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Cowboy_X

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    Comment #8767606

    common misunderstanding of antitrust law. "Prominence", dominance or even monopoly is not actually illegal. There's nothing wrong with being absurdly successful, after all. The ant…

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    Comment #8677603

    It is a miserable neighborhood to work in.

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    Comment #8394611

    I dropped my paid account. I still unfortunately must keep a free account due to sharing with clients.

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    Comment #8312506

    Please spend an hour in traffic, and then an hour In your kitchen -- cooking for a hundred people -- and tell me what is less work.

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    Comment #8252536

    "I know I would be pissed just because I am getting pulled over because I resemble a suspect the cops are looking for" The thing is, when white people are looking for a white suspe…

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    Comment #7465362

    Joking aside, I'm surprised more isn't being made of Balmer's hand in this mess. Some of XP's staying power is surely due to it's being the first "good enough" Microsoft desktop OS…

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    Comment #7465309

    What do a pair of grimacing women have to do with anything? Are they trying to pack explosives into an old Gateway desktop?

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    Comment #7196550

    Okay, I'm listening.

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    Comment #6697207

    Wouldn't Google Chrome'a "native client" be a perfect fit for this?

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    Comment #6449547

    Race to the bottom, guys. Race to the bottom. Jobs was right again.

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    Comment #5408206

    ooooh I have a story similar to this Back in 2010 I moved to a new city, and was trying to find a graphic design firm that wanted an in-house web developer. I shopped a resume (wit…

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    Wander Wins $1.2M From NextView, SV Angel, Google Ventures, SoftTech And Others

    “A way to the see the world through other people eyes” is still under wraps, but CEO Jeremy Fisher reveals that the final product will be “adjacent” to both the curation and locati…

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    List of Profitable Web Apps

    A friend was asking about traits common to profitable web apps, and I realized that my own list was pretty short, and was unable to dig up any decent lists. Our criteria is web app…

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    Comment #3289605

    Yes. I had sporadic trouble with it under ios 4, but it resumed working properly in ios 5. Never liked uncommon ports, though.

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    Comment #1838792

    You seem to have a pretty good idea of your own shortcomings — which is a good sign imo, nobody can or should be good at everything — so why not play to your strengths and partner …

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    Comment #1631232

    In 1993 I came across an email address that purportedly belonged to Douglas Adams, so I wrote and said that his nonfiction book "Last Chance to See" was even funnier than his ficti…

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    Comment #1629184

    This fan-made commercial says it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk&feature=youtu... And now it's stuck in your head! ding

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    Comment #1491438

    Losing would "create precedent that fair use of online material in a news report is not a copyright violation," which is the whole crux of this joke. "Losing" the court case would …

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    Comment #1489915

    that or the Apple Hi-fi boombox thing