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by pgrote 14y ago
This is what amazes me. For a civil case another country has just run all over another country's laws.
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by pgrote 14y ago
I miss kozmo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
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by pgrote 14y ago
Wow. I am crestfallen. Loved the service for years and have been a paying member for a while. Weather underground did a great job of making historical and trending weather information available. They do a great job of supporting local weath
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by pgrote 14y ago
Don't feel stupid. The same thing happened to me in the middle of a planned 50 mile ride. I was sitting on the side of the road, bike upside down trying to watch a Youtube video from the pump maker on how to inflate my tires. Never once did
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Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes(ikamasutra.com)
154 points by pgrote 14y ago|30 comments
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by pgrote 14y ago
I wonder how many people are on the opposite side of the equation ... I worked 130 hours a week and lost everything. Somehow, I think the fact she is who she is leave people with the perception that working that much is what it takes.
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by pgrote 14y ago
I usually don't go for articles like this, but I am a sucker for lists of good sites. There are a few the author suggests. Lean Domain Search is one we use constantly when developing new marketing ideas in our vertical. While we don't use i
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by pgrote 14y ago
Whenever we advertise online for a position the salary range is listed for two reasons: 1) We have a limit on how much we can spend, so we don't want to waste anyone's time. 2) See number 1. When the initial phone interview occurs I make s
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by pgrote 14y ago
Be excited about what you're presenting is key. You have to engage people through your excitement and by cuing off what they react to. Many times I find myself including the audience feedback into the presentation in terms of spending time
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by pgrote 14y ago
There was a section I found fascinating: "We want to eliminate willpower as a factor in achieving goals. Imagine smooth, fun, optimized, self-reinforcing paths for every aspiration. That would qualify as a giant impact on human potential. W
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by pgrote 14y ago
The passport replacement is relatively easy, right? The bigger concern is the medicine. How does that work with prescription medicine outside the US? The laptop is rather unique, so if someone pawned it you would think it could be hunted do
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by pgrote 14y ago
It creeped me out at first. lol
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by pgrote 14y ago
No, not really. Each day we see atrocities from poorer countries, richer countries. The light of truth shines on it and very rarely is anything done about it on a scale like this. In this case I think the celebrity involvement helped, but r
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by pgrote 14y ago
Does anyone know of a site that shows this sort of data with Amazon Prime movies?
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by pgrote 15y ago
As a pay service focused on businesses, I think they would keep it going. I cannot get to it right now. :) "Error: Server Error The server encountered an error and could not complete your request. If the problem persists, please report you
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by pgrote 15y ago
I wonder how Yahoo! got it wrong? It looks like they are good with the latitude. Thanks for the response.
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by pgrote 15y ago
Odd. If you don't enter a city for New Zealand, the mapping assumes you are in the South Atlantic Ocean. :-)
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by pgrote 15y ago
No home video formats support 48fps, though TVs do. "Both blu-ray and ATSC do not support 48 fps at any resolution. Both do, however, support 60 fps at 720p." http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2011/04/framerates-for-movies-and... Does anyone kno
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by pgrote 15y ago
Wow. This stood out: "Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter." I wonder why the decline and if there is a concern? Everyone that wants one has one? More competitors? Everyone who has an iPod transi
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by pgrote 15y ago
They've changed their existing storage plans and policies. I bought additional storage for my photos through Picasa. The storage was made available across all Google products. I had the 20gig for $5.00 plan. I say had, because I went to the
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by pgrote 15y ago
My job as a technical manager is to serve the people I am responsible for. Simple as that. Transparency, direct feedback and appreciation are some of the tools. In the end, my job is to make sure everyone on the team has what they need to m
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by pgrote 15y ago
The publishing industry has a chance to actually make the transition into the electronic commerce world a success. What has worked in the past isn't going to make the transition. One of the larger problems is the lack of a second sale. Many
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by pgrote 15y ago
We're also going to need a way for someone to report on the right click actions. Log the action, build an alert system to distribute and then auto generate an email letting someone know the alert is sent. The reporting should have control l
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by pgrote 15y ago
The Commodore 64 is what inspired my career in tech. Many firsts including machine language, pascal and game/utility programming. The first software I ever created and sold was Disk Ease, which brought low level control of the 1541 to the n
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by pgrote 15y ago
What else could Hatchlings have done to prevent this? I know people are saying, "don't rely on someone else for your profitibility", but if you are going to work with Google what other steps can you take? He seems to have done all the right
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by pgrote 15y ago
He said he took it down and that Google said everything was ok. "Debby assures us on February 12 that “your AdSense account remains in good standing and any actions taken on this domain do not affect the performance of your other AdSense ad
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by pgrote 15y ago
Does anyone have real world experience monetizing porn sites on a such a large scale? I am not familiar with the business aspects of it. Is it driven through affiliate? Direct advertising? Something else?
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by pgrote 15y ago
Last year, there was an announcement Google and ESPN were starting to use micro data. http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2011/08/espn-google-and-microdat... ESPN indicated they worked with Google for baseball, but maybe they completed the work f
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by pgrote 15y ago
What are spinners?
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by pgrote 15y ago
In our B2B environment we pretty much have to do weekends. Our clients have little system usage during this time and I am more secure knowing we have more time to recover. I will tell you, though, that weekend updates are planned ahead of t

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