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5 reasons you should be at Dublin Web Summit(thenextweb.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
There are other countries in the World that have lower effective corporation taxes than Ireland, but what they don’t have is: 1. A well educated and productive workforce with English as their primary language. 2. Full membership of the EU a
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by j_col 15y ago
From the first paragraph: "Think about the big European tech startup cities, and London, Berlin - maybe Amsterdam, will probably come to mind." Really, no Dublin?
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Twitter to locate international operations in Ireland(siliconrepublic.com)
11 points by j_col 15y ago|6 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Except for Flash, which in my eperience is consistently excellent on the Touchpad browser, much better than the browsers on the Android tablets I've tried, and as for iOS, well Flash really isn't an "issue"...
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by j_col 15y ago
Oh wow, that's hilarious!
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by j_col 15y ago
Using their search home page recently to promote their new social network, for example? Pretty hard to compete with that kind of marketing coverage if you were trying to launch your own social network...
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by j_col 15y ago
> With all that in mind, their vision of freeing the worlds information is currently the one leading the way, and with it will come Google + or Google['+'] or whatever future variant that they offer. Eh, freeing it from whom? From my p
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by j_col 15y ago
I agree that you can work really hard on the wrong thing, but in my opinion the Pre3 and the Touchpad are the right thing (and I'm not alone in this). The reasons why they didn't sell (in my opinion) are that they were priced wrong on th
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by j_col 15y ago
As a Touchpad and Pre3 user, I can honestly say that these guys done a great job in delivering these devices (I love them both, yes I am a long-suffering webOS fanboy), and this is a terrible reward for all of their hard work. Wish them al
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by j_col 15y ago
From the article: > Thus, Android 3, apart from Linux, is non-free software, pure and simple. Couldn't agree more, happy to see Stallman call it: Android 3.x is clearly not open source.
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by j_col 15y ago
Give me a wiki implementation that supports image upload, and I might look at Sharepoint again.
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by j_col 15y ago
I don't use Picasa or Reader so this was not an issue for me. Strange the way that each system seems to behave differently.
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by j_col 15y ago
I did. You can remove your Google+ account but still keep all other services (I still use Adwords and Analytics).
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by j_col 15y ago
Interesting exchange on there between a commentor and the Ars staffer, check the response: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/doable-or-not-my-e...
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by j_col 15y ago
Ah nice, thanks for the tip!
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by j_col 15y ago
I have a tablet too, but it's just a toy for consuming media and web content. I do my real work on a PC, and will continue to do so until it becomes possible to install web servers, database servers, interpreters and IDEs on a 10" tablet,
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by j_col 15y ago
That background makes the text very hard to read (at least for my eyes). Literally had to copy-and-paste the text into a text editor...
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by j_col 15y ago
> It'll hardly take a couple of hours to write a simple login script, no? Completely agree, makes sense to do the simple thing first, then optionally add auth from other services later. Given that I recently nuked my Facebook account f
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by j_col 15y ago
Google flexing its muscles against the biggest non-iPad tablet out there?
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AdMob to stop support for webOS on Sept. 30, 2011(webosroundup.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|1 comments
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HTC could be purchasing webOS... probably(macgasm.net)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
> In this post of mine I am mentioning about the legendary body IBM, because of creating an instance about the fact that how technology can be implemented with business skills and thus the kings of world market can be created. Man, has
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by j_col 15y ago
Is a bounce rate of ~80% common for Google AdWords ads?
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Traffic analysis for our first four months(mybigambitions.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|1 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Thanks!
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by j_col 15y ago
Jules Verne. I'm currently reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and it is fantastic. Originally written in French.
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by j_col 15y ago
God Emperor is difficult to get into, but worth sticking with. Actually love the opening sequence of that book more than any other, which describes some thieves being chased through a forest by a pack of guard wolves, as Herbert moves expe
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by j_col 15y ago
Dune number one, yay! I love all six books.
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by j_col 15y ago
Agreed. I done just that right here: http://www.mybigambitions.com/p/john

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