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Venture Capitalists Hijack “Angel Investor” Term?
I read an article today about some “Angel” group in New York City, and I realized something horrible is happening. It seems VC’s are trying to disguise themselves as Angel Investors. Maybe to attract more startups? Maybe to appear less frightening? Maybe to shed the negative “aura” attached to VC’s? It used to be that…
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How a Juicing diet works (+recipes)
My own background story with Juicing This story begins before I left Israel, around October 2009. I was working comfortably in the hi-tech industry, eating regular meals every day with my colleagues. The sad truth is that I somehow let myself go, and eventually weighed around 105kg (that’s almost 210 pounds for those on the…
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Why #OpIsrael is good for Israel
First, let me say a few words about what Anonymous actually is: An idea. A man is fragile, so are a group of people, but an idea, that can’t be killed. But it can be hijacked by anyone. Anyone can claim they are Anonymous. I can say I am Anonymous and you won’t be able…
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On Desktop Wars, and why we are all losing
One of the reasons Macromedia Flash is so problematic and on its way “out” is that it was always a plugin. It does not have direct access to the browser’s DOM, nor do scripts on the page have access to the internal DOM within the Flash object. They are two separate entities, running in two…
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Goodbye Apple?
I don’t like the way things are going with Mac OS X. My fears that something was slowly getting worse, were validated yesterday while visiting the Apple Store’s Genius Bar. While my laptop was being checked for issues, I told the Genius who was taking care of me that I have not rebooted the laptop in…