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by rjett 16y ago
Megaupload, for the uninitiated, allows one to download or stream via megavideo all sorts of pirated material. I know that when you stream the video, the player will stop after 72 minutes and the user is prompted to pay for megavideo premiu
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The way this article is written makes it sound like the author has recently bought into the Dave McClure pyramid scheme and he's supposed to tell 10 friends about the new, awesome system Dave has come up with. Disclaimer: I'm not from the V
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Alternate title: "Why Britain Stayed Away from the Euro"
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How many people are tested annually for toxo and in which situations would someone be tested for toxo? Dr Sapolsky tells some interesting stories but the skeptic in me wonders how someone can take such a seemingly small independent variable
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Storage Bug Hits HTC Evo 4G Phone Just Before Launch(wired.com)
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Foursquare and Waze didn't tell Scoble that the accident he ran into in Sacramento was caused by someone looking down at their cell phone. :) In all seriousness, I think it would helpful to be able to dock your phone in your car and navigat
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In my opinion, the most likely scenario laid out in this article: But what happens if Apple ends up building its own maps, its own location checkin service, it’s own advertising system for bringing promotions and offers to you, its own paym
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398764
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BP oil spill presents researchers with unwelcome opportunity of a lifetime(washingtonpost.com)
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I can't find the article now, but there was something here a month or so ago about the new parking meters in San Fran. I believe you'll be able to add time to your meter and get alerts that you're running low via mobile phone with these new
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by rjett 16y ago
"...they are prescription only in the US" Aren't 5 hour Energy drinks just a shot of B12?
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On a related note, I was just remarking to a friend today about how hard this oil spill is to think about without seeing any sort of visual diagrams of the well, what the seafloor looks like, where the relief wells would be drilled, etc. Th
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That's quite a myopic view of things. Going above and beyond may not offer an immediate pay increase, promotion or more break time, but it will afford him an opportunity to learn new things, show that he is fit for more responsibility, and
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If you "cannot switch" (hard to believe) then I would suggest going above and beyond your job description to create value for your employer. This will help displace downtime and make your job more interesting. Being passive about your situa
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Even if banks and courts did have the manpower to evict these people faster, the deeper problem, as you pointed out, is this backwards logic and gross rationalizing. To try to address this, I think a campaign of linking fiscal responsibilit
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by rjett 16y ago
What hurdles need to be cleared before this can be done? I know that CCD and Camera based barcode readers can read a barcode off of a screen so how hard would it be to generate a unique barcode for each card in your wallet and just scan you
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by rjett 16y ago
Understanding why many of these controversial diseases are problems in the first place is made a little clearer if we look at the problem through the lens of behavioural economics. Alcoholics, nicotine addicts, many obese people, sexaholics
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This might be a naive question, but why are they still estimating how much oil is leaking? If they have pumped x amount of heavy mud in which temporarily capped the leak but was subsequently blown out because of the pressure of the escaping
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Interesting... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microemulsion
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Yes, I totally agree, but I was assuming we were talking about evaluating people who were for the most part unproven in the work world. Many investment banks and consulting firms hire fresh undergrads on contract.
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There is a way to test to see if someone can get stuff done, but that usually entails hiring someone for a predetermined time (6 mos, a year, 2 years) and then evaluating whether they meet your standards at the end of that time period. If t
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And from what I hear, it's quite easy to move around teams at Google until you find one that suits you.
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In a case like this, what steps will Apple take to quash the IPed?
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"The harder I work, the luckier I get" -Samuel Goldwyn
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Using data from the 2000 US Census, Manhattan, the United States' most dense city, had 25,836 people per square km or 0.025836 people per square meter.
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Are you still planning to release screencasts as part of railstutorial?
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Will you be talking about your Kiva/social entrepreneurship experiences in this interview?
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1) I believe it's the other way around 2) Assuming yes but since Conde Nast is part of a private company, who knows how Reddit contributes to the income statement. 3) They were acquired by Conde Nast a few years back.
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by rjett 16y ago
railstutorial.org is a great place to learn the Rails/Rspec/github/heroku way of development and deployment.
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Justice Department Said to Make Inquiry Into Apple(businessweek.com)
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