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Add it to the pile.... Reddit, Loopt, Posterous...

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Jobs had already had amazing success when previously at Apple. He had already proved himself effective.

A terrible idea is still a terrible idea. Luck matters, but only if you don't have a terrible idea.

And that's why they're shutting it down!

Jobs already had a clear previous success under his belt. Does Loopt?

If the team were worth that much, then they would have made Loopt astoundingly profitable in the last 7 years, and we'd all be using it. Judge people on their success/failure. Not …

Never knew this existed. Thanks for the link. I live pretty close as well... http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/12058/School-Visits... Looks like they do some really good stu…

Compared to java, javascript, c, php etc?

Elphaba, Where I Come From, We Believe All Sorts Of Things That Aren't True. We Call It History. A Man's Called A Traitor Or Liberator. A Rich Man's A Thief Or Philanthropist. Is O…

I think the dislike is warranted personally. The amount of exposure they get is extremely out of proportion to what they are and do. They do have it down to a fine art. Even this b…

They thrive on being talked about. This is just extra fuel to the fire.

People don't want complicated history. They want "The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell". Even if it's factually incorrect or obscures the real story.

I lived through it too. I fundamentally believe that it is NOT and should not be the task of the government to "create" jobs. We should toughen up benefits, which the current gover…

I agree @ arguing online. For what it's worth, the book isn't really filled with opinions, more than it's filled with facts from the time. eg "We were spending X on British Steel, …

Read the book (Or some other facts from the time). She had to privatise industries because they became ridiculously uncompetitive and expensive to run. During the previous socialis…

Why does the UK give India £295m a year in aid? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12607537

"openly admit you are reading an overtly right-wing book." It's called an autobiography. I've heard the left wing excuses and arguments and find them thoroughly unconvincing. > b. …

To a socialist it's the governments obligation to do everything.

It's an autobiography. It's biased. This doesn't make the facts she cites, or arguments she presents any less compelling. It's not really that far fetched to say that "most of our …

Manufacturing actually died in the UK because of the unions. Workers became greedy, and unproductive. They were unable to compete with other countries, and instead staged big endle…

> People often argue that children don't need to know how to program just as they don't need to be a car mechanic to drive a car. The analogy is useless because a car is a one-use …

I hope there are simple ways to disable these on browsers. Can't imagine every tab having a load of workers in the background, ending well. One of the pleasant things about javascr…

The lesson here is if you care about security, performance, reliability etc, use old 'uncool' battle worn languages/platforms.

"poor" is surely being used in the 'has been mistreated' way rather than 'has no money' way. Whether he knows what his service is used for or not is surely irrelevant though. The I…