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by dpifke 17y ago
Am I the only one who reads "I'll never own another server" and thinks about all the folks who said "I'll never hire another programmer" back when sites like Elance first started getting popular? Outsourcing is great and all, but it's hardl
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by dpifke 17y ago
What's odd in starting with an example as to why it's easy to dehumanize someone in customer service and then saying not to do it? The choice in phrasing and imagery was intentional, if perhaps a bit clumsy.
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by dpifke 17y ago
The corollary to this is that companies also need to treat their customers as people. Too often when I call customer service I'm talking to a robot who can barely speak my language well enough to coherently read the set-in-stone, no except
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by dpifke 17y ago
"Out webshop database has these fields." Fix: Change the database, then. Much harder when the "database" belongs to a third party such as UPS or Paypal.
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by dpifke 17y ago
If his reason for turning you down is "it's not my thing," that implies it may be someone else's "thing." Perhaps that someone else is known to him. Not sure why he'd be bent out of shape for an entrepreneur following up with the obvious
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by dpifke 17y ago
In stage lighting, actors typically are lit from two sides one "hot" (orange) and one "cool" (teal): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCandless_Method#McCandless_Me... This is hardly a new digital phenomenon, it's done because it works. The
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EFF on Apple's iPhone Developer Program Agreement(eff.org)
102 points by dpifke 17y ago|78 comments
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by dpifke 17y ago
Academics continue to publish papers in fields where patent protection is unavailable (history, literature, etc.), so I fail to buy the argument that no scientific papers about computing would be published if it weren't for software patents
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by dpifke 17y ago
I love John Gruber's response to this: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/02/stand-by-this
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by dpifke 17y ago
For all we know, the fact that this lawsuit was coming could have come out during the acquisition talks and could be some or all of the reason they were called off. If the acquisition had gone through, this suit - regardless of merit - woul
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by dpifke 17y ago
Yelp could do a itself a huge favor by becoming more transparent about its so-called "Review Filter." All it needs is a "show all" link somewhere on the page showing the supposedly suspicious reviews that were deleted by the filter, along
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by dpifke 17y ago
Since switching from a Blackberry to a Nexus One, I've found I use my phone to email/text a lot less, and to browse the web a lot more. When I first switched, several people with keyboardless phones told me that I would get used to not havi
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by dpifke 17y ago
...which is why their spam filters are so much more effective than bayesian filtering -- which is the only tool you have if you 'go it alone' on email This is not true at all. Of the top of my head, I can think of three different distrib
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by dpifke 17y ago
Paying out cash on hand should reduce the share price, because money in the bank is proportionally owned by the shareholders. For an extreme example, imagine a hypothetical company with 1 billion shares outstanding and $1B in the bank and n
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by dpifke 17y ago
Reading this decision, I would say you're likely to run into issues with the FCC if they were to find out about it: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2008/DA-08-167A1.html Relevant quote: If the radio frequency equipment is modified by any pa
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by dpifke 17y ago
The problem I see with this is that if all the Haitians who are motivated to help themselves leave, who's left? Haiti's problems don't solved and you've eliminated anyone who aspires to a better life.
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by dpifke 17y ago
I don't know about always stopping when I'm going good, but I almost always leave myself with a concrete "next step" for the next day when I do decide to stop. Sometimes this means getting the task I'm working on to 95% completion, or forc
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by dpifke 17y ago
Unpaginated version: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3702
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by dpifke 17y ago
Would you say as much to his face? I'm not particularly impressed by his antics but I don't think name-calling adds anything to this discussion.
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Adventures in Ex Ante Crowdfunded Securities Law(boingboing.net)
2 points by dpifke 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 17y ago
Going through the list of bugs ( http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs ) I'm surprised at how many Microsoft has stated they have no plans on fixing.
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The Most Entrepreneur-Friendly States(sbecouncil.org)
1 points by dpifke 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 17y ago
E.g. if I have a homebrew energy system that doesn't touch a grid, am I free to attach anything I want including such USB outlets? It needs to meet the building codes if you ever plan to sell your house or collect from your insurance poli
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by dpifke 17y ago
The copyright notice is unnecessary, but the grandparent is absolutely correct on how it works. The year is date of first publication. See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf .
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by dpifke 17y ago
Have you signed up for Google's Webmaster Tools? It gives you access to see crawl stats and errors. They have to crawl your site to establish domain ownership, doing so may or may not speed up the re-indexing process.
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by dpifke 17y ago
For future reference, though, this is a good reason to only serve up your site in response to HTTP queries which come with the right Host: header. Or add a <link rel="canonical"> tag, see: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.c
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by dpifke 17y ago
The distinction is most probably legal. The transaction couldn't close until payment was received - and the paper check could be "received" but a wire transfer couldn't until the next day. Likewise, they could put the funds on their balanc
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by dpifke 17y ago
Seems like the keyboard/mouse part of this would be trivial with Android. A little searching, and it looks like doing it over USB was discussed here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=738 And someone appears to have gotten
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by dpifke 17y ago
I think there needs to be a way to leverage a person's social graph. I'm in a three-year relationship that came about because a mutual friend played matchmaker. By having the two parties connected to each other via mutual friends you also
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by dpifke 17y ago
I'm astounded that AT&T filed a lawsuit over these ads. What would have been somewhat forgettable as a "snarky Verizon ad poking fun at AT&T" is now front-and-center in several media outlets, all with a positive Verizon spin. (Wit

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