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by brwnll 11y ago
Read the linked Wikipedia article. Not sure what you're using it to reference "severely restricting access". Under the "Controversy" section, it seems to be referring to two topics: 1. Who owns the roads within the
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by brwnll 11y ago
I have one. I used LastPass browser extension for Chrome which autofills my (unique) login credentials. This is incredibly convenient, but obviously opens up the possibility that if someone sits down at my unlocked computer, they can visit
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by brwnll 11y ago
"According to a USA Today article from June 22, 1998, the initial plan with Terraserver was to list every single transaction in the history of the New York Stock Exchange online and make it searchable. But that was only a half terabyte
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by brwnll 11y ago
Is there anything in this experience that's actually a result of a Freemium model? It sounds like any usage spike would have resulted in the same outcome. If you had been featured in Oprah's "Favorite Things", and ended
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by brwnll 11y ago
You've never received data that needed to be displayed as a table? If plain text email was the end-all, then instant messenger and SMS would have killed email a long time ago.
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by brwnll 11y ago
I'd counter with: complaining something doesn't exist, without making any effort to see if in fact it does exist, is the real "moronic act of hubris" here
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by brwnll 11y ago
"Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said." Rough, talk about a job sector in decline.. Maybe Buzzfeed is hiring? ;)
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by brwnll 11y ago
"So, the discovery is not fun in itself, it doesn't add anything to the movie experience, and thus wouldn't really be worth much attention." Sorry Fun Police, but you don't get to decide what's fun for everyone
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by brwnll 11y ago
Please do. If you consider a company expecting employees to have the maturity above an adolescent boy "bad employers", we'd like you to help filter yourself out.
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by brwnll 11y ago
The snark us unwarranted here. The article explains that all employees went through a house cleaning during on boarding. There are plenty of ceo/founders who would consider themselves not responsible for doing the dirty jobs that make
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by brwnll 11y ago
Could some knowledgable aircraft people answer these questions for me? 1. Can/are jet engines ever swapped out after a plane as been put into service? Or will these only ever be sold attached to new aircraft orders. 2. Any idea on what
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by brwnll 11y ago
Well that sure is an arrogant reply, and not even close to true. In the US everything published (online or not) is copyrighted. Since you're clearly not a content creator, and have decided since you didn't work on it it has no val
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by brwnll 11y ago
I'm pretty tired of one of these personalities that appear to be a loud voice in the ad blocking conversation. "Ad's don't work on me and I have never ever been positively influenced in any way every by one" This si
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by brwnll 11y ago
I think they simply worded that poorly. Apple could be growing at higher Y/y %, but still be loosing ground in terms of actual units being sold depending on overall market growth. For example, below appears to be the report Cook used f
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by brwnll 11y ago
Giving a bad guy's background in a fiction novel a similar some similar traits someone you don't like for openly being critical of your work is "so dirty and underhanded"? This feels utterly backward. If you gave me the
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by brwnll 11y ago
stephengillie, "twitch plays pokemon" maxed out at 121,000 concurrent (according to Twitch) viewers, last years Super Bowl maxed out at 120,800,000 viewers. So yes, I would say it is a considerably different scale.
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by brwnll 11y ago
First, here is the link to the actual release: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/137... Because this was unclear to me initially, this DOES factor in complete CEO compensation (not
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by brwnll 11y ago
The drop in operating profit from Q1 to Q2 2014 of about 50% (~$100m) made me look into some of their acquisitions being made for AWS. Might be able to get more clarity into what they are paying for these undisclosed acquisitions prices, as
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by brwnll 11y ago
The best part of this guide is that they included a eslint and jslint rules file. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/tree/master/linters My team adopted this style guide and was easily able to add it a
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by brwnll 11y ago
Cards play a large part in Material Design. If you are interested in implementing that type of design, enjoy the convinces of a CSS framework (Icons, responsive grid, etc), and aren't married to Bootstrap I'd suggest taking a look
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by brwnll 11y ago
It doesn't appear anyone read the Author's linked article about the compression of the helmet and which forces it is designed to prevent. So here is a short snippet : "If the styrofoam does not compress, it cannot reduce line
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by brwnll 12y ago
I don't know if this is a "thing" nationwide. But hiring/renting goats is a fairly common thing in the Seattle area as they will eat back large amounts of difficult to remove brush. They are particularly useful here beca
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by brwnll 12y ago
Am I incorrect in my normal usage of "x" when conveying relative performance? With 120.8498 vs 120.4320 being conveyed as "1.00 x slower". Is this the correct terminology for results that are on par with each other? Real
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by brwnll 12y ago
This article concludes with "The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.", does this impacts the availability of the research to other researchers? Even with the University of Washington in my backyard, I hope the ad
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by brwnll 12y ago
I disagree with this statement. Contrarily, closing the Valley location could be an indicator Nadella holds a high value on the other world wide locations. If your hope is to attract top global talent to work on global issues, having two la
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by brwnll 12y ago
Agreed. There is no mention of it in the "Important missing stuff", although their Getting Stated page does finish with ADDING BEHAVIOR TO YOUR CHARTS Coming soon... Hopefully that means enabling chart interaction. Of course, by t
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by brwnll 12y ago
I'm confused why you would tie Amazon's future, an eCommerce company who also has a strong cloud (AWS) and digital media division and a growing hardware division (Kindle, Fire) to a brick and mortar retailer such as WalMart. Even
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by brwnll 12y ago
More accurately: people are fleeing the North East.
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by brwnll 12y ago
Step back to look at this story not as "Who's #1" (who cares), but instead "Is the US moving in the right direction to keep pace with the developed world?" Here is the real key quote: "This serendipitous story
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by brwnll 13y ago
Marco is using a complete straw man here He takes a optional add on service (Amazon Prime) which a company offers value to its "its most dedicated customers". Then he compares it to other companies require of you to use their ser

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