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by dean 16y ago
This whole post is just giving excuses for bad writing. Even though some subjects can be very difficult, a knowledgeable person, who knows how to teach and how to write can produce something useful. Personally, I tend to keep trying differe
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by dean 16y ago
CEOs are a good example. I like that you made a distinction between large and extremely profitable companies, because large companies often still pay their CEOs extreme salaries even when performance falters. Case in point, Robert Nardelli
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by dean 16y ago
Despite the unfortunate reference to the iPad, the poster has a point. We are better off than the 'kings of yore'. We have access to better housing, heat and air conditioning, abundant and varied food, easy and affordable access to educatio
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by dean 16y ago
"Facebook had net income of $200 million in 2009 on revenue of $777 million." It's interesting that it cost Facebook $577 million to run in 2009. I'd love to see a break-down of where all that money is going. On the face of it, it seems lik
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by dean 16y ago
It's depressing to see a respected and influential software industry icon resorting to patent trolling like this. I expect it from lawyers and corporate-raider types, but was surprised to see Paul Allen doing it. To cherry pick a quote from
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by dean 16y ago
Doh!
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by dean 16y ago
I love the irony that sufferers of a disease "characterized by hallucinations, delusions", see the actual visual information while healthy viewers are utterly unable to see it. And this: "Schizophrenia patients, meanwhile, may be unable to
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by dean 16y ago
I don't know. The first thing that occurred to me on viewing the warning is that Firefox is working as expected -- it is warning me about a malicious site. So why is it asking me to download updates when it appears to be working correctly?
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by dean 16y ago
Not so much mind-blowing as shocking -- when I first heard that the Europeans brought horses to America. There were none here before Columbus.
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"I totally believe that you are a different person for having read that book," Wolf replied. "It is in some way working on you even though you aren’t thinking about it." "It’s there," Wolf said. "You are the sum of it all." Although I intui
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by dean 16y ago
Y Combinator is strictly for college kids. The restriction is based not on age, but on money. Older people are implicitly excluded because they can't afford to give up their income to pursue a startup. Wife, kids and a mortgage cost money.
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Cybercrime is world’s most dangerous criminal threat(ottawacitizen.com)
3 points by dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by dean 16y ago
This also assumes that expensive == good. In my experience, that's not always true, or even often true. Then you feel really bad.
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Released Too Soon(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by dean 16y ago
Why did Singh have to pay $200,000 of his own money to defend himself? Where was The Guardian in all of this? Edit: typos.
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by dean 16y ago
"The complex expensive toaster? I bet it sells well." His whole argument basically comes down to this comment. Instead of guessing whether complexity sells well, he should continue his research and find out for sure.
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by dean 16y ago
Wow, that has to be the most unconvincing debunking of an urban legend I've ever seen.
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by dean 16y ago
This article is a bit of a contradiction. On the one hand, it says: "Unemployment is chronic in much of the country, but in Silicon Valley, employees have their pick of jobs." Then on the other hand it says: "And in four months, the hundre
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by dean 16y ago
A lot of this discussion seems to be confusing reverse engineering with cloning. To reverse engineer something, you look at it as a black box and determine all of the capabilities and characteristics that you are interested in, and then you
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Are There Second Acts in the Lives of Aging Internet Firms?(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
1 points by dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by dean 16y ago
This is a little scary ... Here are the current Google Suggest phrases on Google Canada for 'how can I': how can i kill my baby how can i make my breasts bigger how can i lose weight fast how can i lose 10 pounds in a week how can i watch h
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by dean 16y ago
"the alarms that prevent you from overspending are so basic that they may even be in our DNA" "avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you. It probably was enough to protect hunter-gatherers, and perhaps all pre-industrial societie
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by dean 16y ago
"I rent but paid cash for a recent BMW last year" One tip I can offer is not to do things like that. A house or condo is generally an investment that increases in value, so you should buy that for yourself instead of buying it for your land
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by dean 16y ago
Yes, it is strange. It's a scathing put-down couched in a pleasant tone. The author believes Gladwell is a fraud but doesn't have the guts to come right out and say it.
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by dean 16y ago
"... studies have shown that the historical failure rate for new businesses is 50% over five years ..." I've always heard that the failure rate for new businesses was closer to 90%. (I don't have the sources to back that up, but neither doe
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by dean 16y ago
"Because most computer operating systems don’t organize things this way, accomplishing simple tasks can be extremely confusing for casual computer users;" You can't compare an operating system with an application. I can use iTunes on any OS
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by dean 16y ago
Why does the OP compare the web to the iPad? The iPad is really just another standalone computer running a native OS like the Mac or the PC. In this context, he's really just comparing web applications to desktop applications, which is a co
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Rogers Charges $60 A Year For Turn by Turn iPhone App(reviews.cnet.com)
1 points by dean 16y ago|0 comments
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by dean 17y ago
The author isn't only talking about the regulators being corrupt or incompetent. He's also talking about market participants like Madoff and Lehman Brothers. Removing regulation will not suddenly turn the bankers into honest people, as the
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by dean 17y ago
Since the airflow through the engines is blocked or restricted causing the engines to flame out, it seems amazing that the engines could be restarted at all in those two previous incidents. They really were "miraculous escapes".

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