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by arctangent 13y ago
You might want to give all that up if (a) you disagree with how they deal with customers, or (b) you think they negotiate badly, or (c) or you think they don't make the right deals, or (d) give you the wrong problems to solve, or (e) a
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by arctangent 13y ago
This doesn't take into account the value of the "hope" that buying a lottery ticket gets you. Specifically, the owner of a lottery ticket has bought the right to dream about how their life could suddenly be turned around if o
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by arctangent 13y ago
Funnily enough I did choose those numbers once for the UK lottery. I think I matched 4 numbers and won £50.
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by arctangent 13y ago
Git is too complicated for most use cases, but seems to be becoming a de facto standard for even the simplest collaborative tasks.
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by arctangent 13y ago
Relevant recent news: http://www.nao.org.uk/report/review-of-the-final-benefits-st...
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by arctangent 13y ago
Another way to do this is to offer a discount for "early payment" but charge more initially. In other words, build the fee for late payment into the original quote.
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by arctangent 13y ago
I think this might be what you are looking for: http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/coopersmith/coopersmith%20pe...
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by arctangent 13y ago
He didn't take into account the law of supply and demand...
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by arctangent 13y ago
This was interesting to read. But I would have liked to have learned a bit more about the "politics" involved in an academic career.
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by arctangent 13y ago
Software is a tool. Paying for great software is like paying for great tools - upfront cost may be higher but you save time and money over time.
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by arctangent 13y ago
It does seem a little crass. But perhaps it's not such a bad thing to stimulate a little bit of competition between the genders when there's a mismatch in the level of participation in a given field.
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by arctangent 14y ago
I'm no expert on Earth's climate but I do find it interesting that we are technically in an "ice age" right now. This sort of implies to me that we should expect a rise in temperature as a natural part of climate change. http://en.wikipedi
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by arctangent 14y ago
I imagine FB requests that details of the vulnerability are kept private until they have informed the discoverer that they are happy for it to be published.
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by arctangent 14y ago
Email sent :-) Perhaps we should all use the title "UK beta" to help you filter them.
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by arctangent 14y ago
Thanks for coming back to me. Let me clarify what I mean. When I'm on the front page or, especially, once I have selected a category, I want to be able to sort that list by newest/top-rated/last-updated/etc. I'm used to seeing the option to
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by arctangent 14y ago
If we removed the stranglehold that incompetent people had over corporate spending decisions then maybe this just might happen. Unfortunately, I think we're still a decade or so away from having technologically enlightened people saturated
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by arctangent 14y ago
I can see both sides of this argument. We should all note, however, that when the establishment appropriates the language of the upstarts and insurgents the aim is often to disenfranchise the movement while paying lip service to that moveme
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by arctangent 14y ago
It's become popular recently to talk of corporations as psychopathic. I have to say I that I find this diagnosis quite compelling. There's a great documentary about this sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(film)
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by arctangent 14y ago
I expected the "sort by" thingy to be at the top-right of the list of things I was viewing. Despite that minor gripe, please accept my compliments. I'd love to see a site that can point me at all the newest and most popular JS tools and may
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by arctangent 14y ago
I'm not very convinced by the analysis presented in this post, but it seems fairly clear to me that at some point in the (near?) future people will start to think of social web services as more of a commodity rather than some big shiny gold
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by arctangent 14y ago
I think the capitalisation of the words was intended to solicit exactly this response. The point is that that recent things such as Google, Wikipedia and GPS are just as important as those previous innovations.
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by arctangent 14y ago
I just got bitten by this. I was visiting a news site and opened ~30 tabs to things I wanted to read. And then those tabs just showed me an error message. Frustrating :( Edit: Might be worth noting that logging out of FB "fixed" this for me
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by arctangent 14y ago
You might be interested in this similar concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback
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by arctangent 14y ago
These articles always seem to ignore quality of life - they assume that more life is necessarily a better thing. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that an extra ten years of life isn't much to look forward to if your mental and physical fa
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by arctangent 14y ago
Fear not. I think it will spread quicker than that :-)
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by arctangent 14y ago
Agreed. But I suppose it gets the job done. (Disclaimer: Didn't check whether it actually gets the job done.)
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by arctangent 14y ago
> Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. I respect the wit (a lot), but I'm not sure this the opinion you profess is really true of everyone in general. I can type plenty fast and my muscle me
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by arctangent 14y ago
I'm guessing that a lot of HNers spend a lot of time in their Gmail account, and that this functionality (which was news to me) was perceived as a significant time saver and judged to be worth sharing with the rest of the community.
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by arctangent 14y ago
It was a customer support / issue tracking service.
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by arctangent 14y ago
Also known as Rubber Duck Debugging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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