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The symbol the GP describing is an existing symbol, ฿, and is used for Thailand's currency, the baht: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_baht
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He didn't say anything to that effect at all. The only things that come close to that characterization are: 1. "If a site posts many items each day and you barely read any of them , delete that feed." (emphasis mine) If you're skimming all
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How people file isn't a problem in the US: in 2010, 70%[1] of tax filers (~90 million people) filed electronically and that number has almost certainly increased since. The issue in the article is whether the IRS (our federal taxing agency)
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Safari 6.0.3.
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Ah, yeah, I just figured that out after trying to piece together why it was such a weird dimension. Standard sizes would definitely be helpful, especially since doesn't seem to take into account retina/HiDPI displays. MacBook Pro set to "Be
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The output leaves something to be desired: only 1375x918. I imagine it could be a popular tool to generate custom desktop/device backgrounds, but the low resolution combined with incorrect aspect ratio (not 16:9, 16:10, or even 4:3) makes i
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I found a brief blurb on TechCrunch[1]: > Their say: Socially accepted bragging: crisp profiles for freelancers, consultants and hustlers. Freelancers & consultants have to spend too much time to make sure their online profile is up
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Previous, lively HN discussion, not six hours old at this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433258
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I think that's a fair criticism: definitely one of the reasons why I didn't decide to back the project. And I think the idea that this is may be really about paying tuition instead of finishing the game is something that's fair to report an
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I imagine a fair amount is wrapped up in inXile, but he is a millionaire several times over: he's the founder of Interplay, which went IPO in 1998 when he owned 45% of the company and he left in 2002, long before Interplay started tanking.
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So is Tim Schaefer's Double Fine Adventure, which is now 5 months behind schedule (and not even close to complete) and has been soliciting even more funding through its website since the Kickstarter campaign ended[1] also fraud? He created
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She didn't ask for millions, she asked for $829 and clearly specified where the money would go. It got overfunded. That's what happens with successful Kickstarter campaigns because there are no caps. Any of the people I mentioned could've e
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The product, like all the other games-related Kickstarter campaigns, is the completed game. The whole "my brothers were mean to me so I want to go to RPG camp to prove them wrong" is the interesting story to get people to fund it. That's ju
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I think there's a fair bit of double standards here. Here's a short, by-no-means-exhaustive list of well received, wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns started by multi-millionaires who could've easily offered the funding themselves: * D
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I'm starting to think that maybe you don't really understand what the embrace, extend, extinguish (hereafter EEE) strategy is. The whole purpose is to intentionally provide something that others can hook into such that it's unfavorable for
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The Google Reader API providing those features is the extend of embrace, extend, extinguish , not merely the features isolated away from the feed parsing (which is I why I put "extensions" in scare quotes). Feed readers, due to market de
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That's a hyperbolic interpretation of this, to say the least. The issue was that Meltwater was copying the essential portions of AP's works (e.g., the lede) such that there wasn't any need to ever read the original articles. That's a far cr
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by itafroma 14y ago
I thought it was discontinued a while ago as well, but it was still in limbo as of late January of this year[1]. [1]: http://searchengineland.com/google-block-sites-feature-14640...
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Why Julian?
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That story is apocryphal[1]. To use the example Snopes used, "nova" in Spanish doesn't mean "doesn't go" any more than "notable" means "no table" in English. [1]: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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Google Reader has a number of features that are above and beyond simple RSS/Atom parsing: * Starring * Sharing amongst other Google Reader users * Smart sorting of feed items * Marking as read * Indefinite retention on feed items Most of th
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I believe she's referring to the fact that if you are the owner of the domain with the erroneous information, you can make a request to Google to re-crawl the information using Google's Webmaster Tools. Regular users can't make that request
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Their TOS does not claim ownership over user-supplied content; see section 2, "All materials displayed or performed on the Site[...](other than Content posted by Subscriber (“Subscriber Content”)) are the property of 9GAG, Inc[...]" and s
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Their TOS makes it pretty clear that the user-supplied content doesn't belong to them, under section 3 "Subscriber Content": > Subscriber shall own all Subscriber Content that Subscriber contributes to the Site, but hereby grants and
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They're asking ruqqq to stop infringing on their trademark and copyright, not necessarily stop development. The trademark issue is likely resolvable by removing the "9GAG for Android" tagline and any other implied or expressed official conn
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At will employment does not protect against wrongful termination due to discrimination or retaliation[1]. It's obviously going to be up to a number of lawyers to figure out if there's a strong case for that to be made here. [1]: http://en.
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The PyCon code of conduct[1] appears to clearly disagree with your characterization that the event is not for a professional audience: > All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many differ
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What alternatives to Google Alerts are there? The only one I knew of that came close to it was Backtype, but they were acquired and shut down a couple of years ago.
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That's been standard procedure for issues getting a lot of off-topic comments, or have the potential for the same, for some time, and it's definitely welcome when trying to track the status of popular features/bugs. The point of issue comme
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If you're sure the app you'll end up using hasn't been made public yet and the current alternatives are not going to do it for you, that's a risk you can take, definitely: but it's still a heck of a risk if Reader is integral to what you do

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