bconway

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by bconway 14y ago
If there's one thing that administering, taking part in, or hearing about interviews over the past few decades has taught me, it's that you never did as adjective as you think you did. In fact, you're usually pretty far off the mark.
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by bconway 14y ago
Original story: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-ballmers-nightmare-is-c...
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Raspberry Pi vs MK802(jeffhoogland.blogspot.com)
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by bconway 14y ago
Anyone else feel this read like a paraphrasing of The Oatmeal's most recent comic?
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How Much Does Crowdfunding Cost Musicians?(npr.org)
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How The Government Set Up A Fake Bank To Launder Drug Money(npr.org)
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Obama's Approach to Big Data: Do As I Say, Not As I Do(adage.com)
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Striking untion works hold strong as Hostess shuts down(chicagotribune.com)
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Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years(npr.org)
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by bconway 14y ago
Which, to me, is one of its biggest annoyances. Opening a slew of tabs from a Google Reader page results in very clear resource contention (one of 8 CPUs pegged at 100% and nothing moving, etc).
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by bconway 14y ago
The "Star Tours" ride has existed since the late 80s when the section of the Florida park was called MGM Studios (and also existed at Disneyland). Interesting history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tours
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by bconway 14y ago
I would be interested in a paid RSS option.
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Carmakers Try to Figure Out the New Generation(nytimes.com)
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For Best Toilet Health: Squat Or Sit?(npr.org)
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Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform(npr.org)
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How Geography Fuels Innovation(npr.org)
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Windows 8 EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits Against Microsoft(forbes.com)
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60% of the apps in the App Store have never been downloaded(phonearena.com)
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What The Apollo Astronauts Did For Life Insurance(npr.org)
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Court affirms $675,000 penalty in music-downloading case(news.cnet.com)
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by bconway 14y ago
I don't think you have much to worry about. He happily sold it in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsware
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by bconway 14y ago
OP isn't the only one who feels this way: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/torvalds_github...
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by bconway 14y ago
Maybe you think you're making some sort of important point here. Or maybe you realize your comment is inane and you think it's witty. But (perhaps without realizing it) you and the people upvoting you represent one of the worst forces at w
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by bconway 14y ago
It sounds to me (and I know this won't be a popular opinion here) that the original IT department was overstaffed. A printer never out of paper? No projector ever found with a dead bulb? Much like there being a "healthy" amount of unemploym
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by bconway 14y ago
But the %^$ thing still cannot be set to send just plain-text emails. Why, google, why? Good technical mailing lists all know that html email is just spam or marketing people, and auto-delete html crap. Just give me the option to send tex
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by bconway 14y ago
Is this something you can really plan out from the beginning? Yes, people build companies to flip all the time. Many/most of them don't make the front page of Hacker News.
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by bconway 14y ago
Depending on your location and level of teaching, how did your union feel about that (if relevant)? Every time we try to reward our best teachers, it gets blocked because it's not "fair" to those who didn't excel. Go figure.
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by bconway 14y ago
Best of luck, it's an uphill battle: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/hashable-the-app-that-aimed...
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Facebook acquires Spool without company or assets(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by bconway 14y ago|0 comments
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by bconway 14y ago
Isn't it disingenuous to say you have 100M users? That's like Apple saying they have 25 billion iPhone (SDK) users because people have downloaded that many apps. (Note: world population still ~7 billion.)

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