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by brown9-2 13y ago
Do you have a source for the 4 million number? Most reports this week have said 1.8 million total. Regardless of how many are furloughed versus working unpaid, not paying that many people will have a big economic impact the longer this goes
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by brown9-2 13y ago
So what is the definition of "most successful startup" being used here? Is it historical? Is it just number of users, or acquisition price? It certainly can't be revenue if Tumblr is the king. I know it's a small aside i
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Is tumblr really "the most successful start-up in New York"? What about Doubleclick?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
From the article: So, when Dave Eggers decided to rewrite my book as his own novel about a young woman working her way up through Facebook... It appears that Eggers’ recent pattern in his books is to take the story of the “other”— in one c
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The parallels that I will be looking for - does DE's character protagonist start to reject the 'cult' culture gradually over time To be honest, it's hard to see how any work of fiction on a topic like this - on a traje
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by brown9-2 13y ago
There are some accusations that the plot of this adaptation are very similar to a real memoir published by Kate Losse: https://medium.com/p/bf1a7c77873b
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's almost like maybe that will be a theme of the novel!
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Never noticed before that there are some files that Github refuses to serve raw: https://raw.github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/master/sl... Error: blob is too big
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The idea that Java is a "Clinton-era relic" is pretty ahistorical when you consider that Google and Amazon have been using Java on the server side since their early days - it never went away. The tech press just didn't pay at
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by brown9-2 13y ago
No. JetBrains has a different product for Javascript and/or HTML development: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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OWS’s Rolling Jubilee Has Yet to Explain What They’ve Done With $590,000(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Funny that the author has confused Mark Cuban for Steve Case.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It should be post-tax, but I think a lot of people forget that their nominal salary is not all take-home pay.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I really hope no one is using just one OTP.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The negotiations for the most recent seasons of Breaking Bad and Mad Men were not because AMC is in financial trouble but rather because they were trying to be ruthless with not having to pay more money to the creators who know that they ha
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It really does read like an unsubtle add for the honey service.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I think you are mixing up finance and economics.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Especially when the standard way to deploy it is likely to unarchive a tar and use the JARs needed directly from the project's lib folder rather than a system-wide/package-manager installed JAR.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The same government that backdoored the phone?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Are you similarly worried about the GPS in your iPhone that you presumably keep in your pocket wherever you go, which is tied to your credit card and billing account with the telephone company?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I'm unreasonably excited about discovering xxd.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
In 2011, NYC had 0.65 murders per square kilometer (515 murders in 784 sq km of land). In the same year, Gary IN had 0.23 murders per square kilometer (30 murders in 129 sq km of land). Do you feel 2.5 times higher to be murdered in NYC tha
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Data that reports per-person activity needs to control for population density in each section, otherwise it just becomes a population map. http://xkcd.com/1138/
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Whitepaper on Akamai's infrastructure(akamai.com)
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by brown9-2 13y ago
As an adult who had shingles, allow me to add that you definitely do not want shingles and it is not as benign as most of us remember childhood chicken pox as.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
How is ssl broken when many different ciphers can be used?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
"I wonder: what if a substantial number of Americans started using strong crypto on a routine basis?" They already do! Everyone who makes Amazon purchases, or sends Facebook messages, or does online banking is all using some for
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I think what is more likely to happen here is just a continuation of the natural ebb and flow of code-makers and codebreakers. For thousands of years, some groups of humans have been trying to find ways to protect their communications, and
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I think it's pretty safe to say that the intelligence agencies of almost all Cold War era allies are still close partners. Governments on either side still generally regard the other side as potential adversaries.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The most fascinating part of this article to me is this part, which proves that even a super-secure intelligence agency can still have very weak links that can be penetrated: Only a small cadre of trusted contractors were allowed to join B

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