DaveWalk

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by DaveWalk 11y ago
This is an interesting question: is there a shelf life on "can do" attitudes? I think just in allowing that this fact might be true changes my perspective -- hinting that we might be in a kind of startup-frenzy groupthink even in
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Great find with plain evidence. Does HN have an official stance on promotional accounts? (Paging dang?) Anecdotal experience makes me think this is a problem on any submission-driven site.
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I found it interesting that the sort of golden rule of freelancing was in play even for a content farm writer in the Philippines: charging higher rates results in steadier jobs.
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
My apologies. I guess I have to now call Reddit “part-sibling-once-removed” of Condé Nast.
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I like your highlighting of quality. Do you think it is a real or just perceived notion that the quality of items on Kickstarter/Groupon decreases as their popularity increases? At first glance it feels to me that it casts too broad of
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Does anyone have these concerns about Conde Nast's other holdings, like Reddit? (Is there anyone at Reddit who fears Conde Nast interfering with its independence?)
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
> Assuming you are paying them a living wage, what economic output could [200-300 million people] accomplish that would be "worth" say 5 to 15 trillion dollars a year? A good thought experiment! My initial thought was a spiritu
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
> So ultimately, I find that many in the older generation are simply trying to make ends meet in an environment of scarcity that is new for the US, with the youth subsequently becoming disillusioned because the system seems to be set up
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
While not scientific, the example I can think of is in How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (published: 1936). In the section dealing with how people read your messages, he lists an actual letter from a company apologi
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I thought I was one of few who thought this way; this is a good thread. "Front-loading" messages, especially company-wide emails, give the reader confidence. And by getting to the point, ironically I want to read the whole thing i
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Do you think that Google may also have payment arrangements with HBO, Netflix, and others? I can't imagine it's very significant but there might be something there too, especially with the large early adoption of Chromecast v1.0.
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
This is a great insight, and it reminds me that there are scores of people in management at Wal Mart and Amazon tweaking prices, working out margins, and generally fretting over the prices that we spend microseconds considering. Caveat empt
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
When will Amazon get U2F/2FA? I have heard it's good for AWS but what about for us plebs who just buy stuff?
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“SuperBetter” Review(newyorker.com)
1 points by DaveWalk 11y ago|0 comments
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Collaboration has quickly become the de facto standard in the life sciences. There are examples in every discipline; to give you something specific would only highlight my ignorance of other fields. It happens between members of the same la
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Takeaway: > We believe that the attacker used information from Bugzilla to exploit the vulnerability we patched on August 6...The version of Firefox released on August 27 fixed all of the vulnerabilities that the attacker learned about a
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Tangentially related at best, but when I first visited Miami I kept thinking I had been there before. I had, sort of, in GTA: Vice City.
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Can a Young American Entrepreneur Succeed Where Europe Has Failed?(outsideonline.com)
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
tl;dr The NYT distills the adblocking zeitgeist into layman's terms. Standard quotes from ABP parent company CEO. And from an Irish startup called PageFair that reports on AdBlock use. Dig this quote: >In a report last week, Adobe a
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Good link, thanks for sharing it. I gotta say, though, when I saw that wall of text my first thought was that this is going to be a tough sell for some of us. Thinking about it for half a second, I have to say that I would gladly prefer my
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
A great point, which I haven't heard anywhere else in this discussion. We the job hunters have the ability to bend the job to our expectation before we start. It's a negotiation, it's an uncomfortable conversation, sure, but
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
According to the dozen seasoned job-hunters and recruiters that I know, Glassdoor is absolutely rotten in my industry (biotech). The selection bias is heavy-handed at best. Even Amazon's 5,000+ reviews represent a very small fraction o
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
What an interesting idea -- if I wasn't reading this webpage, I'd say it was a solution looking for a problem. But honestly I would love to try out something like this purely for novelty. It's like the definition of a horse-s
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Are you worried about privacy? Are bookmarks an attack vector of any kind? Or am I just naturally paranoid about these things? I've always been wary of who can see my bookmarks, but not for any particular reason. It kind of reminds me
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Your perspective is interesting, thanks for sharing. When I am in your shoes, I pretend that I'm in my manager's shoes, being asked about changing something about work. Kind of playing devil's advocate: why is this a good&#x2
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Yes -- I think the separation for you (and me) is to see the laptop as the "separation" device. I have a home office, but the distractions are everywhere. If I can grab my laptop and head anywhere else, my productivity shoots th
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Ha! I had the urge to comment on the Nerf wars, and you beat me to it. I cringed because, in my adult mind, having "daily Nerf wars" at work means they really don't know what the word "fun" is supposed to mean. I th
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
I can't agree with this; does nobody in the software industry regularly just network? Networking correctly done is all the positives of a job interview without the immediacy of a vacant position being filled. And yes, most of us are pr
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Isn't this cat-and-mouse issue between extension vetting and new Firefox versions always present when running Firefox beta? I assumed it was one of the tradeoffs, i.e., parts may be broken...?
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by DaveWalk 11y ago
Pushbullet now supports end-to-end encryption for Notification Mirroring, Universal copy & paste, and SMS. An interesting note, thanks. I thought they would start with the most popular use cases...but clearly they support others -- pu

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