davidppp

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by davidppp 9y ago
In the socialist hell-hole (/s) I live in, I pay taxes for a fairly comprehensive trash and recycling service run by my local government. The service operates weekly. However, they only take care of trash that fits into their standar
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The Bitcoin revolution could change government(bdlive.co.za)
2 points by davidppp 13y ago|0 comments
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Tesla Model S Review - Shot With Google Glass(youtube.com)
2 points by davidppp 13y ago|2 comments
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by davidppp 13y ago
Wow! This is a fantastic app. All of the basic tools feel natural to use, and the vector smoothing "just works". Well done!
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The Jetson Fallacy: Longer lifespans could explode the nuclear family(slate.com)
1 points by davidppp 13y ago|0 comments
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Smart robots and driverless cars work – but they bring ethical issues too(theguardian.com)
2 points by davidppp 13y ago|0 comments
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Robots put to work on solar energy farms(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by davidppp 13y ago|0 comments
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Virgin Galactic Wants To Do Moon Cruises, Replace The Concorde(techcrunch.com)
1 points by davidppp 13y ago|0 comments
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It’s Official: EA Owns the App Store – Now What Do We Do?(iphone.ezone.com)
19 points by davidppp 16y ago|13 comments
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by davidppp 16y ago
It's a fairly short game, much shorter than their Doom Resurrection which sold for $9.99 on release. I also recall JohnC saying that the iPhone game offers a fantastic marketing channel for their bigger Rage console game, so they wanted to
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Zynga Forms Zynga Japan, Confirms $150 Million Investment from Softbank(industrygamers.com)
1 points by davidppp 16y ago|0 comments
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by davidppp 16y ago
Here is a very interesting stat from a blog post about their motivation for doing personalized deals ( http://groublogpon.com/cities/why-we-built-personalized-deal... ): "Over 35,000 merchants are queued to be featured on Groupon, and with
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What’s Really Going on Behind Murdoch’s Paywall?(newser.com)
3 points by davidppp 16y ago|1 comments
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by davidppp 17y ago
The post on wattsupwiththat.com is essentially just a rehash of one of Ian Wishart's blog posts. The relevant post is here: http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/11/br... This was linked at the top of the blog post linked
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by davidppp 17y ago
I'm a New Zealander. The source of the "facts" in this blog post is none other than Ian Wishart, who is regarded by many in New Zealand as a crackpot. He is anti-gay, anti-science, anti-evolution, and very right wing. If you cross Murray fr
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by davidppp 17y ago
Although the sound quality is not ideal, here's an archive of his talk on justin.tv: http://www.justin.tv/clip/4df4ad14c58b6ed6
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by davidppp 18y ago
All of my heroes are fellow New Zealanders: Ernest Rutherford - Discovered the proton and originated the orbital theory of the atom. Director of a lab that launched the careers of many other famous physicists. William Pickering - Director o
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by davidppp 19y ago
B.Sc (Computer Science) and an incomplete B.A (Philosophy/Classics). University of Canterbury here in New Zealand. Currently programming for my startup.
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by davidppp 19y ago
Yeah - so far there are about 3 clear leaders (30-40% higher than the others). I probably need to run the ads for another two weeks before I know for sure, though.
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by davidppp 19y ago
Has anyone tried taking an analytical approach to finding a name? This is an approach I am currently trying - registering a lot of domain names and then using Google adwords to find out what name most people click on. Have no idea how well
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by davidppp 19y ago
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