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by gyardley 14y ago
It was edited after the fact but before your comment, which makes the conversation moot.
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by gyardley 14y ago
That's signatures needed - the amount remaining before in theory it gets a response from the White House. It means people have been signing the petition like gangbusters. Probably thanks to BoingBoing.
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by gyardley 14y ago
The comments on this post are depressing. Whatever your attitude about the White House's goofy petition site, the efficacy of 'online activism', or what-have-you, Aaron Swartz's grieving partner thinks signing this petition will help shed a
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by gyardley 14y ago
The "don't do it if it's going to make you miserable" stance is a nice switch from the usual "startups are suffering so go read some Marcus Aurelius" attitude we get around here.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Now I get to see what's stronger - my desire to try Mailbox or the fingernails-on-chalkboard irritation of an app on my phone that doesn't do anything.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Class action trolls only go after entities with money. You only need to worry about them when things are going well.
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by gyardley 14y ago
They certainly weren't: http://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-...
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by gyardley 14y ago
Not being a jerk at all. If it's alienating, it's alienating. Although it's interesting, because I like being targeted. If someone organized a nearby tech event that was accompanied by a big rack of ribs and an evening of firing off guns
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by gyardley 14y ago
Oh, I wasn't making any judgements. Male crowd, female crowd, whoever the organizers want at their event is perfectly fine by me - after all, it's their event. I'm just interested in the tools they use to get wherever they want to be.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Pairing an activity with another highly-gendered activity will most definitely change the gender ratio of your combined activities. Here 'yoga' is playing the role 'pizza and beer' does at most hackathons - I know there's tons of exceptions
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by gyardley 14y ago
Hopefully someone from Readmill is around to satisfy my curiosity - why would someone raise an eyebrow at that? When I commuted into and around NYC, reading on a larger-than-phone device was always totally unremarkable, so I'm confused. T
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right - it does need to be understood.
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by gyardley 14y ago
This is likely happening because the public is more likely to click on an arrest-related ad for a black-sounding name. Higher click-through rates mean higher ad quality scores, which in turn mean lower minimum cost-per-click rates, which in
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The End Is Not Nigh For Colleges(chronicle.com)
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by gyardley 14y ago
He had in mind the BBC's House of Cards.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, the first verse of my translated study Torah is 'When God was about to create heaven and earth...' This corrected interpretation's not particularly new, either - it's based on a commentary from an 11th century rabbi. However, like it
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by gyardley 14y ago
Whatever the merits or demerits of the copy-paste blocker's argument are, surely I'm not the only person who highlights text on the Internet as I read it, or who regularly right-clicks and uses commands from the context menu. I doubt I'll b
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by gyardley 14y ago
Really? The King James Version of the Bible has the most beautiful language of the batch and will help you understand much about modern literature. Compare that to something like the somewhat-more-accurate but dry-as-dust New Revised Standa
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, although if you want to read the Torah / Tanakh as Jews understand it, I wouldn't just pick up a Bible. Assuming you don't read Hebrew, I'd get the New Jewish Publication Society translation.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I wouldn't recommend the King James Version of the Bible for its religious content, not being a Christian and all, but it's essential for understanding half the allusions of English literature. If you haven't, try it. The 1769 Authorized Ve
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, because people have many kids as an economic strategy. If you believe you'll need your family to take care of you in your old age, you'll have more kids. Of course, the reason why people don't believe they need their family's support
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by gyardley 14y ago
It sounds like you're interested in the legal and bureaucratic mechanics of it all. While you can also find all the content scattered around his blog archives, Brad Feld's 'Venture Deals' puts it all in organized book form. Keep in mind tha
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by gyardley 14y ago
I don't think my parents are assholes. Sure, I did when I was a teenager, but that's because I was egocentric and had poor impulse control - in short, a teenager. Thank god my parents were doing their job instead of trying to be my buddy.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Good lord, just discipline your children. Set clear rules, make sure they understand those rules, and follow through with enforcing those rules.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Seems to be that way. I just got a second 'Twitter Password Reset' email with more explanatory information now, almost two and a half hours after the first.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Fair enough, fire-sales happen all the time. Perhaps I should have written 'puts a floor under your acquisition price until your company fails.'
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'd expect this to be the case every year. Companies can only acquire companies they can afford. When you take outside investment, your investors want a significant return, which places a floor on your acquisition price. The value you have
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by gyardley 14y ago
When I was a kid in small-town Ontario, buying tax-free cigarettes was a lot like buying marijuana - you went to the guy who was known to sell them, who was usually hanging around the high school, and he hooked you up. In my day the cigaret
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by gyardley 14y ago
No. You don't put your relationship with Apple and the App Store at risk for a 'publicity stunt'.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Vine is getting attention in part because it was acquired by Twitter, and is Twitter's move in the video space. However, Vine got acquired by Twitter because it took something that was rather complicated - editing short video - and made i

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