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Early indications that Amazon Fire outselling E-Ink Kindles 3 to 1(reghardware.com)
1 points by travem 15y ago|0 comments
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by travem 15y ago
It's interesting to me to see the antagonism from the staff towards the customers. Focus on the customers is, in my opinion, one of the reasons why Amazon has been so successful compared to traditional bookstores.
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Borders employees vent frustration(mediabistro.com)
2 points by travem 15y ago|1 comments
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by travem 15y ago
Really interesting article. One particular statement caught my eye "many P25 systems … are "rekeyed" at frequent intervals, in the apparent (and basically erroneous) belief that changing encryption keys regularly improves security". My beli
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AWS launches 2011 start-up challenge(aws.amazon.com)
25 points by travem 15y ago|7 comments
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by travem 15y ago
The author of rich dad poor dad is Robert Kiyosaki. Guy Kawasaki is the former chief evangelist at Apple as well as author of some other books.
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by travem 15y ago
Android keeps the Java language relevant in mobile space but Java is far from irrelevant in other types of development such as on the server side or in the enterprise space.
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by travem 15y ago
You can see this is happening through self-organizing communities on Facebook and other social networks. Search for the "for sale or swap in ..." Facebook groups and you'll see people engaging in a much more social and local based bartering
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by travem 15y ago
Assuming that their claim is true it wouldn't protect the value of bitcoins in the event of a similar incident to Mt. Gox occurring in a different exchange, would it? The value would still crash dramatically.
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by travem 15y ago
I just remembered a pretty good example of this with the story of BitKeeper and Git, you can read http://kerneltrap.org/node/4966 for more information. It was the catalyst of losing the cheap enough/free option that motivated the work on
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AWS releases Ruby SDK(aws.amazon.com)
15 points by travem 15y ago|1 comments
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by travem 15y ago
The other scenario is that keeping prices reasonable means there isn't as much demand for an open source version. Developers who balked at paying $150 a seat wouldn't be sufficiently motivated if the cost was a more "reasonable" $20 say.
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by travem 15y ago
With the password hashes being unsalted MD5 and estimates of password reuse averaging from 12% this is valuable information that could be used to gain access to more sensitive systems. Sure it may be as simple as running an automated scan,
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by travem 15y ago
Actually what I'd expect from Microsoft is to delay launching the new thing for several years in order to integrate it with various other services, re-branding it to windows/live/.net XXX, and wondering why the world has moved on in the mea
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by travem 15y ago
The level above which you have to register to collect the VAT is there precisely to protect the smaller companies which make a few small sales to the EU. If you are making enough sales to be over the threshold you should be able to afford t
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by travem 16y ago
If that API is under the GPL then isn't use of it a derivative work? If the API is a GPL implementation of a standard API, e.g. the JDBC API, then it wouldn't be a derivative work, not sure if Themes call a wordpress specific API or not tho
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by travem 16y ago
It would be interesting to see how may of the M&A's were planning an IPO prior to being acquired. A recent study shows that a better price can be extracted from the acquiring company if the sellers adopt this dual-track strategy. See h
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How to maximize your acquisition price with a dual-track strategy(news.byu.edu)
1 points by travem 16y ago|0 comments
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My Breakup with Facebook(snappconner.com)
1 points by travem 16y ago|0 comments
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by travem 16y ago
The point about the lack of "alarm bells" raised while doing busy work really resonates with me. Its so easy to get in the habit of context switching between multiple inputs (email, twitter, …) that if you don't strictly time box it you can
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End of the decline for Internet Explorer?(bcs.org)
1 points by travem 16y ago|0 comments
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by travem 16y ago
I no longer apply to jobs where the salary is not advertised. After turning up to a few interviews in the past where the salary was well below market rate I don't bother wasting my time any more.
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by travem 16y ago
I hadn't thought of it that way actually. Being remote poses its own challenges though.
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What would happen if programmers had global mobility like footballers?(yaleglobal.yale.edu)
7 points by travem 16y ago|4 comments
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by travem 16y ago
We have/had a similar issue. We got around it through the "social proof" of similar customers testimonials, industry specific press releases etc. The first few sales were really difficult and we had to do them pretty cheap to get the work b
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by travem 16y ago
Do we really want to heed advice when it's comes with obviously wrong advice like "Only people can detect and solve software bugs, not tools." Static bug analysis is definitely not the be all and end all of software quality but definitely h
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by travem 16y ago
I thought it was intended to make it easier to inspect for worms which, due to the diet, were more common in Germany.
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by travem 16y ago
Probably more than they make of Knol :-)
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by travem 16y ago
I still remember typing in pages of A4 sheets of code for a football management simulator on my commodore 16, reading every line to try and figure out where I could alter a line or two to give me an edge in the game over my brother :-) good
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by travem 16y ago
"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple--and wrong."

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