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901.
by apetresc 12y ago
Which one should be faster, the N9 or the Shield?
902.
by apetresc 12y ago
It's a way for Google to allow users to price-discriminate themselves, it has very little to do with their marginal cost.
903.
by apetresc 12y ago
Then why don't they say that? It seems more damaging to use an obviously absurd euphemism.
904.
by apetresc 12y ago
What were you expecting?
905.
by apetresc 12y ago
That sounds familiar, except for the private accounts part. Has it ever really happened that an investor-funded startup was embezzling money in private accounts? I've never heard of that happening, it would be a major scandal if it had
906.
Celebs whose nude photos were stolen threaten Google with $100M lawsuit(arstechnica.com)
5 points by apetresc 12y ago|0 comments
907.
by apetresc 12y ago
That's irrelevant. Governments are in the habit of doing lots of things that would be illegal for me and you to do. For example, jail systems can exist while it's still illegal for me to keep people locked up in my basement.
908.
by apetresc 12y ago
Why do you say he can't see the connection? The sentence you quoted explicitly points it out.
909.
by apetresc 12y ago
They got it from Wikipedia, which also cites Bugs Bunny as the source of "nimrod"'s modern meaning.
910.
by apetresc 12y ago
How large is it, ballpark?
911.
by apetresc 12y ago
I think you might be confusing "tradeoff" with "compromise". "I'm willing to give up some valuable-thing-Y in exchange for more X" is a textbook example of a tradeoff.
912.
Finland to Make Programming a Part of Every Primary School Curriculum by 2016(informationweek.com)
5 points by apetresc 12y ago|0 comments
913.
by apetresc 12y ago
This reminds me of a tactic Zappo used on its new call center staff – at the end of the training camp, each employee was offered some sum of money (somewhere between $1,000 and $3,000 I think) to quit on the spot. The reasoning being that Z
914.
Microsoft Offers Chinese Factory Workers a Lumia Phone to Quit(theverge.com)
1 points by apetresc 12y ago|1 comments
915.
by apetresc 12y ago
> I'm most certain that there are people out there who would call this business model "blackmailing", but I could also be wrong. They would be wrong. It's not a great practice, but it's certainly not blackmail.
916.
by apetresc 12y ago
Everyone starts out thinking that, especially when interviewing juniors. "I'll use FizzBuzz to weed out the 5% who are just outright lying about having programmed ever before in their lives, and after they bang it out in 30 second
917.
by apetresc 12y ago
I can't wait to copy-paste one of Hemingway's novels into here and see how many issues it has with his writing.
918.
by apetresc 12y ago
Yup, when I ask the random guys at my coffee shop why they're playing 2048 instead of Threes, they just won't shut up about the awesome Linux support and open-sourced code!
919.
by apetresc 12y ago
Especially since the guy writing this literally wrote the XML spec. You'd think he's be good at deciphering "incantations".
920.
by apetresc 12y ago
As far as I know, Metal has only been discussed for iOS. Did I miss an OS X announcement somewhere? Otherwise, the driver point is moot.
921.
by apetresc 12y ago
Another xkcd has come true! http://xkcd.com/1337/
922.
by apetresc 12y ago
Not having to log in again every day.
923.
by apetresc 12y ago
Foreign-born is one thing, but I have an intuitive sense that immigrants to the US came from European countries during the world-war era, and now they're mainly coming from India, China, and South America, whose native languages are mu
924.
by apetresc 12y ago
This is exciting to me; does anyone know how Twitter will go about this? Will there be a public dataset available for download? A research contract through the recently-acquired GNIP? Or just firehose access for future streams?
925.
by apetresc 12y ago
Yeah, I'm restricting myself to North America, which is presumably what the article's also about (since he talks about the history of the American dictionary). No, I don't have any citations or anything, but I take it as self
926.
by apetresc 12y ago
To play devil's advocate, those CDN customers would also be unable to access content if their power went out. But nobody would think to say the CDN isn't doing their job if Texas had a blackout, because "I'm paying you t
927.
by apetresc 12y ago
While I appreciate the author's love of language, and I also enjoy his examples, he's being a bit disingenuous when he acts mystified and offended about why dictionaries these days aren't written like those a hundred years ag
928.
by apetresc 12y ago
Twitter already had a completely equivalent feature to "muting" – unfollowing. The fact that they're now allowing you to unfollow someone without actually unfollowing says to me that they're officially acknowledging the
929.
Peter Thiel Interviews Magnus Carlsen(youtube.com)
1 points by apetresc 12y ago|1 comments
930.
by apetresc 13y ago
For what it's worth, as someone who did two internships there, the whole "Amazonians hate their job" thing is way overrated. With the exception of pager duty, most of the legitimate complaints employees used to make have long

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