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aleemb

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    Comment #4824872

    Today is the fourth time in 2 months this has happened. At first it was hard to imagine the government would go through with it but they did. It's strange, the first time any such …

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    Comment #4824729

    is there something good for pdf conversion to epub?

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    Comment #4700994

    I hope some more thought goes into the usability as well. I find the syntax for links confuses a lot of users for whom I have enabled mark down editing. Wiki style [[link text]] wo…

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    Comment #4642422

    It's about reach versus monetization. The web lets you build a great audience very fast. The iPad comparatively has a much smaller audience, albeit a potent one. The introductory a…

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    Comment #4635793

    > Lots of people (myself included) had been saying that Facebook was overvalued pre-IPO. You could have shorted the stock or traded options. There was a fair bit of uncertainty bec…

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    Comment #2860766

    For buttons you could add a bevel--gives it more affordance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

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    Comment #2796513

    Also noteworthy is the "How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters" talk video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw pdf: http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf

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    Comment #2723397

    naveensyed

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    Comment #2659136

    I found the example complicated. Real learning comes from simplifying. In the case of the provided example, it is trivial to simplify. $100 is worth $121 after two 10% interest cyc…

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    Comment #2226639

    You have it the other way around. It's not so much about apple wanting to monopolize the marketplace as it is about apple defending its own platform. The discussion is platform-cen…

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