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by ballard 13y ago
Yeap, it's a jungle out there. I try not to play games of anyone appearing to cobble a name for themselves by inventing drama. Brinksmanship is most often a lose-lose gambit. Let the argumentative types reveal themselves, for the be
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeap. Locking it all away for an absurdly high price or just giving it all away are suboptimal. Charge a "no brainer" price that most people won't have a problem with is supply meeting demand more optimally... For potential
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by ballard 13y ago
Under-the-table arrangements are like the majority of BitTorrent traffic, economies that occur despite rules because there is net utility. People still pay taxes and still license (not own) retail movies.
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by ballard 13y ago
So how exactly would this be funded? Double taxes? The rich would never pay anything more, the mid/upper would be squeezed. Also: Deficit, debt and looming likelyhood of austerity strategy.
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by ballard 13y ago
When public transport is decent, vehicles become a luxury. So really, this sounds like the continuation of Los Angeles-style mandated luxury to justify the expense of a white elephant property. Instead, finding someplace less committed to
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by ballard 13y ago
That was my first thought (after looking for existing solutions). REPL and https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9 for bonus points. Also: http://www.oocities.org/connorbd/tarpit/bancstar.html
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by ballard 13y ago
US population estimate as of current = 316,582,121 Estimated population over 21 = 80% = 253,265,696 Cost of BIG: $2.53 Trillion (15% of GDP, more or less) The benefit hopefully would be no person should have to worry about basics of water,
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by ballard 13y ago
Unwilling? Unable, unwilling to see their own ability or a mix of both. It's difficult to get their confidence back and escape their own emotional/social prison that they are in. Whether it's something of a choice or an un
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by ballard 13y ago
zsh can be set to automagically track directories (like using `pushd` for you when using `cd`), so all that's needed is `popd`. No scripting required.
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by ballard 13y ago
IANAL. Yeap. Put the burden for remedy back to the other side. Go through the motions and hope you'll waste enough of their time, energy and money such that they may reconsider the value of their present strategy.
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by ballard 13y ago
Alternatives: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/tumblr.com http://downrightnow.com/tumblr
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by ballard 13y ago
The product may well have been redesigned to been safer, that's beside the point. The allegation of lack of process portrays the CPSC as unable to interact with manufacturers in a civil manner that addresses concerns constructively. I
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by ballard 13y ago
There's always a choice. Give feedback that you feel this is not the right way to start off and that you hoped to work on solving a real problem. If this is not going to happen, you feel it is a waste of both of your times to blindly
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by ballard 13y ago
Burke's naivete about the externalities of an out-of-control surveillance apparatus are appalling: ignoring the fact that innocent people do get swept up for happening to match criteria of a secret scoring algorithm is just burying one
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by ballard 13y ago
I would take any option because safety trumps analysis paralysis. It may also possible to build up to working remotely for US-based startups, 37signals or github style. And if you happen to later find a place with low expenses and good he
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by ballard 13y ago
All or nothing hiring is too risky. Gradual formality makes the selection from both sides cooler, you know. We don't do interviews either; hazing sure, but no stupid hypothetical questions to test loyalty. There is no loyalty. Gree
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by ballard 13y ago
LOL, true. Pedantic haters gonna hate pedantically. Also: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2205-there-is-an-inverse-rela...
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by ballard 13y ago
I was joking. :) But that is funny. "To paraphrase Felix Dennis, 'It is like watching a millionaire point his finger at the sky, then running out to write books with titles like `How to Become A Millionaire by Pointing at the Sky
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by ballard 13y ago
There needs to be both signed javascript and signed native code plugins for javascript (similar to JNI). Both of these require significant leadership because of the fragmented nature of existing implementations. The upside is an ability t
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by ballard 13y ago
Duh. Value is holistic. We can find anything we want to find to support an argument. When you have worked with someone that screams at their coworkers, can barely feed/clothe themselves or refuses to lift a finger to help you... then
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by ballard 13y ago
Hiring is discrimination. That's the point. Only someone without life experience would not read between the lines that buckets are ideals and need the explanation that hiring is holistic. To then make a straw man fallacy out of the op
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by ballard 13y ago
I've walked away, shaking my head, from several YCombinator-alikes. They're too often about trying to put together deal-flow without understanding what's helpful. Now I'm all for new things if there were solid principa
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by ballard 13y ago
CVE # on this?
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by ballard 13y ago
Template metaprogramming seemed like a good idea initially, but in production it is a horrible construct that should be buried with nuclear waste.
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by ballard 13y ago
Nice. on iOS: Thread 0 name: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Thread 0: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x3a315e30 mach_msg_trap + 20 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x3a315fd0 mach_msg + 48 2 CoreFoundation 0x3210c2b6 __CFRunL
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by ballard 13y ago
The whole point of publicizing gambits is to make them less effective. (Sounds like you could write a book and make a killing on this topic.) Edit: An obvious hack in the US would be to spoof a bank's caller id and start calling as th
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by ballard 13y ago
There are three buckets of people you don't want to hire: - helpless - depressed - jerks In my subjective experience: The top one has about %50 shot of being a character flaw, eg, no amount of confidence-building will help.
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by ballard 13y ago
Probably $$$$, but .... http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=microsoft.co... Domain Name: MICROSOFT.COM Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC. Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com Referral URL: http:/&
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by ballard 13y ago
Makes you wonder whom has access to Palantir.
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by ballard 13y ago
Great video about boosted http://youtu.be/U1scP9uZP9Y

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