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17y ago
Typographers are an interesting breed, I would have never noticed any of these details. But they make a big difference rather surprised apple isn't interested in this area anymore
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17y ago
Actually he refers back to a post a few weeks ago that does actually tell you how to defend your reputation online(albeit a bit indirectly). http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/02/own-your-online-brand.html
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17y ago
Wonder if this would be accurate enough for a GPS -> bike route translator. Like say you want to see the altitude throughout your bike right from the gps you recorded.
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17y ago
Steve was ejecting from Apple, there is nothing to say he would have left he wasn't kicked out.
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17y ago
He fixed it, its now crossed through.
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17y ago
I'm guessing he probably knows, and hes trying to be a troll to get hits.
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17y ago
Interesting concept, I've been very interested in more hardware hacking lately. There is someone reassuring about being able to build anything in your local hacker space. Here in NYC we have a group called "NYC Resistor" that has lasers and
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17y ago
Awesome bit of objective-c, still looks rather readable then C code from the era. Its to bad C++ won out over Objective-C
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17y ago
Am I the only person that finds the consistency of Hand Sanitzers just icky, I really like the feel of soap or am I just getting old ;/
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17y ago
Haha made me smile, I hope my retirement is running a business writing code, designing hardware and running circles around the youngings.
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17y ago
The article doesn't really discuss the upside of hiring a development team for a startup. It mostly focuses on if I don't know how to code or manage people you should. But if you don't know how to manage you probably won't get good results
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17y ago
Its in the right direction, I remember learning qbasic on dos it was a great way to get started and then sadly I graduated to visual basic. Which was a good place to start ;) I can't even read it these days but we all start somewhere.
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17y ago
Met the guy at the Clojure user group here in NYC, apparently there are a couple of financial firms in the city already using it. Stuff is pretty cool. Rich looked like a total hacker dude ;o) Actually all the clojure developers were all be
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17y ago
My home town Atlanta was a total ghetto before the Olympics, it forced the city to reinvest into the downtown and it has been vibrant and a nice place to live since then. Perhaps cities shouldn't wait till an olympics comes to rebuild the c
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17y ago
He really has gone down hill since that great movie he had "Triumph of the nerds", was really interesting seeing the history of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates starting their companies. Probably one of the better things I've seen on PBS
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17y ago
I thought $500 was if you wanted a Hardware Credit and $99 was prerelease.
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17y ago
Things like XNA for XBox/Zune cost $99 a year to deploy to a real device. The free versions of visual studio are somewhat limited also but still generally good.
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17y ago
Haha Larry only says stuff to get people riled up and he is never impartial its always about his position with Oracle.
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17y ago
Larry Ellison always tries this scare tactics when the economy is bad, of course he needs to paint that big businesses are the only way to go. However we seeing that gigantic j2ee solutions with Oracle being to expensive and a move to a lot
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17y ago
Really? I thought they were getting a bit more of the web2.0 vibe with the openness in the design, and a lot less . I'm thinking more along 37signals guys.
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17y ago
Its funny Jquery really came out of nowhere, and 90% of the time I can grab a plugin and not even need to write flash.
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17y ago
I wish more investors got this deep into their businesses, there always seems to be a shallowness to it all. It seems like some of these crappy startups would get less funding if the investors had to spend time day to day in the business to
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17y ago
Does that make his work an less amazing, how many great artists really are nice guys ;) I think it comes with the territory, can't be an agnst artist and a super nice guy.
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17y ago
Running Safari 4 on the mac and it runs great ;/ Thats whats annoying about this CSS stuff you never know if it will work. Hoping HTML5 will start moving forward.