ocirion

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Consultant on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo embarassed by code mockups(oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by ocirion 13y ago|0 comments
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by ocirion 14y ago
What happens when Dropbox is acquired?
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by ocirion 14y ago
Touché
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by ocirion 14y ago
Rather than the cause being something other than corruption, I think this is in addition to corruption. Without corruption all the way to the very core of the government (as it is in SA), we wouldn't have situations such as this. The lowest
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by ocirion 14y ago
This reminds me of a story[1] around 8 years ago of the eye-watering costs of ADSL in South Africa. Whereby it was cheaper to fly to Hong Kong and download 100GB of data in an internet cafe than it was from home using the incumbent telco pr
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by ocirion 14y ago
But that's what Dustin is saying. If you're using the right tool or the right equipment, you won't focus on it. You won't worry about something breaking. You'll get to enjoy the experience. These quality 'things' don't improve the experienc
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by ocirion 14y ago
You need a backpack to hike. You could hike without one but that would involve carrying everything in your hands. Backpacks are the evolution of ergonomic design to make carrying items on long journeys comfortable. You need a towel if you t
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by ocirion 14y ago
What you seem to be forgetting is if you spend the time researching and ensuring you're buying a quality pen or book or utensils. You're also ensuring you don't need to buy another one next week/month/year when the current one breaks or you
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by ocirion 14y ago
I thought that was just Business Insider. VB occasionally has a story worth reading. But usually they're just rehashing what everyone else had yesterday.
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by ocirion 14y ago
I have the same dream about CDs and DVDs.
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by ocirion 14y ago
>"tweeting a picture of themselves with their new investors, M.C. Hammer or Ashton Kutcher." Has no one else picked up that the only reason Arrington responded was because Bilton very obviously was taking a stab at MA in his Techrunch d
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The girl with the ANSI tattoo(oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk)
367 points by ocirion 14y ago|150 comments
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by ocirion 14y ago
1 reason to develop for iOS first: revenue.
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by ocirion 14y ago
What happens when they fail one too many times and the seemingly endless supply of R&D money runs out?
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by ocirion 14y ago
Google has a huge revenue generating machine in search, and adwords. This allows them the opportunity to spend massive amounts of money on a lot of projects that will mostly fail. They're hoping, at some point, one or more of these projects
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by ocirion 14y ago
I think its great that you accomplished this, and I guess seeing as its hit the front page of HN you may inspire a few tech folk to believe they can too. But I still find nothing new to take from this that you can't find on just about any P
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Happy Valentine's Day Tech Bloggers(gizmodo.com)
1 points by ocirion 15y ago|0 comments
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by ocirion 15y ago
That would be like banning liquor stores or corner shops selling cigarettes. The monopoly is because the government wants a piece of it. The potential of gambling sites to make huge amounts of money is why the government takes any interest
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by ocirion 15y ago
I imagine you are talking from a US perspective. I don't believe there is a negative perception of gambling startups in the UK / Europe, especially if you consider success stories such as Betfair. What makes gambling low profile ? Its a bu