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by walid 13y ago
Add to that the 15th Arabic letter ض [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B6 ] cannot be pronounced in any other language to the point that Arabic is sometimes referred to as the language of ض. http://en.wikiped
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by walid 13y ago
WOW! This is actually a very useful comic :)
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A Holiday in Honor of the Korean Writing System(mentalfloss.com)
120 points by walid 13y ago|79 comments
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by walid 13y ago
I see what you mean but he, Ladar Levison, did offer to write the software to do logging for all users when there is a warrant. The FBI wanted to use the ruling as a way to circumvent warrants and scoop everything. So although the title is
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by walid 13y ago
That was very scathing but it doesn't surprise me since a similar guise is used to describe Mark Zuckerberg. I'm wondering how much is fact and how much is fiction.
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by walid 13y ago
The last paragraph of the article is a tragic comedy.
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by walid 13y ago
Advertising revenue seems larger in the USA in general. It is worth considering that most advertising based services are US based eg: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Facebook.
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by walid 13y ago
LOL! Peaceful protest. I like the idea :)
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by walid 13y ago
True, but I wasn't trying to attack him. I was surprised that someone would ask that a thread be deleted that vehemently so I got curious about his background. When someone is in a competing position, s/he has to respect other peo
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by walid 13y ago
Note that you work for qz.com which kinda discredits you when asking for another site to be deleted.
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by walid 13y ago
I'm sorry but you're wrong with the elitist view you're taking on paid content. The problem is not that high profile publishers succeed while others fail. The real problem is that no new monetizing mechanism is used. Take in-
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by walid 13y ago
Not all articles are news in the traditional sense. Editorials, opinion pieces, historical perspectives, analyses of markets, etc. are not a google away. The dilution of the news market is because a lot is poured into hype, that is a google
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by walid 13y ago
It is strange that I have to quote the article as an explanation but here goes: The Bitcoin Solution In today’s world, quick payments online with little or no cost are readily available via bitcoin. Recognizing the potential this provides
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by walid 13y ago
The most successful selling model for apps by far is in-app purchases. Whether for games items or for a more powerful app. The strategy is always to get your customers' foot in the door first and then give them the option to get more.
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by walid 13y ago
Would that be a payphone or are you implying one's own smartphone?
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How Bitcoin Can Save Publishing(thegenesisblock.com)
47 points by walid 13y ago|45 comments
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by walid 13y ago
The article makes a crappy defense as to why there is poorly written code coming from India. However the points as to the reason in the comments section are much better. In my opinion you get what you pay for. So if you hire an Indian progr
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Judge exposes patent troll's "sham" operation and employee in front of jury(techdirt.com)
11 points by walid 13y ago|0 comments
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by walid 13y ago
Yup! That is what I finally fell back to. At first I was worrying about all the stuff that I will miss but realized that as long as I was worrying I will never stop using Facebook. Btw, do you still use Facebook?
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by walid 13y ago
Never goes out of style! Always love reading this author's style of humour.
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by walid 13y ago
Founders are not the sole owners of organizations. They do have a lot of shares but they did go through funding rounds and an IPO and already don't own a chunk of their businesses.
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by walid 13y ago
Publicly held organizations cannot choose to close shop. They don't own the shop. Something I quote from Bruce Schneier was that if Google or Facebook were in the same position and the CEO refused to cooperate, the shareholders would j
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by walid 13y ago
And how is scanning your email different from scanning your facebook posts both private and public. If the plaintiff wins, bye bye advertising supported services.
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by walid 13y ago
It is definitely not vague and seems to be very coherent in their description of features that both X and Wayland are lacking. I'm not a Linux dev but their points seem well justified.
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by walid 13y ago
Love your idea and responsive design.
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by walid 13y ago
You can't say that Gates and Zuckerberg were not talented though. They definitely were in the right place in the right time but if you look at their early history you would find people who did their due diligence when it came to progra
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by walid 13y ago
+1 Writing code that gets used by others no matter how cumbersome makes me feel like I've won the lottery.
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by walid 13y ago
> Also, are we to believe that the replacement apps are fully as good as the commercial alternative? Considering that the police are using this software and their requirements are email and office apps then they don't need a lot of
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4 New Ways to Smuggle Messages Across the Internet(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by walid 13y ago|0 comments
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by walid 13y ago
> Imagine how much litigation there would be if your property right in your yard couldn't be simply and unambiguously determined just by looking or simple surveying. That's basically the problem with patents. True, that's

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