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by shmichael 16y ago
I'm not sure Google's alleged "honest" interface is only a product of company culture: The launch of Buzz was the target of as much criticism as received by Facebook. It might just be that social network interfaces interact with users more
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10% of all US billionaires commit to donating most of their wealth(tacticalphilanthropy.com)
2 points by shmichael 16y ago|1 comments
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eBay purchases RedLaser from Occipital(occipital.com)
1 points by shmichael 16y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 16y ago
Very inefficient for commands such as find.
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by shmichael 16y ago
Microsoft has some amazing enterprise products. Excel is absolutely amazing. Access is a great development tool for paperwork personnel. SQL Server is so so simple to get up and running, and scale up to tremendous volume.
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by shmichael 16y ago
Actually, this makes perfect sense. The sales data at any given point of time is given as a percentage of the baseline, which is set at Q1 '03.
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American McGee (Game Dev. In China) on The Setup(american.mcgee.usesthis.com)
1 points by shmichael 16y ago|0 comments
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Cleverbot(cleverbot.com)
3 points by shmichael 16y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 16y ago
Fixed; Sorry.
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by shmichael 16y ago
You can get comments pushed into the page you are currently reading using this small greasemonkey script: http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js It shows a small tab on the right side of the page that expands to display the r
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Web Application Frameworks - A Comparison(accursoft.com)
1 points by shmichael 16y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 16y ago
I'm not happy by Google's dominance of search & email, and yet it is there. Here the matter is even worse due to the network effect: if most of your friends are using facebook's social tagging service, you'd have to be connected to it o
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by shmichael 16y ago
Foursquare opens a whole spectrum of indirect interaction between business owners and their clientèle. The game mechanics are little more than a usability technique.
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by shmichael 16y ago
It's easy to call the shots from the audience. TechCrunch is judging this by Disney over-romanticized standards - self fulfillment et al. TechCrunch does not have access to the founders' cockpit view. What if the founders decide the company
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by shmichael 16y ago
I'm probably clueless, but can't find any edit handle for this. Little help?
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HW Hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang on The Setup(andrew.huang.usesthis.com)
63 points by shmichael 16y ago|29 comments
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by shmichael 16y ago
It took about 5 minutes to load. MINUTES. I suspect they don't have any cache servers near Israel.
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Architecture of middle-large website: poppen.de(highscalability.com)
1 points by shmichael 16y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 16y ago
Am I the only one who can't get Hacker News to show on it?
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by shmichael 17y ago
Javascript is always a nice topic to discuss. Depending on the technical level, you could take it in different directions: * "good" paradigms in Javascript (using concepts of functional programming). I always recommend Crockford's Javascrip
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IBM Breaks Open Source Patent Pledge(slashdot.org)
1 points by shmichael 17y ago|0 comments
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Map of Online Marketing Trends(mindshare-connections.com)
1 points by shmichael 17y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 17y ago
As far as I can tell, the "stats monitor" feature is not advertised on the front page. In fact, I tried navigating the site for a while but couldn't hit the Firefox welcome/upgrade pages that contain the disclaimer. Most people upgrade thei
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by shmichael 17y ago
This has been referenced in XKCD: http://xkcd.com/721/ There is nothing much on the page though. The game has not yet been released, and there isn't any video preview.
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Shareaholic Contains Spyware(shmichael.com)
11 points by shmichael 17y ago|10 comments
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by shmichael 17y ago
The title is misleading. Flash advertisments are being converted to an iPad-compatible form (probably Canvas). It's not even clear if the process is fully automatic.
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Distinguishing Column-Stores (Cassandra vs. Vertica)(dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
3 points by shmichael 17y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 17y ago
Several advantages of the ribbon: Allows a more "organic" grouping of functions, e.g. All the design-related items are grouped together, then there is a subgrouping of font, paragraph, etc. Similar items are closer, either horizontally or v
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Splitting Equity Between Founders(shmichael.com)
1 points by shmichael 17y ago|0 comments
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by shmichael 17y ago
And Ken is renamed Paul?

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