21echoes

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by 21echoes 13y ago
> The debt ceiling has nothing to do with meeting ones obligations to creditors. yes, it completely does. the US does not have the cash on hand to continue paying out to its creditors. to continue to pay its creditors, it must borrow mor
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by 21echoes 13y ago
the "shareholder value theory" is a myth: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/nocera-do
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by 21echoes 13y ago
i do hope you're kidding..
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by 21echoes 13y ago
a company that looks like it has a good, lively culture is way more attractive than one that does not. this seems obvious, no? clearly there was more to the interview than just pointing to a ping pong game and a bar-- the visible (albeit, s
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by 21echoes 13y ago
200, not 2000. for a family plan (reads like 4 or 5 people, so that's around $50 a month per person)
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by 21echoes 13y ago
they didn't hype shit-- they put up a kickstarter (which is, indeed, for projects that "don't have anything usable" yet), and it got picked up by the NYT. and diaspora is still one of the most contributed-to open sou
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by 21echoes 13y ago
Diaspora can post to FB, but pulling posts in is a much bigger kettle of fish
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by 21echoes 13y ago
Diaspora was 4 (and then quickly 3, and then tragically only 2) just-out-of-college/still-in-college dudes who were tasked with building something competitive with one of the most used pieces of software of all time while inventing-bra
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by 21echoes 13y ago
not having a FB account or refusing to link it would be just as strong (if not stronger!) of an indicator to their scoring algorithm
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by 21echoes 13y ago
sure, but i trust Moxie Marlinspike
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by 21echoes 13y ago
if you think there's potential demand for your product from the sorts of people who fund projects, then by all means you should ask.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
this is actually exactly how Google Play works ( http://play.google.com/intl/ALL_ALL/about/artist-terms.html ). The numbers aren't as clean and simple as "pay 5 to us, 5 wherever you want", but e
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by 21echoes 13y ago
i don't think astroturfing posts are typically this negative..
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by 21echoes 15y ago
to quote David Foster Wallace, “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not becaus
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by 21echoes 15y ago
as one of the three people who found his body and the only one to read the note before it was taken as evidence, please do not spread rumors like this. i don't doubt that you have the best intentions, and may think you have the facts straig
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by 21echoes 15y ago
yes, i was one of his three roommates who found his body, and the only one who read the note before the police took it as evidence. it was short, and simply said "thank you to everyone who was kind to me, this decision is purely my own".
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by 21echoes 15y ago
as his roommate i can confirm that he has indeed passed away. i thank you for your hope and optimism, but sadly these things can only go so far sometimes. life and death are very real and very sudden things, and i hope that his memory spurs
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by 21echoes 15y ago
you've nailed the core problem with the article-- you don't test stuff at an extremely detailed level (unit tests) until you're pretty damn sure of the feature and the way you want to implement it. the way you get there is through user test
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by 21echoes 15y ago
i feel the exact opposite-- if you have a good test, the code is nearly trivial to write. the key is to always bounce back and forth between tests and code, so that you're always just writing the minimum possible thing that passes, which (w
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by 21echoes 15y ago
it's a compromise move-- the reason most sites today rely on email, fb, or twitter is that it's a way to 1) contact the user, and 2) tell/help the user to tell his/her friends about something. the team is in talks now about cooperation with
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by 21echoes 15y ago
facebook, i agree, makes sense for an assertion of your public, real-name identity. there will always be sites and situations where i do not want my real name associated with what i do there. google auth is just one provider of the same i
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by 21echoes 15y ago
i thought the video demo was pretty clear for the consumer perspective-- to a user, they click sign in, tell a site what email they want to identify with to that site, don't have to make a specific login to that site, and the browser handle
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by 21echoes 15y ago
by tying all your logins to email, you're left with only one account that you can focus on keeping secure and un-hacked (or a few, as BrowserID allows for multiple emails). The BrowserID is also in talks about support one-off identity gener
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by 21echoes 15y ago
given the pictures provided-- it's totally the Peter Coutts hill. I wonder if Mark and the interviewees know how many Paly/Gunn high schoolers get drunk and stoned on that hill all the time?