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by hexis 16y ago
The URL for the actual group is: http://bostonandroid.org/
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by hexis 16y ago
Yes, if Midas Mulligan ran GS he would become Robert Stadler.
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by hexis 16y ago
I don't see any colors other than black and white in the theme on Chrome 10 on Snow Leopard, but I do see bold, underline, italics. I see the colors on Firefox 4 beta on Snow Leopard.
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by hexis 16y ago
Once one has power, what do they need understanding for? From our perspective, we would like the powerful to use their power wisely. From the perspective of someone with power, they are very unlikely to consider themselves unwise and in nee
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by hexis 16y ago
Yes, but in 2010 Facebook had a movie. No doubt Assange will be Man of the Year in 2012, when they make a movie about him.
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by hexis 16y ago
Direct link to the ebooks - http://books.google.com/ebooks
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by hexis 16y ago
I don't have anything better than my own anecdotal impressions, but it seems to me that early adopters tend to be smart, rather than rich. That said, most people I've known who were smart and not rich were also young. Most people I've known
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Why you may not like your job, even though everyone envies you(lemire.me)
7 points by hexis 16y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
"And the health care bill is huge for potential entrepreneurs; one of the major disincentives to quitting your job is the lack of health insurance." After all the debate last year, I still find claims like this so strange. As far as I have
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by hexis 16y ago
Yeah, but creeps shouldn't get any help. Make creeps work to be creepy and you dissuade the marginal creep.
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by hexis 16y ago
Or perhaps he watches Netflix Instant?
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by hexis 16y ago
Something I've learned in the last few years is that I can almost always think of a reason why I will be unable to accomplish any goal. Which is to say, if I only pursued goals I was sure I would accomplish, I would never pursue anything (w
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by hexis 16y ago
This article was talking about sales tax, which is unfortunately non-zero in Texas.
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by hexis 16y ago
Savings with a bank would typically continue to circulate in the loans the bank makes. Even if one were to hide money under a mattress, the effect would be very, very slightly anti-inflationary (by withdrawing currency from the market), whi
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Inside Ward Cunningham's Hardware Basement(hanselman.com)
1 points by hexis 16y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
I want to work with partners who want to help me succeed. Groupon seems to have failed that test in this instance.
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Amazon Working on Subscription TV, Movie Service (online.wsj.com)
3 points by hexis 16y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
The WSJ also ran an editorial taking the opposite view, which I just submitted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1586680
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Why Web Tracking Isn't Bad(online.wsj.com)
9 points by hexis 16y ago|2 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
For the Droid and Verizon, the answers are 1) You can run 2.2, 3) but the built-in tethering is disabled.
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Amazon announces new Kindles: Wifi $139, 3G $189(online.wsj.com)
1 points by hexis 16y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
Does anyone know if this will have some sort of way to trigger a "middle click", like when one clicks on the scroll wheel? As far as I've seen with Apple mice, they've never had support for middle click.
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by hexis 16y ago
I think Apple is actually behaving completely reasonably about the antenna issue. I wouldn't have thought so until I realized that during the last few weeks, while I've had my iPhone 4, half a dozen strangers have approached me in public to
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by hexis 16y ago
A problematic dual-loyalty is embedded in this list. "5. A journalist is obsessed with the Truth." and "6. A journalist serves the people." which was expanded on with "In telling all sides of a story for the benefit of the proletariat alon
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Amazon sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books last quarter(nytimes.com)
40 points by hexis 16y ago|33 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
"for about 150% less than I do now" Wouldn't that mean, instead of getting paid, you were paying them 50% of your current rate?
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by hexis 16y ago
The app store doesn't charge 30% of profit, it charges 30% of revenue. It's a big difference.
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Steven Levy On The Hacker Spirit(forbes.com)
29 points by hexis 16y ago|4 comments
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by hexis 16y ago
It seems like a licensing issue. Periodicals aren't available on any of the non-Kindle device platforms, IIRC.
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by hexis 16y ago
I think this approach also works very well for post-alpha projects. Often enough, the secret to satisfaction is patience combined with low expectations.

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