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tdonia
18y ago
a wealth of opportunity tempered with some non-trivial danger: we're one step closer to Digital Rights Management that works end to end. does your brain Play4Sure? until i ingested the latest wetware service pack, i could only sense FairP
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18y ago
Haven't read the author's book, but the ideas sound very much like Christopher Alexander's work in systemizing collaborative design. If you're not familiar, i highly recommend these: http://www.google.com/books?id=Kh3T3XFUfPQC&printse
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18y ago
interesting idea - clear target audiences. trick will be getting those audiences to use this. seems like a relatively good problem to have, especially for a communication network play, though by no means cake. two design tweaks: on my pret
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18y ago
+1 savrajsingh what's the difference between a social network and a social utility? and what's the difference between a social network and a community? in many ways, they're different words for the same things - but there are gradations t
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tdonia
18y ago
the lehman credit-default swap (cds) auction a week ago friday (oct 10) brought 9.75 cents on the dollar: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/10/10/lehman-bonds-pric...
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tdonia
18y ago
in non-american-football terms, it's an asymmetric interaction (attack) formation. rather than establishing a 1 to 1 pairing between opposing players, this approach means that a play isn't reliant on the physical/defensive strength of the
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18y ago
typography. it's not the only thing a good designer knows, but it's a basic skill that the good ones respect. there are 2 schools of design that a savage like me can comprehend: systemic and emotional. i'm sure that many can argue for the
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well, in this case i've only met them from my role as a ui designer who's been called in because of a need for ui design. that said - you're very right - given the circumstances, they were the closest position to a ui designer that these c
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tdonia
18y ago
I've met more than a few fraudulent SEOs, but you cannot support this generalization merely because their are a few bad apples in the cart. Every profession has its share. I've also met some invaluable SEOs, especially in the magazine and
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18y ago
"Cluny's agreement to offer perpetual prayer (laus perennis, literally "perpetual praise") meant that specialization in roles went a step further at Cluny. Cluny became perhaps the wealthiest monastic house of the Western World and this all
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7 isn't a bad number - and it seems to have worked with getting the bailout passed. 700 Billion feels closer/is easy to report as "Half a billion". 800 Billion would have been rounded to "One Trillion" - a (slightly) scarier number. It's
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18y ago
it's using the canvas tag to render the graphical area. you can read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_ (HTML_element) http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial