bigboote

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by bigboote 16y ago
Only the top 1% of people (by creativity) are useful to creative companies. People in the bottom 99% reduce productivity. So yes, creative companies all need to compete for the top 1%.
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by bigboote 16y ago
Downright dangerous, too.
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by bigboote 16y ago
Exactly
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by bigboote 16y ago
Todays's logs are similar to other days. I guess the traffic is high for a shared account, but I've never noticed it being slow so I didn't think about it. I would have been happy to respond to an email saying I should upgrade & pay mor
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by bigboote 16y ago
Why would you need 64 bit addressing on an iPad?
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by bigboote 16y ago
Tax credits are one of the reasons I didn't start my business in Canada. (I'm Canadian and I know the workings of some Canadian tech companies, but my current projects are all in Silicon Valley.) The way it works is that you get 50% of yo
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by bigboote 16y ago
In a related study, blind people showed no racial bias due to skin color.
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Hirota v. MacArthur and War on Terror detainees(newstilt.com)
1 points by bigboote 16y ago|0 comments
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by bigboote 17y ago
It was a little more nuanced than that. The point was that young people were willing to take risks because they had little to lose and no responsibilities. He mentioned that (at the time) he slept on a mattress on the floor, so he wouldn't
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by bigboote 18y ago
James cites the law as a good example of drawing fine lines around difficult issues, citing the definition for amounts of LSD. If you don't know about this, 500 micrograms of LSD is a dose, but you can't see anything that small so it's norm
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by bigboote 18y ago
Wise advice. Some of the things you have to do to succeed -- firing dud employees, saying no to early acquisition offers, telling girlfriends that work is more important than them -- are at least as hard as drowning a puppy. Maybe the next
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by bigboote 18y ago
Transportation has been in the post-functionality age for a few decades now. Getting from A to B is taken for granted, and choice of vehicle is almost entirely driven by aesthetics and style. And it makes a huge difference. Try going on a d
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by bigboote 18y ago
OK, lemme guess... A highlighting pen? A flashlight, so you can read under the covers? Eyeglasses? A dictionary? Maybe you should explain what it is, and how it makes books more useful.
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by bigboote 18y ago
OK, but what does it actually do? So many things could fit that description that it's hardly a description at all.