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Happy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
3 points by hexis 14y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 14y ago
The fact is that user control will always be a "security risk" and that there will therefore be a reasonable case to be made that use control should be restricted. A strong response to this line of argument is the Free Software perspective,
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Return to Sender (On the inventor of Email)(bostonmagazine.com)
1 points by hexis 14y ago|0 comments
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The Slow Web (2010)(rebeccablood.net)
1 points by hexis 14y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 14y ago
You should plan for your customer to tell you that, but it's complicated when your vendor tells your customer that.
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by hexis 14y ago
Considering I still haven't seen Psychonauts in the software center, I am prepared to be patient for these new games.
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by hexis 14y ago
"I remember getting an email from Sequoia asking for my personal presence (ie don't send a VP in your place) to some sort vaguely positioned mandatory meeting." By what mechanism can an investor in a firm, presumably an investor with less t
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by hexis 14y ago
In fact, "The Well Grounded Rubyist" is a "reworking" of "Ruby for Rails". The author mentions this relationship between the books in his "about this book" section at the beginning of "The Well Grounded Rubyist".
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by hexis 14y ago
"Apple, the most valuable company in the world, maniacally focuses on product experiences, down to minute details like the experience of unboxing an iPhone." Sure, they focus on the experience their customers have...using the physical produ
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The Final ROFLCon and Mobile's Impact on Internet Culture(waxy.org)
1 points by hexis 14y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 14y ago
I bet they could have bought the team much more cheaply a few months before Draw Something got popular. I wonder why they didn't...
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by hexis 14y ago
Are there any tech investors who say there is a bubble right now? Or do we not get to read about that until after the bubble pops and it becomes status-enhancing to have "known all along" that it was a bubble?
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by hexis 14y ago
Growth is the concern of investors. They want multiples of their investment, and hence want the company to grow.
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by hexis 14y ago
I had several friends with whom I shared a dozen or so links each day in Google Reader. When Google dropped the sharing feature in Reader, I basically stopped sharing with them and haven't found a replacement. Google+ definitely was not a v
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by hexis 15y ago
I have trouble with it at the sprightly age of 33.
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by hexis 15y ago
What gives you the impression that the things you do and say in public are not in front of them?
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by hexis 15y ago
Maybe it would be better to get rid of muggers instead of cash?
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by hexis 15y ago
Taxes are often levied on residence and behavior, rather than citizenship.
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by hexis 15y ago
In the meantime, any developer can make their own site more color-blind friendly without waiting for the drivers or the whole web to change. Why wait for someone else to solve a problem you can solve right now?
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by hexis 15y ago
As it is at least partially a recruiting event, the closer the invites go out to the event, the better they can match the invitees to the jobs they're trying to fill.
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by hexis 15y ago
You could also start a business and not hire employees. It's not right for every business idea, but if you can manage it, it's pretty amazing.
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by hexis 15y ago
I would imagine that school districts could co-operate among themselves to begin a project like this without Federal leadership. That they do not is telling.
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Hacking Hacker News(joelgrus.com)
503 points by hexis 15y ago|82 comments
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Apple Chief Unveils a New Product: Himself(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by hexis 15y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 15y ago
I almost wanted to bold it even in the quote. I actually missed it the first time I skimmed the post.
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by hexis 15y ago
Key paragraph: "We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire c
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by hexis 15y ago
The Facebook connect image is somewhat misleading. Sure, using FB connect can involve a screen like that, but you can also present a simple screen that only asks to "Access my basic information". Not nearly as confusing, doesn't raise que
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by hexis 15y ago
Clearly, it was not to find out what it means to beg a question.
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by hexis 15y ago
You can always interpret bad hiring practices as damage and route around them. My wife and I run our own tech business and I don't think any of our customers ever has or ever will care how old we are.
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by hexis 15y ago
A bad one.

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