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by swankpot 15y ago
From the article: "Gold lies on the streets and you just need to dig it up with ideas. Ideas are like the shovel," he says.
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Peter Florjancic: Slovenian inventor extraordinaire(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by swankpot 15y ago|1 comments
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by swankpot 15y ago
It looks like South America and Antarctica are the only two continents free of blasts.
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by swankpot 16y ago
Founders are more savvy now, and no longer ask questions like, "So when we get money from investors, when do we have to pay them back?" So if you do get $$ from investors, when do you have to pay them back?
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by swankpot 16y ago
I upvoted your response, because I guess that's the thing to do on a site like this. But then someone else apparently downvoted. ?!
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by swankpot 16y ago
What is AMA?
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by swankpot 16y ago
I fail to see how the following code from the book is an example of a singleton: 01 var mySingleton = function(){ 02 03 /* here are my private variables and methods / 04 var privateVariable = 'something private'; 05 function sh
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by swankpot 16y ago
Mihi cordi est legere de lingua Latina temporibus recentibus reanimata. O tempora, o mores, quibus litterae antiquae flocci aestimantur! Qui sese ad pecuniam adipiscendam vehementer pellunt nullo intervallo excepto, cum ad summam divitiar
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by swankpot 16y ago
Here's another recent article about the unsavory practices of Kaplan's for-profit university. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/education/10kaplan.html
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by swankpot 16y ago
Sugar Sync I've never compared; I just use the first one someone invited me to use. 5GB free.
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by swankpot 16y ago
He seems to have issues with the TSA.
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by swankpot 16y ago
The solution I came up with is 80 percent raising taxes, 20 percent cutting costs. I guess I really am a lefty. But, I didn't touch military budgets at all, except for cutting civilian overhead. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/
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by swankpot 16y ago
Her eyes look bloodshot. I wonder what she's been up to.
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by swankpot 16y ago
Fun, fun. Some characters aren't displaying properly: try entering fahrvergnugen. (The u-umlaut gets escaped.)
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by swankpot 16y ago
so now that I visited his page, how to I get rid of his supercookie? could a grease monkey script automatically clean up the supercookies after they have been planted?
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Interview with founder of Cult of Less (German)(spiegel.de)
2 points by swankpot 16y ago|1 comments
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by swankpot 16y ago
Hey, that's my idea. Except you apparently had it first, and your app looks a lot better than mine. Congratulations on your success.
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by swankpot 16y ago
Google doesn't have a lot of content about my friends. In fact, none, other than some names, many of which I don't even recognize. But, interestingly, I got a 404 when I logged out. http://www.google.com/s2/u/0null?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fw
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The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets(online.wsj.com)
16 points by swankpot 16y ago|2 comments
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by swankpot 16y ago
Except for some of the details, this is my story too -- had coded at an earlier stage in life, but gotten away from it, then returned in mid 30s. As advancement in my first career began to look more and more remote, I had found myself wishi
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by swankpot 16y ago
Somewhat related video from Paul Solman at PBS Newshour, on motivation and money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyhaZnPtC4 (An interview with Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future )