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"AT&T (really, SBC with a new name)" Hah. And SBC and BellSouth were just AT&T with new names. Le plus ce change.
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They encourage that prominently in several places, including this message on the actually coupon voucher: "*Remember: Groupon customers tip on the full amount of the pre-discounted bill (and tip generously). That's why we are the coolest cu
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That doesn't have the slightest thing to do with Keynesian economics.
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Hire remote employees in the US?
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fwiw, I upvoted both of your comments. I think it's obvious this is a difficult subject based on how many intelligent people disagree on it. I very strongly disagree with your conclusion, but I respect it and disagree with the downvotes.
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"The only argument to say that they're not a ponzi scheme is that there's actually a legitimate business with revenue associated with it." That isn't a minor point. There is a big different between stupid investors with full information an
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I'm glad you said this. I gave up on a reply yesterday to the initial story for lack of time, but basically it said "anyone that thinks that Groupon is like a Ponzi scheme doesn't understand how a Ponzi scheme works". You can say all you w
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Depends on how much you value your own time and your risk-aversion.
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He said a good lawyer, not an average one. If one cannot tell the difference when choosing between a good and an average (or worse) attorney, then there is very little chance that they will do an adequate job with self-research, either.
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He's talking about the amount of currency in circulation, not the aggregate transaction volume. And BitCoin cannot follow the Twitter graph, because the money supply growth is controlled algorithmically. You are incorrectly interpreting t
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Optimizations are the hardest part. So those additional LOC are actually the most valuable and difficult to replace. Your utility of those optimizations might be vary from other peoples'... personally, I would hesitate before calling Gnu g
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Please see my earlier response to mitjak, i think it addresses both of your points.
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Not a dig at OSX users. I have a macbook in addition to a thinkpad running a less common distro in front of me right now. I'm thinking of it in a Bayesian way: if a person is a Linux user or an OSX user, I expect them to know all/most of
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Ah - thanks clarifying that he targets OSX people. I didn't think that dstat, xargs, curl, vim, screen, rsync, or ack were obscure; but it makes sense if it the audience is OSX users.
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As usual, Paul Kedrosky has some of the best observations: http://www.bloomberg.com/blogs/paul-kedrosky/2011/05/some-li...
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And just to be clear, an incredibly easy ballpark valuation would be to just take the midpoints of the rev / cost growth and go 3 years out... which gives $1.3B revenue on $1.1B costs = $200M profit. A slightly high market multiple on tha
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Based on there IPO prospectus from sec.gov: Year; Revenue; Costs; Income 2008; 78,773; 84,282; (4,522) 2009; 120,127; 123,482; (3,973) 2010; 243,099; 223,523; 15,385 expense growth is 46%, 82% yoy. revenue growth is 52%, 103% yoy. So, you
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I think what you've done is cool, but lets be clear that this is not really a testing tool, per se. It's just an interface that is compatible with several browser automation tools. Cucumber, FitNesse, and robotframework are testing framewo
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It's meant to provide a compatibility layer between various browser automation tools like Selenium, Windmill, etc. To the poster - it's a neat idea, but I know of very few people that are writing tests with more than one of those tools. An
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-f...
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I think you are wrong - even though there are true, unprovable statements, they're unusual and to the best of my knowledge, not the subject of extensive study. More like curiosities ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_undecid
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Are you sure you're accurately describing Godel's Incompleteness theorem? It's been a while, but I understood it at a technical level briefly. I'd be interested in knowing more about how you think it applies here.
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When I stopped reading: "The thing to remember here that separates Agile from everything else is that Agile is inherently empirical in nature." Agile would be great if it weren't for the 'Agilistas'. The one thing that separates Agile from
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That was a low-class downvote....
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In all fairness, Brightcove was first on a lot of this stuff. Hard to believe they're 7 years old, older than Youtube. The content distribution model was what they did from the start, too. (Former BCer)
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You know - I like the hell out of Bill Cosby. I'm glad you told me, and I have one more reason to. Thanks!
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Other people who have honorary doctorates: Bill Cosby, Bob Hope, and Oprah. (edit: and Bob Barker, Tim Allen... obviously, RMS has accomplished more than many PhDs, but you shouldn't refer to a holder of an honorary doctorate as "Dr.")
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Oh, I know, I just was trying to highlight that the underlying library (as far as I know cucumber) is opaque when defining the test, where in robot it's a little less so. Separately, since you're familiar with it - does cucumber allow you
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Surprised that the Robot framework didn't come up here. Cucumber's domains specific business language approach is great to when you have a larger group of people, and you want to give non-technical staff (product managers) a way to write te
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Why would I need to provide a better analysis than this? The benefits of scientific advancement to the individual are so numerous and ubiquitous that only an idiot would dismiss them.

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