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IMDb Celebrates 20th Anniversary - Letter from Founder Col Needham(imdb.com)
1 points by tomkarlo 16y ago|0 comments
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by tomkarlo 16y ago
Folks seem to forget that not everyone has the option of switching carriers. The most obvious example of this are people who get their phone from their company via a bulk contract with a particular provider, as I used to when working at a l
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by tomkarlo 16y ago
It's all about where you choose to live relative to where you work - my new apartment and my old one are across town from each other, but neither commute took more than 15 minutes at peak rush hour. The same can be said of NY, it's all abou
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by tomkarlo 16y ago
As someone who hires in LA, and moved to LA to take a job here, your perception is either outdated or simply incorrect. There are a good number of shops here in LA, including Google, Amazon, Hulu, Sony and Yahoo that pay well above the medi
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by tomkarlo 16y ago
If you think this rates high on the list of avoidable but unforeseen design errors, you need to study more engineering history. (And generally, all design errors are avoidable - otherwise they wouldn't be a design decision.) As far as I kno
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by tomkarlo 16y ago
As someone who's on the business and technical side, I'm not sure this post shows much about the gap, except that some people are either cheapskates or ignorant. You can find folks who fit that description in just about any sufficiently lar
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by tomkarlo 16y ago
You're assuming that the shares actually move from buyer to seller at the time of the transaction, which they don't. For the most basic of trades, it can take several days for the trade to close, so a naked short can sell shares they don't
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by tomkarlo 17y ago
Even with very moderate traffic, if your website has the right audience you can use Google Adsense to cover your hosting costs quite easily, without ruining the experience. I have a _single page_ web site (driven by a Rails service) where I
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The Future of Reading: iPad: Apple Upsets The eBook Apple-cart...(billhillsblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by tomkarlo 17y ago|0 comments
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by tomkarlo 17y ago
Ah, the lazyweb at it's best. Have you thought about a rename? That's a hell of a mouthful for a company that's not the result of some kind of international M&A event.
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by tomkarlo 17y ago
I don't agree. The iPhone was at least my 4th or 5th device that had some kind of "mobile web" function. Most folks had smartphones, blackberries, etc before they got an iphone if they had any interest in the net. The problem was, the reali
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by tomkarlo 17y ago
I agree right up to the comment about RIM: if you look at their recent efforts they are clearly holding their own in the teenage / budget smartphone market for families that want the email/txt capabilities of iPhones at a lower price point
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by tomkarlo 17y ago
It's hard to make a lateral career move in a weak jobs environment. It seems to me he might be better off finding a job that needs his technical background, but also has a PM component where he can develop those skills and maybe grow into d
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by tomkarlo 18y ago
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