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snikolic

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    A little history for folks seeing this for the first time: Ishkur has been publishing and updating this for over 25 years. Truly one of the best artifacts of "the old internet". Th…

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    Comment #17583055

    In this case, it sounds like CH is using publicly available data only. That doesn't sound like a violation of user privacy, unless Facebook is misleading users about what portions …

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    Comment #17583042

    It's a reference to cipher from a Borges story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

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    Comment #14675266

    Made me think of this NYT article from 2010 which mentions the fundraising experience of a female CEO/Founder. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/technology/18women.html Some gross …

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    Comment #14180456

    Slice (unroll.me) is owned by Rakuten, who also owns a whole family of companies including Ebates, Rakuten Marketing (a fairly large adtech company), Viber, Buy.com, and lots of ot…

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    Comment #14098659

    Former VP-Eng at a product-ads ad-tech company here... You can think of this as a two step process. First, connecting your Facebook UID to structured data about a specific product …

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    Comment #6479213

    SocialWire - Full-Stack Engineer - San Francisco, CA Online ads suck. But advertising keeps the web free (as in beer), and we want to keep the internet free. So rather than hating …

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    Comment #6288362

    As someone using OS X over Linux because of monitor-related reasons, I actually think Ubuntu supports multiple displays better than OS X.

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    Comment #6288351

    I don't know the current state of high density display support in X11 (and I may just be an ignorant user and plain old wrong about this), but it was a totally broken deal breaker …

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    Comment #6220815

    To me, this is the most exciting part. I'm thinking Dropbox for application state.

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    Comment #6219403

    This is pretty cool. It has always seemed sort of silly to me that I have powerful so many powerful computing devices in my life and yet most of the important applications in my li…

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    Comment #6073151

    I would argue that this trend stretches back well before "Save the Cat" or even Syd Field or Joseph Campbell, all the way to Aristotle. This isn't really new stuff. A few years ago…

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    Comment #6061429

    I bought my first bike from his shop, and built my second and third from his tutorials. A very great dude. RIP.

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    Comment #6020418

    As former Somerville to Boston year round bike commuter (I' now in SF), I just wanted to tell you to rock on and stay safe. :-) I know a good number of bike commuters in Boston and…

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    Comment #5974478

    I appreciate how well this lines up with the PBR finder: http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/sf/pbr

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    Comment #5972811

    SocialWire - San Francisco, CA - full stack engineer, javascript hacker, data scientist, "office manager plus" http://www.socialwire.com/#jobs Online ads suck. But advertising keep…

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    Comment #5669970

    Argued like a true economist...

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    Comment #5668805

    Seconded. I'm curious to hear your reasoning, and your actual arguments will sway me much more than your credentials anyway.

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    Comment #5641675

    I admit that 3D printing is a long, long way off from this, but I'd argue that every item I bring into my home and every material purchase I make is a potential application of home…