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If your analysis is correct, then NeXT was a success for Steve Jobs , which is the claim this thread started at.
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The world needs more YC startups like this.
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What exactly is "Motorola Mobile" and what is the rest of Motorala? I saw that in the news headline and figured there was going to be a lot of confusion over what actually got bought.
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Paging Matt Cutts. Web Spam cleanup in Aisle 3. Paging Matt Cutts The "See more results like this" SERP collapsed-grouping display is needed on that page.
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You must be terrified at the presence of numerals and quotation marks in programming languages. Here's the doc on Collection Literals, BTW. https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv8ts74_4cbnn5mhj Collection Literals are actually better than str
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You even skipped right over the Amazon affiliate link to the cookbook.
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I find that a "100% natural orange" tastes pretty crappy if it sits on a shelf for 2 weeks before I eat it. Plenty of 100% natural stuff tastes bad. You might further be shocked to learn that all-natural organic farm fresh-squeezed juice mi
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by lurker14 15y ago
Quick advice, that has nothing to do with AirBnB specifically: > I had the opportunity to hear the founders speak a number of times. They're one of the very few founders that are incredibly genuine about bringing a positive change into
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jacquesm just said that it wasn't a veiled suggestion at all. He pointed out to her that she was publicly identifying herself already. Considering that EJ was already in communication with AirBnB customer service and CEO, and has been publi
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According to the host of this very website, when the mainstream media (like, say, USA Today ) picks up stories, it's because PR firms hit the media with stories. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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People think the email is weird or unique because they are surprised that Bill Gates made 40 Billion dollars by running a company that builds products that bring intense pain to it users, and he appears to as frustrated as anyone else about
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Why 65 rush jobs instead of few polished apps? Skillful Surround could be an attractive game if it got some TLC.
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Phonegap is a common JavaScript interface to native APIs. HTML is only tangentially related. Building apps with JavaScript is doable, but has performance consequences that are severe on low-power mobile devices. It's hard to fault Google fo
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Haha. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rate says "Rate of speed (velocity), in physics" and then https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rate_of_speed redirects to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ve
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"EJ's Law". Perfect.
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I filled pages of word lists while reading Cryptonomicon . It was amazing.
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Of those unique words, how many did Shakespear invent? Making up new words is an easy way to boost vocabulary.
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"Those of us who have been critical of airport "security theatre" in the past should make sure to encourage anything that looks like reform." This is why I don't seek to read The Economist anymore.
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For most of history 30-year-old women and off-color men were considered property.
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That leads to my guess: UnnecessaryComplexity.com That puzzle does not inspire me with the notion that this new company is psychologically oriented toward making clean understanding out of complicated data.
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Corda is an old company with an old enterprisey XML product. Josh James bought Corda http://allthingsd.com/20110427/exclusive-whats-former-omnitu... Looks like he's trying to remake Corda into something useful. Of note, both Omniture and
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Headline is not true. Everyone who bought LinkedIn stock at $90 and sold it at $115 made a fortune. Everyone who bought LinkedIn to hold long-term doesn't care about day-to-day price fluctuationns. Why is DHH so obsessed with fluctuations i
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You could also leave your keys in the ignition and the door open whenever you go to the grocery store, because that's more convenient and any thief with a brain could hotwire your car anyway.
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If Microsoft stole trade secrets or violated copyright or broke a contract, Microsoft should be sued on those grounds, not on a bogus patent.
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Here is how it can be done in Haskell. Instead of using a Boolean, use a type that means what you actually want: You want to short-circuit combine two (or more) values, returning the first one that is valid, without evaluating the later one
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Beautiful Code : http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046
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Even if you are working in a compiled language, you still can't always rely on the compiler. The compiler will not stop a programmer from writing invalid code, without any tests, and checking it into a repository, where it silently waits fo
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Facebook is special because if Facebook breaks the site for a release or two, it doesn't really matter, since the product is not business-critical to users (Microsoft software) and has a moat protecting against immediate revenue-losing defe
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For this purpose, whitespace is a much better tool than blocks of lorem ipsum. Braces (in relevant langauges, like C and Java) are even better, because they tighten scoping and avoid unintentional variable re-use.
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You mean CloudFlare. CloudFront is Amazon's CDN service :-) For Amazon at least, intercepting and tagging URLs is in violation of the Associates agreement, and if detected Amazon will not pay these fraudulent commission claims. If the URLs

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