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by Duff 15y ago
It isn't, but since the primary thing to do with Bitcoin is to speculate it, keeping it on your PC is problematic.
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by Duff 15y ago
My pet peeves: Why can't the selection of country be simplified? Why do I need to scroll past Afghanistan, United States Minor Outlying Islands, etc to find the US? It should be easy to guess what country I'm in and let me correct. Why do I
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by Duff 15y ago
Read my comment. I specifically didn't focus on money. The point is throwing money and bodies at the problems of education has a proven track record of NOT working. Those results that you refer to apply to a suburban school in high-income a
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by Duff 15y ago
Or cheated. I went to a mid-tier public college. Certain cliques of asian students with no ability to communicate verbally in English were somehow able to produce amazing criticisms of 19th century english poetry. It's difficult not to draw
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by Duff 15y ago
The education system is broken and has been for decades. The supporters of the system re-characterize criticism of the system into "attacks" on teachers (ie. union membership) and demand more money. The establishment "won" their side of the
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by Duff 15y ago
What is it about Google+ that brings out the sexism debate? Not too long ago, the public display of a person's gender was going to enpower stalkers and rapists. The same boorish nonsense goes on in other contexts, but doesn't seem to attrac
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by Duff 15y ago
Insurance companies are immoral? My employer and I pay $7,500 a year for my health insurance. I developed a debilitating back condition which required over $150,000 in surgery and therapy. My cost? Less than $1,000. A friend of the family w
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by Duff 15y ago
It shouldn't be, but most large organizations (corporate and public sector) have setup systems designed to avoid the appearance of discrimination or subjectivity in hiring decisions. The irony is that these systems make it difficult for p
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by Duff 15y ago
I agree. I think paid sabbaticals have positive ROI too. Number crunchers don't think in those terms though.
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by Duff 15y ago
So women somehow magically ship from the factory with a natural instinct to avoid IT jobs? In my city, they gave a civil service exam for a garbage collector -- 2,000 people took the test.
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by Duff 15y ago
More than that, medicine is more portable. At a typical large company, the ingress point into the company is at an entry-level position. Many women want to interrupt employment when they have children, which isn't practical for a IT person
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by Duff 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I find it more difficult to discern these things in the online format. With the regular newspaper, there are plenty of visual cues that make it clear about what is the author's opinion vs. the papers. Not so wi
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by Duff 15y ago
The Times misses Microsoft's strategy. You don't need to be better than Google, just be good enough so that when Google screws up, they can swoop in. Microsoft losing $2.6B is like me dropping $5 on a crapy sandwich. Microsoft has successfu
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by Duff 15y ago
I love Reader. It amazes me that Google keeps creating these new "social" features, where they have a great social thing going already. I share stuff and discuss things with my colleagues on Reader. Somehow, they launched Google+ without an
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by Duff 15y ago
Cisco at least had a vested interest in getting a result. So the Cisco decision maker was unethical, but perhaps not committing a criminal act by normal standards. (Although I'm sure an aggressive prosecutor could find a charge.) I'm more d
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by Duff 15y ago
Another factor I forgot about is career goals. If you love programming and that's your chosen profession that you intend to practice, it's great. If you career goal is to move up through the organization though, missing the chance encounter
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by Duff 15y ago
Unfortunately, international legal frameworks with respect to the oceans are not keeping pace with technology. Anything that reduces consumer demand is a good thing, but American demand in the big picture is a small piece of pie. The Japane
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by Duff 15y ago
Note what it actually said: "Spending less than 50 percent of the week in the collocated office affords more flexibility and aids in the balance of work and personal roles, which teleworkers find satisfying." Less than 50%. When I was a mor
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by Duff 15y ago
I know this is pretty much a joke, but never underestimate the ability of people to do ridiculous things. I've personally witnessed individuals with email Inboxes with over 50,000 items in them -- total size 30GB. No use of folders, no mean
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by Duff 15y ago
That's exactly what happened. Those crazy kids at Berkeley cooked up BSD, which was written to meet their needs and subsequently forked into a few variants. The GNU people made a GNU collection of core utilities that met their particular ne
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by Duff 15y ago
I hope so too. Google has a poor track record at getting group-stuff right. Google Groups being a great example. That said, I'm liking Google+ so far. The circle model lets you operate in a way that is similar to real life, unlike Facebook.
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by Duff 15y ago
Microsoft is good at making products that are good enough and staying in the game for a long time. In 1990, high-end engineering users were very happy with their Unix workstations. Windows NT in comparison kind of sucked -- but over time th
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by Duff 15y ago
That's because organizations like the one you work have governance models that aren't actually focused on delivering IT services. If you use open-source software, you don't need to procure anything, right? At one level, that's great, but to
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by Duff 15y ago
Many large enterprises are exceptionally bad at managing physical hardware. And if they are ok at it, they spend obscene amounts of money to do so. One of the key advantages of VMWare from a operational point of view is the management capab
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by Duff 15y ago
I think context matters. If you had some relevant story where it mattered, I may not consider it sexist, but would always think of it as juvenile. IMO, it's analogous to a comic whose schtick involves screaming the f-bomb or something simil
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by Duff 15y ago
The ironic thing is that the passive/aggressive style reflects more poorly on the author. It sounds like a public justification about throwing the hot sauce and soaking people. I know nothing about Kagan, except that he sounds like a self-p
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by Duff 15y ago
"Do what you love, but be responsible" might be more reasonable for this guy. I'm sure that hanging out on the beach and devoting your days to sex, reading and other entertaining things is appealing to many, but unless you're a trust fund b
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by Duff 15y ago
Usually smaller or companies entering a new market influence a VAR or enterprise vendor who have a gap in their portfolio. If you're a services company, it's essential -- you basically subcontract through the "mother" vendor's contract. Cis
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by Duff 15y ago
The premise of the article is wrong -- "Creating amazing products, not amazing RFP responses" Innovation and "amazing" are concepts completely alien to enterprises, particularly government. Corporate people have certain motivations, governm
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by Duff 15y ago
The solution is to solve a technological problem with an analog solution -- don't know the password, and store it in behind a suitable physical barrier. An example of this is a retail drop safe -- it can only be opened by specific people at

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