lurker19

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by lurker19 15y ago
He is the anti-Steve Jobs on the axis of closed/open systems. He is similar on other axes, which is what anti means for stuff like physic particles.
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by lurker19 15y ago
This this this. Part of my job is to do industry analysis to help my partner write blog posts to build our brand. After a few very painful months spent debugging crap data and models, I realized that the consumers have zero interest in accu
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by lurker19 15y ago
There is a middle ground for people like James Gleick and Neal Stephenson who are scholars (in the sense that they study a field intelligently and more deeply than an average layman) but do not push the field forward. Great students can b
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by lurker19 15y ago
Which just goes to show the worthlessness of paying attention to prognosticators who put their mouth where their money isn't.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Is there any security hole in this? Can an app register an intent on http and get access to all URLs Browser loads?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Many PR people, and other very public people, like movie actors, use pseudonyms. For privacy, marketing, or sometimes even to get a unique key, as in Screen Actors Guild. Natalie Portman is not really Natalie Portman.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Shirt Shoes Service is health code law, not private choice.
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by lurker19 15y ago
The most valuable idea in that article is to to ask for permision twice before launching into an overcomplicated bad analogy to explain something your wife doesn't really care about. There is no value in explaining a solution to someone who
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by lurker19 15y ago
4. People who buy Apple because they get pissed at Lenovo/Dell's bullshit pricing games and horribly broken webstore pages.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Wait to see what attribution.org has to say about all this.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Good explanation of why hotel rooms cost more than AirBnB rooms.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Pedophile mania.
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by lurker19 15y ago
I don't know where you are finding yourself totally surrounded by hetero males in software these days.
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by lurker19 15y ago
The computers.
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by lurker19 15y ago
This is exactly the senseless obsession with competition that the article is complaining about. My boss is a woman who was my peer in school and has children now. She is one of the best techies I have ever worked with and I love having her
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by lurker19 15y ago
22.5 years after high school is age 40, not age 50. Doctors start pulling (small) salary 8 years after high school.
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by lurker19 15y ago
How many of these can there be if giving any hint to the observable characteristics of any of them will compromise an individual's privacy?
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by lurker19 15y ago
http://redfin.com/jobs has programming, real estate, and real estate programming.
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by lurker19 15y ago
I do not appreciate when my Mac just guesses a network setup and lies about being online instead of just waiting to see what is really there. It not fun to delete or rename a wifi network while debugging connectivity issues, only to have m
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by lurker19 15y ago
The point is to have multiple layout/decoration algorithms to toggle between, depending on which aspect of the code the user wants to focus on.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Well, a price that is specifically modified to dodge regulatory scrutiny is suggestive of some sort of corruption. Cf. Say Anything .
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by lurker19 15y ago
And while webare here, "cursory"?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Go Bayesian. Update your expectation based on Forbes's long term performance, not their financy sounding name Forbes is the People Magazine of the business world.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Why is this separate from the Data Liberation Front? Another 20% project destined to be a quick PR hit and never actually become usable enough to fulfill its promise of giving the user control over his own data?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Translating to modern technology, Nolan would express surprise that his irrational users that preferred web pages that displayed text before downloading media, or displayed above-the-fold content before rendering the rest, or liked being ab
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by lurker19 15y ago
Compassion is virtuous. Visiting the sick is one of the most value-creating activities a person can do. Someone who has never been sick without parents to care for him might not notice, but once one has the experience, one can appreciate i
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by lurker19 15y ago
Free idea for YC W12: RescueTime Introductions Manipulatr.ly Extend he TrackMeNot to generate a fictitious browsing history modelled after the employee an HR department thinks it wants.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Also, personalized http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/
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by lurker19 15y ago
Sounds like you would prefer a communications medium not running a proprietary protocol controlled by a single company whose business model relies on their ability flake sure you cannot block unwanted content.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Is this what the "IE is native" PR claims are about? That HTML DOM and CSS are going to map directly onto the window system instead of a virtual window (or whatever it is called) in the browser engine?

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