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Jonny
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:11:51 GMT
No hacerlo, no intentarlo siquiera, es lo que me espanto de este cajer...
Raspberry
registry fix review
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:09:46 GMT
These business cards design are awesome.
Infodesign challenge
Fred Rocha
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:01:57 GMT
I have currently developed an application that performs this neat wiki...
Wikipedia as a translator of nouns
chemito
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:03:08 GMT
pense que habias dicho que era mejor que misa :P
I believe in this
James
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:45:04 GMT
Thank you for sharing this.
I believe in this
Remorque
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:06:24 GMT
Perhaps what I find most surprising about his story is that he found s...
Sam Walton's story
Anthonoy de Almeida Lopes
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:04:25 GMT
This seems quite clever. I hope to see more of this format in the futu...
Google vs. China
Steve
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:14:13 GMT
If you like the job you are doing, then it's ok to be an employee but ...
The Dream
elzr
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:42:50 GMT
*Nikita Vasilyev:* Thanks for the offer! I uploaded the original Greas...
Backbars on social link-sites
elzr
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:25:06 GMT
*Ben:* That was exactly one of the spirits in which I wrote that. I'm ...
Traditions
Robin
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:10:39 GMT
This looks interesting.
Table highlows
elzr
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:03:07 GMT
And here's another take on meritocracy, from the wonderful "_Ratatouil...
Meritocracy
Nikita Vasilyev
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:12:47 GMT
How about Google Chrome, Safari GreaseKit, and Opera support? I can do...
Backbars on social link-sites
David Lisle
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:54:45 GMT
This may well be the most important graph for the entire globe. We ne...
Global Wealth Distribution
Ben Atkin
Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:42:39 GMT
Great quote! It makes me feel better about next Christmas, too. I sat ...
Traditions
elzr
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:44:43 GMT
A smallish men's magazine here in Mexico just had a special on the dec...
The First Decade
Sarah
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:07 GMT
It doesn't seem to work on the Metafilter subsites (Ask, MetaTalk). Bu...
Backbars on social link-sites
elzr
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:54:38 GMT
The photo of the encyclopedias in the post is just a random one from F...
Infant gourmet
elzr
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:32:03 GMT
!(fleft)/images/blog Ah, thank you me...
Does anyone know how these graphs are called?
Abercrombi... and Fitch
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:24:26 GMT
Dress your life in loathing [url=http://www.anf- a...
The Dream
pkobayashi
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:26:58 GMT
Wikipedia has them as http://en.wikipedia....
Does anyone know how these graphs are called?
James
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:20:22 GMT
I've heard them called Spider Plots or Radar Plots. They're pretty com...
Does anyone know how these graphs are called?
Simon Bostock
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:14:20 GMT
Bit late to this post. And you're exactly right in the way you lay ou...
The Dream
chemito
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:37:28 GMT
SERVIDORES VS SIRVIENTES
The Dream
Ben Atkin
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:58:01 GMT
I'm glad I have mine in a text file. Thanks! By the way, I sometimes w...
Quick, harpoon'em before they become extinct!
elzr
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:18:29 GMT
It's behind a silly paywall, but this wonderful Economist article, "_O...
One piece of sound words
chemito
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:37:18 GMT
Es como el perrito de San Luis Potosi! O el Elefante de Tamaulipas!! h...
千葉
chemito
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:35:19 GMT
Yes yes, I do use Harpoon because I hate the page by page view twitter...
Quick, harpoon'em before they become extinct!
elzr
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:04:09 GMT
Ah! It was a pun on the famous joke: "Quick, harpoon it before it beco...
Quick, harpoon'em before they become extinct!
elzr
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:25:49 GMT
Even gorgeous Avalokiteshvara falls short of Moravec's breathtaking dr...
Mind Children, 2 excerpts
Mina
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:49:47 GMT
Hi Mina, Ah, yes, that's a "feature"! Sorry if it's bothersome, Kin...
KinKey
Mina
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:35:11 GMT
Hi Elzr, Is there a way to prevent the application from starting with...
KinKey
chemito
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:54:42 GMT
why would they die?
Quick, harpoon'em before they become extinct!
elzr
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:03:16 GMT
*stephane:* Actually, within this framework, an independent investor i...
The Dream
chemito
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:01:34 GMT
Exacto hermano, “One is glad to be of service.” We may serve the...
The Dream
Michael
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:25:16 GMT
I actually agree with your model. Folks are put off by the honesty you...
The Dream
racy_rick
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:56:58 GMT
I agree with stephane that there is another one, *an owner*. Owner >...
The Dream
Mina
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:09:05 GMT
Hi Elzr, I like it! Many thanks!
KinKey
JonT
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:30:56 GMT
Fantastic. Servant captures perfectly the dynamics of the relationship...
The Dream
Anonymous Cynic
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:09:41 GMT
I prefer employee, unemployed person, soon-to-be-unemploye person.
The Dream
Steven
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:21:45 GMT
Employees are servants - we're just treated very well given the circum...
The Dream
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:33:10 GMT
mebbe "player" to use a sports team analogy or "troop" to use the mili...
The Dream
Josh Kadis
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:26:23 GMT
I see where you're going with this and I understand that the use of th...
The Dream
daphne
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:15:44 GMT
Suggestion for servant (to go with mercenary and artisan): Serf
The Dream
Charles Frith
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:56:23 GMT
I like it. It's robust language.
The Dream
stephane
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:49:57 GMT
What about employee : colleague (team mate) - freelancer : partner - m...
The Dream
elzr
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:32:15 GMT
Many have expressed concern on "servant" as a word choice. Most of us ...
The Dream
ezra
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:14:25 GMT
In Spain in the early part of the 20th century, there was massive elec...
No-need-to-spam-your-friends ad
abercrombi...
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:35:12 GMT
I think a calendar that is simple and much more organized will fare mu...
Infodesign challenge
abercrombi...
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:19:58 GMT
Just one question: aren’t there some unneeded date columns? 2 in the...
Infodesign challenge
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