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by pageman 17y ago
how hard is it to program a "password strength" detector into these apps?
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by pageman 17y ago
Paul, this post gives me hope. I'm now in a university belt and we're about to turn up the research heat and our students are seriously looking into startups - perhaps your localization will materialize before our very eyes. And yes, still
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by pageman 18y ago
more Pashto ( http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pbt ) than Arabic ( http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=arb ) there's less than 10 million Pashto speakers in the world (about 8M are in Afghanistan) vs. 250M++ for
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by pageman 18y ago
it's not. outside of the U.S. there are numerous situations that would require you to have a second passport - the one I hear the most are people who travel into Middle East countries but require them also to to Israel. You can basically br
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by pageman 18y ago
if you put in the 10,000 hours :) (alluding to Outliers by Gladwell)
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by pageman 18y ago
I think part of the reason might be is that Bram has supposedly self-diagnosed himself to having Asperger's Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
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by pageman 18y ago
"If he had never been born, the world would be that much better for the rest of us." - according to Aaron's like of argument, Mark would not have gotten from him the Facebook idea and the world would be Facebook none the richer? :P
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by pageman 18y ago
maybe you can quote that part of the book (if you still have it?) or maybe Aaron can quote that for us - I think that comes under "fair use" :P
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by pageman 18y ago
do you have a screenshot (see comment below, also)
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by pageman 18y ago
or come to the Philippines - most of the Filipinos are English speaking. Mor.ph is based here (they are trying to get some market share from Heroku - sorry pg) - you can incorporate in Hong Kong a pvt ltd to fast-track your corporate entity
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by pageman 18y ago
as long as you don't run anything ghs.google.com - one of our startups just found out that Google is being blocked in certain parts of China :(
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by pageman 18y ago
here's a blow-by-blow of an MT fiasco ... :(( http://inboundpass.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/our-mt-media-tem...
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by pageman 18y ago
If pg says you're the superman - it's better than Nietzche :)
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by pageman 18y ago
puffing the magic dragon? :)
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by pageman 18y ago
didn't Zed Shaw have a step-by-step how-to on this at CUSEC 2008? :)
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by pageman 18y ago
The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club :)
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by pageman 18y ago
http://gaza.freehost123.co.cc/glipe/
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by pageman 18y ago
this will work in places like Afghanistan, Iraq etc. when they get into "white city" mode and/or it's "blackout" - you can ask your local courier to send a tweetbymail so that people will have a record that you "were" still alive ...
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by pageman 18y ago
PM me if you want this in Manila :)
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by pageman 18y ago
btw, you have a URL for that band website builder that has an MP3 store? :)
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by pageman 18y ago
if you want to go to Asia and willing through an HK LTD. we can help you in asiapay.com (full disclosure: I'm a director) :)
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by pageman 18y ago
much respect to NIN! - the band I'm promoting (DRIP) released the first FULL-LENGTH album in Asia (can anyone correct me if I'm wrong) that has a CREATIVE COMMONS license (it's called Identity Theft) 2 weeks after NIN released theirs! Almos
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by pageman 18y ago
maybe special discounts? almost free?
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by pageman 18y ago
I have to agree with this (I'm thinking of that Stuff essay by Paul Graham) - I have stuff in Dubai, Kabul, Yangon - in boxes. I'm sixpence none the richer (experience-wise) without it.
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by pageman 18y ago
from: http://chikolara.multiply.com/journal/item/56 THE RULES: 1. The female always makes the rules. 2. The rules are subject to change at any time without prior notification. 3. No male can possibly know all the rules. 4. If the female s
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The First True Scientist - al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham born 965 A.D.(news.bbc.co.uk)
6 points by pageman 18y ago|5 comments
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by pageman 18y ago
plus they have Real Academia Española to regulate the intake of new words while English doesn't :)
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by pageman 18y ago
"To them, the C compiler was just magic." Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke it must have been too advanced for them? :)
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by pageman 18y ago
our Manila, Philippines base is hiring people who know RoR and if you're a Merbist ... better :)
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by pageman 18y ago
have you ever applied for COMET funding from AusIndustry?

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