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by adevine 11y ago
I could imagine a billionaire wouldn't really notice it, as they'd probably expect it would cost a lot to keep a large lawn lush and green.
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by adevine 11y ago
Billions in profit? You are sorely mistaken: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=YHOO+Income+Statement . For years, Yahoo was propped up by it's stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. In fact, the core business was valued
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by adevine 11y ago
Because, unless you're something like a utility that just keeps on chugging at a steady state, most large businesses don't just "steady state" - they either grow or die, largely because some other competitor will grow
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, honestly I'd think it were sad if they were, say, manufacturing employees who were laid off and had poor prospects, but in today's market any decent engineer or product person who worked at Twitter would be snapped up in a s
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by adevine 11y ago
> I'm going to assume that yes -- their business model was based on annual revenue. Then you'd assume wrong. The goal of the board is to maximize return for investors. In WhatsApp case, it's not hard to see that their goal
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by adevine 11y ago
Can you explain your disgust about the negotiation secrecy? This is one complaint I really don't understand. Diplomacy is almost always done in secrecy until both sides are ready to propose something concrete. As the top comment says,
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by adevine 11y ago
If our cars our crappy, why should Japan need trade barriers to keep them out?
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by adevine 11y ago
The other phrasing of the problem that I've seen help people is this (I think was also originally from Marilyn Vos Savant): Suppose there are a thousand doors, and only one is a car. Monty opens 998 of them to reveal goats, leaving doo
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by adevine 11y ago
Agreed, but the Monty Hall problem wouldn't make sense (at least from the game show perspective) if Monty's selection were random. If his selection were random, and he picked the car, it would just be "OK, I randomly decided
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by adevine 11y ago
Require Facebook login - close enough.
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by adevine 11y ago
That "Peeple Watching Webisode" was so cringeworthy.
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by adevine 11y ago
I wouldn't really say it's PR, it's more like it just went viral. As in, I wouldn't say the Bedroom Intruder guy or Charlie Bit My Finger had great PR. They just did something that touched a nerve and people pounced.
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by adevine 11y ago
Have you used scannable? Works great, and you still can use plain old pencil and paper.
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by adevine 11y ago
Umm, I don't mean to sound crass, but if you have 5 kids, 3 who live with you and 2 who do not, and a spouse who isn't currently working, I am not surprised that you find it difficult to save money. At the same time, it's not
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by adevine 11y ago
Which is why I have a lot of sympathy for the majority of people on the planet. For the typical HN commenter, though, who is either highly compensated or at least in an industry with a lot of job security, I have to roll my eyes when people
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by adevine 11y ago
She mentioned that Dropbox grew 4x. So, while she didn't (and, I think, wisely) say the exact reason she wanted to leave, a lot of people just prefer working at smaller companies.
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by adevine 11y ago
It is quite possible to live below your means and save up enough money so that if you do quit you don't have to work immediately.
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by adevine 11y ago
While I agree "the problem with Facebook is how people use it", that's kind of the point. People are so used to posting tons of minutia on it (and Facebook's ad model is incentivized to keep you aimlessly scrolling down
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by adevine 11y ago
I think more important than this is the fact that there are WIDE variations in the stats based on just a few important factors like smoking status, race and income - these can actually have a bigger impact than sex. If you are a non-smoking
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, Optionals came from other languages, not originally Java. IMO the problem with Optionals is that they'll never suffice unless they are part of the language itself, like in Swift. As this article pointed out, Optionals aren't
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by adevine 11y ago
> Also perpetuates the myth that college is for job training. It's not. It's for education. While I agree, the sheer cost of college, and the huge loans many take out to attend, mean that the vast majority are expecting a decen
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by adevine 11y ago
Entropy is not really the issue here. For a dictionary attack with a non-reversible hash, what matters is how computationally intensive it is to generate the hash. MD5 hashes can be generated very quickly, while bcrypt hashes take much, muc
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by adevine 11y ago
> Simple price gouging, but most customers are happy to pay. Also known as "economics".
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One that suggests that, because you personally don't love the Apple-announced product, that Apple is shit and "needs a wake up call". It's not THAT hard to see that a lot of people will like these products, and Apple wil
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by adevine 11y ago
I clicked a bunch of links in the menu bar and they 404ed. My guess is this is a page in a semi-mockup state that isn't "really" live. The page is also in a weird mix of English and Russian, and thus it looks like this Englis
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by adevine 11y ago
Clearly, though, this is not how Google did it. For example, their blog post, https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-ident... , states that the upper case G is not just a circle, but slightly modified t
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by adevine 11y ago
I think he's saying his main point, though, is that storing objects in a RDBMS using OR-mapping is a pain in the ass and there will be better ways to do it. With the advent of NoSql DBs, and the number of DBs that store their data in J
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by adevine 11y ago
Not really. Did you see Dan Luu's original post at http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/ ? Even though the iPhone was released in 2007, smartphone adoption didn't really start exploding until 2009.
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by adevine 11y ago
Thanks for posting that - adds some context and color to what is essentially a PR story.
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by adevine 11y ago
Note the Ashley Madison wiki page says that these BS accounts are actually presented in the terms and conditions. I'm kind of impressed with the hutzpah of even giving these fake accounts the name "Ashley's Angels": Seve

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