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by LargeWu 14y ago
If you're going to be pedantic, then you might as well at least go all the way. The sport is called "association football". It is correct for Americans to call it soccer because, well, that's the most common name for it here.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
You are neglecting the value of your time here. If you have photos, videos, or other information that accumulates often, going to the bank on a regular basis to sync your drive to your computer sounds like WAAAAY more hassle than just payi
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Original, full article: http://www.marco.org/2012/10/26/an-alternate-universe
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by LargeWu 14y ago
I saw a news story in, I think, the Star Tribune with a picture of the new Maps app locating the Guthrie Theatre at its old location at the Walker. It hasn't been there for 3 years. Admittedly, I haven't used the new Maps app, but only beca
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Most startups that fail don't materialize out of thin air, raise $40M, and fail within a year and a half. I think it's impossible to be too harsh on anybody involved with Color.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
That article is from 2 years ago, and what from what I understand, it was a barely-functioning prototype. As recently as March of this year, they updated their roadmap. The second heading is "The Road to Beta". It also includes the line, "
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Saying these guys "took on Facebook" is a bit of a stretch. Did they even make available a beta version? I don't think so. Talking about taking on Facebook is very much different than actually doing it. I think they are getting a lot more
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by LargeWu 14y ago
The thing that strikes me, as an outsider, about the JS community is that most of their arguments and discussions tend to revolve around specific tools or libraries (Knockout vs. Backbone, for example), rather than around concepts. As a res
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by LargeWu 14y ago
You can add new functionality by adding new endpoints without using HATEOAS too. The only difference is that it's documented out of band, which incidentally, is primarily a discovery-related concern.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Because presumably most people do not live within reasonable walking distance of work.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Maybe it doesn't work as well as we want it to on the fringes. Maybe, just maybe, there are bugs in their software. I know, it's hard to fathom, bugs in software. Google is not immune to this just because they're Google. The fact that eve
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by LargeWu 14y ago
This is a high-risk strategy, and I think it would be very cool. Unfortunately, Best Buy culture basically eschews risk. Being successful in that company mostly involves not doing anything that will get you noticed in a negative way, and e
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Thank you. Programming is not an IO-bound problem, and if it is, you're not doing anything interesting. vim gives you ergonomic benefits? Sure, I can believe that. Allows you to manipulate text faster? Ok. But, at least in my reality, tex
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Sure, send me an email at douglasrohde at gmail, I can certainly answer those questions.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
I also studied economics in college, but now program professionally, largely due to my experience at at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. If you are still looking for work after college, and I assume you are, I recommend you check ou
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by LargeWu 14y ago
I have never heard anybody, anywhere, ever, refer to somebody from the North or South American continents, who is not a US citizen as an "American". "The Americas" commonly refers to both continents, but I've never heard anybody call a non
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Ha, I was just thinking about this in a very similar way the other day. Employee happiness is basically Good Will > Bullshit. Good Will is things like flexible working hours, office perks, interesting projects. Bullshit is anything th
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by LargeWu 14y ago
> Specifically, Kozmo.com was founded in an era where you could IPO without having profits Yes, it's different this time. Just ask Groupon. Also, and maybe you have a lot more insight into the business model than I do, but I just do not
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by LargeWu 14y ago
The real crime is that he went to Paris and ate at McDonalds.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Whether or not Ivy League or other top schools charge too much is basically irrelevant; the real hard part is getting accepted in the first place. These schools get so many applications in a year, and many of the applicants are so thinly di
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Whether the system is fair or not is orthogonal to the skill of the participants.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Inequalities in sentencing are one matter. It is another thing entirely if trials are not fair. I think for the most part, western nations provide fair trials. Furthermore, corruption - at least in the US - is taken pretty seriously. Where
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by LargeWu 14y ago
A giant national park that is likely filled with asbestos, lead, and god knows what other toxic substances they used to use in buildings back in the day. Tearing all these buildings down carries serious environmental risk.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
"After all, there's a huge genre of photography dedicated to the everyday and the banal, whose only real claim to anything is beauty in composition and light." Yes, but I think the major difference between this and most modern artists that
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Forgive me if I don't feel sympathetic to the plight of the poor programmers in SF. Everybody flocks to SF because that's where all the venture money is at. Which is just fine; you want to hit it big with yet another social startup? That'
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by LargeWu 14y ago
"The harder I work, the luckier I get" - Samuel Goldwyn
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by LargeWu 14y ago
That's not really what "security theater" means. Security theater refers to highly visible actions that make it seem like enhanced security, but ultimately have no effect. Think: the ticking agent asking you if you are bringing bombs onto
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by LargeWu 14y ago
I think a better question is why are they only down 7%
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by LargeWu 14y ago
True or false, Zee - it is acceptable for another site to scrape TNW and repost its content verbatim, as long as it says where it got the content.
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by LargeWu 14y ago
Well, when there is a high probability they will use the money to buy drugs - substance abuse is one of the primary reasons for homelessness in the US - then it does in fact matter what they do with it. Giving money to beggars is virtually

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