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by angdis 16y ago
The situation could have been handled in a more compassionate way than jail. How many wealthy white collar criminals get away with far more fraud (and for strictly selfish reasons to boot) and never see the inside of jail cell? Given the HU
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by angdis 16y ago
Wait a second... a spammer company even HAS $360M ???
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by angdis 16y ago
I don't know where this "college is a bad idea" MEME started from but it is very bad advice that seems to be entirely based on ridiculous financial considerations. The folks that I know who didn't go to college ended up struggling much hard
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by angdis 16y ago
Most of the OP's problem was the fact that there was no simple way to JUST INSPECT the soap messages going back and forth. You can say that is more a problem of his tools than SOAP. But then XML (and especially SOAP) is so friggin' ugly tha
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by angdis 16y ago
I think Greenspun would be less optimistic if he did not extrapolate wildly from his experience in teaching an RDMS course to a bunch of "bright" students (some of whom aren't even from MIT --- OMFG, are you kidding me!). Instead, he should
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by angdis 16y ago
I had thought that maybe the phone was intended for older folks who need clear, easy, familiar buttons on their phones. But it seems to be more of minimalist hipster gadget. As such it really does need some form display. I don't know anyone
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by angdis 16y ago
Yep. You're thinking of kozmo. There was even a documentary made about the rise and spectacular fall of kozmo back in 2000. It was sort of a web-driven urban delivery service. Amazon might be able to pull this off in some markets. It probab
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by angdis 16y ago
If you really want to read a paper that is behind a paywall with an unreasonable download fee, you might try to find the university websites of the authors. They often make their papers available online from their "publications" webpage. Al
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by angdis 16y ago
"...It doesn't matter who is suing and who is sued; copyright infringement is copyright infringement...." One of the few positive things about our legal system is that it at least attempts to take "intent" and "proportionality" into account
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by angdis 16y ago
From a practical point of view, it is ~43 files out of how many? I think this means that someone got lazy and just copied a bunch of files. This is something that is worthy of a slap on the wrist at worst. Unfortunately, I'm sure that now a
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by angdis 16y ago
I'm convinced the original article by the Chinese mother was some kind of satire. I simply can't believe a reasonably intelligent person (a Yale prof!) can write that with a straight face-- the bit about not letting kids participate in scho
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by angdis 16y ago
It's not addiction as much as it is boredom and a thirst for novelty. I only recently discovered HN and added it to my RSS feed. Probably should do something about out-of-control RSS reading one of these days. It takes an outrageous amount
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by angdis 16y ago
I worked for a start-up that failed (as an employee, not a founder). We were able to get "angel" funding to keep going for a couple of years but not the big VC money that was needed for this domain (medical devices, so no "customers" other
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by angdis 16y ago
I like to compare facebook with myspace: MySpace: Like your parents basement. Bad behavior, language and lack of decorum-- no problem. This is where the "fun" parties were. Facebook: Like your parents living room. Don't spill anything on th
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by angdis 16y ago
The key word here is _probably_. There is room enough for both blue-sky idealists and pragmatic business grinders. We need both and both are likely to fail more often than they succeed. It might be easy to criticize somebody who follows the
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by angdis 16y ago
There are, of course, exceptions but most people are better off if they finish college. Yeah, I know... "Bill Gates", "Mark Zuckerberg", "<insert-any-one-in-a-million-tycoon>", so what? Without that degree, it still is the case that
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by angdis 16y ago
Let's take it to "The Cloud" !
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by angdis 16y ago
Yes, the Robert Gallager lectures on Digital Communications I. So nice to see lectures from one of the key people that made the field what it is today.
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by angdis 16y ago
"Holding the bus". I like the phrase, everybody has their bad days and should get some slack when they need it in exchange for giving their best when it really counts. However, I have to take issue with manic coders. I've seen the results o
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by angdis 16y ago
Whether or not they take it personally or not, the bigger problem is that it is very unlikely that any article will prompt a change in style from a dysfunctional/de-motivational boss . Much easier to just get what you can out of the job (eg
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by angdis 16y ago
Indeed. I went to a fabulous tiny restaurant in philly recently. While chatting with owner, she mentioned that a reservation had just canceled and then proceeded to tweet that there was an open table. Within literally 2 minutes, she filled
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by angdis 16y ago
Oh, you mean "web-crawl". With restaurants, its much better to "physically crawl", some of the really good hole-in-the-wall places, I think, would be terrible at self-categorization. I think its much better for restaurants to list themselve
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by angdis 16y ago
Obviously, because the sites are based on decisions made by one person who is not a web design expert. But that's okay, there are ways around that problem for the restaurant-goer: yelp.com provides a useable interface, socially vetted, and
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by angdis 16y ago
People react to challenges in different ways. I think the approach taken does depend on skill level as well as personality, motivation and the ability to execute one's will. Sometimes it is better to slow down and procrastinate rather than
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by angdis 16y ago
I think Amazon has made a pragmatic decision here. There are certainly all kinds of wild things on Amazon's servers and I bet they tolerate quite a lot of deviation from their terms of service. What happened with wikileaks, however, is a ex
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by angdis 16y ago
It depends... do you mean just "free speech" or do you mean "free speech" as in hotly controversial material which makes the hosting provider a lightening-rod for large-scale systematic DDOS attacks, possibly endangering their business and
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by angdis 16y ago
Probably much better to offer "Ayn Rand" cruise-ship packages. For libertarians, it would be a "nice place to visit" but NOBODY would ever want to live there.
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by angdis 16y ago
Continuous partial attention and family DON'T MIX, take a vacation from the computer/mobile. Get retro with board games, cooking, friends, drinking, errands, arguing (or whatever your family does). I find it helpful to lie down and nap freq
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by angdis 16y ago
I had a stint at a startup. It never got more than a bit of "angel" funding. Pay was at market rate-- perhaps a bit less. But so what? As everyone knows, most startups eventually "fail". They use up their "runway", and everyone scatters to
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by angdis 16y ago
I'm sure there's a market for what they're doing but don't forget: 1) it's a freaking coupon 2) it's ONE coupon, un-targeted, delivered to a wide audience In an era where print publications are becoming extinct, of course there's going

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