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Ask A Banker: What's It Like?(npr.org)
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by bitops 13y ago
> How is it that he was so successful and how did Apple become the behemoth it is today if the man at the wheel was so insufferable? Strangely, it was partially because he was so insufferable that Apple became as successful as it is t
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Interview: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg(ft.com)
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Short's Not Always Sweet: The Case for Long Test Names(facebook.com)
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by bitops 13y ago
I can't think of any specific "exile event", but it did seem some time before he left that there was a trend in the Ruby/Rails community that made him feel unwelcome. That trend was "replace why's libraries and make noise about how his libr
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Polite Is the New Rude(blogs.sfweekly.com)
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How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects?(economist.com)
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by bitops 13y ago
> If you don't do that then the optimum financial endgame for a company like Google is to basically turn into some mega corporation that pays its employees almost minimum wage, but provides "free" meals, housing, food, transportation e
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North Korea's missile capabilities (visualization)(cnn.com)
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Bitcoin ATMs coming soon(money.cnn.com)
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Politics and the English Language (1946)(mtholyoke.edu)
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Difficult languages: Tongue twisters (2009)(economist.com)
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A Disclosure: Rands In Repose(randsinrepose.com)
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by bitops 14y ago
> Lisp because of all of the parens and the sometimes "backwards" dataflow of nested functions. I've come to believe that the second part of this statement really is the primary reason why Lisp drives some people absolutely nuts. The
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What Good Marketers Can Learn from V1aGr Spammers(blog.mailchimp.com)
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Ask HN: how can I filter stories by point threshold?
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Hindenburg mystery solved 76 years after historic catastrophe(dailymail.co.uk)
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by bitops 14y ago
What a cynical attitude. Do you think it's justified to give disabled people a bad attitude and poor service just because they're not spending a lot of money on your product?
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Why Silicon Valley Is the Next Detroit(allthingsd.com)
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by bitops 14y ago
As a confirmed Peetnik, I must point out: it's called Peet's , not Pete's.
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by bitops 14y ago
It would be cool to see some performance "brag numbers" posted after the cutover!
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No landing pad in civilian life for the Shooter(sfgate.com)
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Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed(arstechnica.com)
75 points by bitops 14y ago|60 comments
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The Camelot of collaboration: The case of VAX Notes(ikmagazine.com)
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by bitops 14y ago
Potentially political point: will the service deliver to people under 18? Arguably those are the folks most likely to benefit from this service. I'm aware that what I'm saying isn't universally accepted, so disclaimer: yes, it is my persona
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by bitops 14y ago
That was my meaning -- I'm not really attached to my karma score. I use it as a barometer of what kinds of feedback is valued on HN. I've been greatly disappointed by the amount of downvotes volleyed against "let's have a frank discussion a
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by bitops 14y ago
Cue the usual slew of comments stating "I have a hard time seeing how this is sexism." Really, there's no need to post these types of stories on HN anymore. The discussion always goes the same way - lots of heated argument, no open discussi
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by bitops 14y ago
In defense of VMware...I work at VMware and it's been great so far. At least in my division, there is very little "big company BS" to put up with. I've been here for a year and I've yet to file a single TPS report, attend a team building ex

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