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Paul Carr, writing for pandodaily:
Consider how that other poster child for disruption, Airbnb, reacted when the first (of several) homeowners had her house trashed by renters. The victim’s complaints were ignored for a full 14 hours, in line with Airbnb’s “use our service at your own risk” policy. Only when investors started getting cold feet about ( Read more... ) -
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"Зачем линуксам (или линукс-сообществу) нужны пользователи. которые не должны ничего знать про консоль? Какая с них польза?"
С такими приоритетами сообщества нетрудно понять, почему Линукс почти не существует на десктопах для обычных пользователей.
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Sales
Ben Brooks:
“TouchPads are only $99 now, should I get one?” To which [his wife] responded: “Why? It is still a waste of $99.”
Reminded me of an unrelated post: "[a 5-foot metal chicken] was $300, marked down to $100. That’s like, $200 worth of chicken for free." -
Qualcomm Israel is hiring
Qualcomm Israel, the company I work for, is hiring. Join us: it's challenging, it's fun if you're passionate about what you do, and we have cookies.- Embedded / RT SW engineer, 3-5 years exp. Low-level debugging skills,networking/communication knowledge a plus.
- Digital Engineer, 0-4 years exp., 80+. ASIC, digital design tools, Synopsys, bus protocols/ ( Read more... )
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Vacation videos, continued
Have not posted one in a while. There are English subtitles, if you don't grok spoken Russian. And HD. Well, Youtube's definition of it, anyway :) -
Switching to a Mac - Instant Messaging
Instant messaging (IM) is both the ultimate time waster and an easy way to chat (mostly in a textual way) with friends without paying up to $1000/MB for the resulting SMS traffic.
A Mac's preinstalled IM client is called iChat, and it's slick, but the networks it supports are limited AIM (is anyone still actually using it?), .Mac/MobileMe (this is ( Read more... ) -
Switching to a Mac - eBook file formats
A lovingly curated collection of books, references and help files is a staple on a computer used for something a bit more substantial than e-mail and Facebook. Mine is not that large, but covers a variety of file formats, and some of them required a bit of work before being readable on a Mac.
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