olefoo

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5-inch e-paper reader, cheap, limited, soon to be ubiquitous(teleread.org)
2 points by olefoo 18y ago|1 comments
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by olefoo 18y ago
you should be able to have your certs reissued with a new CSR.
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by olefoo 18y ago
The twitter account is just a conduit; assuming that people are following it because of who is generating it; selling it is an attempt to monetise the repuation. Now if you did something clever that is automatically pumping stuff interestin
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by olefoo 18y ago
I hope you're right; but this does look like an attempt by an entrenched monopolist to limit competition by killing an emerging market. Too bad we don't enforce the laws that we have on that topic.
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by olefoo 18y ago
Why be pissy about hotlinking, look at it as an advertising opportunity. Someone hotlinking your photo is letting you put your ad in their context. You can use the [PT] flag to hand stuff off to a proxy that will composite a hot pink URL ov
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by olefoo 19y ago
The twitter account is worth nothing, your reputation is what you are attempting to sell. And as with the offer of a virginity on the open market, the very act of offering it as a commodity devalues it.
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by olefoo 19y ago
> "Many smart brains in open source... Many smart ones in industry as well..." And many of them are the same brains, showing up in different places at different times. Twitter could have been disintermediated any time in the past year;
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by olefoo 19y ago
It is frustratingly common for companies big and small to think of customer service as a cost rather than an investment. As anyone who has dealt with people in a customer facing role knows you will deal with people who think that a five do
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by olefoo 19y ago
The operational costs of a web startup are approaching the cost of connectivity. But, the people to wire it together will still want money. And as a number of people are gleefully pointing out, Appengine comes with a strategic cost that is
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by olefoo 19y ago
And you aren't even thinking about Corvallis? I mean Eugene and Corvallis both have most of the features you listed, plus you're an hour away from the coast and from the mountains... For those looking to plug in to the Willamette Valley Tec
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by olefoo 19y ago
This has nothing to do with their address book. It builds off previous social meta-data efforts, especially FOAF and XFN. It's more an extension of their search expertise, and it looks like they should be able to extend it with some of the
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by olefoo 19y ago
I so want this to be the case because I can't see MSFT doing anything but wrecking all the parts of Yahoo worth keeping.
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by olefoo 19y ago
Anybody here been to one of these dos? Is it worth doing?
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by olefoo 19y ago
> contentless techfan wordfluff A very competitive segment of the marketplace of hot air.
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Is Software Too Soft?(blog.jonudell.net)
5 points by olefoo 19y ago|3 comments
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by olefoo 19y ago
Whoever designed this thing has at the very least shown that they can finish and ship a complex product; which is more valuable than anything Scoble has done. I doubt that Amazon will fire anyone from the Kindle team, and quite frankly they
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by olefoo 19y ago
There's nothing wrong with being a top-flight employee and helping build something big, but by the time a company has reached a size where two pizzas aren't enough to make everybody full the company has started to settle, the culture is beg
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by olefoo 19y ago
The time to join FB was back when it was a harvard thing. If you join them now, you're jumping someone else's train, and you aren't shaping the company, you're just a plug compatible engineer.
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by olefoo 19y ago
Yes, I don't know about the rest of you but I'd rather be working on what will be the hottest thing around in a year's time. Catch the wave _before_ it breaks.
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by olefoo 19y ago
He proved that sometimes being wrong in an interesting way is very worthwhile. He was the first to come up with concrete hypotheses of human motivation, that he did not then investigate those hypotheses with a modern scientific rigour is a
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by olefoo 19y ago
It's not the effort that counts, it's the effect.
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by olefoo 19y ago
proxies. Is what the client receiving actually from your server and not from something between them and you.