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by ahi 16y ago
Their interactions with open source communities have been so hamfisted I would be surprised if they even realized the danger this creates for their other projects. They dropped a product with ballooning development costs. What this means fo
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by ahi 16y ago
WealthyJerks.com is available.
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by ahi 16y ago
>We still have under 500 employees I read that as, "we have almost 500 employees but still no revenue model." Absolute madness.
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by ahi 16y ago
>For others trying to overcome impostor syndrome, consider this: that you have benefited from multiple strokes of luck that have no basis on your actual ability or performance is highly unlikely. It's much more likely that you've gotte
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by ahi 16y ago
Oracle doesn't sell software. Oracle sells suits with warm fuzzy feelings.
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by ahi 16y ago
Citation needed. I tried to figure out which one of us is correct, or at least more correct and this is the best I could do: http://www.opsecprofessionals.org/articles/dumpsterdiving.ht... As always, depends on state and local ordnances.
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by ahi 16y ago
From my reading of the Ars article, the only thing illegal they did is the ordering of pizzas. Even the digging through his trash is perfectly legal in most jurisdictions. Is what they're doing right? I don't know, but actions have conseque
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by ahi 16y ago
>If we get something with the moral foundation of wikileaks, the activitst appeal of Anonymous, the secure communication system of Tor, and the virality of Facebook? For the record, I don't see a problem with any of those things, and I
609.
by ahi 16y ago
The auto industry provides a further handicap to startups in Southeast Michigan. Former auto company staff are everywhere, so their fucked up culture seeps into every company and organization.
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by ahi 16y ago
It has patent troll written all over it. Right now it seems like they don't have much more than an idea for a product and an idea for a business plan. Even if their photo-sharing thing doesn't work, it's inevitable that others will be looki
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by ahi 16y ago
They seemed to be blaming it on "bad timing" as if these things were ever excusable. These are also things that you either do or don't do. Your systems are either secure or they're not. "They were going to be secure tomorrow" does no one an
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by ahi 16y ago
All babies are ugly. They look like little aliens when they come out. After a couple months they plump up and get cute.
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by ahi 16y ago
In defense of .coop, .com and .org are rather poor fits for many cooperatives. However, I think TLDs are rather pointless and idiotic in general.
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by ahi 16y ago
Have you met all of them? It only takes one.
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by ahi 16y ago
However, it only takes one trader with a naive NLP approach to make "Ann Hathaway" news legitimate Berkshire Hathaway news. i.e., one dumbass with a big enough bankroll buying on Ann Hathaway news makes Ann Hathaway news relevant to the mar
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by ahi 16y ago
"Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto - a ranking tutorial" http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/ranking.ht...
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by ahi 16y ago
I clear cookies/cache daily at the very least. After I created my third or fourth nytimes account I realized it's easier for me to use the Google workaround or Bugmenot than to retrieve my username and password every time I wanted to read a
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by ahi 16y ago
For Mark's sake I hope that is a misquote. It's a complete non-sequitor.
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by ahi 16y ago
I don't know how big it is, but I believe b3ta.com is predominately UK.
620.
by ahi 16y ago
I believe he means 5% of salary so recruiter company gets 20%. 2500 instead of 93.75.
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by ahi 16y ago
nuclear battery, more or less http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
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by ahi 16y ago
I read an article years ago, which I can't seem to find, that gave a completely different reason for this phenomenon. Real estate is so expensive that large numbers of teens and twenty somethings have no hope of moving out of their parents'
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by ahi 16y ago
I only think those work because they are dripping in irony. Would his target market respond to those postings if they were sincere long form marketing.
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by ahi 16y ago
I think the long form marketing works on the lower half of the intelligence bell curve. This probably excludes much of a programmer's social circle.
625.
by ahi 16y ago
This may or may not have been taken out of context. The way it was tacked on to the end of the article makes me wonder about the source. How did the writer get that quote? The writer definitely wasn't digging through court filings. Likely f
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by ahi 16y ago
Looks like they released Q4 results yesterday. I suspect investors will react far more strongly to hard data like the Q4 then the FUD created by Google.
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by ahi 16y ago
A paraphrased email exchange I had last week: HR recruiter: When are you available for a phone interview? Me: I am available Tuesday mornings and Thursdays before 4pm. HR recruiter auto-message: you have been scheduled for a phone interview
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by ahi 16y ago
Their Ann Arbor store has been a dump for months at a time as they reorganized and relocated books. Seems like a third of the store is just paper goods--cards and wrapping paper crap. 5 miles from HQ and they still couldn't figure it out.
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by ahi 16y ago
I only have access to Windows (another problem) a couple days a week and today is not one of them. Sorry.
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by ahi 16y ago
The disadvantage of IE's tab handling is that it frequently takes a second or two for a tab to come up. That makes IE unusable for me, as every few minutes I'm doing a search with 'ctrl-t tab <keywords>'

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