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by zmmz 16y ago
I am also a bit weary of predicting the decline of local storage and apps for the home user. The correct headline of the article should be "Local desktops giving way to hosted desktops". Nearly all enterprise level corporations are either a
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Ask HN: Retrospective Revelations
13 points by zmmz 16y ago|3 comments
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by zmmz 16y ago
I think the point should be even more general: "Everybody thinking they are a typographer is the new lens flare." Large sans-serif fonts, glowing text, embossed text, shadows, low contrast, neon backgrounds and margins 10 pixels wide at mos
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by zmmz 16y ago
I guess Apple thought they needed Office and IE at the time, but surely not because it was great software. In retrospect, I wonder if it really made any difference at all. They always have and always will need Office as long as it is the
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by zmmz 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. Twitter + firefox would do it for me.
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Like joker, I don't have a facebook account to test this but the project certainly looks interesting. I am curious as to how you select what topic an article has? Doing a few random searches it seems to be a combination of scanning tags in
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Roger Ehrenberg on "Failing Successfully"(scribemedia.org)
3 points by zmmz 16y ago|0 comments
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Industry: IT side of stock exchanges. Quite a space to explore as it is one of the last parts of the sector that is not widely covered by conventional financial media (FT etc.) and has no commonly used resources on the web. Barriers: End us
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by zmmz 16y ago
If you aren't aiming for profit, want the recognition and want to make the world a better place then perhaps you could patent it and distribute as an open patent? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_patent
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The article forgot to mention his most hilarious stunt, where he claimed to have found a foolproof money making algorithm: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/10/hoaxster_hacker_disc... The original website is long gone, but strangely th
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by zmmz 16y ago
I managed to play around with this before it went offline, and have to say it is very impressive. It's a marriage between Google Wave and Processing with a very nice interface. Would love to see this incorporated into openprocessing.org to
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soros#Currency_speculation Basically, he took 10 billion British Pounds and exchanged them for other currencies (Deutsche Marks mainly if I remember correctly). Since the pound was already less desirable due t
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Don't forget "The Powers of Ten" by the Eames: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xwu2i0mMU Zooms out and then back in.
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Will Apple Embrace the Web? No.(osnews.com)
33 points by zmmz 16y ago|12 comments