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by mtkd 16y ago
Did any peer chip have a mul in the late 70s/early 80s?
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Apple patents iMac touch-screen with swivelling display(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by mtkd 16y ago|2 comments
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by mtkd 16y ago
Once you have established your online startup is viable you need to get professional help with IPR, DNS and CDN. - CSC to hold your domain ( https://www.cscglobal.com ) - UltraDNS for your nameservers - Akamai for your static content
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Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen: 'We don't need Apple or the iPad'(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mtkd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtkd 16y ago
1) Brings the issue of software patents to court in a big way 2) Opens a massive opportunity for new enterprise technologies to emerge First reaction was anger, but after consideration I'm quite glad it's happened.
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by mtkd 16y ago
Take a long holiday.
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by mtkd 16y ago
I've still not found a useful/complete aggregator of all technology events. If anyone knows one please post.
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by mtkd 16y ago
Best mattress, duvet, pillows and sheets I could afford - makes a massive difference to the start and end of the day - no matter what else happens in-between.
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by mtkd 16y ago
Completely in agreement on this. I was a lone voice in a company where using as few brackets as possible was a badge of honour.
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by mtkd 16y ago
I anticipate these very same arguments will be used very soon by western governments.
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by mtkd 16y ago
Planted some tomatoes
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by mtkd 17y ago
They are made by cutting business taxes.
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AOL Moves to Build Tech 'Newsroom of the Future'(businessweek.com)
3 points by mtkd 17y ago|0 comments
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Toyota: how Britain's textile industry helped seed the world's largest carmaker(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by mtkd 17y ago|0 comments
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Haiti earthquake: Trapped under rubble? There's an iPhone app for that(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by mtkd 17y ago|1 comments
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by mtkd 17y ago
In Europe there is, due to the falling tax revenues, a debate about who should now carry the burden - which is temporarily being placed on high earners but that will ultimately reduce revenues even further as they flee to more accommodating
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by mtkd 17y ago
At some point one of these new, non-core, ventures will be identified by historians as the point at which Google made the same mistake as Microsoft and started out on the slow path to insignificance.
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France plans 'Google tax' on Internet searches(telegraph.co.uk)
20 points by mtkd 17y ago|45 comments
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The real meaning of decimation(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mtkd 17y ago|7 comments
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by mtkd 17y ago
The concern for me is that they disguise the original URL and if the shortner ever ceases to exist the context of a lot of microblogging posts will be lost for ever.
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Historical Thesaurus is a masterpiece worth waiting 40 years for(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by mtkd 17y ago|1 comments
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by mtkd 17y ago
Even when you are working on something you love it can be hard to stay motivated. It's important to recognise when your motivation is dipping and switch to something else or take a break. Too often I forget this and keep pressing on regardl
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by mtkd 17y ago
Interesting that they use 'financial analyst' to represent an equivalently intelligent adult.
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by mtkd 17y ago
Having a bit of a horror with SL today. 1) FF 3.5.2 is crashing when I click help menu 2) Bash is not running scripts that used to run (and it's not just a colour issue) 3) Macports broke and won't update itself, I've installed 1.8 over the
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by mtkd 17y ago
If you create Open Source Software you are putting a contribution in to the community. That contribution is often derived from or utilises other OSS. I think of OSS as a movement. Publicly nuking your (popular) repositories is a step back f
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by mtkd 17y ago
This does worry me about the integrity of services like Twitter in the long term. You could be in a position 10 years from now going through your old Twitter feed for something and it is completely unusable beyond a certain date due to Tiny
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by mtkd 17y ago
There is always something you can do better than a competitor no matter how well they are funded compared to you.
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by mtkd 17y ago
When I was at university I used to moan that cocacola.com and levi.com were not registered. I did discuss registering start.com and setting up an index of websites for brands that had bothered to put a site up - but I was too busy helping o
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by mtkd 17y ago
This post being first on HN this afternoon has triggered some kind of recursive irony loop I can't get out of. Turning machine off for rest of day ...
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by mtkd 17y ago
When I read the announcement this morning, it occurred to me that the reason I like AWS so much, and what separates them from other cloud offerings, is that they're doing stuff dev teams actually want and can use (not impenetrably compl

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