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by cheriot 10y ago
The browse by owner page prompted the thought. Content on business practices could initially be a news search and tools for community contribution (article submission, voting, a way to suggest friends join you in boycotting a company).
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by cheriot 10y ago
If there was a place tracking unethical behavior by companies and an app that scanned barcodes to help people avoid companies they don't approve of, would anyone here use it?
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by cheriot 10y ago
> Skin color does not make Obama an expert in race relations. Nor does your observation mean he's NOT an expert in race relations. You're making the same mistake as the people you criticize in applying generalities to specific
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by cheriot 10y ago
The conversation focuses on price, but the other points are key. 1. There's a huge tech scene in Berlin and it's easy to meet bright people. 2. People want to live in Berlin. The art and music scene attract people. Affordable alon
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by cheriot 10y ago
Is there an IT angle on the DBank/DOJ story or is this just anti-USA?
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by cheriot 10y ago
It was made in London. At least until someone triggers article 50 it's more European than American :) More to your point, the article mentions getting the privacy/security certifications that companies look for. And if you're
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by cheriot 10y ago
There can be a difference between IDE choice among professionals and the role of an IDE in introducing people to the ecosystem. On ramps don't start at the target elevation.
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by cheriot 10y ago
It doesn't require an active network at all. > It would feel extremely awkward to now, years later, send them an email If you ever have a reason to send that email I hope you do. Most people enjoy a chance to help someone out and th
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by cheriot 10y ago
I suspect he means on the internet in general. If you find it hard to believe I'd point you toward #3 at http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/30/5-facts-abou...
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by cheriot 10y ago
> and I'd like to work with again Exactly! People they know tell them about jobs and then vouch for them.
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by cheriot 10y ago
>> A rough advance estimate of retention is the "toothbrush test": do people use it as often as a toothbrush That fails to capture the power of recurring services. If a user needs to think of your service then sure, it needs
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by cheriot 10y ago
This matches part of the description of HomeJoy's failure[1]. Home service are relationship based so a middle man is only Uber-like for the first cleaning. After that the cut has to be smaller or the customer and pro will deal directly
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by cheriot 10y ago
Are there any MOOCs that cover this math? I suspect there's only so far away from introductory material Coursera and Edx can get and have enough students to justify the costs.
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by cheriot 10y ago
They've been using the same SoC, memory, etc for years. To your point, it would be interesting to see a breakdown of how much the major Android phone manufacturers actually use unique hardware.
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by cheriot 10y ago
If it does now, it won't for long. Edit: Won't any more. The title needs a [2013].
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by cheriot 10y ago
Between public records and private marketing databases, is it information that can't be bought?
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by cheriot 10y ago
Well, now they can lever up and trade in less liquid markets. Intellectually, I like democratizing market access, but I don't see how this ends well.
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by cheriot 10y ago
The article recommends only trading after hours with a limit. Edit: Sorry, I saw that in the help center, https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/214681903-Ex... , "That means your execution price
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by cheriot 10y ago
Apple wants to be on the right side of the anti-trust lawsuit this time. /s
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by cheriot 10y ago
Describing an additional perspective is more constructive than pointing and claiming prejudice.
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by cheriot 10y ago
We've talked about "following the news" far longer than following anyone on twitter, but when I read an article that's clearly part of an ongoing story, there's no way for the author to send me updates. There needs
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by cheriot 10y ago
The article referred to motion blur not photo editing blur.
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by cheriot 10y ago
Edit: My mistake. I read "IBM’s official introduction of IBM Bluemix Runtime for Swift" as IBM writing their own Swift implementation like they did for Java a while back.
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by cheriot 10y ago
I see a bunch of stuff in their github ( https://github.com/ibm-swift ), but not the language implementation itself. Does anyone know what its license is?
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by cheriot 10y ago
Is this not something that can be learned by an experience programmer? Anything that can be taught in a couple semesters at university can be learned faster by a professional learning full time. I'll make this next statement more about
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by cheriot 10y ago
Looks like a cool idea. "Contact for a price" to get more than 1,000 rows is ambitious.
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by cheriot 10y ago
> SQLite supports an unlimited number of simultaneous readers, but it will only allow one writer at any instant in time. This is the one that usually gets me. For whatever reason, I tend to prefer side projects that are "take a data
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by cheriot 10y ago
A startup tried this with IronPython to draw financial analysts away from excel. Here's the result: https://www.resolversystems.com/ The product was pretty slick, too. I hope someone can crack the nut.
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by cheriot 10y ago
> Have you actually read any autobiographies? Way to be that guy on the internet. Yes, I've read plenty. At best, they're about personal philosophies, at worst, it's self congratulations and excuses. How many subjects coop
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by cheriot 10y ago
I stopped reading autobiographies for the same reason. No human alive has the self-awareness to write about themselves objectively. But non-auto-biographies!! So many history books are the high level "this happened in that year caused

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