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Every MicroConf 2017 Growth Edition talk scribed live(microconfrecap.com)
1 points by surreal 9y ago|0 comments
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by surreal 10y ago
People struggle with this stuff a lot. This course looks really helpful. Something a friend was battling with recently: how long after joining a company could/should someone start thinking about a raise?
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by surreal 10y ago
> What's interesting about our education system is we focus a lot on precision and accuracy and not that much on strategy and planning. It seems like a system built to produce accountants and actuaries more than a new generation of
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URLify: Make innocent URLs look totally shady(urlify.io)
1 points by surreal 10y ago|0 comments
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Six-million strong Necurs botnet goes quiet(bbc.co.uk)
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by surreal 10y ago
See also "You couldn't make it up."[0] [0] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/you-cou...
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by surreal 10y ago
Google has internet searches. As well as often locations and journeys (Maps; Android). What a user watches (YouTube). Their emails (Gmail). What they do online (Analytics). Facebook knows personal details, mood, etc for people who explicitl
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by surreal 10y ago
Identical usage to Instagram, then. But yes, I agree, the similarity in app functionality suggests that the name derives/can be confused with Instagram as opposed to a telegram, and so there may well be merit in the C&D.
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Altwork – The new way to work(altwork.com)
2 points by surreal 11y ago|0 comments
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by surreal 11y ago
I might be wrong, will try to dig deeper, but to me it seems like this is for removing third party crapware that might affect your Chrome experience (toolbars, ad-injectors etc), not for removing Google's own stuff. So kind of makes se
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Bitwalking dollars: Digital currency pays people to walk(bbc.co.uk)
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by surreal 11y ago
Many a true word spoken in jest! It depends on the specifics of your company of course, but between FreeAgent, HMRC's free filing software[0], and a very mild interest in accounting, I've yet to find an accountant that could giv
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by surreal 11y ago
Have you looked into accounting software? Like you, I de-registered for VAT for a while, but since using FreeAgent I've re-registered and haven't looked back. VAT returns are now just a click each quarter (plus the minimal clicks
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by surreal 11y ago
And equally, sometimes the deadlines are somewhat arbitrary because the manager doesn't know any better. I've seen situations where a manager has said "so you'll have this done in a week, yes?", and a response of &q
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Year of Code – PR fiasco or vital mission?(m.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by surreal 12y ago|0 comments
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by surreal 12y ago
I can vouch for this. Not with the emails, but came across bdunn's free blog and podcast 2 months ago. They earned me an extra $8,000 last month, and a better end product for my client. Spending a fraction of this to get more advice (t
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by surreal 12y ago
Without commenting on whether the product is worth the price (I don't know enough about HiFi quality): There is a bell curve of purchasing mentality - from a minority who buy solely based on what's cheapest, through varying degree
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by surreal 12y ago
What is it that marks them as successes now? Still audience opinion, just not those audiences who first watched it.
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by surreal 12y ago
Presumably because we are yet to find a way to detect cancer, years earlier, in bodily fluids.
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by surreal 12y ago
Don't worry, you haven't missed it. "“We’ll follow the pattern laid out with ‘The King’s Speech,’ ‘The Artist’ and pictures like that and move slowly and deliberately,” said Erik Lomis, distribution chief for the Weinstein Co
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by surreal 12y ago
Great library. Original discussion (April 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663775
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by surreal 12y ago
Also read other people's code :) You'll see this being used countless times in libraries / on GitHub.
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by surreal 12y ago
Official (and several months old): https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/05/14/fbstart...
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by surreal 12y ago
Doesn't look like there's any equity involved. I suspect this is a way for Facebook to spot "the next big thing" as early as possible..?
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Uber and Spotify: Control the music from the backseat(blog.uber.com)
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by surreal 12y ago
Could your showing interest in it have caused it to be registered by someone else? Always take precautions: http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/precautions-to-t...
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by surreal 12y ago
The CyanogenMod OS has this built in. Very similar to what you describe (provides empty contact list, empty folder etc to apps you specify). Don't know if there's a standalone app to do the same.
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by surreal 12y ago
In case you haven't found a way around those ridiculous validations, try adding arbitrary dots ( . ) in the middle of the "offensive" part. Gmail will deliver any dotted version of your own username into your own inbox as nor
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by surreal 12y ago
In the meantime a number of large supermarkets in the UK let you scan everything as you drop it into your trolley, and just pay at the end. A nice middle ground until, as you say, supermarkets disappear. http://www.tesco.com&#x2F
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by surreal 12y ago
We do indeed - http://xkcd.com/927/

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