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by cwilkes 11y ago
Maybe this is all a colossal puton by Gehry: he hates offices so he makes them crappy. Except companies aren't that smart and end up worshipping the design.
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Speculating here: by polling this often they will know exactly when you added a contact. Because they are owned by Facebook they can then message back saying that these two people are connected and then maybe show better ads. They can also
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Docker 2.0 will fix all this. Oh wait you were talking about minecraft
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by cwilkes 11y ago
No matter the possible productivity gains, I won't use anything needing more than two hours just to get started (i.e. running a Hello World). well that certainly helps frame your posts. In this case docker has a webpage that you can
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Wow if I could give +1s on this website I would do so. I've seen a lot of that way of arguing -- for example people yelling about "states rights!" and then passing laws in Texas that forbid local cities from making minimum w
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by cwilkes 11y ago
That was fun. My usual technique of making a "train" of letters to slide and then attach a caboose didn't work. So I flipped my phone upside down and acted like I wanted to make the word WON at the top. I did then did the res
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Thanks for posting, it was a interesting, and heartbreaking, read. An AirBnB mission statement of sorts: We also stopped trusting each other. And in doing so, we lost something essential about what it means to be a community. After all, ou
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Cheapening in this case refers to the meaning of the word. In this case the word "engineer" or "engineering" is cheapened as anyone can call themselves that regardless of their output. Engineering should be about lasting
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by cwilkes 11y ago
you insist on the "you're the product" FUD nonsense I like the phrase as it draw attention to the fact that the services offered aren't "free" but rather are paid via a mechanism that a typical user wouldn&#x
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by cwilkes 11y ago
My favorite part of NPR interviews is when they do it out in the field ... ie walking over a bunch of fallen leaves with the soundguy putting his mic near their feet to pick up the crunch, crunch. That happens every ... single ... time they
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by cwilkes 11y ago
The problem here is that the buying public doesn't give two hoots about how Amazon employees are treated. They just want cheap goods that are delivered quickly. So there isn't a need to rebut the NYT for them as there's no
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by cwilkes 11y ago
If you were happy after you left the job, didn't your boss do you a favor?
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Speaking of Amazon, I thought that docker was going to hit their bottom line as now people could easily fully utilize their ec2 instances and thus cutting into their already thin margins. However they jumped past this problem with Lambda.
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by cwilkes 11y ago
I read somewhere else that they are afraid of another upcoming expose, like from 60 minutes, and want to get out in front of it. Even if that is true it was a really ham handed way of doing it. The only people this appeals to are ones that
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by cwilkes 11y ago
I have zero problem with a company releasing info pertaining the character of an employee. I'm not sure what you are arguing for. That if a person complains about a company that company can instead of replying to the issue just brin
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by cwilkes 11y ago
I've heard comments from a dozen ex-Amazon employees on HN, in this thread and in the one back on the original NY Times article. The large majority of them said the anecdotes described by the article were unrepresentative of their tim
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Exactly. While an interesting read in showing how people can be wrong about later hits, this study is meaningless unless the failures are included. It is like looking at all the winners of the superb owl, finding some negative comments abou
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by cwilkes 11y ago
All of the above companies are asset managers, not principal investors (even MS in this context) And what happens if those asset managers lose money year after year or don't keep up with others?
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Plus eleventy. I wanted to read it but couldn't after a couple of paragraphs. It forced me to look into how I can adjust fonts to my liking, which isn't something you want as an author. So annoyed, much confusion
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by cwilkes 11y ago
What I meant was that the sellers of house didn't like potential buyers saying "Your house is only worth half of that according to Zillow" Of course this is an extreme example, I'm not sure how much people use Zestimates
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by cwilkes 11y ago
What annoys me about Zillow is that their "number of days on Zillow" is totally bogus. A house down the street was on the market for 2 months (at a highly inflated value). Time on Zillow? 2 weeks. Maybe the time on Zillow is ba
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by cwilkes 11y ago
If anyone involved in the project is reading this the DNS entry for "www.logswan.org", available as a link on the github page, does not exist.
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Wow is that painful to read I <3 the #newAsana. Check out what @asana has been up to: https://asana.com I had to use Asana a year and a half ago for a side project, it was on par with Rally as being the biggest steaming pi
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by cwilkes 11y ago
A Cengage spokeswoman, Susan M. Aspey, said the company needed to install higher-grade accounting systems. “To do this quickly and efficiently,” she said, Cengage sought support from Cognizant. Thanks, I needed a good laugh. Outsourcing
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Check out this article: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/9372563/dropbox-really-is-... There was another article recently that said that files are old news and people are using Slack. Granted they ar
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Not sure who is downvoting you -- this quote is entirely appropriate.
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by cwilkes 11y ago
in that the customer and most vulnerable person in many of these instances should be thought of as the renter. I tend to think of the people that have to live next to this modern day flophouse. They didn't buy a space in a hotel, th
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Odd that for a story that tells you to get data about sales people is ... surprisingly free of any detail on past experience on if it worked. Maybe the author just wants us to take it on faith? Also I chuckled at "two people connecting
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by cwilkes 11y ago
I love not seeing ads. Well, technically you're not "seeing" ads but I'm pretty sure your information is still being traded to data providers. This actually works to google's advantage. They reduce ad blindness and
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by cwilkes 11y ago
Checkmate, Tesla

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