ColinCochrane

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Nonstop Glamour and Prestige(pipeline.corante.com)
6 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
Ludicrous Gibs!
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
That's an interesting point. It reminds me of something Joel Spolsky wrote: Here's the simple algebra. Let's say (as the evidence seems to suggest) that if we interrupt a programmer, even for a minute, we're really blo
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The Open-Office Trap(newyorker.com)
153 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|183 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
I can't fathom how that Vice-Principal could have possibly thought that was a good idea. Monitoring students in their homes isn't only a grotesque violation of their privacy but also just plain creepy.
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The Hunt for the Magnetic Monopole (2013)(spectrum.ieee.org)
10 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|2 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
His real middle name is Samuel. He had to change his middle initial because there was already a member of the Writers Guild of America with the name "David S Cohen". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_X._Cohe
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Think Twice (or Thrice) Before Using Angular(leoasis.github.io)
3 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
Some supporting evidence in a letter from Blockbuster's shareholders to the company when it filed for bankruptcy. "Jim Keyes and all involved will be held accountable for their actions that led to this today," former shareho
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
Especially given how he was ousted because Icahn thought he was being given too large of a bonus, and then end up paying him nearly 5x that amount in severance. For Carl Icahn, who had used the CEO’s compensation as a cause célèbre in his
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Blockbuster: Losing the plot(daindunston.com)
85 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|64 comments
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The Simpsons hit with $250m lawsuit from Goodfellas actor Frank Sivero(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|1 comments
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Shots Fired on Parliament Hill, Soldier Shot at National War Memorial(ctvnews.ca)
2 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
"Frodo died in 2013 from an infected bite wound to his groin." Ouch
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The Deadly Stupidities Around Ebola(pipeline.corante.com)
11 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|13 comments
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Scotland Decides(bbc.com)
5 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
> A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the Silicon Valley research lab is closing this Friday, and noted that an undisclosed number of those researchers will be offered jobs at other Microsoft Research labs. That would imply that these are
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China and the (next) Dalai Lama (2011)(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
Rule 30: "It is mainly the incompetent that don't like to show off their work."
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Desiderata(cs.columbia.edu)
5 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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Tools for Teachers(gatesnotes.com)
4 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
They were punitive damages, not compensatory damages.
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Are Debtors’ Prisons Coming Back? (2012)(blogs.wsj.com)
9 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|5 comments
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
Wow. The USA ones are awful.
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
Awesome. the Indonesian National Police “were astonished and irritated that the NYPD showed up,” a federal source explained
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
That is an excellent read. Thanks for posting that.
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
The title is somewhat misleading. From the article: Rather, it's a training exercise that used a fictional, rather than hypothetical, scenario as its premise, to prevent public panic in case the plan ever got out, which it clearly ca
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
I got a good laugh out of some of those. Things I have learned from coding for a month Ten ways to become a better programmer (by the guy who's been coding for a month)
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by ColinCochrane 12y ago
This is tragic. I think this comment from the offending Facebook group page sums it up best (translation courtesy of Google): Shame on you. Without any evidence accuse a woman of something. No right to a fair trial, leaving it at the merc
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20 Rules of Software Consulting (2013)(databasesoup.com)
7 points by ColinCochrane 12y ago|0 comments

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