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www.eff.org 13y ago

Cybersecurity Bill FAQ

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www.aljazeera.com 13y ago

Egypt blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Best compact news sources outside tech news?

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Google I/O 2012: Day One Summary

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Why branding is irrelevant?

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geeqer.com 14y ago

The case for the iPad as a creation device

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Microsoft Surface Event Summary

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Win a trip to Stanford with Udacity challenge

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Disrupting a sleeping PC industry

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geeqer.com 14y ago

WWDC Analysis

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Facebook is playing "IPO Wars" with Investors

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Apple adopts gimmickry — in new iPhone 4S ads

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daringfireball.net 14y ago

The power of Keynote

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Mountain Lion is not like iOS

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Picnik shut down by Google

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Spotify Repeat

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geeqer.com 14y ago

SOPA Blackout participating sites

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Apple's January 19 "Education" Event steals attention away from CES, again

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Against Samsung

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geeqer.com 14y ago

9 Problems with iOS

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geeqer.com 14y ago

10 reasons to hate Google this year

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twitter.com 14y ago

Pinterest gets more downloads now than Twitter

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geeqer.com 14y ago

Apple's Future without its Master

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thisismynext.com 14y ago

Steve Jobs Resigns

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Why isn't digital news organized?

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tech.fortune.cnn.com 15y ago

The Huffington Post is trying to be more serious-- like a real newspaper

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geeqer.com 15y ago

Some Thoughts on the PC vs Console Debate

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geeqer.com 15y ago

Who did Apple kill?

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geeqer.com 15y ago

Everything you need to know about this years WWDC [Summary]

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The trio of the shows: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead — are either on their finishing acts, or too close to finish. This time next year, two of their three flagship shows will be over.

Netflix has a good strategy in their hands. They need to focus on leadership, creative, and funding daring projects.

Side note: Consider this, Netflix already has three hit shows — House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Arrested Development.

[dead] 13 years ago

The first thing Chavez is being described as on his death bed: "an Anti-American socialist".

The crux isn't a list of things they do right, but the emphasis of "doing it right" is what makes the company so reliable.

This is not a case of blaming the "minority". To understand, let me digress a little – the case where we can easily get away by blaming a minority is when a school blames a small subset of students for spoiling a school's average test scores. That is called blaming a "minority" and it works.

However, what has been done here is purely for work optimisation. Mayer is clearly trying to change the culture of Yahoo, and in the attempts of doing so she has found that remote workers don't fit in the type of culture of strong collaboration and unity she wants Yahoo to become. And therefore, she has decided to change that. Simply stated.

There can't be any way for us to understand whether these remote workers under performed at Yahoo or not! However, when you try to make a defining culture, even the smallest of things matter. And perhaps, remote workers are not in line with the culture Yahoo is building. Regardless of how small the workforce is.

What will be interesting to me is how many of these remote workers are truly remote? As in, how many of them work in a completely different location than Yahoo HQ? To be honest, going down to work when you're living 5 blocks away from the office isn't particularly characterised as remote, knowing that the boss can call you in any second.

Privacy is what is going to define this generation.

However, no matter what you think, Government Surveillance is better than private surveillance. It's a democracy for crying out loud.

But the preamble, is that the breach of privacy is bad in any use case scenario. Realistically however, surveillance is always going to exist. Either covertly or legally. Nothing much can be done.

Regardless of what the aftermath of Ubuntu on mobile may have, without any prejudice of it being over an eternal year away: the iOS interface for multi tasking is tame. It needs an overhaul.

For post-pc devices to go mainstream, they should display how easy it is to multitask on them. This use case scenario is extremely important on the iPhone. Android, Windows Phone, WebOS, and now Ubuntu Mobile — all have better multi tasking interfaces.

However, the counter argument is that an OS completely build out of blind gestures serves as completely not obvious. This is a problem for first case use scenarios. That being said, power users can rejoice alike.

P.S. If the Ubuntu Mobile continues to lag, we should just forget about it before it becomes the next WebOS. This is just getting embarrassing.

Even though they are not the target audience, you will have to admit that Adsense kind of sucks. That is because their is NO curation of ads. I think they are flat out misleading. Quality ads are nonexistent their.