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▼Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans - TechCrunch
Editor’s note: Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the best vessel for Google’s social ambitions. Last week was marred for me by a temporary but super-painful Gmail failure, and the software’s behavior points to why a “more social” Gmail would be a ...Expand this post »
Editor’s note: Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the best vessel for Google’s social ambitions. Last week was marred for me by a temporary but super-painful Gmail failure, and the software’s behavior points to why a “more social” Gmail would be a ...Expand this post »
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SMTP reply 552 (Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation) is considered a "PERMANENT FAILURE" only in that the sender should not bother retrying and retrying and retrying.
Oh, and "I could see myself migrating to Facebook as my primary email," lol. Idiotic Facebook fanboi doesn't remember Facebook snafus and think that they won't screw him over someday, too?Aug 31DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
SMTP reply 552 (Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation) is considered a "PERMANENT FAILURE" only in that the sender should not bother retrying and retrying and retrying.
Oh, and "I could see myself migrating to Facebook as my primary email," lol. Idiotic Facebook fanboi doesn't remember Facebook snafus and think that they won't screw him over someday, too?Aug 31DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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A rich vein of something. My favorite: Rich Living Part II
A rich vein of something. My favorite: Rich Living Part II
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That 80's show, Bothel Jesse's girl From: AmericanJeff Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 01:05 More in EntertainmentExpand this post »
That 80's show, Bothel Jesse's girl From: AmericanJeff Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 01:05 More in EntertainmentExpand this post »
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Like▼Diaspora Clarifies: Open Source On September 15, Consumer Alpha In October - techcrunch.com
A few days ago, we noted that Diaspora
was three weeks away from unveiling their open-source Facebook alternative. But a small update today clarifies one important point. On September 15, Diaspora will release the open source code for the project. But it won’t be until October that the first consumer-facing alpha is available.
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Like▼The Wilderness Downtown - thewildernessdowntown.com
An interactive short film by Chris Milk. Featuring "We Used To Wait" from Arcade Fire.
An interactive short film by Chris Milk. Featuring "We Used To Wait" from Arcade Fire.
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Like▼The Exposing Grandfathers of China - Neatorama
There’s an emerging fashion debate in China. It’s between older men who roll up their shirts over their bellies to cool off and younger men who find this action crude and embarrassing. They’ve started calling their elders bang ye or “exposing grandfathers”: “I don’t know, it just feels cooler,” says Hu, perched on a park bench on a sultry weekday morning, the temperatures already into the 90s,...Expand this post »
There’s an emerging fashion debate in China. It’s between older men who roll up their shirts over their bellies to cool off and younger men who find this action crude and embarrassing. They’ve started calling their elders bang ye or “exposing grandfathers”: “I don’t know, it just feels cooler,” says Hu, perched on a park bench on a sultry weekday morning, the temperatures already into the 90s,...Expand this post »
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Like▼88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography - instantShift
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. There are many ways to a...Expand this post »
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. There are many ways to a...Expand this post »
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Like▼The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art (Xbox Live) - RunDLC - www.rundlc.com
Adventure What customers saw…a fantasy world starring a large and imposing dragon. Oh look, it knows how to use a key. What customers received…a literal square for a hero and a few multicolored and average sized ducks…we mean dragons.Expand this post »
Adventure What customers saw…a fantasy world starring a large and imposing dragon. Oh look, it knows how to use a key. What customers received…a literal square for a hero and a few multicolored and average sized ducks…we mean dragons.Expand this post »
Timothy Fliss - Ahhh, reminds me of the terror of seeing an L on the screen in nethack.Aug 25DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by "spectral smoothing" the sounds. It can...Expand this post »
This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by "spectral smoothing" the sounds. It can...Expand this post »
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Like▼Flipflops! Boots garden! Picture me!
Flipflops! Boots garden! Picture me! This video was uploaded from an Android phone. From: AmericanJeff Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 03:50 More in EntertainmentExpand this post »
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Annette Bowden - still don't quite get this one! was Rook on some of my post-op-drugs????Aug 18DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review - hbr.org
Over the years I’ve watched the fates of my HBS classmates from 1979 unfold; I’ve seen more and more of them come to reunions unhappy, divorced, and alienated from their children. I can guarantee you...Expand this post »
Over the years I’ve watched the fates of my HBS classmates from 1979 unfold; I’ve seen more and more of them come to reunions unhappy, divorced, and alienated from their children. I can guarantee you...Expand this post »
Bryan Smith - I heart Christensen. And this article is taped up to the door of my locker.Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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American Jeff Bowden - Art in the form of video meditations/collages. Aug 12DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Bryan Smith - Ooooooooh. I thought it was kind of gay or something.Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
American Jeff Bowden - No, I wouldn't characterize it as lively, merry, cheerful or carefree.Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Argentina On Two Steaks A Day - www.idlewords.com
The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself...Expand this post »
The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself...Expand this post »
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Like▼Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! « OkTrends - blog.okcupid.com
The widget below plots the aggregate attractiveness, by f number, of our user photos in a little color-coded array, alongside examples of each type of photo, so you can easily see how the depth of field affects things. For obvious reasons, we restricted this analysis to photos by cameras capable of a wide range of apertures. show women show men It's my opinion that because the photos with th...Expand this post »
The widget below plots the aggregate attractiveness, by f number, of our user photos in a little color-coded array, alongside examples of each type of photo, so you can easily see how the depth of field affects things. For obvious reasons, we restricted this analysis to photos by cameras capable of a wide range of apertures. show women show men It's my opinion that because the photos with th...Expand this post »
Erik Schulz - I love my 50mm f/1.4 prime lens but it requires a lot more effort to get a good looking shot.Aug 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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