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by vlad 16y ago
Why are the controls on the far right, while the query entry is on the far left?
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by vlad 16y ago
I created a helpful product that 9 out of 10 users said they would recommend to a friend, with about 1,000 paying customers. I was too shy to market it or advertise it anywhere, though. I got dejected after being declined from YCombinator
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Apple releases 11.6" Instant-On MacBook Air for $999(apple.com)
63 points by vlad 16y ago|144 comments
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by vlad 16y ago
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22%2C+%22ruby+... You can see that search volume growth for "rails" had been flat for the year before Ruby on Rails came out. Since then, "rails" trended the same as "ruby on rails" at every
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by vlad 16y ago
And that's the point. Nobody wants to put in effort to find out that their genius idea is not.
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by vlad 16y ago
In my limited experience with the site, Groupon appears to use fake images of discounts coupled with the region's name in their web ads and web site in order to entice new users, not letting the users know that no discounts for the advertis
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by vlad 16y ago
Great article about requiring a break-up fee in case a buyer walks away after the company has spent lots of time and money on lawyers for nothing. The title made me think of a funny situation where every service sends an e-mail to their use
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by vlad 16y ago
Even more worrying is the clear indication that Apple is switching to E-Ink display technology for next-gen devices.
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by vlad 16y ago
Equally interesting, check out the first of those UMass Amherst links to see an example of how little scrubbing Microsoft did in the case of professor names, as well. The same professor is listed as #4 and #5, whereas combined, he would be
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by vlad 16y ago
If you knew a technology was going to take off, learning their programming language/API and becoming a well-known expert on it could pay great dividends. Additionally, you could work there to make contacts and learn even more. Finally, yo
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by vlad 16y ago
I've seen these so much they don't even face me any more.
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by vlad 16y ago
Danger, one of the sample words you mentioned, is the name of a company that Microsoft bought.
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by vlad 16y ago
Gimp
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How a Smart, Decentralized Energy Web Is Essential for Managing Renewable Energy(physorg.com)
6 points by vlad 16y ago|0 comments
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Reversible Watermarking for Digital Images(eurekalert.org)
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Free Distributed-Software Timing Program As Good As an Atomic Clock(freshscience.org.au)
3 points by vlad 16y ago|1 comments
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Multi-Layered Images Projected Onto Water Droplets With New Display Technology(cmu.edu)
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'Twitter-Like' Technology Could Make Cities Safer(epsrc.ac.uk)
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by vlad 16y ago
The original blog and the information in the e-mail headers show that the customer said the quote, not Steve Jobs. The original article was incorrect.
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by vlad 16y ago
From the FAQ: ITA Software does not market a consumer oriented flight search site. That's probably not completely true. Matrix, although not a booking site, is one of the better flight search sites, allows consumers to find the cheapest
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Lawsuit: Dell Knowingly Shipped 12 Million Faulty Computers(arstechnica.com)
2 points by vlad 16y ago|1 comments
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by vlad 16y ago
Great post! Some more good ones: - You don't have to pay for gas. - You don't have to pay car registration fees every other year. - Traffic jams afford you opportunities to walk across the street, rather than to sit and wait. - You don't ha
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by vlad 16y ago
You're right. Payment processors (including the App Store) should have an option to cap the amount of income a developer can earn in a month, just in case an app actually takes off (after a year of hard full-time work on it), to prevent ma
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by vlad 16y ago
If that's how you describe someone who quit a co-op (internship) in order to launch a few of his own apps that pay his rent and allow him to keep working on his dream, I'm genuinely curious (and I mean no disrespect when I ask), how would y
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by vlad 16y ago
So that's why iPhone 4 failed at WWDC. Steve was holding it. Simple explanations are always the best. Now, time to sell my 3GS.
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by vlad 16y ago
Try installing wordpress 3.0 release candidate locally on XAMPP, then upload your blog to cheap web hosting once you have a minimum viable blog (MVB.)
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by vlad 16y ago
Thanks for your response. Yes, but starting two posts by writing that there were absolutely no on-phone app stores, was misleading.
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by vlad 16y ago
You are incorrect. Carrier-provided app stores existed. Here's a forum post from 2005 asking about the Sprint Store native app on the Treo 650, released a year earlier. As an owner of the phone, I had seen it and used it myself. http://w
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by vlad 16y ago
Check out University of Massachusetts Amherst: http://cs.umass.edu Read about courses offered this fall: http://www.cs.umass.edu/ugrad-education/fall-10-course-descr... You can complete one of the 11 tracks leading to a B.S. in Computer
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by vlad 16y ago
>>>Compared with college kids of the late 1970s, the study says, today's are less likely to agree with statements including "I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective" an

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