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by ap22213 11y ago
An alternative (or maybe complimentary) theory is in Clayton M. Christensen's innovator's dilemma. Big companies build enormous revenue bases on certain types of technologies. Then they struggle to innovate because, by transitioni
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Recklessness or negligence that results in harm to others, while not always criminal, is absolutely punishable. It's the whole basis of tort law.
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Many people these days miss the fact that software projects fail for at least 10 different reasons. And, only one of those is sloppy code.
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Based on the comments here, I'd better practice up on being rude. Seems like I'll get better results.
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Not sure about Paleolithic, but this source claims average lifespan for hunter gatherers at 70 years. Not bad considering one gets to hang with their friends and family, have low stress, work less. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/
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by ap22213 11y ago
You're really low-balling. Work in the greater D.C. area. Within a 150-200 mile radius, there are literally tens of thousands of developers working directly on surveillance. Probably even more. How do I know this? From random sampl
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15 years ago you could get a software job by showing some passion, intelligence, a CS degree from a average university, and some knowledge of memory / space complexity of typical data structures and algorithms. And, if the hiring mana
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Why not just have one tax, a death tax? Set the barrier high enough so that people may will their children and grandchildren enough money to do nothing.
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And, some people are born Mozarts and Newtons, and we never hear of them because they they lack connections, access, leisure, and opportunity. I don't know what true socialism feels like, but I do know that whatever mixed system the U.
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I tried to look up the team that they brought in to give the training, but I couldn't find them. It was several years ago, but I remember that the main guy was one of the more popular authors. He had a series of books written that rang
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Just curious, how difficult was it for you to find a qualified attorney, and how much did you spend? (I tried this approach once, but the legal advice was low quality and very basic.)
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Are they offering options for stock, or stock? Make sure it's real equity. If it was me, I would start at 5-6% and negotiate from there. Assuming that this opportunity could turn into something huge, I highly recommend taking some neg
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by ap22213 11y ago
Higher education has been ripe for disruption since the 90s, but that disruption hasn't happened. A lot of the ideas that are currently being floated around in the online space are pretty well-worn. In fact, I've seen very little
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Cool idea - but like others allude, it would be useful if the TRDR content was organized along with the man page content. Even better: it'd be nice if there was a repository of just content that was structured in some standardized
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by ap22213 11y ago
I use Dynamo because I'm lazy. Need some JSON fast? 3 lines and no worries. DynamoDB db = new DynamoDB(new AmazonDynamoDBClient()); Table myTable = db.getTable("table"); Item myItem = myTable.getIte
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I don't get all the complaints about AWS prices. I just spun up a 60 node Spark cluster with over 5TB of memory, processed 100B data records, and spent $5.50!
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Is it just the hipsters that are the conformists? It seems like many of that generation are somewhat more conformist than I'm comfortable with.
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Aside from the privacy aspects, one of my main gripes with the surveillance state is the return on investment. Who are we protecting ourselves from again, and what are the risks of loss of life and property for me and the ones that I love?
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Did something change recently? I forgot my ID a few years ago and was allowed to board. I just had to go through extra security checks.
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It was helpful to read their own description: https://www.palantir.com/2007/12/what-do-we-do/ But, for me, it was even more helpful to look at their patents: http://patents.justia.com/assignee
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by ap22213 11y ago
There is extremely good advice in the parent post. For those new to the game, please read it closely. I've been with 5 startups over the last 15 years. Each had developed good, commercially-viable, revenue-generating tech. But, in a
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by ap22213 11y ago
Maybe it depends where you are? East coast U.S. is entirely different culturally, behaviorally, commercially than it was 15 years ago. And, all that change has been enabled and propelled by a recursive process of capital and technology.
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Prestige from whom though? Many of these researchers are chasing money first, knowledge second (as they should). And, they know that the big money will pay them orders of magnitudes more if they're 'Prestigious'. It's t
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by ap22213 11y ago
15 years is a crazy long time. Technological / scientific progress is exponential - we will witness much, much more change in the next 15 than we have in the last 15. And, that's a daunting thought, since 2000 was such a differe
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It's a fairly weak product given the other JB products that I use. But, I anticipate that they'll continue improving it. The layout is just confusing and not intuitive. And, it lacks a lot of power features. But, recently, I&#x27
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Interesting perspective. If that's the current common view, then in a way I feel really outdated. I clearly haven't been paying attention and honestly haven't been aware that 'down-voting' has changed in meaning ov
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by ap22213 11y ago
Sure, you can be annoyed with my tone or even not like me personally. But, down-voting me just for one of those reasons - that's just a form of suppression / censorship. But, on the other hand, I know I violated the guidelines, so
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by ap22213 11y ago
Actually, I just meant that opinions in general are not tolerated anymore (not only mine). Look, you have to understand that I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Having an opinion and expressing it was a big thing, back then. But, these days, it&#
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by ap22213 11y ago
Startups are cool because there are fewer people who get in the way. And, at larger companies, they actually pay people to get in the way.

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