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joeblau

3,944karma·1,828submissions·January 11, 2012
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When I watched the interview with Kevin Systrom by Kevin Rose, Systrom's "Grand Vision" definitely reminded me of the goal of Color. Here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail…
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Kevin knew how to code before he went to college. He just refreshed himself.
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At my old job, I worked with 12 people; 10 had Androids and 2 had iPhones. Both of us iPhone users had purchased at least 2 apps and only 1 of the Android users purchased 1 app. If you're trying to g…
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Thank you for the tl;dr review.
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Stop being selfish and refer more people :). I'm up to 16GB free on mine.
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Actually, the Google Videos version that originally launched was nothing like YouTube. Google Videos was originally made to search closed captioned TV, not to service user uploaded content. Also the…
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I was at the Node meetup in San Fran and after hearing about the BizSpark opportunity, I am seriously contemplating building out a startup on Microsoft's platform.
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Or if you're on a newer laptop, you can press down with two fingers on the touch pad.
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Thank you :)
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Can someone explain how this isn't insider trading? Day before deal: - Instagram closed a $50 million Series B round from Sequoia, Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, Greylock and Benchmark at a $500 milli…
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I've been using this search engine for a week and I really like it. The only thing I've noticed is that Google has conditioned me to never look at the top section because that's where sponsored ad's …
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I don't think it's about charging a percentage, I think it's about charging for something that was free. When GOOG and AAPL first launched their stores, it they were clear in saying they were going to…
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Based on my previous experiences trying to get help from Google, you're pretty much screwed. Just make your name a fake name.
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Yeah that's true, I wonder if there is a way to run a search on all of the major chat platforms though only your messages. You must say some important things to want to get your history back :).
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Downloading and archiving every conversation online is expensive and I'm not sure enough users would be willing to pay to have a centralized message reply service. I guess that in Silicon Valley where…
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"tough stuff" -- I love Bezos' technical terminology.
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This looks awesome. My friend had an idea for something like this, but It's not this clean.
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Movie deal.
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The article is very good. I actually coded a project where my entire goal was to reach number one on google for the search term "male female translation." It took about a month but I eventually made…
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LOL, I was going to write this. I worked on Government PKI for 4 years. Most enlightening security course ever.
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The U.S. Government is doing it. It's called PKI.
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Most people are going to say Tenderloin. Honestly, if you're just not paying attention, you'd get robbed in South Beach. Just pay attention, stop texting on your phone and don't walk around like you'…
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I'm new so the re-post is awesome :)
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Interesting article. The MAU number which Barry comes up with (161 million) seems to be more line with what Quantcast says Facebook MAU is (142 million).
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+1 more for that awesome ReadMe. The project looks clean and simple.
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I remember going to his websites back when I was in college. I was amazed at the things that he had in flash. He had the trailing pointer, the 3D vector text rotating for MonkeyBank site and his Kim…
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No, because then I'm going to have to read Gizmodo.
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