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by gregrata 9y ago
wow, that is nicely done!
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by gregrata 9y ago
I would personally like to have groups of things that can be unlocked - that I can define - Nothing - essential what's on lock (weather, maybe news headlines) - Face - basic stuff - games, calculator, News apps - Fingerprint - mail, ca
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by gregrata 9y ago
Very cool! Can't remember the last time it's just DOWN (which is saying a lot for how good FB is able to keep things up!)
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Plan to hang a wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth is unveiled(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by gregrata 10y ago|0 comments
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by gregrata 10y ago
You'd think people would get that, but the white-board algo interviews continue on.
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Interviewing SUCKS(youtube.com)
2 points by gregrata 10y ago|2 comments
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by gregrata 10y ago
"Did Ayyadurai really invent email? He claims to have created the idea — literally calling his product EMAIL — as a teenager in New Jersey in 1980. However, as this detailed site explains, there have been a number of versions of email
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Media blog Techdirt fights for its life in frivolous lawsuit(techcrunch.com)
4 points by gregrata 10y ago|1 comments
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by gregrata 10y ago
That's 2.35 GB vs 2.26GB - how is that 5%
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by gregrata 10y ago
Very cool! Thanks for the info!!
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by gregrata 10y ago
A summary would be awesome - I appreciate the amount of work and details that went into this, but a list of what worked and didn't would be a great start - interested readers could then dive into details
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by gregrata 10y ago
shrug I guess you could say the same thing to the original author (it's just in your head). If you lived in a place that is 80% black, at least in the south, and have not run into a black person that is not very racist towards white
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by gregrata 10y ago
Great piece. One thing I find interesting is, as white guy, I've had very similar experiences when living in the US south. I would often be the only white guy in a store or on the street in certain areas - and felt like I didn'
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by gregrata 10y ago
Great read! "Thanks" for all the Wikipedia links - I ended up wasting a few hours reading more details
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Wear Marty McFly's shoes(techcrunch.com)
2 points by gregrata 11y ago|0 comments
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by gregrata 11y ago
While this would be great, I'd personally like to see the tax code change - being taxed on the "value" of something you can't realize, and my NEVER realize, is crazy. Most of the time I've been at a startup as a fou
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by gregrata 11y ago
So the parent said "in space" - doesn't mean another star.
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by gregrata 11y ago
"Experts have long seen such iron-clad security as a necessary first step before commercial transactions can become common on the Internet, the global computer network." - "Even if the N.S.A. was listening in, they couldn&#x2
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100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime(amazon.com)
3 points by gregrata 11y ago|1 comments
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by gregrata 11y ago
Fire ants: the one species that I'd like to see wiped out!
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by gregrata 11y ago
... "may be phony" Oh LOL, isn't this well known? Are people really just now figuring out NOW that this is, and always has been, about lowering expenses for these big companies? I mean, they aren't really even trying to
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by gregrata 11y ago
Wow. Fred Fish and his Fish Disks! Haven't thought of that for years. Used to love them - a huge amount of my Amiga software in the mid to late 80's came from them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish T
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Bill Gates biggest fear – could kill 33M humans in 250 days(businessinsider.com)
5 points by gregrata 11y ago|3 comments
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by gregrata 11y ago
I've found the opposite, if you'll allow that eBooks are real books. To me, it's a golden age of books - with self publishing and eBooks, there are more books coming out ever day than ever before. I personally read AT LEAS
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by gregrata 11y ago
Agreed! Have to be careful with the "we". I read a couple of books a week.
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by gregrata 11y ago
Used to be one of my favorite apps - used it a few times a day. Until great bate-and-switch! :) http://locationplay.blogspot.com/2014/08/so-long-and-thanks-...
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Programmer Interrupted(blog.ninlabs.com)
1 points by gregrata 12y ago|0 comments
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KVM and Docker LXC Benchmarking with OpenStack(de.slideshare.net)
1 points by gregrata 12y ago|0 comments
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by gregrata 12y ago
> buy them as early as you can, Careful on this one - when you buy, it's a taxable event. The spread between what the IRS thinks the company is worth and what you paid is taxable. You have to pay that NOW. I've known people t
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Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer?(ask.slashdot.org)
1 points by gregrata 12y ago|0 comments

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