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by nonchalance 13y ago
>Youtube UI gets worse every time they update it. They cancelled the RSS reader. The email UI keeps getting worse and featuring more ads. Those concerns are completely unrelated to their algorithm. I doubt they want to maintain many You
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Excel isn't just about "boring office tasks"! There's a whole website devoted to games built in excel: http://www.excelgames.com/ (my favorite is http://carywalkin.files.wordpress.com/20
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by nonchalance 13y ago
How would that work? Wouldn't it essentially be replying to a master tweet from the website (assuming the website auto-tweeted new submissions, something that many sites do now)?
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Undocumented Matlab(undocumentedmatlab.com)
1 points by nonchalance 13y ago|0 comments
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I suspect there's space in the news sphere for something with the transparency of wikileaks and the mainstream credibility of the guardian / al jazeera / NYT
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Is there a reason to use pastebin rather than other services for these types of "anonymous" posts?
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by nonchalance 13y ago
http://mrale.ph/blog/2013/03/28/why-asmjs-bothers-me.html suggested that this would happen: > When I sit down and think about performance gains that asm.js-implementation OdinMonkey-style brings to th
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Where is Ron Johnson? Earlier this year, he was ousted from JC Penney ...
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by nonchalance 13y ago
To be fair, that information isn't private. It is available for anyone to find.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I think you miscategorize the opposition here. The argument isn't that Gates didn't work hard. The issue is that by din of his family's socioeconomic status, he was presented with opportunities that most people didn't
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Buffett is a perfect example of the problem: to be in the position to have those opportunities, you need a base and you need seed money. Having a family and friends round means you don't have the same type of pressure (they are genera
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Netflix in talks with US cable providers -- report(news.cnet.com)
2 points by nonchalance 13y ago|0 comments
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by nonchalance 13y ago
or haskell or scala or coffeescript or ...
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by nonchalance 13y ago
To successfully replace the office suite, in the beginning you must be able to interact with office files. Joel Spolsky (member of the office development team) attributed their success to this: > Microsoft Office ended up beating its com
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It's really difficult to say whether the replacement for outlook will be a piece of software for the desktop, a web-based solution a la gmail/google calendar, or a powerful iPhone/android/bb app
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by nonchalance 13y ago
LO and other openoffice suites are progeny of StarOffice, originally released in 1985. Even with such a long development history, there are deep compatibility issues which make it unacceptable for the "power users" that comprise
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The truly irreplaceable product is Excel. It is fraught with quirky bugs and limitations and odd conventions (how many people actually end up storing dates before the magic February 29 1900?), yet no alternative can hold a candle to Excel.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
For me at least, flex funding is a big warning sign. If the target goal is not met, it's not clear how the funds will be used (AFAICT there's no restriction) -- it could just line the founders' pockets with no progress on th
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Former NY Fed employee sues over Goldman Sachs collusion(news.com.au)
1 points by nonchalance 13y ago|0 comments
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by nonchalance 13y ago
NYT had a discussion a few years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/your-money/credit-and-debi... > While there is little controversy about the fees that Visa collects, some merchants are infuriat
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by nonchalance 13y ago
There may have been some significant change. We can always hope it was posted to announce a new version ... btw: the word is "Previously"
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Seems like a really silly thing to renege on. Do you have any more posts discussing what happened?
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by nonchalance 13y ago
iOS and android libraries for free. He was hired after that
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Poll: What browser do you primarily use?
3 points by nonchalance 13y ago|3 comments
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Chrome and other chromium-based browsers (like SRWare Iron)
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Mozilla browsers (including iceweasel)
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Internet Explorer
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Safari
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Opera
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Other Desktop Browser

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