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by mckee1 13y ago
Jesus what did you lose to? That's a really neat app.
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by mckee1 13y ago
>Hackathons are a great co-founder dating process until the idea gets pregnant. Haha this is actually a really great way of putting it. It made me laugh out loud.
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The Not So Golden State - California can be a lousy place to do business(economist.com)
1 points by mckee1 13y ago|0 comments
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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the failure is good mentality yet?(thenextweb.com)
39 points by mckee1 13y ago|74 comments
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by mckee1 13y ago
God I really love that story at the end. It reminds me of Gates and the early days of MS where they were trying to sell their BASIC interpreter before even having written it.
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by mckee1 13y ago
Yeah I was just thinking that. It must have cost a crazy amount.
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by mckee1 13y ago
The title here is completely wrong. The article mentions that they are potentially in talks to buy a stake in DailyMotion, but nowhere does it state that MSFT will be buying them for certain.
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by mckee1 13y ago
Yeah, GSI Commerce (now Ebay Enterprise) I think.
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by mckee1 13y ago
So is giver.io a non-profit itself or a business? I'm just interested btw, I don't think there's anything wrong with it being a for-profit. In terms of feedback I like the idea, even if some potential revenue streams could be
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by mckee1 13y ago
Hey that's actually pretty cool, can you post it when you're finished? I'm a bit of politics geek.
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by mckee1 13y ago
>The company is worth around $135 billion and will probably become the fastest in history to reach $150 billion Their market cap crossed 150B yesterday.
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Edward Snowden will stand for student rector at the University of Glasgow(thenextweb.com)
1 points by mckee1 13y ago|0 comments
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Money can buy happiness(economist.com)
171 points by mckee1 13y ago|160 comments
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by mckee1 13y ago
I'm actually pretty sure Iron Man (2008) shows some genuine code for a second, it's when Stark is in the cave.
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by mckee1 13y ago
You should post it to /r/architecture. They have 38k subscribers and I'm sure many of them would be interested
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by mckee1 13y ago
I'm going to have to say wearable tech, even if it is becoming a bit cliche. Not necessarily products like Google Glass, but there are plenty of applications that can massively improve the users life, or help save it. In hospitals and
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by mckee1 13y ago
I got an SSL Connection Error from Chrome on Mac OS Mavericks
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Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee (2002)(judiciary.senate.gov)
79 points by mckee1 13y ago|83 comments
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by mckee1 13y ago
>The argument is essentially technological. Computers and robots are getting much better. Soon enough, your local McDonald’s will be entirely automated If technology is ever increasing and replacing manual jobs >These are abstract, co
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by mckee1 13y ago
Yeah this was the first channel I really stopped on and it was hilarious when I realised the bearded chap was mouthing along.
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by mckee1 13y ago
Yeah, that's true I suppose.
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by mckee1 13y ago
Seems okay to me
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by mckee1 13y ago
>The drawback, she says, is that communicating via text chat "takes a lot of time." Mr. Swaminathan says TutorVista can provide audio-chat sessions if scheduled in advance. Really? I would not pay $45 an hour for text based tut
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by mckee1 13y ago
I used to be the very same but what really changed me, and it genuinely did, was thinking about the insignificance of the world, of everything in our lives and everyone in them. We are on a tiny little rock, orbiting one of billions of star
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by mckee1 14y ago
That's a very good point. Doctors and Lawyers, to take your example, are obviously intelligent and by definition successful people. Yet their success is capped, there is a ceiling in these careers - a lawyer can never really change the wor
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by mckee1 14y ago
I don't so much see myself as a programmer (and I'm not one professionally, still at university) but rather an engineer. An engineer who works with software, I love building software but the joy I get out of programming is no different to t