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by michaelfairley 17y ago
V8 Fusion. Absolutely delicious, and (according to the marketing on the label) contains a full serving of fruit and vegetables in every 8oz. That, and water.
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Not to mention Google Reader being counted as only one person.
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Rosetta Stone Announces TOTALe, Language Instruction With A Social Bent(techcrunch.com)
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How about Linux?
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The I2P project ( http://www.i2p2.de/ ) is working on creating an entirely anonymous, encrypted internet that layers on top of the regular internet. It's open source and welcomes contributions from talented hackers.
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by michaelfairley 17y ago
The largest problem with numerous overarching laws is that "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" cannot hold true. It is not possible for someone to be aware of all the laws that apply to them at any given moment, much less to understand
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You should tell them you're "on vacation" from now until forever. Saves paper and keeps you from having to bother with disposing of it.
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Stallman's Right to Read ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ) is slowly becoming more and more relevant.
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Currently, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are all in the red. They have enormous value because of their potential to make gobs of cash due to the amount of eyes that look at them everyday. The problem during the dot-com boom/bust was that
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"We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order
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by michaelfairley 17y ago
Ultimately, improving high school education should to lead to smarter, more imaginative students, who focus less on grades and more on their aspirations. I don't see how this couldn't lead to even more entrepreneurship. * Getting grade in
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by michaelfairley 17y ago
http://dingitsup.com/ is a similar service, but can also text or tweet you in addition to emailing.
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Can't Get Approval for your App? Sell the Source Code(radar.oreilly.com)
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This study has an inherent flaw: the queries used were selected from the most common queries. Answering common queries is (relatively) easy, but Google claims (and other independent studies have shown) that Google is much much better than m
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by michaelfairley 17y ago
(Not mentioned) My personal favorite: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com...
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Beating the Averages ( http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ) is one of pg's more famous essays, and I've seen it make it's way some tech sites a few times in the past ~5 years.
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Also worth checking out his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
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Last: I am a Strange Loop Current: Neuromancer
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I agree that it take lots of time to make a "professional" looking pitch, but based on the instructions, it looks like pg wants as much spontaneity as is practical.
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The amount of effort that gets "wasted" per unwatched video is probably relatively small. Per the video instructions ( http://ycombinator.com/video.html ), producing the video really shouldn't take much time at all (my guess is less than fi
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I learned this trick many years ago, and it definitely works. A friend of mine had an old lock he didn't remember the combination to, and within five minutes I had it opened and the combination written down for him thanks to this trick.
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I'm not so sure about this. A large number of IE6 users are IE6 users because their corporate IT policy requires them to be IT users. How many corporate IT policies are going to change to allow their employees to watch YouTube on their offi
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by michaelfairley 17y ago
It'd be beneficial to everyone if you would voice some specific complaints again Tim. I know a lot of people around here don't like him, but I've never seen a criticism longer than "Pff. Tim Ferriss is a load of crap." The article has some
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The "appliance" term is used by Google to mean that the hardware lives with the company who's using it, but the users experience roughly the same thing they would if Google were hosting it. It allows companies to keep all of their data stor
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Once you do that, Twitter basically becomes a subset of Facebook, and you if you already have a Facebook, there's no reason to switch.
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For me (tried with a few refreshes to get multiple samples), it seems to show pictures of people who I have recently exchanged messages (rather than wall posts, or just about any other form of communication) with.
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I just tried this, and for me at went as far as selecting pictures that have both me and the other person in them. Really trying hard for that personal touch.
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It's very possible that the employee shot some emails around internally, got back some responses from various engineers responsible for this functionality, and then replied with a slightly inaccurate paraphrase of the information he was giv
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The largest problem with the only-use-the-meta-tags solution is that the page to be excluded has to be retrieved before it can be excluded.