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by sdurkin 18y ago
Microsoft should buy Adobe. Flash has the potential to be the next de facto dominant OS.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Pretty is good. Ugly is bad. It has always, and will always be this way. If you don't make beautiful products, its probably because you can't.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"Every situation has a silver lining, and mine was that I got a big insight into what competence is. Competent people have a predictable, reliable process for solving a particular set of problems. They solve a problem the same way, every ti
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Rumors aren't news. This is news because it confirms our analysis, and its the first time we've know this information for sure.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
You can almost hear the money being flushed down the tubes.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
All spot on, except for this: "Finally, it's a little bit of the product of the admissions department. Many people are admitted based on extracurriculars which look good on paper, but neither stretch one's abilities, nor are particularly no
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by sdurkin 18y ago
To whom much is given, much is expected in return. For a lot of people, it certainly adds extra motivation.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"They could sing campfire songs in all the classes, as long as admissions still worked the same." (or something to that effect) I tend to believe that the most important part of a university is neither the learning, nor the signaling, but r
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by sdurkin 18y ago
I apologize. Its a bit of a campus legend, and as such tends to grow in the telling. I was aware that it had been partially debunked, but I was not sure to what extent. Thank you for the clarification.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Google John Aristotle Phillips. He was a princeton student in the 70s who designed a nuclear bomb as a junior paper, and built a rather realistic mockup in his dorm. It was published and placed in the library alongside the other junior pape
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Redefining the American Dream(ascanius.wordpress.com)
1 points by sdurkin 18y ago|0 comments
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by sdurkin 18y ago
No Mac version. :(
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by sdurkin 18y ago
A couple anecdotes of broken machines does not make a trend, or a commercial failure.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
(930,000 / 300,000,000) != 1% This guy has his own special brand of math.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Steve Jobs might have cancer again, and all people care about is Apple's stock price? I know its logical. I know its rational. I know its the hackeresque response to consider privacy vs. corporate governance. But please, try to have some re
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by sdurkin 18y ago
So this is what they mean by "echo chamber."
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Virus's require critical density in order to spread. The same way the flu runs rampant through crowded urban areas today, viruses only spread quickly when there's enough computers for them to infect. The lack of standard issue malware is pr
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Somebody needs to point the mob in the right direction.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
4chan is the internet's septic tank.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
File or threaten to file a counter-suit for abuse of process.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Yes it is. I bought it. To me it's not a waste at all. If there's some sort of externality I'm not seeing, have the government tax me for it. Furthermore, even if I did pour the water down a drain, what business of yours is it as long as I
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Yes, but I like my lawn. It's green, I can lay on it, or just walk across it in my bare feet. The point is, its our 40 billion, and we can spend it any way we like.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
You should take a job at Wendy's for a week. The vast majority of society functions at a cognitive level that is so low as to be shocking. What's even more amazing is that these people are able to hold a job, earn a living, and have a famil
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Yeah, I prefer the last.fm app over pandora. Its even functional over edge.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
I think we all kind of missed the boat by focusing on the one comment about Christianity. This man went from doing heroin to running a multimillion dollar software business. Perhaps there are more important distinguishing factors than the r
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by sdurkin 18y ago
So is assuming that religion and development ought to be antithetical.
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U.S. Considers Takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac(nytimes.com)
19 points by sdurkin 18y ago|15 comments
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Is it specifically opt-in, or can Getty simply pay some amount to retrieve any photo on Flickr? I find the latter concept disturbing.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Don't whine, fix it. By that I mean, propose specific suggestions for improvement. There's not a single constructive comment offered by the author.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
My sister hires web developers for her company off elance frequently.

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