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by jfruh 15y ago
I think he's talking about the (relatively mild) early '90s recession. The core of Gen X are people born in the late 60s and early 70s -- people who would have been entering the workforce in the early '90s.
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by jfruh 15y ago
As a Gen-Xer, I have a certain sympathy for this, but objectively there's no comparing the early '90s recession with the economic situation today -- we're well into the third year of the crisis, the job situation is much worse today, and th
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by jfruh 15y ago
Beware any utopian scheme that involves the large-scale reworking of existing settlements. The cities where most humans live are complex systems and decades (or, in many cases, centuries) old. You can't just completely rework them without
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Data center simulations predict energy use(itworld.com)
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Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look(itworld.com)
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ICloud syncing in practice(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
I'm the original submitter and I'm American and I did intend to write "runs!" Ugh. But: I do agree that one could interpret the headline as "data center [is] run on..." Wasn't my intention though. Even in British English I don't think it
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Icelandic data center run on 100 percent renewable energy(itworld.com)
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Versions of LibreOffice for iOS, Android, browser coming(itworld.com)
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Wireless bike break demonstrates bulletproof wireless communications(itworld.com)
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Teachers union tries to block online courses(itworld.com)
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IMessage gets clunky juggling iOS 5 and non-iOS 5 devices(itworld.com)
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How your data leaks, step by step(itworld.com)
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IBM helping kill OpenOffice.org(itworld.com)
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The future according to Dennis Ritchie: A 2000 interview(itworld.com)
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IOS 5 Notifications and Reminders: Yuck Why can't they play nice?(itworld.com)
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Why won't RSA name China, the 'nation-state' that hacked them?(itworld.com)
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Siri will be answering some dumb questions(itworld.com)
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Desktop virtualization smackdown: VMware vs. Parallels vs. VirtualBox(itworld.com)
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How to rescue your online reputation(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
This reminds me of an interesting story from Not In My Neighborhood, a history of residential and institutional segregation in Baltimore. Baltimore in many ways had three-way segregation -- black, white, and Jewish -- with Realtors for a
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German researchers crack RFID encryption(itworld.com)
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Scott McNealy's new "social gaming" platform wants your personal data(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
Can someone explain what specifically PayPal doesn't like about pre-orders? Is there something specific in their terms of service that doing pre-orders violates? I'm seriously considering a future project that will involve pre-orders so i
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by jfruh 15y ago
Wouldn't it be crazy/awesome if, after years of cost-cutting and right-sizing and "pivoting" and various CEO's gimmicks, the thing that saved HP was something that came out of their R&D department?
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Sprint shares plunge as company admits it's running out of cash(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
Hadn't seen those, will give it a shot!
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Astrologers sue over Unix time zone utility(itworld.com)
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by jfruh 15y ago
Has anyone managed to get Windows 8 running in VirtualBox on OS X? I've tried, keep getting errors.
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by jfruh 15y ago
The question of whether there was a grand plan is certainly an interesting one, but it seems unlikely that in 1998 there was a big whiteboard in Cupertino with "iMac -> iTunes -> iPod -> iPhone -> iPad -> profit!" writte

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