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by dean 17y ago
"China does not have unions ..." Oh the irony. A communist country that exploits its workers like a true capitalist.
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by dean 17y ago
I would love to see it play out like this. But it would only work in a competitive landscape, and ISPs are typically local monopolies. Which is probably why the ISPs can even consider such ideas in the first place.
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by dean 17y ago
"Half the people in human history who reached the age of 65 are alive now." It's an interesting comment, but the article offers nothing to back it up. How would they know that?
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Murdoch Confused About The Internet And Google(news.morningstar.com)
3 points by dean 17y ago|0 comments
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by dean 17y ago
Like others have commented here, I believe you can start and own a business in the U.S. even if you are not a citizen. If being an employee of your business is the problem, you may be able to work around that by issuing shares to yourself a
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by dean 17y ago
"And though some may be hesitant to accept the ever-increasing roles of robots in our world, I, for one, " welcome our new robot overlords. (Sorry, but I couldn't resist that perfect segue.)
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Verizon To Offer Skype On Phones(news.morningstar.com)
1 points by dean 17y ago|0 comments
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by dean 17y ago
> What makes you think that the Wall Street folks are free market advocates? Good point. I guess I believe everything they tell me on CNBC. ;)
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by dean 17y ago
"The real damage [from the collapse of Lehman Brothers] was the message the failure sent--that the government might not do everything it could to prevent struggling firms from failing chaotically." Does this mean the capital markets knowing
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Ski Resorts Exaggeration of Snowfall Reduced Sharply Because of iPhone App(npr.org)
45 points by dean 17y ago|8 comments
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by dean 17y ago
We keep the temperature down to keep out the riffraff. Otherwise everyone would want to come here. ;)
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by dean 17y ago
That's fine if you're starting a project or a business from scratch. Choose whatever tools make you happy. But if you work for someone else, chances are you will be stuck using the language they use. And if you are professional, you do it.
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by dean 17y ago
I use Firefox at work and Chrome at home. There's no way I could use Chrome for my job, it just doesn't have anywhere near the developer capabilities I need. But Chrome really is beautiful. And lightning fast. Unfortunately, I regularly bum
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by dean 18y ago
> By and large, engineers have similar productivity levels. I don't know, but I have my doubts that this is true. In fact, I doubt it's true in any discipline, from maids to CEOs.
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by dean 18y ago
Unfortunately that takes companies back to the old days of being a hostage to their vendors.
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by dean 18y ago
I suspect the uproar is coming at this time because someone actually took the time to read the agreement, rather than automatically clicking through it. Those agreements might say that I have to give up my first-born child and I'd never kn
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by dean 18y ago
The disturbing point about this is that the developer may have to pay back more than they received. That is unfair, Evil even, whether or not a developer goes bankrupt. And notwithstanding the fact that Apple incurs a cost to provide the se
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by dean 18y ago
God that's ugly.
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by dean 18y ago
Scanning this thread, everyone is looking at this question on a personal, introspective level. If you really want to know if you are productive, look outside yourself. Ask your employer. Or your colleagues. Pointy-haired bosses notwithstand
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China targets Google, Baidu in latest 'Net filth crackdown(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dean 18y ago|0 comments
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by dean 18y ago
He'll profit because he just bought dollar bills for 20 cents (or whatever amount less than a dollar). That's what he does. Like he said "It’s the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don’t have 700 billion. Maybe we could go in it together."
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Rogers draws fire for iPhone rates(cbc.ca)
1 points by dean 18y ago|0 comments
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by dean 18y ago
Nothing to see here. Religious opinion. Move along.
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Evolutionary algorithms now surpass human designers(technology.newscientist.com)
3 points by dean 18y ago|2 comments
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Doug McCune » Blog Archive » Why I don’t read books(dougmccune.com)
1 points by dean 18y ago|0 comments
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by dean 18y ago
I'm surprised a usability test is such big news. It's almost as though no one ever thought to do one for Linux before.
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"Think of it as Napster for education"(cnx.org)
1 points by dean 19y ago|1 comments
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Eric Sink's Business Finance For Geeks(ericsink.com)
1 points by dean 19y ago|0 comments
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by dean 19y ago
I was not trading BEA when Oracle made the bid to buy them out. Why? What happened to BEA's stock price during these two offers? Did it not move at all? Did it go beyond the offer price? Somewhere in between?
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by dean 19y ago
This always happens with buyout offers, the buyee's stock price shoots up close to the amount of the buyout offer, but never reaches it. It generally stops a couple dollars short of the buyout price. At this moment, Yahoo is trading at $28.

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