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by Drbble 15y ago
Maybe it's because most managers who set up offices don't read hacker news and progeammer blots. And the ones that do started at tiny scrappy companies that can't afford more than one room. For the my part, I worked somewhere that had a man
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by Drbble 15y ago
I love the productivity boost of sitting with my PM: "hey, feature x.y.z is actually a pain, now that I look at it closely. Can I email scrap it?" "scrapped. " Way better than spending a couple of days working on it before a weekly checkup
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by Drbble 15y ago
It is also totally unusable on mobile: If you swipe to the side (a common action to check if the page is displayed at fit-width zoom level) , a different article loads, because someone at Google can't tell the difference between a blog and
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by Drbble 15y ago
Wow, with that bitly URL for your AMA, you could launch a second career as an Internet marketing consultant.
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by Drbble 15y ago
The real question is, could Office be cloned for less than the user cost of Office? It almost certainly can't be cloned for less than Microsoft's cost to make Office.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Ask you local school or corporate IT admin about their license server. Shared licenses are quite standard in the software. They tend to cost more than software with per-client-machine licenses though. The obvious (also standard) alternative
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by Drbble 15y ago
Thanks for reminding me why I make more money now than I dreamed possible as a child, yet can't seem to afford anything beyond AmazonBasics and store-brand cereal. Inflation is such an insidious way to pick the pockets of the working class.
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by Drbble 15y ago
I would like to see a network enabled virtual machine approved for the iOS App Store, or the basic human decency of allowing sideloading on iOS, before trusting Apple with the OS of the future. Now, Tim Cook has shown a good track record of
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by Drbble 15y ago
Yes, but Bell Labs is not a role model. (Many managers were a hassle there too ) There can't be more the than 5% of the industry doing what Bell Labs did or MSR does. So the interesting question for the 95% is, what makes the best of the re
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by Drbble 15y ago
Yeah, a completely free payout open to all is unsustainable unless the robots and natural resources are so abundant no one has to work unless they are ambitious for a vocation; otherwise you get the market for lemons where raising wages j
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by Drbble 15y ago
Social welfare/workfare for mentally talentless. Is there anything morally objectionable to paying a living wage for menial. There will always be plenty of low value work to to (cleaning, beautifying, entertaining) Involuntary unemployment
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by Drbble 15y ago
Drugs. C.f., Brave New World.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Easy fix (logically, that is. Politically, nothing is easy). Have a US style "earned income tax credit" or "civilian conservation corps" where for folks get paid to work, and the government creates (productive, civil engineering and janitor
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by Drbble 15y ago
Or you can open 50 checkout lanes and generate the same profit on the same staff a manual checkout, and have happier customers who have more time to exercise and increase caloric needs and thus buy more food, or have more time to earn money
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by Drbble 15y ago
Please post the URL of your site, so we can all enjoy the functionality and not see any leaked IDs. And some AWS functionality would be great, I would love to use EC2 cluster computes on the "free" teir...
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by Drbble 15y ago
Because coffeescript runs in any browser and is easier to install under more platforms and security configurations than curl? The browser is the VM of the Internet. It is more standard that POSIX now, for non-system level user space functi
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by Drbble 15y ago
Many sites (hi, Twitter; #! you, too!) happily break the back button. It is a standard technique to "boost" engagement and "reduce" bounce rate. Seems spiritually inline line with this view-source gimmick.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Yup. The tradeoff is that you lose multiple dispatch based on argument list size (overloading) (Clojure, C++, and Java takes the other side of that tradeoff. I don't know if Python has signature-overloading like that.)
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by Drbble 15y ago
Ha, I write my Javascript like this. Makes me want to just go back to Haskell though. Does currying kill performance in Python like it does in Javascript? To reduce clutter and unobscure the point, and support uncurried usage (like apply(f,
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by Drbble 15y ago
I don't see a meaningful difference in the cases in your last paragraph. Seems like an implementation detail. The issue of whether the caller has to explicitly call "partial" seems to be the meaningful distinction.
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by Drbble 15y ago
If the investor is entitled to return, the investment amount is not in excess of the share value, and hence there is no income. If revenue is spent on growth expenses, there is no income.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Solution: Take investment as a convertible note (loan)? Or sell shares at a fair market value, as contrasted so standard? This law seems like it just closes a loophole where a founder could take investment as personal income, which would r
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by Drbble 15y ago
Can Indian businesses deduct expenses from income? That would solve the investment tax problem.
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by Drbble 15y ago
> I wish that there was a way to indicate that a quoted block should be wrapped Just use the conventional caret instead of the monospace blockquote
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by Drbble 15y ago
http://seekingalpha.com/#article/279795-5-companies-selling-...
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by Drbble 15y ago
That's not worse than BofA though, which has no two-factor auth.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Lawsuits, government charges, settlements, contracts -- these all seem factual to me. Only some emotional words of keep "gall" (which I agree are manipulative, the facts should stand on their own) add non-journalistic color.
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by Drbble 15y ago
We need an antitrust suit to lead to payment account number portability.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Based on the constant flood of ungrammatical spam they send me, BofA seems rather proud to be running Merrill Lynch. "Ready to start investing, again?"
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by Drbble 15y ago
What's wrong with retail banking being retail? The office where you do the paperwork isn't where they keep the money, it is a customer service center for your benefit.

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