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by fpp 14y ago
It's great that access to higher education material is becoming more open. This is already a big step. Certification / getting a top-level university degree is unfortunately something completely different. Splitting those two is part of the
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by fpp 14y ago
...and judges to enforce it?
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by fpp 14y ago
It's always been a big challenge to manage thousands of MS Windows desktops and it certainly has not gotten substantially better with BYOC / mobility of users. The real challenge for MS will come with establishing Windows 8 in the corporate
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Sony launches new Tablet S - Terga 3, Android 4, 8MB camera(presscentre.sony.eu)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
Doing an AMA on Reddit does more for global health than mobilizing the 6th fleet
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MATT TAIBBI: Greed and Debt - The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital(rollingstone.com)
8 points by fpp 14y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
Maybe as an engineer he should have just cut himself a rectangular piece of cardboard (size 7" / 10" - optional with rounded corners to not harm himself), draw a screen on it and take it into his hand(s). He might have then realized that th
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An Event Apart: Spirit of the Web(lukew.com)
1 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
A short note on the express pro/cons: It does come with a MVC example, but you can of course also use one of the well known frameworks like Backbone, Spine, Knockout etc. Idea here is lightweight and a solid foundation that allows broad usa
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by fpp 14y ago
Great when they finally will start mass producing this technology - perfect for large cities in India, Argentina and Brazil e.a where already lots of small vehicles run on compressed natural gas (CNG). BTW - This story has been all over the
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by fpp 14y ago
not working in Chrome Version 21.0.1180.77 on Linux
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by fpp 14y ago
Thanks for the info (I'm in the UK as well). Our current approach is to create our own machines with dedicated & VMs we rent cheap and setup ourselves. Always interested in recipes to do that. Nevertheless we are currently evaluating ma
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by fpp 14y ago
Have a look into NodeJitsu http://nodejitsu.com/ They recently opened up their services to the public and still have a free tier.
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11 of 14 most popular SSO systems broken incl. Salesforce XS40 Wordpress Drupal(nds.rub.de)
4 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
Seems like old user accounts wont work any-more - instead requesting to log in with a FB account - guys just forget it right away. but then "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" (Speak no ill of the dead)
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by fpp 14y ago
After the Vista Candy shop its toy blocks now... - haven't looked under the hood of W8 yet but if MS wants to limit me what I can install on my computer / take over boot / BIOS control this one will certainly find no home on any of my compu
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by fpp 14y ago
Great work Remy - and works much smoother now than the previous versions Love the "Convert to" feature with HTML, CSS & JS
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by fpp 14y ago
Well said - similar happened in Europe during the 1970s with people being classified as (left-wing) terrorists (and a few might have certainly been) and being "transported" between countries by so-called freelancers - TMK quite a few did no
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by fpp 14y ago
and the recently patented wheel or the wooden stick (to throw your dog)
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by fpp 14y ago
Enough ranting lets get constructive before those xxx have ruined our industry completely. Step 1: It's election times soon so all politicians will normally be supportive to the one killer argument - patent trolls kill jobs in the US: (a) s
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by fpp 14y ago
If they would be a bank the answer would be rather simple - they don't. They would be fined e.g. 100M for such behavior and then receive 10B in "failure" support from one of the tax payer backed pots. With that fresh inflow of funds they wo
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HTC bags UK win in patent war with Apple - 3 pat invalid(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
and of course then the famous 14 days in the life of a microserf (now called 7 days in the life ...) might also be unknown. one of the first pre-prints of a book that made Wired famous (by Douglas Coupland). http://www.wired.com/wired/arch
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by fpp 14y ago
There are already technologies beyond reverse osmosis in large scale industrial use (and I'm not referring to brine or similar high energy approaches) Siemens has built a desalination plant in Singapore that works similar to dialysis (mimic
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by fpp 14y ago
It seems now you can go directly from a BS into a PhD program - in the past you had to have a master degree first before you were allowed into PhD programs. Still many programs in the UK require you to have a post-grad / master degree befor
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by fpp 14y ago
Have a look at their off-canvas layouts (by Luke Wroblewski and Jason Weaver) http://www.zurb.com/playground/off-canvas-layouts
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The Direct Costs from NPE (Patent Troll) Disputes(papers.ssrn.com)
125 points by fpp 14y ago|66 comments
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New Foundation 3.0 Playground Release incl. Off-Canvas Layouts(zurb.com)
1 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple v. Motorola: Judge Posner dismisses entire case - no injunctions(theverge.com)
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by fpp 14y ago
Been told at a Google meeting recently that there will be a new GDrive SDK introduced during the Google I/O If they are expanding their offerings it might go more towards Box(.net) than vs Amazon By that also the App Engine etc fit into the

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