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by donaldc 17y ago
What is "notable" is rather subjective and context-dependant. There ought to be somewhere for all these "non-notable" articles to go. The wikipedia approach to some such articles would be useful even if wikipedia itself doesn't find them no
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by donaldc 17y ago
In both computing and electrical power there's a tension between localization and centralization. As the technology evolves, the relative trade-offs shift. Right now, the rapid development of ever-higher-bandwidth connections tends to favor
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by donaldc 17y ago
If I were a pirate who had little gold to lose, and a grudge against some of my fellow pirates, I could always play the spoiler and cause everyone's gold to go to the captain or into the sea...
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by donaldc 17y ago
Arguing that the government needs to jump through hoops is some sort of defence to you isn't relevant. They can and do jump through those hoops all the time, and home-owners are left with assessed values that certainly don't reflect the va
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by donaldc 17y ago
I'm not sure why that's depressing. You've managed to filter out the majority of people you'd not want to hire with just a simple set of tests. Perhaps a way to screen out many of these people without spending the time administering the scr
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by donaldc 17y ago
Of course Google Voice is a threat to AT&T. But in terms of the Google Voice app being rejected on the iPhone, even if AT&T applied pressure, in the end Apple should bear a lot of the blame for this. The final decision was Apple's.
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by donaldc 17y ago
New tax bracket, 90% tax bracket for anyone making more than the president of the USA -- retroactive two years. Rates were higher than that in 1963 (historical rates). Bad idea. Besides being in very poor form (changing the rules after th
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by donaldc 17y ago
Do you make these users aware that's what you're doing, and that their experience on the site would be better in a modern browser? I think the point of this campaign is to make IE6 users aware (if they aren't already) that they're using an
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by donaldc 17y ago
Unemployment may be higher, but strangely I'm noticing that rush-hour traffic is still a lot worse than during the dotcom bust, when traffic jams on 101 nearly disappeared for a while.
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by donaldc 17y ago
This is all academic. Top-level non-country domains like .com aren't going to be eliminated.
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by donaldc 17y ago
And change happened at a much slower pace for most of that 7,000 years. The 21st century is going to be very interesting.
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by donaldc 17y ago
I'm assuming some of those still employed switched to other lines of work.
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by donaldc 17y ago
Agile does not necessarily imply XP.
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by donaldc 17y ago
Their interests may differ, but VCs don't hate Tony Hsieh. Indeed, if he ever starts another company, I bet they'll be falling all over themselves wanting to fund him. Also, while the founder/CEO of Zappos may not have wanted to sell, were
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by donaldc 17y ago
Guy considers the possible outcomes: (a) He talks to Carol and she responds in a friendly manner. He gets her phone number and a proper date next week. (b) He does not approach Carol. He can enjoy another rewarding task (like reading the l
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by donaldc 17y ago
What's the perk? It must be pretty good if you're willing to put up with constant interruption for it...
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by donaldc 17y ago
That only works if everyone starts their workday at the same time.
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by donaldc 17y ago
Penny wise and pound foolish, on the part of such companies...
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by donaldc 17y ago
I've actually found that I can't get into top "people mode" form without a warm-up. This means that, not only does a random meeting deprive me of a half day's worth of intense "maker" concentration, but I'm not even at my best for the 30 or
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by donaldc 17y ago
It's probably best to think of facebook as a giant, self-updating rolodex. For most contacts one has, the term "friend" is a misnomer, and "acquaintance" or "associate" would be a better term. But there's no need to get hung up on the word.
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by donaldc 17y ago
This somewhat reminds me of the nature vs. nurture argument. It's a false dichotomy. Also, at least as important as the idea itself, is the ability to recognize a good idea. Most people who try have plenty of ideas, and most of these idea
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by donaldc 17y ago
What percentage of people who don't own a TV, like to tell you at every single opportunity that they don't own a TV. Probably not that high of a percentage. However, one is more likely to notice the people who don't own a TV and are vocal
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by donaldc 17y ago
One immediate difference that comes to mind is that the internet is a two-way medium, whereas television is a one-way medium. That doesn't mean that any given part of the internet will be better, but it does mean that the internet has the
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by donaldc 17y ago
Interesting article. I wish that it had given an estimate for the magnitude of power savings, however.
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by donaldc 17y ago
The west is still ahead of China in both Science and Technology, but they're moving fast and we're slowing down. I'd say that China is moving faster because they're still catching up. Once they've caught up, I doubt they'll be moving any
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by donaldc 17y ago
In theory, yes. And in the great-great-grandparent of this comment, I'm essentially saying that I feel that the days are numbered for the 2% per year management fee. But equilibrium often takes some time to re-establish itself. After a situ
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by donaldc 17y ago
The value added by the VCs is the amount of money the venture capital fund makes above and beyond what one would make from investing the same amount of money, over the same time period, in something low/no risk like, say, U.S. Treasury bond
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by donaldc 17y ago
I'm not in any way meaning to imply that real estate agent and vc partner have similar competency requirements or barriers to entry. Rather, I'm implying that the fees of both are now highly out of sync with the current reality, where neith
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by donaldc 17y ago
The 2% per-year annual management fee for vc funds makes me think of the 6% real estate commission. They both seem arbitrary, archaic, and ultimately doomed.
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by donaldc 17y ago
Nice. Ideally, with more cell phones getting GPS, eventually it'd be possible to set up one's cell phone to communicate one's position to the central lighting facility, and have it turn on the lights as I approach them, and off the lights a

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