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by mrduncan 16y ago
Another interesting theory from Dan Rubin: $10 says Friday's Apple press conference is the announcement about Verizon, to — in the words of Don Draper — change the conversation. http://twitter.com/danrubin/status/18565906020 While proba
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Elevation of Privilege (EoP) card game(microsoft.com)
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by mrduncan 16y ago
It was less flexible, and every year, we "don't have enough money" for a raise. Eventually it was very stressful, my input didn't matter at all, and I got paid nothing. As always, it depends on the company you're working for (it sounds li
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by mrduncan 16y ago
From the jobs page: Justin.tv is looking for a Head of Communications - http://www.justin.tv/jobs#communications [I don't work there, just remembered seeing it on the front-page a couple of days ago]
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The largest websites/web applications in the world are built in Rails much more frequently than in Django. While we're calling each other out for citations, that's an awfully big statement to make without citations as well. Let's just put
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The F-86 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRt6UnNzR6I
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by mrduncan 16y ago
On a small scale, yes. On Twitter scale (in February they were averaging 50 million tweets/day [1]), it's probably not so simple. [1] http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html Edit: As of mid June, it was about 65 million per
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by mrduncan 16y ago
It seems like every company has their own implementation of these - are there any open source versions? I'm strongly contemplating throwing together a gem for rails this weekend. EDIT: I found http://github.com/bvandenbos/redis_feature_co
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Meet the Napster (2000)(time.com)
27 points by mrduncan 16y ago|2 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Reminder: The email field is only visible to mods, not other users. If you want your email to be visible to other users, add it to your "about".
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Managing Conflict(inc.com)
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Not that I think the name is that great, but "fake" in this context is used to mean that the app can fake things.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Jeff Dean (for those wondering): http://research.google.com/people/jeff/index.html
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I believe that Gmail predates GWT. I'd imagine that GWT also isn't as fast or compact as they'd like for Gmail.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
On a related note, http://www.jslint.com/ (written by Crockford) is a fantastic tool to keep your JavaScript clean. Crockford also has some interesting articles at: http://javascript.crockford.com/
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by mrduncan 16y ago
For those who haven't seen a talk by Gary V before, be prepared for plenty of cursing. Also, he can be a little off-putting at first - give it a chance, you'll be glad you did.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Ideally, it'd balance out. Most of the time, you'd rent a small place (thereby saving money as compared to an apartment). When you needed something else, you'd simply get a more expensive place for a few days, the extra costs would be bala
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by mrduncan 16y ago
That pretty much describes AirBnB (or CouchSurfing if you take out the free rent).
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Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital Opens For Business with $8.5 Million Angel Fund(techcrunch.com)
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Well said. Anecdotally, I've never had issues with tickets that had my partial name on them in the past either ("Matt" vs. "Matthew") although this may have changed now that TSA requires full names and birthdays (I always use my full name n
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by mrduncan 16y ago
He was probably referring to the number of Lloyds insured satellites in orbit.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
In other words: Do you really think that you can write this piece of javascript better than John Resig? (substitute authors as necessary) In some cases, yes, but I'd argue that in most cases probably not.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
If it's tough to fake in small groups, why not just split people into groups. For example, only people who work directly with each other can reward them. Obviously that's a little bit of an oversimplification but I don't see why such a sp
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I'm curious - how many at this point (if any) have been funded which were submitted late?
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by mrduncan 16y ago
They also were funded by Sequoia Capital last year. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/10/25/sequoia-capit...
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Here is an Op-Ed in the NYTimes I managed to dig up written by Buffett's partner Sharon Osberg: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/opinion/27osberg.html
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Based on a CNBC special I saw a year or two ago, I believe Warren Buffett is also regular bridge player.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
There really isn't any motivation to shut it down now though as far as I can tell. It seems like they're getting money with essentially no strings attached - might as well get it now while it's easy to get.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I've noticed recently that writing a simple Twitter clone has become almost the new Hello World (or the next step). These all obviously have differing numbers of features and polish but that might be a good starting point also.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I assume you're talking about the US (apologies if you aren't) - interest is not a protected class. The following are protected groups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class Edit: See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_VII#Ti

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