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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm sorry but you're just looking for a reason to make it about race. On your claims what the caller actually said was... "two larger men, one looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure" So the officer did transpose the correct race
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I have to wonder how much of this is a chicken and the egg thing. Ever since the beginning of this crisis the media has been hammering the same meme: "This is as bad as the great depression" So now we're almost a year later and everyone st
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by SamAtt 17y ago
A nice read but a badly titled article. The truth is Web Consultancy is probably 10,000 times bigger than it was in 2000 it's just decentralized now. So yeah, if you're trying to make it in the bay area as a web consultant you probably do
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Given it's basically one paragraph of advice stretched over 5 I'd guess it had something to do with the need to write something every day. When you create artificial deadlines like that for yourself (as he does) I'd imagine most of your wri
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don’t see why you can’t have "one size fits all" recognition. It just requires more advanced profiling. The computer has to be smart enough to use all the words leading up to that one hard to recognize word. Not to mention other cues l
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by SamAtt 17y ago
As someone who worked for the city of Los Angeles I doubt the security part of your claim is true. People assume the government system is so backwards that it must be inferior in every way but that backwards-ness actually makes it more sec
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Unrelated Life Lesson: Never say "above" or "below" on HN
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by SamAtt 17y ago
When MG Siegler left Venturebeat they wrote a post titled "we’ll miss you...especially your headlines" and this is the perfect example of why. The man's got a talent. The post itself comes across as filler. Ballmer disparages all his comp
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by SamAtt 17y ago
So the opposite of "Brainy and Sexy" is a Conservative Christian? I find that a bit offensive and I'm a Californian and an Agnostic. The article itself is an undeserved defense of California. I love California and I do believe we have som
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by SamAtt 17y ago
In my opinion not really. The whole article boils down to "CTO's should allow corporate developers more time to develop rather than rushing them because rushed programmers produce bad code" It's not a bad point but to my eyes it's an obvio
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Actually my point was that there are a lot of people out there who maybe liked one of his songs pre-iTunes but weren't inclined to buy the whole album so they just forgot about it. Then when he died they realized they could now buy just th
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The irony is that Michael Jackson is the ideal artist for digital distribution. EVERYONE likes at least one Michael Jackson song. Or at least everyone I’ve ever met. So though his prime was well before the iTunes era his broad appeal sho
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by SamAtt 17y ago
For the most part I agree with you. But I'm a big believer in "better safe than sorry" and in that spirit I'd like to see some sensible change. The problem with an extreme position like "the world is going to end" is it makes those who do
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by SamAtt 17y ago
To me this is a cycle. One of the traits that defines "Macho" is being a risk taker. People who take risks are usually more successful than those who don't. Especially in the "Great Risk, Great Reward" world of getting financed. The pro
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The resources I was referring to was the kid's time and the point I was making is that this article provided no insight that an adult who thought on the issue for half a minute couldn't have come up. If you're going to have this seemingly i
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Are we really this desperate for news fodder? With all that's going on in technology is this the best use of the BBC's time and resources? Because the kid seems pretty intelligent and while reading I kept thinking "If you're going to have
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I completely agree. In fact I'm not sure what his argument really is here. Right now Flash gets updated because people run into a website that says "you need a newer version of Flash for this" and they want the content enough to push the u
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Only a "new technology" expert would write something so unbelievably dumb. And I don't even disagree with him. Yes, the teacher that sits at a podium and delivers a lecture is worse than a teacher that's interactive with students. That's
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Apparently it's not (though I concede it often is like that). From the linked article... UPDATE So this is what AT&T tells us: An iPhone 3G customer in most cases can early upgrade at $399 [16GB] or $499 [32GB]. You’ll note that that’s
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Thanks for the link. Sadly it's not working right now. I guess if AT&T and "not being able to connect" weren't synonymous in my head already it's my own fault for being surprised. Update: Finally got through and I take back all the bad
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Let me rephrase his strategy here: If someone comes to you with an emotional argument antagonize them and eventually they'll start acting rational. I'm sorry but not only do I think this is a bad idea I'm hereby calling b#llsh#t on the auth
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by SamAtt 17y ago
For the record, "smilin' Bob" is not played by the founders of the company (which is what the headline made me think). That actor's name is John Larson ( http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/channelsurfing/... )
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I feel a "[dead]" coming on...
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I never knew there were people out there who thought Reddit copied Digg. In fact, I'm not sure anyone can copy anyone in this case. It isn't like having people vote a news item up or down is a revolutionary idea in and of itself. What ma
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don't know what world writers like this live on but it's not the world I live on. When I suggest a product at work the first question I get is "how do we get support if something goes wrong?" The second question I get is "how much staff
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'd think there would be more of a drop off with opportunities like Y Combinator than there would be with other Angel investors. I'm surprised there are any at all. I guess it's still an excellent opportunity to meet people so I mean no of
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I found a lot wrong with this article. But the two that bothered me the most were these. "Reduced scalability and increased maintenance" The author claims code "can never be future proofed" because of different browsers. I don't see why t
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Henry Blodget is a Dope(tomstechblog.com)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think you’re missing the basic premise of the article. He’s saying there was a future that was “promised” which involved jet packs, flying cars, et al. That future never materialized and that is the topic of the article. That doesn’t do
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I just hadn't thought of it. I'll give it a look. Thanks!

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