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by anothermachine 15y ago
And this team-exploding is why all of Microsoft's good ideas die on the vine.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Facebook and Twitter (and Amazon MP3) are installed by HTC/Google on the carrier-independent Nexus One, at least. Cyanogenmod solves that problem (but introduces others, like failure to sleep properly => battery drain)
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by anothermachine 15y ago
He wasn't "banned for life". He received a "cease and desist" letter from Facebook's lawyer that threatened (bluffed) to escalate their challenge against the game. It's classic scare tactic employed by lawyers for unethical clients.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
If laws would really require him to pay employees more than himself, he could offer partnerships instead of trying to exploit employees.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
That's because Kahneman gets the signs wrong in the OP. Question 5a is: $900 @ 100%, or $1000 @ 90% Most people choose $900 @ 100% Question 5b is: -$1000 + $100 @ 100%, or -$1000 + $1000 @ 10% Most people choose -$1000 + $1000 @ 10%
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by anothermachine 15y ago
you mean 10% chance, right?
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Sure, graphs are often better than tables. That's not relevant to the point of whether tables should be sortable, if you already provide a table for some reason. A more relevant task: Given the data 3 3.88 5 5.45 1 3.09
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by anothermachine 15y ago
It's a nice idea, but has a fatal flaw: Customers don't want to, and are not able to, operate a SAAS operation in house. That's why they go SAAS in the first place. Here's a variation, though: The vendor should open source their core softwa
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by anothermachine 15y ago
It wasn't obvious after Facebook implemented it?
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Allow me do introduce you to Ctrl-L: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=120404
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by anothermachine 15y ago
In the USA PATRIOT Act, "PATRIOT" is an initialism, not a word, and should be capitalized. "Patriot" is not involved.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
The Atlantic has certainly been promoting itself heavily here and on reddit this past years, and catering its content to interests of the net-savvy reader: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=url%3Aycombinator.com+... http://www.reddit
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by anothermachine 15y ago
StackOverflow cannot show that information either, because it's inherently subjective! "What are some data structures not found on Wikipedia" is an objective question (but time-bound, which violates an SO policy)
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by anothermachine 15y ago
My (small) office has our first AI Ph.D starting next month. You sound like a qualified candidate, if only you'd sent your resume our way. Sorry 'bout that.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
I also instantly thought of this when I read Aaron's post. It is a bit dishonest not to credit this famous promulgator of the idea. more from Feynman, via "Cargo Cult Science", adapted from a commencement address given at Caltech (1974) quo
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by anothermachine 15y ago
That seems insane. Why would a wealthy (and presumably intelligent) investor hand over 20% of gains to someone with no skin in the game? I guess if the VC had a track record from which to estimate expected returns, it could be a big deal, b
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by anothermachine 15y ago
The reason an employer prefers a single "80 hour" employee is because either (a) an 80-hour employee costs less than 2 40-hour employees (worker willing to be abused), or (b) there is a labor shortage (either natural or artificial (lawyers,
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Except those numbers simply are not true. Sticker price is nowhere close to actual price for college. No one leaves Harvard (or any Ivy League college) with $150K in debt. Either their families can easily afford to pay the price, or Harvard
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Sadly, those days aren't gone. But the days where those are the only option are gone.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
That article is Hacker-worthy for putting a TM character in the URL.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
If you didn't bother to ask for help, how do you know they wouldn't have helped? I bought a book from No Starch Press, and I hated it. (Possibly due to my own fault.) I wrote to them to complain, and they refunded my money and told me to th
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by anothermachine 15y ago
That's about $50K/yr, assuming a 4-year vest and today's price range. Nice job. I assume they give out RSU more than cash because it's a better-aligned incentive (both in motivations and risk profile), and it makes your x% raise cheaper nex
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by anothermachine 15y ago
800 SAT is upper 1%ile among "potentially college bound high school seniors", AKA the sort of people who go on to earn a CS/Math/Science/Engineering degree and then join a prominent tech company. If you haven't seen the SAT math, it is a sl
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Does Google fail to explain the non-base comp in offer letters, leading to recruits taking competing offers that actually pay less total? That seems to be a very easy to fix mistake, so I'm surprised they'd keep making it.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
But YC invests in technically-competent businesspeople , not engineers
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Google came out with this "Dynamic Styles" thing for Blogger a few weeks ago, which completely broke Blogger blogs for mobile devices, with no way to disable it.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
> They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of t
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Question in Headline? Answer: no.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
That's the problem. It's a classic con technique. They get a few respectable organizations to cover you and write articles like "2011's Cold Fusion Fraud", and then they go around promoting their product as "Featured in Ny Teknik !" You ca
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Ok, now it's tomorrow. It was a scam, right?

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