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by Drbble 14y ago
If google thinks you have an account, they throw a login wall in front of plus, groups, etc. Visiting gmail and then logging out seems to help.
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by Drbble 14y ago
It is hard to believe that he has been a lawyer/judge for decades, yet is also an active programmer, and yet and doesn't know a thing about a language that is easily top 5 most commonly known and heavily litigated (Microsoft). Judges tend t
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by Drbble 14y ago
Most recent patent officers in the computing area are programmers.
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by Drbble 14y ago
You could not type that function and tests 2 minutes.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Taxes don't fund war. Borrowing funds war.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Salary isn't income either, it's risked labor that should be deductible as a business expense.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Credit for acknowleding their mistake, but man it took a long time for Google to stop mutilating their own feet with the flagship phone crap and lip servicing AOSP, forcing manufacturers to add sizzle to compete.
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by Drbble 14y ago
I know aa certain manufacturer who won't update their Nexus One phone to ICS either..
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by Drbble 14y ago
It's interesting that these fictionalized histories are at the heart of many companies' founders' myths of how they were inspired to create their amazing products.
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by Drbble 14y ago
I feel the sake way about "bochs".
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by Drbble 14y ago
The intuition of game theory is instinctive part of human nature and primates in general. It only gets hard when you do sophisticated calculations. Kids learn how to ride bikes too, but the physics of gyroscopic motion is hard .
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by Drbble 14y ago
How is that backwards induction?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Whoa. Herd mentality includes looking out for each other and helping each other and communicating.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Yes, When I did he stanford course I just skipped from slide to slide and backed up if the slide was unclear.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Wow. "Você deve entrar primeiro. Obtenha Facebook para Android e navegue mais rápido." Is Facebook suddenly feeling the threat of Orkut?
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by Drbble 14y ago
The fact the MySpace was awful probably had more to do with it.
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by Drbble 14y ago
You aren't wrong, but you could cut 70% of the words from your post without losing the point. Trim the fat.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Look up "compliance" and how it relates to self-applied medical care for nutrition, acne, exercise, birth control, etc. Vasectomy is more effective than pill is more effective than condom, not because of chemistry or biology or physics, bu
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by Drbble 14y ago
Farm subsidies are largely for corn products and for non-production of overproduced commodities.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Http://begthequestion.info
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by Drbble 14y ago
Done and done. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
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by Drbble 14y ago
Google is one of the top few investors in solar/wind power generation projects in the US, not just buying watts, and it is for profit/savings, not a donation.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Transmission is a small fraction of the work that goes into your email experience.
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by Drbble 14y ago
One phone call to a reporter, as part of a price negotiation for a hard to value product ("brand awareness"), is hardly a big stink.
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by Drbble 14y ago
"Prove the rule" is a colloquialism that means "test the rule". The exception ends up disproving or clarifying the rule, not verifying it. It doesn't mean prove like passing that test.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Look up "retargeting". Creepily chasing people around the web is successful for advertisers.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Naw it was the ads overlaying the videos that made YouTube the win win experience it is.
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by Drbble 14y ago
That's a contributory infringement lawsuit begging to get filed. Google is clearly profiting by driving users to illegal content.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Mostly brand awareness, which is famously inefficient and only works for products with extremely wide mass appeal, like Coke.
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by Drbble 14y ago
But many small losses and zero big wins...

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