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by adjwilli 14y ago
I worked for a public university and the salaries were public by mandate. I found it harmless for a while, but it ultimately led to me to search for other jobs when I discovered a new co-worked who I considered lazy made $15,000 more than m
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I'm not sure Mozilla really has the clout with its mobile browser to make much of a difference for Apple. If anything, Mozilla building an open-source mobile OS will help Apple by dividing the Android's "open-source hacker" user base.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
The algorithm probably works by showing paid posts to the people most likely to click on them, so people who don't click much don't get many promote posts or the non-promoted ones.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Facebook has every right to promote paid posts, and Google has every right to promote paid links despite not exercising it. And we as users have every right to decide whether we find the Facebook feed and Google search results relevant and
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by adjwilli 14y ago
You're definition of socialism is a little funny. There's a big difference between socialized medicine as a single-payer system where the government has an incentive to keep costs low and a somewhat-centralized and somewhat-regulated system
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Isn't 17% roughly 20%? Or rather, isn't 17% roughly a fifth?
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Seriously! Lack of customer support is one of the worst things about Google. I don't know how many times I've had a question about a Google product and their forums either don't have an answer, have contradictory answers or someone's uninfo
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Considering this is from Adobe it will cost a fortune, have unfixed bugs for years, and break with every OS update.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Yeah with my apps I haven't noticed many iCloud related problems. I generally however just store simple keys in iCloud then pull the real data from my server based on those. It's not as robust as I'd like it but works.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
This is a fluff piece. Weren't all of those products in production or development when Jobs passed away? And hasn't Page continued to cut and EOL products since then too?
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by adjwilli 14y ago
It looks like all of Google's new lobbying efforts have paid off. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=d000022008
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by adjwilli 14y ago
By that logic knowing Spanish, Portuguese and Italian wouldn't make you trilingual since they're all related with different "key words, library function names", etc. I mean vocabularies and small grammar rules.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
How much of that innovation and world-class industry is created from immigrants? The business-friendly policies of the United States can be thanked too, but those business run on the labor of immigrants.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
While I agree with the premise of academia not really being a meritocracy, this article limited scope focusing solely on academia just comes across as thinly veiled anti-intellectualism that conservatives have been preaching forever. Why di
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I agree with a lot of this analysis, but one things stuck out: "Marketing will become better – and harder to resist." While I don't doubt that marketing will become better, I do think we'll develop ways of filtering it out just as we have w
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I did this too, but I was 27 at the time and it was only about $5000 I had in there. It paid off as my company has allowed me to save more now. It is a very risky thing to do. But if you are young and it's a good source of capital. I also l
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Does that number include pre-orders? Because really it would be 10 days since preorders began, not just three.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
My guess is that this has something to do with the horrendous updates to and broken pieces of the App Store. The iOS version got quicker but it's still like searching half-blind. There still lots of little broken services in the Mac OS X ve
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Are IBM salaries so low because of the "the cost difference is too great" between H1B and domestic employees as posted yesterday? http://cis.org/miano/ibm-cost-difference-too-great-business-...
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Thanks for correcting "facticity". I thought maybe I had remembered Sartre incorrectly.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Daniel Dennett has a nice critique of the Libet experiment where he argues that there's a temporal mismatch between making the decision and recording that the decision was made. Basically that experiment can't actually measure the decision
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by adjwilli 14y ago
A option they seemed to have left out is raising the "inheritance tax". If these baby boomers got Reagan tax breaks in their prime earning years, we should compensate by increasing the "death tax".
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Metro is interesting for its originality and almost complete lack of skeuomorphic flourishes. The problem with it though is that everything looks alike and nothing analogous. They've even eliminated drop shadows and depth-implying gradients
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Agreed, ExtremeTech is not my favorite news source. Their atrocious mobile interface reflects their editorial stance, all style and no substance
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I have a very intelligent friend who try as he might cannot learn programming. He has interests all over the academic board and teaches two unrelated courses. I think I understand now why he cannot. He's an eternal optimist. I tell him he's
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I can't wait to read a sci-fi story about advanced and perhaps sentient slime molds taking over the universe.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Washington cannot be trusted to be free of influence from AT&T and Verizon. Duh, in the Capitalist country the government is influenced by the businesses and in the Communist country the businesses are influenced by the government.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Why does everyone think this is about Apple? It's possible the comic is referring to Google's monopoly of web searches. My guess would be he's criticizing "monopoly as dangerous" accusations in general as silly since Microsoft has fallen so
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Ha, wow, I think am a terrible computer scientist and software engineer, but probably a decent to maybe even good programmer.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Yes, the whole App Store seems laggy now. When you're on the 25th card, it takes a while for card #26 to show its edge, leading the user to think there aren't more apps and if there are no one wants to download them anyways.

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