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by rg 17y ago
Alex Payne doesn't appear to see the connection between one of his good points: "San Francisco boasts superb weather. ... There may be some fog, or a bit of rain from time to time, but most of the time it’s sunny and hovering around the hig
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by rg 17y ago
Interesting, it looks like I'm just about using up the cost of my license fee by listening to Radio 4 or Radio 7 constantly: 365 * 16 = 5840 hrs/year, 5840 * 2.5 pence = GBP 146.00 (BBC Licence Fee 2009 is GBP 142.50)
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by rg 17y ago
--and 10 minutes is the outer limit. Good dense places to live have food shops open long hours within 5 minutes walk, because all those people depend on them.
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by rg 17y ago
Marc Andreesen has testified that he really does this: from http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html (the link is to Marc's old blog, which now appears to be inaccessible): "Let's start with a bang: don't keep a schedule. "He's
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by rg 17y ago
Even when a startup seems to be doing very well, and is able to attract new rounds on favorable valuations, the insiders may be able to discern weaknesses such as weak or quarrelling founders, VCs with defocusing aspirations, or strategies
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by rg 17y ago
Yodlee's current frontend is nothing flashy, but it works extremely well and is very straightforward and stable. Of all the online services I use, Yodlee is among the very best. It saves me many hours of time every week and has dramaticall
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by rg 17y ago
I have used Yodlee.com directly (and free) for two years; it has functioned extraordinarily well, and is invaluable--it saves hours of time dealing with personal finances, and provides very usable reports. I avoided Mint because I thought
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by rg 17y ago
The commercial products used widely in similar situations are called "senior medical alarms" (or "alerts"). There are a number of providers. It is hardware (e.g., waterproof button worn around the neck, communicating wirelessly to a base
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by rg 17y ago
Isn't this an instance of the more general observation that people click less on links when loading is relatively slower (less bandwidth) and click more on links when loading is relatively faster (more bandwidth)?
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by rg 17y ago
> Transit oriented suburbs are structured much differently from highway oriented suburbs. A critical insight. Look at the great Victorian suburbs around London, built along the railroads. These suburbs did not empty out central London
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by rg 17y ago
"The Radio seems to have come out of nowhere--So far as I know, the iPhone/touch don't have them" No, but the Zune player has long had FM radio, so best to dominate the Microsoft competitor in all dimensions. BTW, FM is very convenient if y
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by rg 17y ago
Dogfood software moves to a dogfood cloud.
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by rg 17y ago
1 Reason I Was Forced to Overcome My Chrome Addiction: It keeps freezing, requiring a power-off restart, with more than about twenty-five tabs. Sad to say, both FF and IE8 are much more stable with lots of tabs.
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by rg 17y ago
Same machine is up, 2:32pm PDT
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by rg 17y ago
Gmail 502 error from San Francisco 12:52 pm PDT.
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by rg 17y ago
Good, cheap, reliable. You can use your own Amazon S3 account and key, and you need not give the key to JungleDisk; if you don't share your key, you can't use some features that involve JungleDisk's own servers, but backup and restore work
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by rg 17y ago
There's are other factors besides schools between American students and European students. For many Americans, the reality of ever needing to speak any language but English seems totally theoretical, whether for travel, business, or profes
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by rg 17y ago
Inspiring, and also serves as a reference example of a presentation that explicitly says "These slides are meant for reading, rather than presenting". That's a very common document form, but seldom acknowledged.
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by rg 17y ago
This appears to be ongoing improvement; Wolfram Alpha was very poor on nutrition information at introduction, but seems much better now (although still with a long ways to go).
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by rg 17y ago
Some of these points have pros and cons, actually. The T400 appears to have five buttons around the trackpad because it has an exta "trackpoint" red nub in the keyboard, so you can handle cursor, scrolling, and typing without moving either
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by rg 17y ago
If academics will just insist on not assigning copyright, they may get further; publications need authors, and to demand copyright assignment will become a competitive disadvantage. "The ACM copyright form now explicitly says that authors c
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by rg 17y ago
I successfully registered a 5-character name within 10 seconds of the launch, so if there were a bug it wasn't simply refusing strings of 5 characters.
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by rg 17y ago
A similar complaint about misusing presentation bling was made in Communications of the ACM recently by the inventor of PowerPoint: http://www.robertgaskins.com/pages/gaskins-ppt-at-20-cacm-vo...
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by rg 17y ago
Can't tell whether BBC stations are available--no way to search the radio stations. The site hardly works at all in Google Chrome, have to reload the home page frequently to get out of being wedged. I see it's "unlimited" except for about
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by rg 17y ago
I was a Mac app startup in the days of Mac-128, OS/2 and Windows 1.0. Far from evangelizing OS/2, Microsoft sent Tandy Trower (a very important development manager, still at Microsoft) down to the Valley to visit us and urge us to develop
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by rg 17y ago
One thing to consider is to what extent the user will be depending upon the quality and comprehensiveness of your specific product. A product used for recreation or convenience may be very partial and/or may fail frequently without causing
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by rg 17y ago
Having lived in both the US and the UK, I'd observe that the prestige of one's university counts for MUCH more in the UK. To an American it is unbelieveable how much Brits focus on where they went to school (at all levels) rather than thei
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by rg 17y ago
Very good layout and navigation, hope the ratings are real. One thing, though: the list of "highest rated" at the bottom of the page creates a THIRST for the ability to re-sort all apps in other orders, particularly in order by ratings, so
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by rg 17y ago
Read the comments here first, went to check it out; typed in "www.webnotes.com" and ended up at some very strange site. Came back here, and couldn't believe that you were trying to do something with a "reasonable-sounding" domain name for
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by rg 17y ago
Well, FWIW, I backup my machine every night via both of Connected Online Backup ($995/yr) and JungleDisk, (about $350 a year to Amazon) and I won't use any of their competitors who can recover their own keys--so the story of enhanced securi

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