TwelveNights

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by TwelveNights 9y ago
The problem here is that there's a distinct balance of power that a CEO can take advantage of. People may feel extra pressure to maintain their position in companies as a result.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
They never said that Talk was aimed at moving that goal further along, however. They're trying to use it instead to allow better curation tools to make comments manageable.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
This is Google being Google... They really need to improve their customer support processes; especially when people have so much stake in their products. Losing a Youtube account sucks, losing an entire Google account is the nail in the cof
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
After reading this article, I can see where Facebook is coming from when making these licensing changes. However, the points he makes about smaller companies feeling pain from Facebook due to patent infringement is very real too.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
Using his own credit card could have been good, too.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
The cross-platform support that the web lets us have is too luxury.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
Wow, it doesn't rely on VirtualBox anymore? I remember using it before for the development environment of an old company, and that being a small nuisance. Nowadays, Docker is really miles ahead in terms of usage in development environm
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
Is 100GB of data really enough to warrant this type of architecture?
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
Television and smartphone/internet use are only comparable to some extent, though. Television had a much more limited amount of power compared to internet usage. You could clearly get by without a TV; it was just a convenience and a fo
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
You made a pretty contrived comment to refute the parent poster, considering how unlikely it is that someone would find it a fun and exciting thing to do.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
I really like the writing style in this post, so I went to check on some other posts he had made. He seems to be a pretty nice guy overall! This one was particularly fun to read: http://pud.com/post/65374847162/how
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
Still, the topic isn't strictly on people's interactions with a screen. The biggest difference is availability. You couldn't carry your T.V. with you everywhere you go, and it can't do even close to as much as a mobile p
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
The internet is becoming a bigger and bigger playground. Even getting that first bit of attention is extremely meaningful now. There are so many different services and other attention-suckers out there at this point that everything really d
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
The question the article wants to address though is whether or not working longer is working better. Maybe 5 hours will produce more work than 4, but this is attacking our traditional 8 hour system with the concept that, in the long run, yo
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
When I first heard about the news, I was actually so surprised that the original memo took as long as it did for me to find it.
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
This article literally has nothing to do with Google. Also, these researchers are not suggesting anything; this is just the results they've discovered after trying to give an edge to women and ethnic minorities by removing that type of
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by TwelveNights 9y ago
A shame too because money can be one of the most powerful factors for retention. Someone who enjoys a company could still simply leave due to better prospects elsewhere.