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by davidroberts 13y ago
I totally applaud Rackspace's dedication to the public good. But I think their response is their best move economically too, despite the initial cost. They are basically saying "Troll me, and you risk losing the whole patent." It's like dea
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by davidroberts 13y ago
Exactly. Their social media dollars integrated very well with their overall campaign and brought a high ROI.
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by davidroberts 13y ago
The Old Spice social media campaign was very successful: http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/08/30/11-social-media-marketi... As anecdotal evidence, both of my late-teen/young adult sons have started using Old Spice deodorant since that campai
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by davidroberts 13y ago
I think the Pepsi example really doesn't work for two reasons: First, the decline in sales in the sugary soft drink industry is only remotely connected to their social media advertising. It is a widely reported phenomena that is usually att
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by davidroberts 13y ago
Bureaucracy thrives on classification. If something does not fit in a pigeonhole, it will either be pounded until it does fit or discarded as useless.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
How about lots of cat photos on the front page? I've heard that's very popular with the under 10 group.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
As long as you are tweaking things, could you add a confirmation option to the flag link? Its placement next to the comment link makes it all too easy to hit by accident on a smartphone screen by fat-fingered people like me.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Last year I bought a new motherboard with an eight-core processor when my old one died. Just a couple of day ago I realized that my experience with that set up is exactly the same as the previous one I bought in 2008. The 1TB hard drive I
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Just Math Tutorials: Free and hopefully useful math videos for the world(patrickjmt.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
The Facebook thing struck me as kind of creepy too. I'm not sure I would feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that my new employers had been crawling through my Facebook pages.
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I'm starting a new job in a week. Just in case they read HN, I really like brand-new Ferraris....
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by davidroberts 14y ago
I absolutely agree with snowwrestler. Being courteous does not mean taking whatever crap people want to deal out. It also does not mean being a doormat or putting up with abuse. If you feel you are being used or walked on, just politely say
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by davidroberts 14y ago
That wasn't a very courteous reply...
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by davidroberts 14y ago
We can call ourselves "algorithmists."
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by davidroberts 14y ago
From the very moment they could communicate, I worked hard to teach my children common courtesy. It was the best gift I could give them. They didn't go to fancy schools, they never took "enrichment" classes, but they know how to be nice to
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by davidroberts 14y ago
There was a time a few years ago when I was playing online poker or working on personal projects every evening until about midnight or a little later, then waking up before 5 am to work. Both the work and the poker were fascinating. I had n
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by davidroberts 14y ago
“So when we tell them, ‘You could get a job at a company like Facebook, you could be earning $100,000 plus, they pay for your insurance, they feed you, and you can work from home and wear casual clothes.’ They’re like, ‘What are you talkin
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by davidroberts 14y ago
If you have some talent and enjoy it, you can teach yourself programming to a pretty high level in a few months. But to master it, like any complex craft, takes a lifetime.
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What It’s Like Raising More Than $300,000 on Kickstarter(blogs.wsj.com)
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Markov Processes for Everybody(compphysiol.mi.fu-berlin.de)
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Great Scientist Does Not Equal Good at Math(online.wsj.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
Use more recent notebook with a bad display. Much less power needed, and you can get one for free or really cheap. Or use that three-year old notebook you've replaced, and turn off the display.
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How Machiavelli Saved My Family(online.wsj.com)
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The Lessons of Zombie-Mania(online.wsj.com)
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Possible security disasters loom with rollout of new top-level domains(arstechnica.com)
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Chinese Deluge U.S. Master's Programs(online.wsj.com)
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Coal miner photos: Where they worked, where they lived(rogerphilpot.homestead.com)
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Tactics to Spark Creativity(online.wsj.com)
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by davidroberts 14y ago
In a few hours, I'm going to a client's site to downgrade his newly purchased notebook to Windows 7. He's an average user, director of a small nonprofit who uses his computer mainly for email, Web browsing, and word processing. He used Wind
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Ask HN: Add Confirmation Option for Flagging Submissions?
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