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German high court rules Facebook “Friend Finder” is unlawful(reuters.com)
3 points by portentint 11y ago|0 comments
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Data presentation that doesn't suck(slideshare.net)
3 points by portentint 14y ago|0 comments
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by portentint 14y ago
Worst. name. ever.
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by portentint 14y ago
BECOMING a business model? The liars tend to win, because they make the superior claims. And for whatever reason, the customers can't give up on the idea that maybe this ONE outrageous promise, this ONE time, is actually for real. It's like
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Web copyright for the complete dumbass(portent.co)
1 points by portentint 14y ago|0 comments
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Lessons that changed my career(portent.com)
2 points by portentint 14y ago|0 comments
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by portentint 14y ago
It wasn't 10, honest. I just can't count. Which is why I use computers and stuff. They count gooder than me.
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by portentint 14y ago
A bit ironic that I mis-counted in the URL, I know. Sorry about that.
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by portentint 14y ago
Also check out "Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis". Another great one.
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Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.(portent.com)
175 points by portentint 14y ago|76 comments
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by portentint 14y ago
Well, of COURSE as soon as I say we made it faster, we screw something up. It's some kind of blogging rule.
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by portentint 14y ago
Don't mean to overhype, xamuel. For us non-geeks, this is pretty mind-boggling stuff.
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How to make a site really freaking fast(portent.com)
30 points by portentint 14y ago|37 comments
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SSL = Security Still Lacking(pcworld.com)
1 points by portentint 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook is watching you (even more than you thought)(portent.com)
1 points by portentint 14y ago|0 comments
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by portentint 14y ago
Yup. The 'build it' approach assumes that having a blueprint means you're the best person to do the job.
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Information is free. Knowledge is not.(conversationmarketing.com)
3 points by portentint 14y ago|2 comments
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How Getty Images built a services powerhouse(blog.gettyimages.com)
1 points by portentint 15y ago|0 comments
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by portentint 15y ago
Seems a little too clumsy for Google. I WILL say, though, that their PR handling of late makes them more vulnerable to this kind of BS. "Don't be evil" only works if you aren't, well, EVIL.
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The brain-money balance(conversationmarketing.com)
5 points by portentint 15y ago|0 comments
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by portentint 15y ago
At, [insert airline name here], we care about you.
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by portentint 15y ago
Thanks. I actually run a company - I have to constantly watch people and make the effort/results separation. Folks never understand when they get a negative review "for putting in 12-hour days." See, it's because you spend 4 hours/day runni
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by portentint 15y ago
In corporations this is a classic prisoner's dilemma: If EVERYONE agreed that they'd be sane and work optimal 40-50 hour weeks, it'd be great. But someone always 'defects', going to 80+ hours in an effort to show off. The result is actually
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by portentint 15y ago
Must be a really slow news day. What are there, 20 people in line?
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by portentint 15y ago
Not sure I'd blame Google as much as COPPA, and the politicians who think parents can't make this choice on their own. Of course, our kids can still find p0rn, violence and who-knows-what-else online with no filtering whatsoever. But at lea
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by portentint 15y ago
It's all about time. You're writing an open-source project - I know SOME lucky folks get paid to do it, but not most - and you have to just get the damned thing working. Once you do, you have to go back to your job, or whatever else feeds y
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by portentint 15y ago
They actually have a significant interest in fighting the trolls. They have a LOT of legit patents, and little to gain by trolling. Go Watson!
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Donuts. 3D graphics. It's perfection.(graphics.stanford.edu)
2 points by portentint 15y ago|0 comments
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by portentint 15y ago
Just curious: Who's going to read them?
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by portentint 15y ago
It's by design. Our system is built to prevent what the framers of the Constitution called 'tyranny of the majority'. A small group can, if it's sufficiently organized, stop something like SOPA.

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