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by ansy 10y ago
I wish Google would make Hangouts more Slack-like. Especially if they want to target the enterprise. It seems they really just need to add the concept of chat rooms.
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by ansy 10y ago
Employees aren't fungible though. You can't convert an accountant into an engineer. Or a marketer to an engineer. Or a recruiter to an engineer. But sensationalism and click bait sells more ad impressions so let's play that u
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by ansy 10y ago
Because so few non-autonomous cars are sold per year?
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by ansy 10y ago
Why does Apple need its cars to be autonomous to do well in this space? There are plenty of people who would drive an Apple electric car even if it doesn't drive itself. And since when was Apple any good at building the platform for so
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by ansy 10y ago
https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science
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by ansy 10y ago
Robots are just machinery which can be taxed as property. We shouldn't create special tax categories for productivity tools or we'll start taxing shovels and perk scripts, too.
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by ansy 11y ago
The FBI already has incredible insight into banking transactions. This would not be an extraordinary power for them. The reason Apple is being defensive is because of Edward Snowden. Apple supplies smart phones to the WORLD. Putting on a st
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by ansy 11y ago
Your commercial and competitive hackathons are already covered well by TopCoder and similar competitive programming competitions. There are commercial challenges which generally build against some kind of proprietary API. Then there are com
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by ansy 11y ago
Yes. In fact anyone earning that much has already shifted away from ordinary income. Famously, this is what Warren Buffet does to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. The solution is taxing capital gains the same as ordinary income. The
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by ansy 11y ago
Stop prepping and putting all your hopes on each interview. Start getting out there and doing real interviews for practice. Apply for software engineering positions everywhere. Even places you have zero interest in working. See what differe
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by ansy 11y ago
If you want something more academic I recommend Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations by Robert Austin [1]. There is a sample that is a pretty good introduction as well [2]. This was the only book worth reading when I was rese
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by ansy 14y ago
Waze does not use OSM as stated in its FAQ [1]. It uses TIGER from the US Census Bureau at least in the US [2]. Then it augments the maps with proprietary data gathered by users running Waze software on their phones and from people manually
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by ansy 14y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to buy TomTom or Waze before buying Nokia? TomTom is much cheaper and Apple already has a cozy relationship with it. Not to mention Nokia is already in bed with Microsoft. NOK: $10B market cap TOM2: $80
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by ansy 15y ago
The big miss in this article was leaving out Immanuel Kant[1]. Although he wasn't unknown in early life, the works that secured his place in history didn't happen until well into his 50's and beyond. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanu
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by ansy 15y ago
About time. Long overdue. But how soon is actually soon? 5.0.2 soon? Or 5.1 soon? I can only wonder how many app developers need to update their apps to remove unnecessary and shady looking address book access. Even worse, I wonder if any p
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by ansy 15y ago
I recently attempted such a move, but Google docs held me back. I realize any true paranoia agent would never use Google Docs, but if you ever collaborate on documents it is irreplaceable. Not to mention other people are creating shared doc
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by ansy 15y ago
That seems to imply you don't already. There are lots of paid email services that don't monetize user's emails. And many that are hosted outside the United States. For the extremely vigilant, there is always CounterMail https://countermail
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by ansy 15y ago
My ideal company would have a culture where people would want to work there for free. Above a certain amount, money stops contributing to real happiness. Some people have even suggested that number is as low as $60,000 in the United States.
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by ansy 15y ago
Disclaimer: I don't use any Zynga products nor have I ever. With regard to the situation, I don't think Zynga gets nearly enough credit for its success. It is not that easy to copy software and get the same degree of success. Yet Zynga rout
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by ansy 15y ago
Yes. It is meaningless to know the Leaf has a 24 kWh battery and the Tesla has 40 kWh. Completely and utterly useless. Range is determined by engine, weight, aerodynamics, and, yes, battery. The Leaf could, hypothetically, weigh half as muc
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by ansy 15y ago
Great looking car. But what's with all the bullshit vanity stats like kWh? Is this the new MHz of the electric car age? A meaningless number that consumers mistakenly use to quantify purchases for the next century? Some things never change.
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by ansy 15y ago
I can't find any source for this, but it seems more likely MM is an abbreviation of "mille mille." MM in Roman numerals would just be 2000. 1 million would be written as M with a bar over it. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_nume
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by ansy 15y ago
You are incorrect regarding OverDrive and Kindle. The support was just recently added [1][2]. I will echo that most OverDrive collections are nowhere near large enough for most people to care just yet. But that has been rapidly changing wit
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by ansy 15y ago
HBO was created in 1972 and was wholly incorporated into Time-Life in 1973. Time-Life is now Time Warner [1], i.e. one of the world's largest media conglomerates. I would be surprised if Time Warner put HBO up for sale any time soon if ever
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by ansy 15y ago
Verizon is a good partner for Netflix. No product overlap and great synergy. Verizon will get a leg up for the next generation of TV which will sell itself with home and mobile data plans while Netflix will get oodles of capital and improve
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by ansy 15y ago
I went a long time refusing to buy any DRM content for fear of whatever. But at the end of the day, I just write it off as an experience. I'm not paying $5 to own this book/song/software for eternity. I'm paying $5 to experience it for what
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by ansy 15y ago
OKCupid would probably get better matches if it dropped the user submitted weights and ideal match preferences completely and instead used its database of people in relationships as training data for a proper machine learning algorithm. The
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by ansy 15y ago
Keynotopia is a pretty good mockup alternative for iPhone and iPad apps. It's not an application per se, but it's a set of templates for Keynote (or PowerPoint or Open Office). You export the result as a clickable PDF which works in a varie
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by ansy 15y ago
Or, you know, just use a login name with a password? Why do identities need to be connected by default? Who really thinks making up a name and password is too much trouble? Are the Hacker News and Reddit models really so bad?
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by ansy 15y ago
Netflix bought House of Cards back in March bidding against HBO and AMC [1]. Less than a week later CBS, parent company of Showtime, announced it would pull Showtime content from Netflix even though the contract wasn't going to expire until

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