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Netflix moves into movies(variety.com)
1 points by tjpd 12y ago|0 comments
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by tjpd 12y ago
19-40% is pretty usurious. Alongside the requirement for operational control over payments makes this a bad idea. For small amounts (under $250k) you're better off even taking a personal unsecured term loan (8-15%) or remortgaging (4
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by tjpd 13y ago
The differences in the taste of chocolate between the US and Europe/the rest of the world all stem back to the late 1800's & early 1900's. This is when the great modern confectioners got their start as (mostly puritanica
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by tjpd 13y ago
For businesses the UK is quite clear on payment terms: "If you haven’t already agreed when the money will be paid, the law says the payment is late after 30 days for public authorities and business transactions after either: the custom
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by tjpd 13y ago
It'd be good to see more client libraries. PHP is popular but having more will help enormously with adoption. Even just stubbed out libraries on Github can be a useful starting point for the community to build on.
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by tjpd 13y ago
Congratulations Rick! Great news.
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by tjpd 13y ago
Good article. One issue that often isn't highlighted enough is the role that funding bodies play. They are complicit in maintaining publishers pricing power & market share. Many funding bodies aim to fund the "best" research. How the
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by tjpd 13y ago
I've heard good things about http://apiary.io on this front as well...
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by tjpd 14y ago
Isn't the way for Craigslist to remove its posts from search results via http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt ?
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by tjpd 14y ago
I think this is the most likely. Apple is steadily pushing the iOS UI elements into the "wider" MacOS platform. This is evident from the last few changes to the Cocoa APIs and the recent requirements for Applications available on the Mac
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FathomDB (YC W08) introduces PlatformLayer: XaaS(blog.justinsb.com)
70 points by tjpd 15y ago|12 comments
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by tjpd 15y ago
Development seems to be moving along pretty rapidly & they've managed to integrate a bunch of popular frameworks: backbone.js, zepto.js, spine.js, Sencha Touch, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, underscore.js ...
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by tjpd 15y ago
Definitely a typo. The Risk division did £927m in revenue last year. http://reports.reedelsevier.com/ar10/business_review/lexisne...
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by tjpd 16y ago
That sounds like a great idea. The event will be streamed live [ http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/faq.html ] & I'm sure one of the co-working spaces would be able to put something on a big screen.