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zenspunk

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    Comment #2891530

    The appeal here is that the course is free, ergo, _anyone_ with a basic internet connection can take it. If you require payments, you then have credit card companies and Paypal res…

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    Comment #2844253

    You can set keyboard shortcuts on Gnome 3. Though I prefer super-enter for launching gnome terminal (from my earlier ventures with awesome).

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    Comment #2749327

    Yeah, this is a bit suspicious. Do you have proof, OP? Pictures?

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    Comment #2738744

    >They have the resources not to. This point is crucial. Could you elaborate?

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    Comment #2738738

    Google also does business and has employees and servers in many other countries. Why should they not enforce the laws of those countries too?

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    Comment #2738730

    >Yes. They get money from advertisement, they should check reports. I don't see how one implies the other. Drug companies get money from selling ingredients for makeshift heroin, t…

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    Comment #2738565

    Did you not read my post? I said they could easily (relatively) solve the issue of these guys turning up in search results. The problem they can't solve, I argue, is to ensure that…

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    Comment #2738543

    What? How does time affect the quality of a community? You could have a community of two people that cares about quality. Anyway, I've never seen an internet community go from crap…

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    Comment #2738523

    Edit: parent made a retrospective edit to add the link after I had made this post. So again, I ask: - is Google meant to run a background check on each and every report? - does thi…

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    Comment #2738490

    Not all people. Google has simply failed at building a quality community around Google+. Edit: actually, it's not that they "failed," it's that they've completely ignored the impor…

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    Comment #2738419

    Should Google somehow run background checks on every advertiser to see if they're breaking some US law? (or other countries' laws?) What broken laws should justify removal? Should …

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    Comment #2723105

    If you're that worried, you can delete your web history and permanently opt-out of Google Analytics using Google's supplied opt-out extensions for Chrome and Firefox. They allow yo…

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    Comment #2677572

    Nokia's CTO, Rich Green, on Meego back in February after Nokia announced the shift to WP7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjb9E5A2ls That is, this will be their one and only Meego…

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    Comment #2648179

    Anecdotal: yes, that's exactly the thinking of my friends and I who have given up Facebook. It's turned us off the very concept.

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    Comment #2629119

    So, Europe needs less regulation on the low-end of town (small businesses) to increase international competitiveness, and the US needs more regulation on the high-end of town (big …

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    Comment #2627248

    I don't see how, given that Android devices aren't restricted to a single distribution channel.

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    Comment #2503001

    As others have already stated, you need to make the important info stand out, and cut the rest. Read a few design blogs to get some tips. Aside from that, how is tagmask different …

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    Comment #2436647

    Reaching version 1 is meaningless. Their versioning, like many other projects, is completely botched. "Oh look, we're getting to the high 0.9's, better call the next one 1.0.0!"