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by wheels 13y ago
Let's see. There's one called "Y Combinator". I think they have a website, but I can't find it at the moment.
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EU Officials Furious at NSA Spying in Brussels and Germany(spiegel.de)
11 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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Correa: U.S. asked Ecuador not to give Snowden asylum(reuters.com)
42 points by wheels 13y ago|15 comments
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Walmart taking the Chromebook mainstream(computerworld.com)
1 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 13y ago
Wouldn't Occam's Razor instead suggest that since the Page statement was much earlier that Zuckerberg or whoever wrote this (probably not Mark) just copied the style of Page's statement semi-intentionally? They'd have a
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Experts in Germany Divided on Computer Science in School Curriculum(spiegel.de)
2 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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Help Wanted: Will Dearth of Experts Starve German Economy?(spiegel.de)
2 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
When someone proposes something wrong in a field where they are validly an expert, they are simply wrong, not a crackpot. The man has 70 peer reviewed publications in theoretical physics: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~erikv/page1/page1.htm
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Digital Gold Rush: The Bitcoin Boom and Its Many Risks(spiegel.de)
8 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
This is one of those arguments that seems to makes sense when you're on the purchaser side of an SaaS product, but often breaks down when you're on the seller side. One of the biggest costs of running a SaaS business is support. I'd guess
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Tech Tuesday: Growing Your Engineering Organization(continuations.com)
2 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
I'm an American that's lived in Berlin for the last 7 years, and run a startup here. This post is mostly correct; in fact, it's pretty impressive that the author soaked up the vibe that much in such a short span. But there are a couple po
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Stakeholder value vs shareholder value(theequitykicker.com)
3 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
Hmm, kind of sad that there's no mention of it's forerunner, the Blinkenlights project: http://blinkenlights.net/project It was done by a handful of folks (mostly CCC members) and included an API and the ability to play pong on it via cel
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An Unlikely Effort to Buy the Berlin Power Grid(spiegel.de)
3 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information(nature.com)
7 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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German Pirate Party Sinks amid Chaos and Bickering(spiegel.de)
3 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
To be clear, I'm not actually saying that a meteor defense system is a reasonable idea. I don't know enough about the topic to say anything interesting. My point was rather that you can't compare a catastrophe with disease / accidents simp
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by wheels 14y ago
Heart disease and car crashes don't have the ability to derail significant economies in short shrift. There's pretty obviously a huge difference between singular, concentrated disasters and amortized "normal" human death.
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by wheels 14y ago
Where I grew up the men still wear high heels. We call them "cowboy boots".
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by wheels 14y ago
To be clear -- I'm totally fine with people who knew Aaron well commenting on these matters. I did in fact assume that was not the case and apologize if I was wrong there. I guess my rub is two-fold: - The visible portion of public figures
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by wheels 14y ago
It really rubs me the wrong way when something like this happens and folks jump to conclusions as you have here. You didn't know this person. For all we know he could have not given two shits about the whole legal process and this is linked
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by wheels 14y ago
I can't comment on the state of things today, but I was active an active KDE core developer at the time from that original message to the time of the Zack's blog post (and I'm friends with both Dirk and Zack): There was a huge amount of exc
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Conferences: Publication, Communication, Sanction [Must Be Separated](cacm.acm.org)
4 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
Speed would be one. A horse can't maintain a fast pace for very long. A human on a bike can go much further than a horse can run in one day. That said, presumably the lack of appropriate roads would nullify that advantage.
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by wheels 14y ago
For the folks questioning jurisdiction, that's moot on several counts, most notably since Facebook has had a German daughter company ("Facebook Germany GmbH") since 2009.
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by wheels 14y ago
Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use! http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-... Yahoo Mail is still more popular than GMail.
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by wheels 14y ago
Kind of a quirky note, but now the creators of all of the most popular web languages (Ruby, PHP and Python) have had a stint at YC companies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756314 http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/php-founder-rasmus
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by wheels 14y ago
It mentions @media queries working in the iOS Mail app, but as best as I've been able to decipher, they're still fairly broken (whereas Android's Mail app and K-9 aren't). Specifically, it always reports that the mail is in landscape mode (
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by wheels 14y ago
We use Rackspace Mail for our company's mail. $2/month/account. Not really hard to justify and includes backups and human support. http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/ For my personal mail I use Fastmail. $40/ye

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