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by caudicus 19y ago
So either you are working on some startup that will be a viable competitor but are still in the famed "stealth mode", or you know public information you are not sharing with us. C'moonnn, tell us more. ;)
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by caudicus 19y ago
Well, at least in the long run food and energy prices are going to start to leak into other prices. As a side note, this is really bad for lower income individuals and families. A larger percentage of their income goes towards food and ener
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by caudicus 19y ago
It's interesting to think about the global nature of some companies (let's take Google as an example) and how this recession and the US dollar's depreciation is impacting them. First off: "Revenues from outside of the United States totaled
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by caudicus 19y ago
That was a great article - highlighting everything that was wrong with Segway. I'm totally ordering the book, kind of hidden away at the bottom - http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/...
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by caudicus 19y ago
My experience with part time jobs is they use it as bait to lure you in and see if you're as good as the person recommending you says you are. If you think about it, it works out for them since they can see how good you really are on the ch
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by caudicus 19y ago
As another 27 year old programmer, I 100% agree. The only real benefit I think I derived from working at a company (both large and small) is getting a good idea of what works and what doesn't work for large scale projects (which I wasn't ex
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by caudicus 19y ago
Which is frankly fine with me. I mean, I use Rhapsody via a web browser on my mac to listen to music because I can just pay a fixed fee per month and listen to a lot of good music. Some tracks are not streamable, yes. In addition, Rhapsody
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by caudicus 19y ago
I guess then he'd need a motive to be misleading. Off the top of my head I could see him doing it to enforce his love for surprise in his demos...any other ideas? I don't know how I'd feel if he was being deliberately misleading. He is stil
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by caudicus 19y ago
I don't have any exact quotes but (correct me if I'm wrong) Steve Jobs has historically been against a service like this, and said his customers are quite happy buying music per-track. Yet just as with the iPhone SDK, where he initially did
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by caudicus 19y ago
Well, modern day central banks operate through Keynesian principles of economics which were not developed until the mid 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics - so I find it hard to apply the writings of Thomas Pa
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by caudicus 19y ago
He's saying they should have tried to slow the economy down when it was raging upward...which I think you know, but you were just being overly cynical. In terms of the Fed wanting to promote the economy and "make money" for the government..
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by caudicus 19y ago
Yes, I am. They are not synonymous in this context. Don't take it personally. Projected to be less tomorrow? Says who? I would think that JP Morgan would not accept even a $2/share buy out if they thought it would be worth less tomorrow. Th
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by caudicus 19y ago
Do not be so quick to say 'illiquid' and 'crappy' are the same thing. Markets can act irrationally, both on the upside and the downside. Note that even when LTCM failed in 1998 (a MAJOR credit insolvency event - read 'When Genius Failed'),
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by caudicus 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
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by caudicus 19y ago
Uhm, wouldn't this have been more appropriate a week and a half ago? Little late now...
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by caudicus 19y ago
"Instead of focusing on cutting interest rates and pumping liquidity into the banking system, he says, the Fed should be forcing banks to disclose and realize losses and raise capital." This is so true - the Japanese mortgage downfall of th
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by caudicus 19y ago
Erm, people label it as an engineering discipline because it uses some of the same principles of system design, use of modules and reuse that other engineering disciplines share... Engineers solve problems. Understanding physics is a means
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by caudicus 19y ago
Bands: Infected Mushroom, Shpongle, Sigur Ros iTunes Radio: Electronic->AH.FM, Ambient->Drone Zone on SomaFM
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by caudicus 19y ago
"and there's 63,000 new potential hires to choose from. yay!" Well, you need to really look at what sectors of the economy have lost the jobs - mostly retail, manufacturing and construction - so if you're looking to start a technology compa
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by caudicus 19y ago
Well, just to be fair, this may actually be the bottoming of a business cycle (granted we won't know until afterward - and it probably isn't, the consensus is we have more to go through, agreed). Unemployment is typically a lagging indicato
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by caudicus 19y ago
Not to break out the Clinton-esse, but I think that depends on your definition of "done". But I agree, there is always room for improvement. Most dev cycles are based on milestones that have a quantified completion point, and that's when th
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by caudicus 19y ago
A friend of mine said something to me one day that really struck me - "I don't think I'm humble enough to be a programmer". He has done programming in the past, he knows what's up, and he knows that you need to put aside your ego and spend
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by caudicus 19y ago
Biotech/computer startups! We can't all be doing social networks and aggregators ;) Just think about coding looking unto the beach with a cup of tea. Living the dream.
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by caudicus 19y ago
I shouldn't have used "profits"... I guess I'm thinking of what is called "Net Present Value"...which basically factors in short term losses for long term gains. Which kind of is what you're saying with "value creation" I guess. In which ca
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by caudicus 19y ago
Agreed - there's nothing really to "understand" here, as the grandparent called for. Businesses like Google are just doing what will maximize their profits. They aren't trying to be free or partaking in some "free!" revolution - they're jus
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by caudicus 19y ago
Yes, you can get away with doing web programming without a CS background, so this practice does not "require" such a degree - but having a CS background will only make you better at what you do. In addition, you will utilize some of the kno
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by caudicus 19y ago
This is great that we have competitors jumping into the arena. Bandwidth really should be like buying gas - there are different grades of it, and it should be priced as a commodity. With viable alternatives to S3 we'll start to see a more c
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by caudicus 19y ago
The problem I have with articles like this is they find some fringe figure (either a total bull or bear) and have them talk about the extreme edge of an argument because it makes better press. Because of this motivation, you're not going to
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by caudicus 19y ago
BS Computer Systems Engineering, Boston University
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by caudicus 19y ago
I love this radio series, it really is great. You can get it over iTunes as well. They have a season 4 in the works right now, and seasons 1-3 are all pretty much intellectual candy. The episode on "Emergence" will be of interest to people

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