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poundy··on A Non-Negotiator’s Guide to Negotiating
This book was published last month in UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Yes-Book-Better-Negotiation/dp/0...

poundy··on Google Drive Realtime API
Is there a way let users collaborate without authorizing the app?

Developers authorize and create API with Google but it will be nice to allow users to collaborate anonymously like Sharing a Google Doc to the public.

poundy··on Farewell, USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier)
Russia sold their part-damaged aircraft carrier for a reported $2.3bn to India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Admiral...

poundy··on Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera
Q. Is there life on Mars?

A. There is now!

poundy··on Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India
“If you write a book that annoys or inconveniences me, even deliberately, I have no civil or criminal recourse. But if you send an e-mail message, or post a tweet, you could face three years in jail,” says Mr. Prakash. “That’s higher than the two-year imprisonment for causing death by negligence.”
poundy··on Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery Submission Deadline in Four Days
It looks like they are issuing 50,000 visas this year. Any stats on how many people apply for this?
poundy··on Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
Yes, that did the trick! English (US).
poundy··on Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
I am on the iPhone 5
poundy··on Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
I tried 15% of 51 and also queries like what is the population of Tokyo similar to the demo. It does not seem to want to speak the results back.
poundy··on Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
It does not read the results back to me. Is there something wrong with my settings?
poundy··on Apple scrambled to hire iOS 6 maps engineers days before launch
This reminds me of how they "scrambled" to hire antenna engineers and similar job posts with iPhone 4 launch!
poundy··on Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search
http://www.findanyfilm.com, lists movies from TV listings, DVDs, online, all legitimate sources. No torrents and UK focussed
poundy··on Now that's a nice way to get more Facebook likes
Once you like the page and revisit the page, it does not detect that you've already liked the page.

This is a Facebook limitation.

poundy··on The morning mail is my enemy
What if you sent a read notice? That would let the sender know that you have seen the email.
poundy··on Show HN: Hide Messages in Images with Steganography
LSB steganography works on PNG (lossless compression). Saving it as a jpg file causes data to be lost.
poundy··on Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser
Yes, he needs to have a Node/Socket.io server somewhere.
poundy··on Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections
I could never get my socket.io instance to max out, is there a good way to load test socket.io and web sockets?
poundy··on Global Dominance: Olympic Winnings vs GDP
These facts stand out about the Olympics:

- Phelps has won more Olympic medals in his career than India in all Olympics

- Jamaica won 2 medals at women's 100m a few minutes go. Bolt still has to go. Why Jamaica?

- The United States has heavily relied on its dominance in swimming, racking up 23 of its 37 medals in the pool.

- Kazakhstan has 5 medals, all gold! Four in weightlifting. Population is barely 16 million

Will be interested to find more

poundy··on How The First Google Glass Commercial Should Have Gone
The hand gesture in front of the camera looks like the TED presentation by Pranav Mistry on SixthSense technology http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ (pics)
poundy··on Phonegap 2.0 released
I would like some help with these:

- Is there support for inapp payments? Built in or plugin based?

- how does this compare with trigger.io and titanium?

- does this version not need xcode to create apps like trigger.io?

poundy··on GlaxoSmithKline Pays $3 Billion Fine
I am very curious to know how GSK actually pay $3 billion. Does the CEO and/or board members walk into their bank and request for a transfer? What are the typical security restrictions in place?
poundy··on Google Apps Loophole, Let You Access Other’s Domain Login Details
I panicked initially thinking this issue was not yet resolved by Google!

Well done Saket, thanks for waiting for the bug to get fixed before posting your article.

poundy··on PHP Addiction
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

-Bjarne Stroustrup

poundy··on The Literally Sexy, Sexy Password Field
Interesting, try typing in "handsup" or "handsdown"
poundy··on Why business needs people with Asperger’s syndrome, ADD and dyslexia
Dr. Temple Grandin, an adult with autism who became a successful engineer, academic and speaker, believes that her disorder is an asset. She once famously called NASA a sheltered workshop for people with autism and Asperger Syndrome. She believes that people with autistic spectrum disorders are the great innovators, and "if the world was left to you socialites, nothing would get done and we would still be in caves talking to each other."
poundy··on Retailer uses 3D QR codes and the Sun to time limit discounts
Tech-minded guys think of all these issues. It is a brilliant marketing idea! I would scan the QR code.
poundy··on 11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels, & scrapped designs
I can't believe it took them 11+ years. It felt like a recent startup.
poundy··on Coding is priority number five
I used to be a developer. I now work as a team lead / client liaison. Coding is not in the top 5. My job is to anticipate what my team will need and make sure that there are no obstacles. I also help with DB design and platform choices. Strong knowledge and experience with what developers need help me a lot.

I was wondering if a person without a development background could take my role as team leader to manage 3/4 developers on a daily basis.

poundy··on Yet another Google Glasses Ad
> "if you see something, just keep looking at it, and an agent (robot?) will be automatically dispatched".

Woah! Matrix takes this one step forward where the agent takes your body! Interesting idea.

poundy··on Visualizing Code to Fail Faster
Is this editor available publicly? Can I download it and use it for my Javascript coding sessions?
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