madrona

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by madrona 14y ago
How soon until we hit the patent abuse endgame, where all technology companies lay off everybody but the lawyers and just sue each other into oblivion?
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by madrona 14y ago
"random .exe files from "HaKerD00dz" with animated gif avatars from some PHP forum that you have to trust" LOL!
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by madrona 14y ago
Rankings are inherently mutually exclusive. Not everybody can be a winner. Tell me how Bing is better at solving this problem.
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by madrona 14y ago
How is WP8 going to break the web? They have something like 2% of the market, which is hardly a monopoly that can be swing around. Also, are the IE shenanigans news to anybody? There does seem to be a contingent of fresh-faced webdevs who t
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by madrona 14y ago
"Yeah you Android fanbois are jealous about that sweet AirPower technology, huh?" "Android has had it for two years now!" "Yeah... you're jealous."
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by madrona 14y ago
I flagged this content-free spec "article".
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by madrona 14y ago
Clever. I wonder if the illusion is broken if you actually speak Korean. I would definitely notice if someone chopped and reassembled random words in English.
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by madrona 14y ago
Multiline support, please.
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by madrona 14y ago
"Consumer Watchdog" is more shrill and even more opaque.
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by madrona 14y ago
Microsoft invests an amazing amount of resources into the creation and dissemination of FUD. Here's their internal manifesto: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096....
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by madrona 14y ago
Waving my hands about the syntax and myriad literary devices in the book to distract the teacher from the fact that I had no idea what was actually going on. :)
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by madrona 14y ago
Why can't the "privileged classes" discuss these issues and have open discourse with women? As long as both parties have open minds, it seems like a far better way to walk in someone else's shoes. I'm gay and think that it's hard for many s
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by madrona 14y ago
1997
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by madrona 14y ago
When I went on a foreign exchange trip to China in HS, I brought along a bunch of coursework for my other classes back home. Of all the books I chose to write a report about, I chose Ulysses, because of its critical reception. Once I arrive
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by madrona 14y ago
Smooth! I loved the little touches, like the parallax effects on the previous panes as the window stretched vertically.
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by madrona 14y ago
LOL!
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by madrona 14y ago
What sucks is that a lot of good places like The Atlantic and Wired are also applying their brands on link-laden blogs with no editorial standards whatsoever. It's short term gains at long term losses to their credibility. I would like to s
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by madrona 14y ago
And the rebuttal, "Yes, I want to be writing Game of Life easter eggs"
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Microsoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For(marketingland.com)
5 points by madrona 14y ago|0 comments
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by madrona 14y ago
It's heartening that their business model is failing. I hope it means that it keeps ever more developers from falling into that short-term trap of extracting value through psychological manipulation instead of creating things that are use
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by madrona 14y ago
I would like to pay the folks that manage the wonderful apt software repository. Not one red cent to the Unity team, though. I don't like where they are taking Linux.
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by madrona 14y ago
Unbelievable. Unnnnbelievable.
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Halftime marching band interpretation of videogame themes(youtube.com)
1 points by madrona 14y ago|0 comments
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by madrona 14y ago
I went to the Sony store to savor the first OLED television available for purchase. Oh man, it was sweet.
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by madrona 14y ago
Same deal in the University Village store near University of Washington. They even set up a tent to pitch to the standing queue for the latest iThing du jour.
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by madrona 14y ago
XOR, “The Tricky One”: advanced Boolean logic for nontechnical founders (scribd) Make Fucking Linkbait With a Punchy Expletive I learned how to program the HTML this weekend. Here’s what I learned How to defeat procrastination using Chrome
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by madrona 14y ago
Hilarious. Some suggestions: "Stop doing XXXX now", "YYYY is dead", and "Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button disappears: the beginning of the end?" Here's a similar spoof from 13 years ago. Wow, Slashdot really hasn't changed much, has it? h
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by madrona 14y ago
I'm not sure you can use competitors' logos like that.
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by madrona 14y ago
Are you a hacker? Do you like news? If you answered "yes" to both of these questions, then HNAA might be exactly what you're looking for!
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by madrona 14y ago
Happy 15th birthday! I posted as AC for the first year or two and sadly missed out on the "low UID" boat. I was 15 at the time of its launch.

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