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by ajays 15y ago
You're on a cruise ship for a very short time, with breaks in between. Imagine being on this sausage factory, I mean, "entrepreneur ship", for months on end.
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by ajays 15y ago
I agree. The third-from-last paragraph starts with " But surely there must be some way to guard against defoundering, we imagined. " ... One would imagine that if this article had addressed the subject, this question would have been answe
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by ajays 15y ago
While I love the story, I think the headline gives too much credit to Google Earth. He was able to find his home by joining a Facebook group and asking people. Yes, he used Google Earth to find the town; but he was able to find his way home
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by ajays 15y ago
Oh lord! I remember these unibody terminals. I had to use the Volker-Craig VC4404 . That thing was built like a tank. You had to hammer at the keys with great force. Soon one got into the habit of hammering on the keys all the time. And the
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by ajays 15y ago
The OP claims to be an entrepreneur . And then I read this in the blog: I had such a long waiting period, that all my energy and momentum was drained. A man with no face, trapped, with no freedom to move or express, waiting for a (seemingl
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by ajays 15y ago
A part of that is because the charter of Labs is (was?) to generate papers and provide exposure to the company. It helps to attract talent if you're presenting at large conferences about the interesting problems you're working on.
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by ajays 15y ago
Here you go: http://labs.yahoo.com/publications Yahoo Labs people regularly win "best paper" awards at top conferences.
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by ajays 15y ago
One of my pain points with Google is that the page is now bloated beyond belief. At one time, I'd hit the "home" button (G was my home page), the page would pop up instantly and I'd start typing my search. Now, with "instant search", "googl
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by ajays 15y ago
Then the eBay buyers would post projects. Eventually the units (or most of them) will end up in the hands of a hacker, regardless of the route taken to get there.
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by ajays 15y ago
A quick Google search confirms your claim, at least for his new blog on The Daily Beast: https://www.google.com/search?q=stratfor+site:andrewsullivan...
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by ajays 15y ago
The biggest hurdles to this are the telecom utilities, and the so-called "free market" Republicans who insist that the government not 'compete' with companies. The utilities have a vested interest to maintain a monopoly. They have been suin
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by ajays 15y ago
This is all the more reason why we need a municipal fiber network in major cities (dense urban areas). Don't get me wrong: I love what Sonic is doing, and plan to move to them as my ISP very soon. But the fact that it's so hard for Sonic to
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by ajays 15y ago
I think building dorms to house the population would be a significant obstacle to this approach.
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by ajays 15y ago
But every store in that business would see their labor costs rise proportionately, so the net effect would be zero. If Walgreens' costs go up by 5%, so will Rite Aid's, CVS's, etc. Stores will just pass on the costs to the consumers. Plus,
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by ajays 15y ago
> How about work as the incentive? Here's how I look at it. You can either apply force (by making the urban poor work at some crappy job) ; or you can apply attraction, and have them move themselves (by offering a significant economic i
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by ajays 15y ago
I disagree that you would have to mandate hiring. The local Walgreens needs 5 people to man the store. Do you think they'll just close up shop? Of course not. They'll have to pay more to their employees, and we (the customers) will have to
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by ajays 15y ago
Tangential: when I saw the iPhone power supply, I was blown away. Here was this little white box, about 1-inch cube, able to convert 120V AC into low-voltage DC. No tranformer; no big capacitors; nothing. Just some solid-state electronics,
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by ajays 15y ago
I understand what you're saying; but the problem here is that 1 state raised the minimum wage. Naturally, jobs will flow to the neighboring states. But what if the Federal minimum wage was raised? You do understand the point I'm trying to m
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by ajays 15y ago
This is a great idea. It would really work if it supplements the welfare checks; it would get people into the mindset of working. Let me explain. Right now, if you're a bum, you make a decent amount of money panhandling + scamming the gover
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by ajays 15y ago
Often I find myself dealing with tab-separated files; and cat -n is very handy there. To see which columns a particular value occurs in: awk -F'\t' < tsv-file | tr '\t' '\n' | cat -n | grep something
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by ajays 15y ago
I have never owned or seen (IRL) a Zune. What's so great about it? What makes it better than an iPod?
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by ajays 15y ago
FTA: Redis ASCII art logo added at startup. This is where our major efforts went in the latest months. I knew it! All kidding aside: Redis is an amazing tool. I'm looking forward to the new version.
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by ajays 15y ago
Really? The original article lists sources like "Tesla’s Los Angeles area service center manager", "340th customer", etc. And it also includes an incident involving Elon Musk and J. Joost de Vries. I'd say there are enough sources listed th
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by ajays 15y ago
I think the original article also made the same claim: Tesla is "not so easily bricked" (given the fact that 'only' 5 cases could be found). So this isn't a rebuttal. If it was to be a rebuttal, the claim would be "Tesla cannot be bricked"
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by ajays 15y ago
Persia was such a wonderful and open culture at one time. It breaks my heart to see such brutality in the name of religion. I wish I could appeal to the Persian people and their proud history, and tell them that incidents such as this will
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by ajays 15y ago
Any pointers to Ubuntu (10.04) packages for this version of VLC?
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by ajays 15y ago
I don't know about others, but I find it hard to jump from one syntax to another. The other day I started doing some Java after months in Perl, and all my variable names were starting with "$", and I had "my " before declarations. I know an
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by ajays 15y ago
If these guys are saying this stuff in public, imagine the stuff Lin has heard in the privacy of the locker room or on the streetside court. But he still got to where he is today. So I wouldn't worry too much about the barbs he's facing. In
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by ajays 15y ago
rsync is great. I use the "-H" and "--link-dest" options to make incremental backups which look like snapshots. Been doing this for the better part of a decade; would be interested to know if there's A Better Solution(tm) out there...
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by ajays 15y ago
The stories of waste in California's budget are legendary. There's a reason why a study showed that given a choice between Harvard and the California Prison Guards' academy, you are better off if you pick becoming a prison guard!

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