April 2012
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Buying Lightbulbs online
I had to buy a hard-to-find replacement lightbulb online. I searched for the code and came up with a few sources: the sponsored result (www.lightingsupply.com), the amazon.com product page that actually sent me over to www.bulbtronics.com, and www.bulbtown.com. The first required a shopping cart over $25 to even check out (fail), and the middle one had the same product for twice the price of the...
February 2011
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“Three years ago [year 2000, this was written in 2003], the privately held...”
– http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/10/21/genome/print.html
December 2010
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“Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!”
– How Not to Die
November 2010
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“A script is what you give the actors, a program is what you give the audience.”
– Ada Lovelace according to Larry Wall
October 2010
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Atlantis Health Insurance is going bankrupt
Atlantis Health Insurance is going bankrupt and they are not telling their customers yet. However, they are telling doctors/hospitals/etc that they are going bankrupt, and asking for them to accept 25% payment because of it. So obviously doctors are starting to decline this insurance, making the premium a total loss for the customers! Time to bail out (“bail out” as in leave Atlantis...
March 2010
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“Programmers are constantly asked to incorporate 3rd party libraries and...”
– Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers | Kevin William Pang
October 2009
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“Get back to work!
Sorry, you can’t see this page. Based on the...”
– Hacker News anti-procrastination feature is a good one.
September 2009
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