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by brg 16y ago
I believe this is a content-free presentation. It seems obvious that many of the facts presented are meaningless or are not provided in a proper context. "$117,951 average debt" includes home mortgage. The poster states 95k of this is in
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by brg 16y ago
In order to develop a base from which to work, begin by alluding to a common cultural references, eg. commercials.
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by brg 16y ago
Rule of law means that one should change the law in order to insure that what your scenario doesn't happen, not simply act above it.
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by brg 16y ago
Alternatively, everyone wants to get paid. No one is going to put in the time and resources to support an app that can not be monetized. And if the advertising model does not work on mobile phones (perhaps lack of screen real-estate, perh
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by brg 16y ago
How much did Microsoft lose by divesting itself of Apple stock prematurely?
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by brg 17y ago
The problem that I was identifying was the unification of humanity through language. There are two main ways to attack the problem, everyone can be multilingual or everyone can know a common language. Every first world country teaches Engl
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by brg 17y ago
The YouTube selection is much too limited.
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by brg 17y ago
This is an American article, and so I will speak to an American audience. I think in order to create more understanding throughout the entire world we should promote a common, single language. I think we could do more good to set up free E
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by brg 17y ago
Thank you for the explanation. In the example, the add-contact URI was dynamically generated so the deletion from following a url and and bookmark breaking did not seem especially pertinent. But your explanation made a lot of points clear.
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by brg 17y ago
If someone more schooled in web design wouldn't mind answering, what problems arise of by using the GET add-contact api as described in the post? What is the benefit of using xml in the body of a PUT or POST verb vs the headers?
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by brg 17y ago
When one makes employee referrals at Google, they have the choice as to whether to allow the recruiter to reveal their or to keep it confidential. Often during larger recruiting drives people copy their linked-in contacts, facebook contacct
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by brg 17y ago
Could the basic Windows utility "Notepad" be ported to the "IPad" due to naming conventions?
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by brg 17y ago
I would say it is becoming a problem. It is turning the company away from doing what is right for the user to doing what is 'good' for the company. For instance in the dl's, any third-party criticism would be quickly followed up belittlin
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by brg 17y ago
The Seattle to MountainView comparison is interesting between Google and Microsoft. Consdiering 12% CA income tax, Microsoft pay is higher. But from experience, Seattle Google and SVC Microsoft are both lower base than the motherships. So
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by brg 17y ago
In my reading of interview feedback, too many interviewers don't understand that the candidate shouldn't be expected to pull a perfrect solution right out of the air. Often too much criticism is feedback is placed on the fact that the candi
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by brg 17y ago
This entirely depends on your referral and reference. I have seen turnaround in 2 weeks for senior managers, but more so if they are rehires.
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by brg 17y ago
I disagree with almost all the replies here. Answering the followup question may be helpful, but it is not providing anything in the way the request. In my opinion it is more polite and less ego centric to simply answer the question first,
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by brg 17y ago
As a recipient of the holiday bonus, my opinion is that it will amaze anyone who has never had a smart phone before. But the iphone still has better responsiveness. Further, in urban areas, the iphone has had better reception and download
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When RealNetworks Settled on DVD Copying, We All Lost(boingboing.net)
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by brg 17y ago
This comment has a bit of truth in it. Institutions look at grant money obtained before anything else when evaluating faculty. And without credentials, the NSF et al have little else to go on for a new researcher.
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by brg 17y ago
These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. I think that's a pretty
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by brg 17y ago
For media designed to be displayed in pages, my prejudice fits with the author's claim. However, infinite scroll in Bing's image search provides a more enjoyable experience than using Google's paged image search.
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by brg 17y ago
Experimentation: Reality is different from your memory of perception in that one can always go back to re-examine it.
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by brg 17y ago
One's major is too understated when described as simply 4 years out of a 80 year lifespan. It is the moment in your life when you decide your career path. It is the time when all of society give you a pass to spend your time preparing for
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by brg 17y ago
"It will be done early next month."
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by brg 17y ago
It would be more interesting to me to see this with a bar for "none" and "aboslutely not". But there indeed does seem to be some correlation to the number of search results and effectiveness.
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by brg 17y ago
The decision for tenure is a critique of a person's entire life's work within a field. As such, many of those in the process take it as an objective value of their life's worth. It is not much of a surprise then that the decision to deny
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Google's Nexus shows the way forward for mobile phones(guardian.co.uk)
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by brg 17y ago
The main advantage Buzz has over Facebook is that it will most likely be scoped to Google Apps for Your Domain.
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Our approach to maximizing advertising revenue for online publishers(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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