder trying to put a spin/silence the victim (this is called a coverup) and another founder sending a feeble email stating he/she"would enjoy mee
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Time for fat tax? Corporations trim fat(economist.com)
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Wow, Google couldn't just tell him, "dude, you got kiddie porn in your album". I commend this person's frankness but it still comes back to the lack of communication happening with Google support.
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(in the UK) Had the artist been based in the US, he'd be paying legal debts and a settlement fee the rest of his life and maybe serve time.
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Forgot where I read it but like true_religion said, some female programmers came into the field by way of secretary. As they kept typing instructions, they eventually figured out how computers work. This photo set from Bell Labs taken in t

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