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Stanford Computer Science Grads Getting $95k Offers From Google
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 30, 2008
Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we’ve heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers. Last year, salaries of up to $70,000 were common for the best students. This year, Facebook is said to be offering $92,000, and Google has increased some offers to $95,000 to get their share. Students with a...
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What If You Only Subscribed to Shared Item Feeds?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on February 07, 2008
Last night, we discussed the importance of a well-kept shared link blog in Google Reader. Humans can still play an important role in filtering out the best of feeds from the rest, as smart folks can trump even the best written code in terms of determining humor, originality and insight.The ease of creating and subscribing to link blogs in Google Reader has led to some actively searching out these...
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Fuck Grapefruit
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 24, 2008
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FireNes Brings 2000 NES Games to Your Browser [Featured Firefox Extension]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on June 07, 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The FireNes Firefox extension integrates over 2000 old-school NES games with your favorite browser. Once you install FireNes and fire it up (either through the Tools menu or the optional toolbar button), you can browse the enormous library of games in your Firefox sidebar and play any one of your 8-bit favorites at the click of your mouse. Alternately, if...
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Top 10 Additions to Your Phone's Contact List [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 27, 2008
Nearly every new webapp on the block offers some kind of text message integration, but not all of them are the kind you'll want to keep on every phone you own. However, there are a few contact numbers and services that make even the cheapest phone a high-tech wonder that can schedule and plan events, transfer money, price a potential purchase, or do just about any Google search. Let's...
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XP Stays Alive till 2010 [Windows]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 02, 2008
Today Microsoft announces that they will extend the amount of time manufacturers can ship low cost PCs with Windows XP until 2010. Clearly someone in Redmond is reading Lifehacker.
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Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 26, 2008
Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook Platform compatible - meaning application developers can easily take their Facebook applications and have them run on those social networks, too.Bebo already licenses the Facebook...
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The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on May 28, 2008
The next-gen web is starting to gather pace, as this week MySpace integrated Google Gears, Yahoo! announced their new BrowserPlus product and Google launched a browser-based edition of their 3D Earth product. Technologies and formats such as AIR, Silverlight, JavaFX, Gears, XUL, Web Applications 1.0 (DOM5, HTML5 etc.) allow developers to accelerate beyond AJAX and towards a new generation of web...
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Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 24, 2008
There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though the more recent version of Microsoft’s browser, IE7, has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31 percent of all browsers out there (versus only 22 percent for IE7 and 36.5 percent for Firefox). This upgrade lag is simply unacceptable—to programmers, that is, who find it a real pain to make...
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