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by halo 18y ago
Except that watch looks more like a stylised version of the Swiss flag - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Switzerland.svg
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by halo 18y ago
I think this is a good antithesis to some the hype that you read about growing a big business on the "next big thing", people taking millions from venture capitalists before selling to Google and the like. Rather it focuses on doing somethi
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How Not To Sell Out: Talk by Matt Haughey of MeFi on growing a site into a small business(metatalk.metafilter.com)
16 points by halo 18y ago|4 comments
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by halo 18y ago
If it helps, Microsoft provide free Virtual PC images of IE6, IE7 and IE8 for compatibility testing. Only downside is they time expire after a few months when they provide a new version and you'll need to convert the virtual machine to anot
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by halo 18y ago
If you read, I did actually say that. FWIW, I intend to install some flavour of Linux (likely Ubuntu) when I get around to it. All the applications I use tend to be multiplatform these days so I'm OS neutral - there's honestly no applicatio
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by halo 18y ago
From what I read, ~2.5hrs vs. ~3-3.5hrs - not altogether unexpected considering the significantly more power hungry graphics card on the Dell.
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by halo 18y ago
I bought a Dell M1330. It is: * Lighter than the Macbook (but there's not much in it) * Same screen resolution (1280x800) * Slot-loading disc drive, but with a DVD Writer * Nvidia 8400M compared to Intel X1300 graphics * Had 1gb more memory
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by halo 18y ago
If you're using the same values in 100 different places in a stylesheet you're frankly using them wrong. There's actually a decent point there - adding variables will undoubtedly encourage that sort of thinking and create further constant a
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by halo 18y ago
My own personal opinion is that whatever language you're using (or, indeed, in mathematics) using redundant brackets is generally the best idea anyway. Removes any ambiguity, easier to read, doesn't need you to remember precedence rules and
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by halo 18y ago
Actually the one thing that has put me off using one of these applications is the lack of availability of a library of decks and is probably the main advantage of a web-based approach. I'm not a fan of the over-proliferation of social netwo
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by halo 18y ago
Almost certainly Java 7.
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by halo 18y ago
IMO you should offer free subscriptions to people for creating decks - this free content will attract more people to the site and make you stand out and differentiate yourself from competitors like Supermemo or Mnemosyne. The "content is ki
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by halo 18y ago
Rather than creating a large reply, I'd rather put it down to what is the single biggest problem is that, in my eyes, trumps every single thing in his essay: Ugly widgets, icons, fonts and badly thought out standardised user interfaces in b
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by halo 18y ago
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned http://ping.fm which seems to do the exact same thing
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by halo 18y ago
So contrary to the initial sentence, you're actually saying it isn't impossible just that you're just against funding it for other reasons...
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by halo 18y ago
On a related note, there's a Gzip quine (a program which produces itself as an output) floating about which I thought was quite impressive if you're into this sort of thing.
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by halo 18y ago
It wasn't the point of the article I now feel smug about being able to identify that Newton-Raphson implementation before reading the line below.
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by halo 18y ago
Because the concern is low-price and spec, not size.
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by halo 18y ago
This should be a bad hardware vs. good hardware debate, not a closed source vs. open source debate - people who try and turn these problems with an obviously poorly made product into an sort of 'open source debate' are missing the point.
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by halo 18y ago
>but Yahoo search existed way before Google search Not to be pedantic, but it didn't - Yahoo didn't have their own search engine for years, only searching of their traditional hierarchical directory and using a 3rd party's search engine
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by halo 18y ago
I'm surprised the more logical combination of adding a "Print with Lulu" button to iPaper hasn't been added with commission for each sale going to Scribd (and possibly, in the future, the original author of the document so the platform coul
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by halo 18y ago
The iRex iLiad has a touch screen as well as being eInk.
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by halo 18y ago
Is unlocking software illegal in the US?
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by halo 18y ago
I don't think I'll ever understand this. Unless you own shares, one company's success over another isn't really anything worth celebrating. This isn't a good vs. evil situation no matter how much some people want to paint it that way. Perso
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by halo 18y ago
According to their source, Elance use YUI containers combined with a bit of custom JS. This isn't anything special though - it's reasonably simple to write something similar from scratch and there's plenty of alternatives (e.g. Thickbox, a
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by halo 18y ago
If by "best" you mean "most pointless" and if by "FAQ" you mean "uninformed rant". There's no real substance, it adds nothing to the debate, uses unjustified hyperbole ("CSS is flawed"), doesn't show the added flexibility of CSS, overstates
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by halo 18y ago
In FireFox 3 it makes you jump through hoops to allow you access a site which has self-signed certificates or has one with an unknown issuer such as CAcert. The FF3 developers regard this as a feature as it may help prevent potential man-in
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by halo 18y ago
http://informitv.com/articles/2008/05/09/zattooclaimscopyrig... In the UK at least it seems they have no agreements with the channels and they're claiming it's legal under copyright law when in reality it's largely a gray area.
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by halo 18y ago
This is basically flamebait, but I disagree. Dell are the biggest low-end computer manufacturer which are, for the most part, significantly cheaper than their competitors. You sacrifice build quality and design to get that. I actually think
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by halo 18y ago
It really does depend on the book. Looking at Amazon, the Django book, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, The Pickaxe, CSS Mastery and The Ruby Programming Language are all <$30 each and are all well regarded. I'm sure there's plenty mor

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