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by antidoh 14y ago
"I am not sure why the food industry loves to underpay people." Because they can. Your boss or company would do it too if they could. Or if they're too nice, the rest of your industry would do it if they could, and then your boss or company
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by antidoh 14y ago
How can Yahoo afford to keep doing this? Volume?
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by antidoh 14y ago
"why not embrace the throwaway culture and just make everything easy and practical to throw away?" Because enough people say the following: "I, for one, love my shiny new iPhone each year. No amount of (my own) preaching is going to get me
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by antidoh 14y ago
Or when you're behind a corporate firewall that prohibits youtube.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"I don't dare get personal on FB now." The irony.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Not just proper settings on his news feed. He also felt like he had to filter himself for propriety, and found little worth in the communication that resulted through that facade. That's not a technical issue, it's his valid personal issue.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Or more generally "something is interesting here."
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by antidoh 14y ago
On the other hand, if we didn't have scalpers, we might have ... some tickets still available. And then you could attend an event and not pay 3X rate.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"If you're selling tickets at a flat rate and a sellout happens in a few minutes that means your tickets were too cheap." Not necessarily. I see nothing wrong with attempting to control the entire end to end experience, including ticket pri
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by antidoh 14y ago
I said talent, not bodies.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Lynx is the only way I read my local paper, the Denver Post, otherwise it presents itself as a crack addicted street walker, flashing popups, rollups and just plain ads like a hooker lifting her skirt. I still can't do anything about the sa
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by antidoh 14y ago
There are a very few people who can, or can come close. They can make life miserable for people who work for them, merely by being an example. In an NPR interview with the woman who wrote Why Women Can't Have It All, the woman said that Hil
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by antidoh 14y ago
"but I'd say over half of those leads end up cutting me at an HR filter before I can even get an interview! "From what I understand it's due to two things-- at 34, I'm older than others going for junior positions." I hope any HR people who
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by antidoh 14y ago
You don't need to be a monopoly to be a racketeer. They're completely different.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I took the author's hysterics as just a literary tool to make a point in an interesting way. I doubt if he's worried about a two-spaced apocalypse.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Apparently we don't care about our reputation. The people who make these rules will probably also benefit from fewer total investigative journalists sticking their noses where they're not welcome.
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by antidoh 14y ago
And born in 2000?
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by antidoh 14y ago
Worried about RIAA? Don't buy (and don't obtain without purchase) their media. Worried about Microsoft tech? Don't buy it. Make them irrelevant. Tell your friends.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Every rule we have about spelling and punctuation is arbitrary, yet I notice you follow current arbitrary convention in your post. We agree on convention, and on arbiters of convention like the Chicago Manual of Style cited in the article,
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Name the last big "Windows App" that made you buy a copy of Windows?" I have Windows in case I ever need to use FrameMaker again. Sometimes I boot into Windows to play Portal. So basically none.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Because they bought up all hi-res panel supply?" They've done that in other parts of the supply chain, but I was thinking more about patents. It wouldn't surprise me to find that they've patented how to have a lot of pixels in a particular
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by antidoh 14y ago
Maybe it's just early days, but most of the time when I've tried OSM the sought address was shown in the wrong location, sometimes by blocks.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Perhaps a better term would be "personally identifiable." As opposed to aggregated data.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"They were abusing LinkedIn's service by competing with them." What else would be a worthwhile use of an API?
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by antidoh 14y ago
Just based on recent history, wouldn't Apple more likely try to prevent the rest of the industry from moving to Retina-like displays?
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by antidoh 14y ago
"In the end the only reasonable approach is sandboxing via virtualenv." Why wouldn't dependencies on versions have worked? If it doesn't matter, import blah. If it matters, import blah-1.2.3.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"I've never once had a virus, worm or trojan." And probably no one ever wanted to attack you as a specific, known individual. They probably would have succeeded.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Yeah, their budgets will increase.
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by antidoh 14y ago
A lot of people are surprised to learn of Turing's treatment. If you're at all interested in this, you might think about reading biographies and other material on Turing and other computer scientists. Or the history of computer science. Or
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by antidoh 14y ago
"This time for sure."

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