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by candybar 12y ago
This article is aggressively awful. His entire premise: "According to the company’s 2013 financial filings, 83 percent of Google’s revenue came from ads, about 7 percent from Motorola (which is now gone), and 10 percent from everythin
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“Breaking up Google” – or just bankrolling publishers at Google’s expense?(juliareda.eu)
6 points by candybar 12y ago|1 comments
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Cloud Platform System (Azure Cloud in a Box)(microsoft.com)
5 points by candybar 12y ago|0 comments
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by candybar 12y ago
Only unpopular or unscalable software projects are done in a few months. What you're describing is already the norm for custom internal software or other categories of software that aren't necessarily designed to scale beyond a s
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How Birth Season Affects Personality(theatlantic.com)
1 points by candybar 12y ago|1 comments
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by candybar 12y ago
Given how the test was administered - it was a yes/no "do you know this word" test with some fake words mixed in to discourage people from saying yes to words they don't know - "know" is a bit of a stretch here
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by candybar 12y ago
Being nice is easy. Being good is hard. What's missing here is that powerful people are almost always transacting on behalf of many others who are not present at the bargaining table. By being nice, they may be trading other people&#
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by candybar 12y ago
This is another way to think about Uber's valuation - the license to operate a yellow cab in NYC is a tradeable asset whose value can be observed. The value of all licenses in aggregate, comes to about 13 billion, give or take a few.
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by candybar 12y ago
As for the name, which I agree is problematic as is, how about EntomoDB for entomos (insect)? Edit: It's not problematic if success is not an objective. But if it is, choosing a name with such strong established negative connotations
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The Development Abstraction Layer (2006)(joelonsoftware.com)
3 points by candybar 12y ago|0 comments
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by candybar 12y ago
As a casual poker player, I find this line of reasoning specious. Sports betting, blackjack and even roulette with a biased wheel are all games of skill by this definition. Poker games are designed specifically to appeal to our gambling i
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by candybar 12y ago
For those who are calling the actions of the US "hypocritical" and others who are indiscriminately defending the US by saying "but we didn't do this and that" - don't forget to distinguish between individuals a
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Google Trends – angularjs, ember.js, backbone.js, react js, node.js(google.com)
3 points by candybar 12y ago|0 comments
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by candybar 12y ago
Original sources: http://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/datasets/lbd.html http://www.census.gov/ces/dataproducts/bds/overview.html Methodology: http://www.census.go
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by candybar 12y ago
This is Microsoft realizing that Windows desktop monopoly, while mighty, doesn't necessarily translate to other markets, especially cloud services, all that well because the monopoly is based on compatibility and compatibility means le
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by candybar 13y ago
The problem I'm seeing with this whole unification of design across a whole system including hardware and software is that designing a proper UI for software is orders of magnitude more complex than designing UI for hardware. Not only
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by candybar 13y ago
The line of reasoning you've taken seems reasonable, but I don't think it works. So let's step back a little and take on an even more fundamental moralistic argument. The workers of the companies whose shares hedge fund man
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by candybar 13y ago
It's certainly a hoop if you're already employed and have a multitude of options that I would presume the best and the brightest all do. It can come across as nonsense because if I'm good and know I'm good, I'd exp
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by candybar 13y ago
The average-median thing seems to be just a mistake by whoever wrote that summary. If you look at the full report, this is what they have: "Workers in the New York City tech ecosystem earn 49% more than the average City-wide hourly wa
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by candybar 13y ago
I think the causation is at least partially the other way around - people you choose to spend time with reflect who you are. When you try to game the correlation by forming friendships aspirationally, this largely breaks down. It's mu
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by candybar 13y ago
You're usually not party to a non-solicitation agreement in which others are not allowed to solicit you. If you as an individual contractor sign such an agreement with your client, your client's employees whom you're not all
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by candybar 13y ago
I think people are overreacting in the sense that non-solicitation agreements are not illegal per se and exist almost everywhere - tons of corporate partnership/vendor/contractor/etc agreements include such language because s
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by candybar 13y ago
Isn't the whole point of saying bitcoin is not currency, but property, that you're not allowed to do this kind of accounting? I'm pretty sure if I buy and sell the same stock throughout the year, I can't simply account
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by candybar 13y ago
No, if they take a loss on the bitcoin when they sell it, they can deduct that loss from their income.
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by candybar 13y ago
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else find media sites remapping left/right arrow keys to mean "move to previous/next article" completely annoying?
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by candybar 13y ago
One big problem here is that his resume looks great to technical people, but is mostly incomprehensible to non-technical people. My experience is that technical managers are more biased towards younger people than non-technical managers be
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by candybar 13y ago
AngularJS is not a server-side framework and therefore it is agnostic on that question. You can do it however you like and you can even create directives that keep the client model synchronized with server-side, but it doesn't come ou
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The Tyranny of Tyranny (A Response to The Tyranny of Structurelessness)(libcom.org)
1 points by candybar 13y ago|0 comments
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by candybar 13y ago
Ok just tried the add-in in Excel 2007, some comments: 1) Everything's really slow. Installation's very, very slow and not responsive and the add-in seems to add considerably to Excel start up time. 2) No ribbon, just three butto
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by candybar 13y ago
This is great work, but I think for most heavy, advanced Excel users, the visualization is much harder to understand and navigate than the actual spreadsheet. And that's for fairly simple examples you have in videos and demos - real w

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