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by smackay 15y ago
Having a hierarchy of friends may be in your interest but it is certainly not in the interests of the people hosting the social network. They need the social graph to be single level either to make mining the data easier or to get to expose
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by smackay 15y ago
The push by Amazon into cloud services was very different from the business they were pursuing up to then. OK, so they were essentially just wringing some money out of all the infrastructure they already had in place but it was quite a radi
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by smackay 15y ago
I'm in Lisbon and nobody I asked today had ever heard anything about this. Given the economic climate (2% fall in GDP forcast for the next year or so) I'd be really surprised if it was possible to raise the funding for this. As others have
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by smackay 16y ago
It is not just deadlines, I find that any social situation where people are dependent on what I produce to be an extremely strong motivator - moreso than any well organized task list or plan -
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by smackay 16y ago
I found the flyer on the left quite readable but that was probably influenced by my expectation that it was from a newspaper classified section or similar publication where the formatting options can be quite limited. Once I read the articl
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by smackay 16y ago
The big push for Java was with WebObjects and Apple's half-hearted push into enterprise systems. Initially Apple's version of Java (they wanted tight integration with Cocoa) was always a couple of revisions behind Sun's so that was always a
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by smackay 16y ago
I am curious as to why the "hiring/freelancing" problem has not been cracked yet. Given the issues with global sites such as oDesk and elance perhaps the problem really does not scale without sacrificing either reliability or quality and an
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by smackay 16y ago
While realising that you are only one in six billions and climbing can be overwhelming I really look forward to the creations of the people who will rail against this and achieve things which are truly great.
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by smackay 16y ago
The article makes two contradictory points. First that the standard view that the utility of a product should determine the price is confounded by real-world human factors and second that consumers should ignore real-world human factors and
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by smackay 16y ago
The great thing about org-mode being text based and easy to structure is that you can put anything and everything into it. As I get older and more forgetful I get better at recording all the details of projects so hopefully in a few years I
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by smackay 16y ago
Sometimes you have to force yourself to be parallel. Software projects are often exploratory and you can quickly find yourself falling down rabbit holes so one project can easily consume all the time available. Parallelizing can at least al
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by smackay 16y ago
Cringley's account is very critical of Gates and Balmer, particularly on the subject of getting control of Paul Allen's shares in Microsoft should the worst happen. While this seems very cold-blooded it was probably a reasonable course of a
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by smackay 16y ago
India was under British influence and control for 250 years. It seems a little strange that the Victorian Era which lasted for 70 years and the more conservation period only 50 years or so had such a strong influence on such a large and di
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by smackay 16y ago
All of the popup panels for menu items are displayed erratically with the contents appearing and disappearing as I move over them with the mouse. This only happens on a second monitor under Windows Vista.
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by smackay 16y ago
I stand corrected. I guess Fire Panda does not have the same ring to it.
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by smackay 16y ago
The photo at the start of the article is of a Red Panda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda , not a fox (of any kind).
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by smackay 16y ago
Nature is doing so well around Chernobyl because of the lack of humans. I don't have a reference to hand but I beleive that the birds in the area have a high rate of genetic defects and low reproductive success. That fact that the environme
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by smackay 16y ago
Is this simply a move to sow seeds of confusion or point to something more fundamentally wrong with java.net? I visited java.net recently to find out more about the Java Advanced Imaging project (which I discovered has some issues) but afte
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by smackay 16y ago
What is most compelling about this is first it was Tunisia, then Egypt. Who is next? If it continues it will probably be world-changing no matter what the outcome.
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by smackay 16y ago
I was expecting an article on how to measure performance in a startup - an interesting topic in itself given the fluid nature of the environment which makes it difficult to measure many important aspects - but the article seems to conflate
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by smackay 16y ago
So The Fates have decided the outcome. The only thing left to do is see how long Facebook's demise will take. It will be very interesting to see the outcome. I don't think Facebook will fade away, AOL style, however some form comparison wil
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by smackay 16y ago
It might be better to cripple the site rather than kill it. If all of Mahalo's pages disappeared you can be sure they would return en masse when they found the workaround for the filter. Blocking chunks of their content might make finding t
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by smackay 16y ago
The text is rather vague but the sentiment is the most interesting part. They hint at something similar to YCombinator which if they can pull it off could change the way a lot of people think about startups and perhaps open up new opportuni
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by smackay 16y ago
That's why (at least in the far north) people make it themselves.
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by smackay 16y ago
I don't want to be morose but many of the countries listed also have significant suicide rates. Finland, in particular, has the highest rate in western Europe with Switzerland not far behind. I guess everything comes with a price.
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by smackay 16y ago
Nissan are showcasing the Leaf and installing a network of charging stations are being installed in my part of town (Lisbon, Portugal). The cars are quieter than others but not close to silent since the tyres still generate the same amount
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by smackay 16y ago
These are not mistakes as much as they are inevitabilities. No business wants to cannibalize sales or reduce their prices but these results are almost a given with any form of digital distribution. The music industry tried to avoid this and
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by smackay 16y ago
The driving force behind the revolution, as presented by the media here in Portugal, was one of a large group of disaffected youths with little prospects for advancement. This is a recurring issue across the majority of Arab nations and thr
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by smackay 16y ago
None of the altenatives listed by W3Fools appear to counter the overwhelming advantage of W3Schools in that you can quickly look up information on a given html attribute or css selector. The site is essentially one big cheat-sheet. Unless W
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by smackay 16y ago
Is the current lack of support in WebM for mobile devices really an issue? I know the carriers would love you to burn through your monthly data allowance as fast as possible but my understanding is that generally (with the exception of Sout

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