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by basseq 9y ago
I was born right between Gen X and Millennials. Sometimes I am included as a millennial, sometimes not. I'm 50/50 on this list. - Applebees: DEAD. "Low-quality restaurant sees declining sales." Color me shocked. Suff
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by basseq 9y ago
I worked in a "hoteling" environment as a consultant for more than a year, so let me tell you what happens when there are no designated desks: There are designated desks. It turns into high school lunch hour, where everyone has &q
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by basseq 9y ago
I want to highlight how the importance of this comment. It highlights a major and common misconception from the OP, which is this: embracing remote work is more than "letting people work remotely". To be truly successful, you have
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by basseq 9y ago
Playing around on MyFonts: - 5,000 desktop licenses (BBC has 20k+ employees) - $200k (one-time). Note that desktop licenses often have limitations on use in logos, e.g., so this might not cover BBC's usage. - 1.5B pageviews for the web
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by basseq 9y ago
You're Google. In a tech environment where Uber is literally falling about because of anti-diversity issues, you have employees and the public beating down your doors because one guy wrote a memo. Let's enumerate your options: 1.
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by basseq 9y ago
His take still seems a little tone deaf and defensive (e.g., repeated use of "echo chamber"). But he hits the nail on the head of why Google fired him: ... they really couldn't do otherwise. No matter what you think ab
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by basseq 9y ago
I agree it's fair game. But I think that message needs to recognize why I blocked those ads in the first place. It's not because "I don't like ads" or "I don't want to support you". It because the ads
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by basseq 9y ago
I've said this before, but it bears repeating. "Unblock or Subscribe" misses the point . The the point is this: I don't trust you. I don't trust you not to show me scammy ads, load 2MB of tracking JS, maliciously r
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by basseq 9y ago
Maybe—I don't know. In the grand scheme of things, "I could have won the appeal, but I couldn't afford to continue to fight" is a lesser offense than, "I could have won the case, but I couldn't afford to start
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by basseq 9y ago
It's relative. Thiel contributed a reported $10M. As an individual, it’s difficult to be able/willing to spend a third of your net worth to pursue a lawsuit. I didn’t see any accusation that the Gawker lawsuit was won because Ho
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by basseq 9y ago
I'm glad that these donors are funding Techdirt's defense... in the same way that I'm glad Peter Thiel backed Hogan against Gawker. If two parties go to court over a dispute, there should be equal "firepower" on bot
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by basseq 9y ago
And I'm quite sad that so many downvoted the Mosspuppet. I bet most people thought you were coining a derogative term for Mossberg with the implication he was a puppet (mouthpiece) of Jobs/Apple. Not a literal puppet chara
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by basseq 9y ago
Related: a study from 2010 on narcissism published in Perspectives on Psychological Science . First, we show that when new data on narcissism are folded into preexisting meta-analytic data, there is no increase in narcissism in c
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by basseq 9y ago
If I understand correctly, this research shows that young people are more entitled than older people. It does not show that young people now are more entitled than young people in previous decades: that a 50-year-old was as entitled whe
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by basseq 9y ago
I would doubt Uber's board wants a "serial entrepreneur". Uber is going to be a $12-15B (revs) company this year, potentially with an impending IPO. That's two orders of magnitude larger than Robin Chase's experie
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by basseq 9y ago
Ancestry.com has the best UI and is the "easiest" to use that I've found. You can use it for free to just build your tree, but you'll feel like a second-class citizen. Their data sources are very good and easy to use, bu
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by basseq 9y ago
I go both up (I know all but 2 of my 16 g-g-grandparents, and 22 of my 32 g-g-g-grandparents) and down (I'm tracking 14+ generations of everyone descended from my 10th great-grandfather). I'm the kind of person that likes 100% com
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by basseq 9y ago
As a file format, sure, it's robust. Garbage-in-garbage-out, though. A directory structure would be just as messy, and harder to use. And great point on export. Assets like pictures are an example: you'd still need to store them
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by basseq 9y ago
Oh it's a nasty format, to be sure, and more useful for "cold storage" than something you'd actively work in. But for a long-term storage requirement? It's reasonably human readable and imminently portable as the
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by basseq 9y ago
There are signs a startup is doing well (e.g., growth), signs that an exit may be necessary (e.g., capital requirements beyond another VC round), signs an exit may be desired , signs a company is ready for an IPO, signs a company is p
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by basseq 9y ago
That might be the "easiest", but it's not the most portable, and would be a nightmare to navigate. I'd recommend he work in a software package that can export to GEDCOM. That's a structured data format used by genea
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by basseq 9y ago
I love family trees: they're interesting, complex, data-driven, and beautiful. There are some very challenging decisions you need to make to make a tree readable, like whose ancestors to show, whose children, and how far back. To give
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by basseq 9y ago
I suspect you're asking the wrong question. If you're truly good at multiple things, and you've eliminated everything you don't like doing, you're ahead of the curve and beyond this model. Happiness is a funny thi
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by basseq 9y ago
Probably true. This was in response to the parent [emphasis mine]: "The trick is to force yourself to do it for at least two weeks . Afterwards, pizza and bread will look disgusting."
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by basseq 9y ago
Afterwards, pizza and bread will look disgusting. YMMV. I went on a low/no carb diet for 3-4 weeks last year, never had terrible cravings or crashes , and still love me some carbs. I just love bread, pasta, pizza, etc. (e.g.
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by basseq 9y ago
I don't know how difficult it is to mix Soylent, but you can buy an automatic baby formula maker for $150-$200. Put water in the tank, power in the top, and boom: automatic mixing. I'm surprised an enterprising Soylent enthusiast
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by basseq 9y ago
Shared Google calendar for family events. Shared Google docs for to-do lists, address books, family finances, etc. (Some Dropbox, too.) LastPass for shared password management. Mint for finance tracking (but not budgeting). Apple shared pho
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by basseq 9y ago
Should OpenGov have been excluded from the White House Roundtable because of the connection? Was the connection used to gain an undue advantage? Maybe this was addressed in the article (behind a paywall for me), but otherwise this seems t
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by basseq 9y ago
Sure, in an ideal world: post the hashes, the salts, the hash algorithm, everything. If it's done "right" (e.g., the hash function has enough complexity), then brute force cracking, rainbow tables, etc. would take so long tha
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by basseq 9y ago
I'm struggling with the findings here. From the article: all late adopters ("NLAs") and non-delayed early adopters ("NEAs") had a cash out (or abandonment) rate of ~10%. (Ironically, higher for NEAs at 11%, but like

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