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by speedracr 8y ago
+1 for Roaccutane/ Isotretinoin - worked really well for me with a one-time 3-month treatment and I wish I had tried it earlier.
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by speedracr 9y ago
Post-its are hard to beat because they function as a backdrop and everyone walks by a couple of times per day, whether they want to or not. For remote teams that run on Slack, give http://www.slash-done.com/ a try - a good
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The Cardiff Giant (1869)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by speedracr 12y ago|0 comments
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by speedracr 12y ago
For anyone else wondering: author of Leo Explores is Leo Polovets @lpolovets Twitter bio: "Partner @SusaVentures. Before: 2nd non-founding engineer @LinkedIn → @Google → early engineer @Factual. I love travel, good food, reading, and h
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by speedracr 13y ago
Regarding prior notice et al.: "Private API" is a slight understatement IMO. Uber is running a $3.4bn business and their car data is a lot of what makes them valuable. I wouldn't blame them for automatically blacklisting acco
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by speedracr 13y ago
The Blue Card requires that you have a job contract or very concrete job offer with a minimum salary, and will more or less be tied to that job: If you lose your job, they apparently can give you some time to find a new one, but you may get
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by speedracr 13y ago
To be frank, I don't share the excitement (or now sadness about loss) either: I was hoping it would set an example for the European ecosystem (...) but [we] decided to join another incubator instead. We ourselves ultimately wer
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by speedracr 13y ago
Definitely listen to the Freakonomics podcast on Chicago's quintessential role in developing the US as a country and economic giant - well worth the 30min or so, and based on a book by Thomas Dyja: http://freakonomics.com&#x
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by speedracr 13y ago
It doesn't bring the $1m kick-off grant for the fertility fund, but another new app in that space is http://www.helloclue.com/ It focuses more on tracking the monthly cycle and how it affects you personally, instead o
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by speedracr 13y ago
Incorrectness of linked article's headline was pointed out already. Also, this is not the "German Government", it's the CDU/CSU conservative party's election agenda. Yes, they are the party of the chancellor, b
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Every eponymous law or principle on Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by speedracr 14y ago|0 comments
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How Sriracha hot sauce became a culinary icon(businessweek.com)
3 points by speedracr 14y ago|0 comments
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by speedracr 14y ago
tl;dr: Esp. for standard positions, Berlin combines low salaries & rents with a growing (young & international) population and trustworthy German processes; bureaucracy is the same hassle all over Europe. -- Germany is no(t much) be
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by speedracr 14y ago
NPR's Planet Money has devoted a 20min episode to explain the LIBOR manipulation - worth a listen if you want to brush up on your interbank financial knowledge. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/03/156222428/episode-...
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NTT Docomo to acquire Italian mobile content company Buongiorno for $300m(techcrunch.com)
1 points by speedracr 14y ago|0 comments
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by speedracr 14y ago
http://www.syncany.org/ looks promising but - like many OS projects - lost some steam after the founder took on a full-time job.
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Collection of Android UX examples(androidux.com)
3 points by speedracr 14y ago|0 comments
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by speedracr 14y ago
Why wouldn't I be surprised to find out Andrew Mason had joined to record this in the studio?
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"Delight users" - the founding of Instagram [2011] (audio/video)(ecorner.stanford.edu)
2 points by speedracr 14y ago|0 comments
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by speedracr 14y ago
Kevin Systrom went all in at an earlier point. Discussed in more detail by the two of them here: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2745 (video)
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by speedracr 14y ago
To me, the Netflix price is as much about marketing as it is about the quality of the algorithm: Netflix was ahead of the pack (i.e. Blockbuster) even before, but after spreading the word that it takes rocket scientists to even slightly imp
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by speedracr 14y ago
BTW, thanks a lot for the sticky notes - I was fearing another very carefully designed presentation with few words that works for the actual audience, but not an individual reader. If not as a video recording of the presentation (- Google
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by speedracr 15y ago
I felt like I knew a little about Bitcoin, but I fail to grasp whatever this article is saying. Can anyone translate the "empty blocks" and 15 vs. 51% part and its implications? Also, wouldn't 15% of the network computing power require more
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James Cameron's 35,000 ft submarine expedition at Mariana Trench(extremetech.com)
1 points by speedracr 15y ago|0 comments
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Loopt acquired by payment card provider for $43.3m in cash(thenextweb.com)
200 points by speedracr 15y ago|119 comments
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by speedracr 15y ago
As a non-tech observer, Azure actually struck me as an honest attempt by Microsoft to add a compelling offer to the mix. However, their status page-cum-website seem to be hosted on Azure itself, which is ridiculous in a situation like this.
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by speedracr 15y ago
Though be careful not to confuse "business head" with "a person capable of adding a business model to a solution and bringing revenue from 0 to 10m within 2 months". Depending on your idea, I've seen CS Ph.D. students take on board a former
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Google will stop offering AdSense for parked domains(support.google.com)
1 points by speedracr 15y ago|0 comments
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by speedracr 15y ago
Document over at Google Docs PDF Viewer https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201...
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by speedracr 15y ago
It seems they did everything to stay in control in such a situation, especially knowing how many and which users were affected in which way. Point in time when that pays off: right now.

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