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by kwijibob 9y ago
I recently rode the electric share bikes in Beijing. It was a fantastic experience. Pick up from anywhere, leave anywhere. Share bikes are getting huge in China, sometimes causing a mess. But the white electric share bikes in Beijing were a
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by kwijibob 10y ago
A wonderful essay. Have read and reread many times over the years.
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by kwijibob 10y ago
Google has some killer products that aren't just about adsense for the web: Youtube - incredible future for revenue Google Docs/Spreadsheet/Slides - the future of productivity suites - easily monetisable when needed Android -
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by kwijibob 10y ago
I hope this helps - I always get frustrated when on mobile I'm watching the disqus logo waiting for discussions to load. That can't be a good emotion to link to their brand.
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by kwijibob 10y ago
I actually found this method quite readable and a pleasant surprise!
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by kwijibob 10y ago
Just scan through the google docs blog. You'll see lots of steady iteration of new features. It gets better and better. I use it daily and also find the speed and reliability excellent. It feels like they are making great strides behin
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by kwijibob 10y ago
Found a few of my old stack just last week. Left it out for the kids. They are enjoying them. :)
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by kwijibob 10y ago
I remember being on the main irc channel when both qtest and the quake 1 official shareware was released. It was absolute insanity and great fun. Such an exciting time.
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by kwijibob 11y ago
I think the IPFS vision is fantastic. The article misses the main advantage when it tries to say that IPFS would help corporations like Google/Youtube/Netflix. Big players will always be able to expertly run powerful distributed C
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by kwijibob 11y ago
Why can't you track where they spend the ransom money via the blockchain? Couldn't this be used to identify the criminals?
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by kwijibob 11y ago
I'm an Android not an iOS user, so maybe I don't get the significance of push notifications. Isn't this simply the kind of annoying notification that productivity experts tell us to turn off? I certainly have configured all d
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by kwijibob 11y ago
I'm sure Red Hat would welcome a defense contract that pays over a decade. They might even have a couple already.
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by kwijibob 11y ago
Maybe for an advanced use you hit speed issues. But Google Sheets has transformed many collaborative functions in our organisation. Especially at budget time. The ability to have concurrent access to the latest version always is wonderful.
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by kwijibob 11y ago
Only anecdotal. I think you are correct, the early adopters were confident travellers. However the brand is so well known that ordinary people are talking about it, in my observations. Combined with cheap air travel it is magnifying tourism
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by kwijibob 11y ago
Airbnb gets people travelling who might otherwise stay home. People who get a bad airbnb booking always jump to the nearest hotel. As airbnb gets even more massive, the hotel industry could benefit from the spillage of people who otherwise
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by kwijibob 12y ago
I have all my digital life on dropbox, a few hundred gig. One of my greatest fears is that thousands of files might disappear without me noticing for years. I use selective sync and twice I was looking for something that has disappeared and
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by kwijibob 12y ago
At least it is a form of "sharpening the saw" (to quote Covey). You are still in the mode of thinking about how to be a better worker. There are a whole lot of time sinks on the internet that are much much worse ways of wasting ti
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by kwijibob 12y ago
Not necessarily. Ubuntu have "enablement stacks" kernel updates for the LTS releases. These are more than just upstream patches. For example, 12.04 LTS release had 12.04.4 with a backported kernel as a standard update. https:&#x2
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by kwijibob 12y ago
If only there was a convenient way to get from one URL to another URL! I'm sure Tim Berners-Lee stubs his toe every time someone posts a non-clickable link on the web.
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by kwijibob 12y ago
Actually reading self-help and productivity books is a great way to invigorate your productivity. That is why productivity blogs are so popular. I will happily read or reread a productivity book just to be inspired to get my game on.
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by kwijibob 13y ago
I got to the bottom and thought: "Wow this looks like an interesting service. I would like to go to their home page and check it out" Then I clicked on the logo.... nothing. No link anywhere. Like I am meant to go up to the URL an
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by kwijibob 13y ago
I've been on google+ since the beginning (2nd half of 2011). For the whole 18-20 months whenever I have gone to google+ on the web it has first had an obstacle "Find your friends" page asking me to spam all my contacts about
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by kwijibob 13y ago
I got pickpockets in Bryant Park (Manhattan) in the summer of 2010. It was a surreal experience, at least two people involve (one bumped). I realised what had happened about 15 seconds afterwards, but it was too late. Just crowds. They did
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by kwijibob 13y ago
I know this is only HL2 beta - but unfortunately it doesn't run nearly as fast as HL2 on wine. I'm on ubuntu 12.10, 2010 mac mini (nvidia graphics)
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by kwijibob 13y ago
In my one visit to NYC (from o/s) I loved getting food from the trucks. They were cheap and tasty - we couldn't afford to go into restaurants or even diners.
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by kwijibob 13y ago
I agree with all the criticisms in the article and in the HN comments. But my biggest gripe with the new Gmail - it is UGLY.
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by kwijibob 14y ago
I do this all the time. It is the strength of dropbox that I can lean on it to do a fresh install of the OS and simply get my files back via DB.
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by kwijibob 14y ago
I would love for this to be a success. I'm a long term Linux and ubuntu user. However I do use Gnome 3.x and not Unity. My doubts are that not even the Ubuntu team will be able to reach the level of desktop polish that Google have achieved
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by kwijibob 14y ago
Android desktop might be excellent. However alot of the Android stack is not open source or free software. An Android desktop will be a proprietary desktop built on top of an open source kernel. It might be terrific, but it won't fulfil the
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by kwijibob 14y ago
I was desperately hoping for this to happen also. I love dropbox. Use it across linux/windows/mac/android.

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