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by d2viant 16y ago
If they're going to compete with Apple, they need to work on their presentation and connection with the consumer. The guy in the pinstripe suit and tie is simply no comparison to having a passionate Steve Jobs in jeans up there on stage wal
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by d2viant 16y ago
Does anybody think this will affect Jason Cohen's startup announcement this morning that will sell WordPress hosting?
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There are no apps that will save you from that kind of decision.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Good idea, except roughly 40% of peoples' food budgets are spent on food outside of the home.
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by d2viant 16y ago
How will you know when you should fall back to manual? There's really no measurement of accuracy that I can think of. If you've reached the point in the algorithm where you know you've incorrectly identified the food it seems like you've al
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by d2viant 16y ago
How can someone rack up an $18,000 bill? Was that just over a single month? I'm not a client of Rackspace, but I thought they billed out monthly, so if you don't pay your bill I thought they would shutdown your service. What happens, do the
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by d2viant 16y ago
It's likely fully automated since it's running on EC2
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by d2viant 16y ago
The layoffs themselves may not be caused by individual performance, but from the employees perspective the two may not be unrelated. At some point the manager has to justify the question "Why Person A over Person B?"...and that's when indiv
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by d2viant 16y ago
I can completely understand that, but the results are going to be commensurate with the effort those people put in. If someone prioritizes something as the sixth most important priority in their life, then they really have nothing to be dis
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by d2viant 16y ago
Unless you're on the fast track through management, working within the same company for two decades guarantees that you will have difficulty finding a job at another company should the need arise. Especially in companies like Boeing, where
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by d2viant 16y ago
Consider this for next time: http://preyproject.com/
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by d2viant 16y ago
The FBI will not be any help at all. Their backlog of cases is completely unworkable. Based on interactions with them from previous work I've done, there has to be monetary loss. The (unofficial) threshold to get them to investigate a crime
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by d2viant 16y ago
Not necessarily, you can reduce government spending.
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by d2viant 16y ago
So why isn't he campaigning for lower taxes for her instead of higher taxes for others?
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by d2viant 16y ago
Why are you implying that wanting to keep your wealth is wrong?
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by d2viant 16y ago
I don't hate the bar, I hate the lack of a button to easily navigate up to the parent directory.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Amazon and Facebook both come to mind when I think of scale and massive parallelism. Microsoft as well, but it doesn't get as much attention.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Peak oil seems like a complete non-issue to me. As a resource, it is in such high demand that when we run out someone will step in with a replacement. There's simply too many capitalists and entrepreneurs in this world to let that void go u
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by d2viant 16y ago
What happens if everyone did this? Wouldn't the spot price then always reflect the on-demand price?
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by d2viant 16y ago
Examples?
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by d2viant 16y ago
This is a great concept, but I would love to see it implemented as a plugin for Visual Studio or Eclipse, not a new IDE.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Working for me. Running 7.0.514.0 canary build.
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by d2viant 16y ago
These guys will get snatched up by Google. It would be a perfect complement to Google Analytics.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Paul Allen owns the entire Vulcan group. One division of that, Vulcan Real Estate, owns and is developing all the brand new buildings on South Lake Union in Seattle that Amazon is now leasing out for their new campus.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Contrarian indicator. There are some excellent investments out there right now that in twenty years will cause people to look back and wish they had made a move when everyone else was paralyzed with fear. "Be fearful when others are greedy
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by d2viant 16y ago
It's horribly confusing to someone who doesn't understand that it's not being rendered by the browser itself. PDF's (especially when rendered inside the browser) break the browsing experience. Your browser controls stop working as expected,
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Warren Buffett's partnership letters from 1957 to 1970(scribd.com)
2 points by d2viant 16y ago|0 comments
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by d2viant 16y ago
Such as the Skype IPO
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Bad employees rarely quit and good ones are hard to find(rational-scrum.com)
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What I wish I knew before starting a business(entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)
92 points by d2viant 16y ago|36 comments

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