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by seldo 17y ago
As the blog post points out, Facebook has one of the most popular iPhone apps in the world (and Blackberry, and Android) but despite that big mobile user base hasn't made a play in the geo space, so this makes sense on that front. However,
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by seldo 17y ago
Yes, this is just the "slightly poorer than the EB5 man's visa", with the added stipulation that they have to create jobs, which seems like a great side-effect. Fundamentally US immigration needs reform to a points-based system. But this is
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by seldo 17y ago
Most open-source users are doing it for reasons of idealism? I would be interested to see actual numbers. I personally think open-source is nice and everything, but the reason I started using it was when I lived in the developing world an
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by seldo 17y ago
Crazy Russian hackers: is there nothing they can't do?
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by seldo 17y ago
I am also in the position of buying nearly everything via Amazon. If you haven't already, it's worth taking out the Amazon/Chase credit card -- it amounts to a 3% discount, redeemable directly as cash (in increments of $50) or as further sp
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by seldo 17y ago
It is ridiculously embarrassing that in 2010 when a tech person talks about "diversity" they mean "we should hire more women". Women are the majority of the population! And yet here we are.
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by seldo 17y ago
I'm just waiting for the inevitable "creeper in the IT department used spyware-laden laptops to take pictures of kids in their bedrooms". Parents seem to have weird privacy expectations of their kids but you can be sure they will scream blo
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by seldo 17y ago
Google is providing a free service in a field in which there is intense competition. I don't see what basis anyone would have for filing a lawsuit for not being indexed in Google.
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by seldo 17y ago
This is a very misleading interpretation of the data. All it shows is that large companies like their best employees working at HQ. For Indian companies, that means they go back to India (5% immigration rate). For American companies, it mea
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by seldo 17y ago
The conditions of TARP for the banks meant that they could not hire H-1Bs. Since banks -- not tech -- were the biggest hirers of overseas workers, they still hadn't hit the cap in November 2009.
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by seldo 17y ago
Am I the only nerd to think that Na'vi are sexier than ordinary people?
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by seldo 17y ago
His claim that IDG execs knew the whole time is pretty explosive. That makes the issue a LOT more about their own integrity as an organization (but I have no reason to believe that claim).
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by seldo 17y ago
It seems to me this story should be about IDG's apparently total lack of oversight of its reporters and their sources.
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by seldo 17y ago
In other words, Artificial Intelligence will be the inadvertent result of Google's war with search spammers. Google will get better and better at detecting non-human generated content until robots are generating such high-quality content th
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by seldo 17y ago
Forget PayPal, what about the 5 grand that "vanished into the Brazilian banking system"? That seems like the kind of line-item that merits explanation.
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by seldo 17y ago
This is "Fashion tips, as long as by fashion you mean what 19th-century British aristocracy wore". If you asked a woman to wear an uncomfortable and restrictive item of clothing designed in the 1800s you would be a crazy sexist. But apparen
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by seldo 17y ago
Well, unlike the book, the Developer Program is an ongoing service. They're not saying it's illegal , they're saying if you break the NDA you will be barred from using their services in the future. Which, if you're a developer, is quite a
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by seldo 17y ago
Well, in TechCrunch's case they just finished having a much longer than 110-minute outage because somebody hacked the hell out of them. Wordpress would have to do this a few more times before it was a worse job than they were managing on th
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by seldo 17y ago
This is one of the classiest outage apologies I've ever seen. No beating around the bush, no playing it down: "This was a long, terrible outage that cost our customers money." If you're gonna have an unscheduled outage, at least apologize t
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by seldo 17y ago
For the record, the study was domestic, and "struggling societies" has a specific demographic connotation: http://www.appliedgeographic.com/mosaic_group_j.html The rest of the groups listed in the diagram are also listed: http://www.appl
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by seldo 17y ago
Only too happy to say! :-) I am co-founder of http://awe.sm , and following some delays with visa paperwork I am finally able to join it full-time. If your business would like better tools and metrics for using social media, please give us
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by seldo 17y ago
As an ex-Yahoo (I quit this week), I can tell you our demographic in two words: flyover country. Here's a demographic study on Google vs. Yahoo from 2 years ago: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2008/02/yahoo_... Google's big
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by seldo 17y ago
The TV everywhere strategy from the cable companies seems to be: put TV online, but only available to cable subscribers, so people won't cancel their cable subscriptions. It seems really strange. Why not just have a pure-play online busines
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by seldo 17y ago
Seriously! White on grey?
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by seldo 17y ago
As an immigrant, I can certainly attest to the number of friends and relations who've listed the hostile attitude of customs and immigration amongst their reasons for not visiting more often. It turns out visitors to your country don't like
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by seldo 17y ago
Yeah, it's not clear to me why one shouldn't just use text and let the OS sort this out.
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by seldo 17y ago
See, it wasn't just Arabic flash cards. It was Arabic flash cards plus a passport with recent stamps from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. It's unfortunate, but a young, single male, travelling alone, with recent visits to those countries (Sud
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by seldo 17y ago
I was fully expecting this whole article to be a snarky exposé that he was using Keynote instead of Powerpoint.
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by seldo 17y ago
I want to know what a Double Planet is. Is it twice as good as a regular planet?
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by seldo 17y ago
People who do business try to do the marketing without building a product; people who build software try to build the product without doing any marketing. His point is that neither type will get anywhere.

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