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by hexis 13y ago
How does it work out when you figure in State, County, and Local spending?
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by hexis 13y ago
I opened an account about a year ago and did nothing with it. I had my account suspended about a week ago, after not really touching it that whole year. When I asked Dwolla about it, they couldn't tell me why it had been suspended, so I jus
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by hexis 14y ago
I wonder if this will help push Google to start serving AdSense over SSL?
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Tuning Ruby and Rails for Discourse(meta.discourse.org)
13 points by hexis 14y ago|0 comments
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Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost(amandablumwords.wordpress.com)
1023 points by hexis 14y ago|367 comments
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by hexis 14y ago
Anybody know if the SendGrid Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked? Considering they're under DDOS attack, I would be skeptical of these posts.
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by hexis 14y ago
I've been using this on and off for the past few months. Frankly, I prefer Google Reader to Fever, but I strongly prefer Fever to any of the other feed readers I've tried. I especially like that I can count on the server staying up and the
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by hexis 14y ago
I bet it came as a big surprise to the Harvard faculty that the same asshole stuff everybody else's boss does is the sort of thing their boss does, too.
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by hexis 14y ago
How can a natural monopoly have competition?
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by hexis 14y ago
I hate to be "that guy" and I hope this isn't unbearably naive, but why doesn't free software seem to even be mentioned in this discussion?
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by hexis 14y ago
Although, you should notice that the bug specifies "only free software".
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by hexis 14y ago
Why, then, does absolutely no one do that and offer it for free download?
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by hexis 14y ago
In this case, the opposite of a disorder sounds more like "order" than another disorder.
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by hexis 14y ago
In the US, at least, people still got famous for being bank robbers back then. The FDIC, which provides limited insurance for bank deposits, started their insurance on January 1, 1934. So, sophistication aside, it's an interesting question
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by hexis 14y ago
That was a really effective ad for, e.g., Rackspace's hosted email service.
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by hexis 14y ago
This book was actually the 4th volume of the series.
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by hexis 14y ago
"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?" Your own.
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by hexis 14y ago
"To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos." That is less clear than saying "We will not sell your photos." It's either a knowingly slippery statement, or they forgot how to not be slippery.
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by hexis 14y ago
Aside from the web design, they use a weird term in the copy: "Self Learner". I know what it means, but boy is it awkward.
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by hexis 14y ago
Only in the Shuttleworthian sense of you already trust MSFT with your data.
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by hexis 14y ago
He's a coder and a businessman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth#Linux_and_FOS...
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by hexis 14y ago
What's a genpop?
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by hexis 14y ago
It's easy to see the money they make from ad clicks, but it can be hard to see the money, reputation, and respect they lose to get it.
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by hexis 14y ago
"maintains no business presence in a state" Amazon's recently experiences with sales tax collection shows that a motivated government will keep its eye out for "business presence" and then regulate when it becomes politically useful. Freedo
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by hexis 14y ago
I recoil at Homebrew because it fails to successfully install relatively mainstream software that it claims to support (mysql, in my case). I do not recoil from apt because it regularly and repeatedly both cleanly installs and removes any s
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by hexis 14y ago
I just sat down and read that article and I didn't get any sort of sense of how important the USPS is. I did get a sense of how badly it's run, how powerful the employees's union is, how quickly (even in 1994) businesses were moving to elec
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What Apple Propaganda Looked Like 15 Years Ago: The 1997 MacAdvocate CD-ROM(splatf.com)
3 points by hexis 14y ago|0 comments
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What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?(powazek.com)
17 points by hexis 14y ago|4 comments
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by hexis 14y ago
> Lower your expectations. The happiest authors are the ones that don't expect much. This applies to life in general, as well.
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by hexis 14y ago
"Some service in the future is going to curate the top 100,000 or 1,000,000 queries into a list of great, precise results." So, basically, we'll see the development of yet another hierarchically organized oracle?

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