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by smcnally 14y ago
"Please enjoy this content on your PC" and a static image is what I'm seeing (chrome/ipad)
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How VCs Deploy Operating Talent To Build Better Startups(forbes.com)
2 points by smcnally 14y ago|0 comments
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by smcnally 14y ago
the option value for sparkology.com has one too many ws <option value=" http://wwww.sparkology.com>I graduated from a top university but my high paying job makes it hard to find a girlfriend</option>
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by smcnally 14y ago
I continue to use gReader more frequently than any other news app. It's lightweight, on all the devices I use, and addresses my reading needs at least sufficiently. My take on advertising likely differs from most here; I don't mind others p
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by smcnally 14y ago
Re The Master, can you please elaborate on "shallow and empty script"? My wife felt similarly ~"it's a huckster and a lost child searching, duh." I felt there was more. Re "two great performances," I presume you refer to Pheonix and Hoffman
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by smcnally 14y ago
We generally mean, or want, "participants" or "members." I'm certain the coinage above isn't Veen's and predates 2004. Just recently, I looked for a source and could not find the canonical. I'd been working on this: http://www.forbes.com/s
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by smcnally 14y ago
Ubuntu has multitouch gestures on an entry-level Dell -- works fine. I prefer a Mac, but use a mouse only when it's "docked" on a stand and an external keyboard.
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by smcnally 14y ago
swiping works fine on tablet chrome
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by smcnally 14y ago
What's Percona's role in this environment?
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by smcnally 14y ago
I got a similar message when I found I'd had to reinstall git. Pulled down an image from google code, then git-scm and received a ~"cannot install from unsigned source." I'm not sure why I had to reinstall in the first place. Specifying "Al
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by smcnally 14y ago
The piece reads like an extended explanation of the saw "Unix is user-friendly, just very particular about its friends." And well-done - A real-world analog is being in a foreign place where you don't speak the native tongue. You're thirsty
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by smcnally 14y ago
the "great businessman" things are nice to believe. have any links to substantiate? I "know" Miles from his younger days with Diz and Bird. A middle class kid from KC - one or both parents dentists who weren't planning on a musician for a s
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by smcnally 14y ago
I thought among the first things the titled referred to was "how to do HA dbs;" "how to shard in wp-config"; "how not to get hackernewsed"
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by smcnally 14y ago
I'm not saying there are no examples. In the one you bring up, though, I recall the piece and ensuing hullaballoo: The original NYT author, Charles Duhigg, basically admired and defended the Forbes writer's job (re taking the story in a di
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by smcnally 14y ago
What are examples of what you consider blogspam on forbes.com?
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by smcnally 14y ago
interesting, thanks. Hemingway said the same about writing: he'd work until he knew where he would pick up the next day. Then he could stop. In between, he'd not want to talk about what he'd worked on or planned to next sessions as that wou
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by smcnally 15y ago
Some had been working with GOOG already. Some with YHOO. (this was '07-08) There was healthy skepticism all around - the deadliest aspect was where they (claimed to have) felt more comfortable handling the design and development themselve
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by smcnally 15y ago
Having spent more than a year "convincing the local papers" how they could expand into local digital, and mostly having very smart people nod sagely then do nothing, Google has little to fear from them IMO.
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by smcnally 15y ago
I was at IBM in the mid-90s and OS/2 was my first prolonged exposure to GNU tools. I got in deep with TCP/IP as part of practicing to become a "Certified Engineer." We ran NCSA httpd and cgi scripts on it. Mucking with OS/2 and its configu
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by smcnally 15y ago
Kessler is catering to his audience here: remember, HBO butters its bread via their deals with cablecos, not through direct relationships with you or me. Maybe some day they'll want to own the relationship and disintermediate the middlemen
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by smcnally 15y ago
> Whenever I hear someone disregard torrents offhand, I get the distinct impression that they've either never actually tried it or that they're simply being dishonest, because piracy has never been easier. It wasn't offhand: it takes mo
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by smcnally 15y ago
> ~my cable provider's my best broadband option" We're witnessing non-death throes of a more-intelligent animal. When the music industry was disrupted completely, their Plan B was a white-knuckle-grip onto Plan A (their traditional busi
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by smcnally 15y ago
If the (alleged) issue is that GoDaddy is throttling WHOIS lookups, does using [ http://help.godaddy.com/article/3681](GoDaddys Export Lists tool) and including WHOIS info help? Or are the "real-time" lookups required by a new registrar?
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by smcnally 15y ago
Your observation is a good and material one. Not everyone will be as observant. As such, it's up to publishers to be as transparent as possible to distinguish reportage from opinion, paid content from more traditional editorial, contributio
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by smcnally 15y ago
"Or, you know, spend a day knocking together your own blog in rails." Understood you're exagerating for effect, but underestimating the complexity of a process like "blogging," over-estimating how much of it can be "simply" reëngineered, an
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by smcnally 15y ago
N.B. It's regarding a human operator of robotic machinery.
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by smcnally 15y ago
this can't possibly remain true for long. strange that (if?) it's true upon release. where are you seeing this info? is there a replacement for EDL?
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WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets(blogs.forbes.com)
96 points by smcnally 16y ago|66 comments
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thanks, kolchak - I've corrected the article per your feedback - S
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I fly a couple of times a month. I travel lightly and my preference is the front of the plane. Getting off the plane, post-arrival, can take an addl 20-30 (maddening) minutes. I also prefer the aisle Though window seats mean being disturbed

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