5teev

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by 5teev 15y ago
Basically, if profit is your goal, pursue the profitable users.
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by 5teev 15y ago
"If you're not willing to walk away, you're not negotiating -- you're just having a conversation about salary." A thousand times yes, and worth reiterating: if you're not willing to walk away, don't even start. At a previous position, I req
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by 5teev 15y ago
This is management's claim, not objective fact, and probably open to dispute. From the comments on the New York Times article, I'd guess the unions have quite a different perspective. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/hostess-files-fo
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by 5teev 15y ago
A professor told me once, "Physics is about what happens. If you want to know why, maybe try going to church."
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by 5teev 15y ago
Or vice-versa, i.e., one's thinking style affects one's choice of programming language. I believe this is why some programming languages just never clicked with me. My brain definitely resisted Perl...at first....
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by 5teev 15y ago
Seriously, "his whole life"?
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by 5teev 15y ago
When Gruber says, "You either see it or you don't,"he means, "If this is important to you, you will notice and value it," not, "If you don't see this, you are an unsophisticated yokel who should stick to pay-phones." JT hears Gruber with a
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by 5teev 15y ago
Six hours later: yeah, didn't think so.
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by 5teev 15y ago
So it's been more than 6 hours since this was posted. There must be a few clones of the Android version by now. Links, anyone?
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by 5teev 15y ago
Except a lot of the time, it wasn't a lot of cool shit, it was a bunch of crapware and you still had to buy software to actually do cool stuff.
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by 5teev 15y ago
I loved QuickSilver until I traced a system-wide drag-and-drop problem back to it and regretfully uninstalled it in favor of LaunchBar (which is not free). This was around the time the original developer announced he was basically ceasing w
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by 5teev 15y ago
> But for people who thought that $60 is a fair price for 1.x (I myself belong to this group, and so seem Marco), it's just a promise of a generous gift that was taken away. But kind of a bummer for people who considered the $60 as $30
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by 5teev 15y ago
Not a great analogy: while almost everyone else at the restaurant works for tips, the chef doesn't.
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by 5teev 15y ago
> we can debate how big magnitude of the distortionary effect of taxes. But this should be done with data not based on anecdotal feelings. This is true enough for the Tax-Me-More rich folks, but much more so for the Tax-Me-Not crowd who
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by 5teev 15y ago
Reported crimes probably correlate more strongly to police presence, so the root question may be, Are police officers more heavily patrolling areas where people also need rides, and how do they know?
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by 5teev 15y ago
Could you have the insurance companies' names in plain text? I could not locate "Aetna" using my browser's Find… function, but instead had to scan the "Company" column. I appreciate that it's sortable, but I might want to sort by price, the
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How home prices helped kill the first tech boom(blogs.reuters.com)
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by 5teev 15y ago
You can ask these same questions about a lot of things we use every day. Do you have deep knowledge of how your car works, or just a superficial understanding of the basics to keep it running? How about your refrigerator? Household plumbing
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by 5teev 15y ago
Yeah, I see no problem if you tell the employee, "I can pay you for two months." At least he knows what he's getting into. Besides, even a "safe" job can abruptly end, often with much less than two months' notice.
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by 5teev 15y ago
I flubbed a job interview when asked how I'd implement a factorial. Of course I did the well-known recursive version, but then they asked how I could do it without recursion, and I blanked. I think they wanted me to talk about memoizing a
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by 5teev 15y ago
> I think this is a distinct C-level problem. And if managers aren't being held accountable, that a C-level problem, too. The C-levels are content with directors who "manage up" instead of looking past them to see what's really happenin
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by 5teev 15y ago
Unless you include the dog who keeps the other five bones for himself.
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by 5teev 15y ago
I'd extend this concept to meetings: if you block out 30 minutes but finish in 10, don't keep talking for 20 more. The excess discussion is at best simply wasted time, or worse, leads to feature creep.
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by 5teev 15y ago
And just to completely deaden the joke, this was clearly a facetious little bit of hyperbole, not a statement of actual fact.
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by 5teev 15y ago
I'm pleased, too: my app is destined to be immortal!
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by 5teev 15y ago
I've always suspected there ought to be a physics portion on the driving exam.
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by 5teev 15y ago
Who said "primary purpose"? I was just trying to address your concerns about the college-educated waiters of the world.
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by 5teev 15y ago
You seem pretty worried about the waiters, so here's a hypothetical direct benefit of educating them: Maybe the theater degree will offer the waiter more opportunities for self-fulfillment outside of work. Consequently he won't be consumed
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by 5teev 15y ago
Direct link to article: http://blog.getjar.com/developer/getjar-vs-apple/
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by 5teev 15y ago
Are you saying we should all just trust the laptop thieves of the world a little more? Maybe stealing a laptop is the worst thing a thief will ever do; maybe not. It's not unprecedented for a criminal to murder a witness to a relatively min

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