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I think the only thing "new" here is aws-cli hitting version 1.0.0. It's been the recommended aws command line tool for quite a while now. I've personally used it for the last 6 months.

I believe LinkedIn automatically define these skills by crawling for keywords in your profile. I've never added a skills section yet every now and then I get emails stating I've been endorsed for a specific skill.

I find it fascinating how a zero-sum and seemingly wasteful pursuit is the source of such cutting edge innovation.

Awesome idea. Not only does it open new markets that were previously too difficult to monetise, but also give sellers finer control over what they sell. eg. Users can buy one broker report without having to sign up with the stockbroker, read one article without having to sign up for a whole subscription.

Not sure this is in the works or not: affiliate codes will absolutely rock on this platform.

Being a private investor, I agree a lot with what Cuban is saying.

Strangely enough Australia, which Cuban suggests he's been investing in, has a few investor friendly (or trader unfriendly) regulations built in.

1. Hold a stock for over a year and capital gains tax is halved.

2. Tax (franking) credits are given out when dividends are paid. This stops double-taxing and encourages companies to pay dividends and investors to demand them.

3. You must hold a stock for 45 days to take advantage of the franking credits if you accumulate more than $5k worth.

Does anyone know if they're doing one for 9.10? Googled around, can't find anything on it

1. It's deducted against personal income. 2. Nobody is allowed to do it on their own home

> Frankly I think any system that encourages people to create homes for others to rent as doing a public good.

I don't see the tax breaks as a good thing as it skews market forces and inflate property prices. They also throw up a moral dilemma: Why should property investors get tax breaks (offset interest payments against personal tax) and not home owners.

What you start to see some single young professionals in Australia doing is buying an investment property to lease out and then renting another property to live in themselves. This is to take advantage of the government-funded tax breaks. So the flow of money goes a little something like: government tax revenue -> property prices. I can't see this helping the public good at all.

I just found fbreader in the package manager which seems to work fine.

I'm surprised that google is really slow to move on this. Our organisation has already been using Google Apps for a year or so and want to replace our network shares. With all our user accounts and email groups, Google is in the best position to do execute yet the lack of good solutions means we're likely to look elsewhere.

There's a couple of third parties that integrate with Google Docs, but none of them fit the bill from some quick internal tests. Gladinet - unreliable with certain functions. Insync - still very much "beta" mode; no folders, no business plan options.

You should try Whatsup. Based on contact list phone numbers - no login exchange required. Very SMS like in nature. The gf and I use it as a SMS replacement and it works well.

Rules and pricing needs to be simple and consistent. Even if it was possible to implement QoS to broadband, it would be awfully confusing for both the consumer and the telco. Why should someone in a busy area be capped when they reach the limit, while someone somewhere else can keep going? It might make sense from a technical perspective, but not at a consumer level.

If the telcos are not price gouging, there shouldn't be a problem with data caps. Stop being a cheapskate!

Lets see. He checked with a couple of people sitting next to him, put the phone in his pocket, mucked around with it, found the owner's facebook page, and then sold it for $5K. No, I don't think he made a reasonable effort to return it at all.

It's out and out theft.

Peter Lynch labeled "de-worisifcation" as companies, for the sake of diversifying, heading into markets that have little relevance to their core business. It doesn't really apply here.

I'm not interested in many of the measurements done. - Startup times: I usually always have a browser window open and never shut it down - Memory footprint: Don't really care unless it leaks - Rendering speed: I don't see a whole lot difference between browsers and the margin of error in the tests makes it difficult to come to any conclusions.

I use firefox and love it. It's consistent between different operating systems, mature and most importantly has great plugins.

I think the site might be down at the moment. Here's the link to the google cached page: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:ra7632stXRsJ:sfreporter...

From what I understand, if both mother and father are single children - there actually is a two-child policy in action

Although the content of the article is interesting, I don't like how the author is basically concluding: Because the one-child policy is introducing dynamics that are different from the past, it's dangerous.

Most things are not any different from those currently experienced by western countries: declining fertility rate, aging population, etc. The only thing that's really in the unfamiliar territory is the male:female ratio imbalance.

What would really have been unprecedented was if the one-child policy was not implemented and population kept growing unabated. I personally think there would be alot of social problems had this been the case.

Absolutely agree. It's always been targeted at convincing management. "can do everything", "empower business users", etc.

Sharepoint does a reasonable job at being a MS-centric document management system, providing team collaboration spaces and being a traditional intranet.

But for everything else that it claims to be is just a huge tease.

- It can be a CMS, but it's the worst, most inflexible, non-standard compliant one you can imagine.

- It can be a development platform for corporate applications. But unless you're doing something that is ultra-simple and very close to out-of-the-box, it's just not worth your time. Plus the whole development process is one big hack (need Windows server, SharePoint, IDE on the same machine, position every object manually, batch job here, keygen there, restart SP/IIS all over the place, etc)

- Business users are able to create small business apps and workflows - but they'll be a complete mess and everyone will become frustrated with the bugs, limitations and idiosyncrasies when using them.

- You can do workflows - but the out-of-the-box workflows suck, SPD workflows have way too many limitations and custom workflows are a big pain and alot of work.

- It is enterprise-y... but it has lots of non-enterprise "features". Deleting your workflow history after 3 months, updating everything single document with the latest datestamp when doing a service pack, broken import/export features.

The problem is that the US Fed is the ultimate gold farming bot. And it has all the permission it needs from the GMs.