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Public libraries pay a different, greater license fee for ebooks they can lend vs physical books . The licenses also come with restrictions about number of lends, time limits, etc.…

I dont think average folks care about transparency, they mostly care about the bottom line. I would bet that if you offered a black-box $50/month with no explanation and a transpar…

I agree. There's probably a line somewhere but let's get a little closer to it than literal Nazis celebrating a murder before the hand-wringing starts.

I'm pretty sure the "no harm no foul" defense doesn't hold water in a fraud case. A Ponzi scheme is illegal the entire time (because it's fraudulent) even though the early investor…

What would be so bad about at&t offering a service that banned fraudsters from calling you? Or if the USPS refused to deliver mail that said "URGENT TIME SENSITIVE" on the envelope…

Id love to agree with this but my experience differs on modern stacks. We so often mock or stub APIs, use a web driver that's pinned to a certain version of WebKit, test against vi…

This reminds me of when Urban Airship shut down their free transactional push notification service a while back. It turns out theres so much more money in the marketing side than t…

Firing people is risky for the person potentially being fired, not for the owners of the firm. Growing and shrinking over time is part and parcel of running a consultancy. That's w…

The problem is that while they charge a flat rate monthly, that doesn't include repairs and one-off charges which get passed on to the landlord. Maybe doing a combination of proper…

The problem is that while they charge a flat rate monthly, that doesn't include repairs and one-off charges which get passed on to the landlord. Maybe doing a combination of proper…

I think we as a group tend to underrate the power of marketing because it doesn't make s lot of analytical sense, but marketing is hugely important as anyone who had founded a busi…

I love Coworking and even I help run a space here in Madison. I should've mentioned that as one of the major things that keeps me sane.

I've been objectively successful as a single founder over the past few years, so its definitely possible. I've hired, fired, pivoted, and made more money than I made mistakes but I…

Their data /is/ open to snooping. We'll see if their user bases plummet. For some reason I doubt it.

No. Don't downplay people concerned with privacy who noticed a series of obvious, blatant actions over a period of literally decades as cynics or conspiracy nuts. You are picking o…

I haven't seen a way to edit CSS on the before and after pseudo elements in the web inspector. If I'm missing something I'd love to know about it.

Cool demo, made even cooler because they stuck "contenteditable" on the style tags so you can play around with the shapes to see how they work right in the browser.

Good story. Reminds of when I fixed a PlayStation 2 that wouldn't turn on by replacing a blown diode in its power supply. I wonder how many complex electronics are out there Sittin…

SEEKING WORK: Phoenix AZ area or remote Android/Rails programmer by preference, but I have experience almost everywhere. I'm looking to help out small to medium size companies on a…

This sounds like a terrible idea. I don't know why people decided to start deploying "PDF Applications" but it's a terrible idea. Go look at UPS's api documentation. It's a pdf "ap…

The last time you paid a service charge was the last time you gave your bank $12. Even if you got dinged $2 per ATM withdrawal you could take money out once a week and pay less in …

None. This Guy was literally "thanking the apple gods" for selling him a new phone after basically bricking his old one. Apple has never cared about supporting old hardware and the…

> There's nothing particularly wrong with any of them Then why does it matter that they were submitted by the same person. I'd rather have 18 interesting links posted from the same…

"and no flagship Android device available on T-Mobile excluding the Nexus one." T-mobile has no flagship device except for their flagship device? I don't get it. The N1 is just as …

Archive.org has an "open source audio" section that contains a lot of CC licensed music. http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio