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Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors(apple.com)
199 points by sdfx 17y ago|47 comments
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The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading(arstechnica.com)
9 points by sdfx 17y ago|0 comments
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Problems that ruined my world(lbrandy.com)
30 points by sdfx 17y ago|44 comments
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by sdfx 17y ago
Good comments were made on a similar list of underused html elements that was submitted some time ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481067
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60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7(reuters.com)
27 points by sdfx 17y ago|26 comments
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by sdfx 17y ago
From the main page: Using mathematical languages to solve real world problems can offer very different experiences. The results will be the same but using the wrong tool can cause undue work. Here I present a table of three different langu
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by sdfx 17y ago
>There's no extra cost to ship out all software with that feature after it's coded By this logic, Chipmaker should only sell their most powerful processors, because the actual manufacturing-cost is not really the reason for the price di
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by sdfx 17y ago
Great how he leaves out the fact that it is his site.
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by sdfx 17y ago
Average fares are hard to compare. For one, LCCs and regular airlines are using different airports and at least the LCCs in europe are only covering certain high traffic routes. I would love to know where they got their numbers from and w
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by sdfx 17y ago
This is the post you are talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526140
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Windows Vista SP2 is live, ready to download(engadget.com)
1 points by sdfx 17y ago|0 comments
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by sdfx 17y ago
are there ads in the electronic (kindle) version of the newspaper?
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by sdfx 17y ago
So Amazon is paying publishers 3$ more than they make on each book, yet the best deal they are willing to offer to newspapers is 30% of their revenue? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
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Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim(arstechnica.com)
67 points by sdfx 17y ago|44 comments
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Pondering the Polymath Podcast and Pedanticism(wynia.org)
1 points by sdfx 17y ago|0 comments
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De-anonymizing Social Networks(33bits.org)
1 points by sdfx 18y ago|0 comments
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by sdfx 18y ago
Heise reported last year that the Austrian police is able to listen in on Skype connections. Neither Austria nor Skype confirmed or denied the story back then. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/113353
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by sdfx 18y ago
I really dislike these cutesy google-style error messages à la "oops something went wrong" and "Aw, snap ..." - Often, their information value is zero: they don't explain to you how to solve the problem or what went wrong (maybe with th
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Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck?(michaelnygard.com)
58 points by sdfx 18y ago|46 comments
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by sdfx 18y ago
According to a recent story on venture beat, twitter has brought in $1m in revenues for Dell.[1] So there thould be quite a margin, even when Dell's VP of communities says "If it becomes complicated and costly, our instinct would be to mov
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by sdfx 18y ago
An other reason could be the need for publishing contracts for eBooks. Amazon has to provide a sufficient amount of ebooks on their marketplace to make the kindle a success.
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Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device(amazon.com)
64 points by sdfx 18y ago|61 comments
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Coloring our perception: blue for creativity, red for safety(arstechnica.com)
1 points by sdfx 18y ago|0 comments
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by sdfx 18y ago
Sorry if my original post was not clear enough, but this is exactly the point I was trying to make. Maybe it's not fair, but all these points do matter for the target audience just as much as technical superiority matters for the tech-savvy
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by sdfx 18y ago
It is pretty much the iPod effect - a nice product with a great integration of the marketplace. I guess this makes it appealing to a broad audience who are looking for simple products with name recognition. Maybe other reader are better, fa
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by sdfx 18y ago
Coding Horror has the answer: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001173.html It's a compatibility feature, allowing older software to run at the speed it was intended to run at (mainly games).
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by sdfx 18y ago
"how it works" is a bit convoluted. Perhaps distinguish between advertiser, publisher and job seeker and explain how your service helps them. The design in general is not as clean as it could be, and the font-sizes on the first page seems r
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by sdfx 18y ago
At least public key certification was designed and is used for this for quite some time. It works reasonably well for email and there is an infrastructure to manage and validate the public keys. With openID you'd have to start from scratch.
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by sdfx 18y ago
Since I knew I'd be seeing Alan Kay at Rebooting Computing, I decided to verify his Stack Overflow usage in person. [...] We then proceeded to discuss how it's sad that identity is still hard online. Couldn't this be solved, at least for
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by sdfx 18y ago
For me, it all comes down to price. I think a lot of people might consider it if it costs 200$, whether they "need" it or not (cf. the netbook effect). For 300$ and above I'm not so shure.

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