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901.
by robk 17y ago
Microsoft was caught red-handed stealing and blames a contractor. A company is responsible for its contractors and bears legal liability in most jurisdictions for their actions. While it was good of them to apologize and pull it down imme
902.
by robk 17y ago
That video is ridiculously awesome.
903.
by robk 17y ago
If you're worried that a scammer has caught you out for money laundering, you likely have bigger problems than just losing $300 to scammers.
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by robk 17y ago
I've also heard it called the Passion by Googlers as well.
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by robk 17y ago
But as soon as you search for a specific model, the spam gets out of control. Try to find a review on a particular model, or whether it's comparatively good, and you'll get very little material but tons of price shopper sites and other spa
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by robk 17y ago
It's exciting they're giving it out to 20,000+ employees. This is a pretty big deal as many of them aren't technical as readers here and demand a more usable experience than just a dev phone.
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by robk 17y ago
Referencing any VC on TheFunded is always a pretty good idea for an entrepreneur looking for capital. That, as well as talking to others that have pitched the person, are excellent ways of outing the jerks. Save yourself some time and jus
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by robk 17y ago
Actually though you have a ton of flexibility on those tickets. If you need to move a date, it's easy enough to switch to any flight with availability in that class, no charge. Also, you can split it up and take half the trip, fly home fo
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by robk 17y ago
The costs are just too high unless you only seek the romanticism of taking a boat with likely non-English speaking crew for weeks at a time across an ocean. A round-the-world ticket (www.oneworld.com to start) is usually a far better value
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by robk 17y ago
I'm certain for Ryanair and EasyJet, everything they do is calculated to extract maximum value from the customer. Call centers included.
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by robk 17y ago
The Aussie product is here: http://maps.google.com.au/help/maps/realestate/
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Google targets online property market (UK)(ft.com)
1 points by robk 17y ago|1 comments
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by robk 17y ago
The product is pretty awesome on iPhone, so I expect it to be very nice when it's available as a service on TVs or consoles. It's replaced CD listening mostly at home for me now (along with Boxee, depending on the room).
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Spotify heads towards TVs and consoles(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by robk 17y ago|1 comments
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by robk 17y ago
Exactly the reason I stopped reading the Consumerist. It's frustrating to see things that are usually careless mistakes misconstrued as big EvilCorp's plot to screw {all consumers, all taxpayers, the world}.
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by robk 17y ago
Way too long of an article, though it covers the challenge that Google faces in declaring scraper sites spam or value-add.
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by robk 17y ago
They do that intentionally to prevent conflicts of interest and accusations they manipulate the numbers of their own sites.
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Analyst: up to 60% of all iPhone apps have been pirated(gamasutra.com)
1 points by robk 17y ago|0 comments
919.
by robk 17y ago
With Apps Premier edition ($50/user/year) you get a special PIN number. I've always gotten pretty rapid responses from their team on most support requests using this feature.
920.
by robk 17y ago
There are two things to consider 1) SIM lock that ties a phone to a particular carrier. A Google phone wouldn't have a SIM lock unless it were subsidized by a particular carrier. 2) GSM bands. The phone could be quad-band GSM and work on
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by robk 17y ago
I believe he was looking pretty closely at the entire DOM rather than specifically innerHTML but I didn't really dig down on that. As for the browser mods, he controlled to look at the difference holding browser version/OS steady, so the ch
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by robk 17y ago
As an exercise, I heard that a toolbar company (who shall remain nameless) ran an experiment to record a client-side hash of the DOM of some particular static pages and found that something like 30%-40% of users had modified or tampered res
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by robk 17y ago
Nice exit. They had raised $47.2 million in prior rounds, so the multiples were still very healthy even on the last money in from DFJ.
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by robk 17y ago
This a pretty serious deal for all the mortgage leadgen guys. These ads are directly in competition with them and the top-of-page placement means that they pretty much have to participate in this or they'll simply lose traffic as users are
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by robk 17y ago
The pagerank patent isn't really relevant anymore as the search algorithm has so many more components and variants now. Pagerank as it is defined is a much smaller signal than people think.
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by robk 17y ago
Back to the Altavista days of +search +must +include +plus +signs +"and quotation marks" Seriously, the problem is advanced users get unexpected results with the query expansion and refinement layers they've added on. While dropping obscur
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by robk 17y ago
This a pretty reasoned, fair approach. The Maps team is handling this as well as anyone could be expected really. The best part is that most users don't understand dynamic changes based on country or IP, so to them it just looks as they'd
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by robk 17y ago
The cut really is nice though. Far less baggy in the leg like lots of mens pants are these days. I recommend a pair for the times when you can't get away with jeans, or are outside California :)
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by robk 17y ago
My favorite shark-jump moment was when someone in HR sent out a blast email announcing a new HR initiative for a "wear pajamas to work day" highlighting Google culture. When HR has to manufacture culture and call it a perk, things are on t
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9/27 Reddit Tribute Song (Comedy - nerdy parody of country songs)(whoispaz.wordpress.com)
2 points by robk 17y ago|0 comments

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