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by asaph 7y ago
My understanding was that the decision was made to quit touring because they were exhausted by it, not because there were some constraints on what they could record such that it could be reproduced live. But once the live show was a non-fac
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by asaph 7y ago
Are you insinuating that The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers is anything short of perfection?
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by asaph 7y ago
My point is that the article speaks of Microsoft in the past tense and focuses on breaking up "today's big tech" companies. Meanwhile Microsoft is bigger than all of them right now.
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by asaph 7y ago
At the time of this writing, at a $996.5B market cap, Microsoft is the biggest publicly traded company in the world.
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by asaph 7y ago
> you can buy inkjet printers you refill with an ink bottle In my experience, this is messy and not worth the trouble.
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by asaph 7y ago
I believe this has been tried. Check out namecoin.
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by asaph 7y ago
> Swift is worse, so you have to live with longer compile times Is this truly a factor? Aren't the vast majority of mobile apps relatively modest in scope due to the very nature of the platform? How long does it take to compile an a
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by asaph 7y ago
Certainly startup equity is a) a risk and b) sometimes hard to quantify in real dollar terms. But if the startup is successful, equity value is very real and should not be ignored or swept aside. My advice: Don't join a startup unless
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by asaph 7y ago
Is there an equity component in addition to the base salary?
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by asaph 7y ago
Podcasts are talk radio on demand. If you're against podcasts, you're against talk radio. Or at the very least, you're against making talk radio more convenient and accessible.
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by asaph 7y ago
I wonder why the Model 3 isn't getting the new drivetrain.
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by asaph 7y ago
> I've heard stories of mid to high level managers crying in bathrooms because of poor reviews from their reports. Is this your idea of an engineering nirvana? Does engineering happiness have to come at the expense of manager happin
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by asaph 7y ago
It's not a full sized car but you might want to check out Amazon's DeepRacer which was announced at re:Invent 2018: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMHRKQG
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by asaph 7y ago
> there are still horse drawn carriage drivers Only as a quaint novelty.
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by asaph 7y ago
It's a neutral thing. Someone who is actually interested in investing will put in that minimal extra effort to find what they're looking for.
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by asaph 7y ago
> any conclusions drawn by such studies must be taken with a not-insignificant sized grain of salt. Please be more careful about drawing conclusions about the statistical significance of salt grain size. ;)
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by asaph 8y ago
There is a way to opt out. It's a setting within the vehicle.
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by asaph 8y ago
J Is free for non-commercial use under the GPL. What does a commercial license from jsoftware cost?
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by asaph 8y ago
> Is there a difference between ketchup and catsup? > No. (Rest easy, Mr. Burns.) Both are names for a sauce that once was made using a variety of ingredients, including mushrooms and walnuts, and is now primarily made using tomatoes.
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by asaph 8y ago
So what's the difference between ketchup and catsup?
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by asaph 8y ago
> We discarded college faculty in the same way that we discarded cab drivers: by leveling the profession and allowing anyone to participate, as long as they had a minimum credential and didn’t need much money. This is hardly an apt compa
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by asaph 8y ago
> Medium made it possible for anyone to blog and be seen. This was possible long before Medium launched. I recall popular bloggers being a thing years before Medium showed up.
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by asaph 8y ago
Do people still go to mall bookstores? There is a pretty big online bookstore now.
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by asaph 8y ago
> I keep my registrations public, as they should be. Why should they be public?
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by asaph 8y ago
> ...these domain renewal or the trademark renewal invoices spam letters that you get in your mail. > They look very legitimate... The ones I've seen do not. And I stopped receiving them altogether a few years after I made my dom
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by asaph 8y ago
Why was there only 1 flimsy panel between the top of the escalator and a deadly downward plunge? Why aren't there any safety layers in between? It doesn't take an expert to know that's poor (even negligent) engineering. Perha
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by asaph 8y ago
Why are 100% of the BART escalators in such dire need of repair or replacement? Are they poor products? Are they very old? Are they poorly maintained?
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by asaph 8y ago
I'll admit I don't know the first thing about escalator repair but I'm confident that a 4 year apprenticeship is absurd. Perhaps that's the real problem. The rules should be amended such that you can get an escalator rep
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by asaph 8y ago
Website owners may have knowledge that Cloudflare sits between their users and their site. But the end users generally do not. They think they have an encrypted connection directly to the website. They would be surprised to learn that a thi
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by asaph 8y ago
This is rather ironic coming from Cloudflare given that their main product is a TLS proxy which essentially has man-in-the-middle access to all https requests running through their systems.

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