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by drharris 13y ago
This title deserves an award.
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by drharris 13y ago
It's likely because late night/early morning is cooler temperature, and this drops the battery voltage enough to trigger the sensor.
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by drharris 13y ago
Best advice is to not do this, or anything like it. If you're a one-man show, then be sure to blog, tweet, or otherwise communicate with your customers often. Treat them like people, and build a following. When your startup fails (and
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by drharris 13y ago
Oh, well since you didn't like it, that's ok then. Wait, no it's not; it's horrible, indecent advice. Good business is being honest with your customers. Count me among the ones who would never turn over money with scumba
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by drharris 13y ago
I only did undergrad there, but was friends with several MS students. It seemed to largely differ course to course. Some were more research/project oriented, and others seemed more like an undergrad course with a narrower focus. Format
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by drharris 13y ago
From my memories at GT near the turn of millennium, most work in CS was already programmatically gradable. The course descriptions look every bit as rigorous. Seems the only real difference is the level of access to personal assistance in t
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by drharris 13y ago
Twitter ads are never going to produce a substantial profit. Google and Facebook have the ability to mine a ton of data that will eventually allow them to provide perfectly targeted ads that 1) don't annoy you, and 2) produce a ton of
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by drharris 13y ago
I plan to buy Twitter stock as a hedge against actual intelligence in the investing community. Seriously, the true valuation on a non-profitable company with no reasonable way to make a profit is $0b.
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by drharris 13y ago
Because when you can't monetize your product, you can always make money from terrible investors.
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by drharris 13y ago
> I'm disturbed that in an alternate universe we could be reading about Kraft's reelection campaign. Both serial killers and politicians (and CEOs) have sociopathy in common. It's not a huge leap to imagine such a universe
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by drharris 13y ago
> Companies which don't do this, lose. People lose. As in, real flesh and blood people. Everyone seems to think, "Ah, they'll just sell it to the highest bidder." You know what, screw that belief, and screw those pe
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by drharris 13y ago
It looked bad at first glance, but keep in mind they had no bug bounty program. Information about vulnerability reporting never said there would be a reward. Security bounties are a fairly recent trend, and I'd wager 99% of the web has
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by drharris 13y ago
People who imploded over this should be embarrassed. Here's a guy who was doing more than the company policy just to be nice, and everyone turns into complainypants over their perceived entitlement. Good on the company for course-corre
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by drharris 13y ago
They were to turn over the keys and all information required to decrypt everything. Presumably, they wrote a LOT of 4pt boilerplate on how to use the keys for decryption.
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by drharris 13y ago
I think any reasonable person already has contempt for our current US courts.
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by drharris 13y ago
Same here. These days I work too much on project management and architecture, with occasional refactoring. I rarely get to spend weeks on end diagnosing a really niche bug anymore. New code and architecture is always fun (clean slate syndro
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by drharris 13y ago
They just turned those former pirates into a revenue stream. It's a good business move. Either spend tons of money litigating pirates to just have them go somewhere else, or at least make some money off of the inevitable.
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by drharris 13y ago
So we fixed it?
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by drharris 13y ago
Have you figured out how to scrub through an individual chapter? It seems the time scrubber goes across the entire book for me, which is pretty unacceptable behavior for an audiobook.
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by drharris 13y ago
That would be an incredibly dumb decision, considering they sell audiobooks in the iTunes store.
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by drharris 13y ago
Might as well tell me not to buy your book at all, then.
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by drharris 13y ago
Are we really still talking about 140 characters these days? Why can't we just let it go, let it be?
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by drharris 13y ago
Gotcha, I'd agree with that. I have some bitterness extending from sham "UX Hackers" selling e-books that basically boil down to pretending to be an idiot, and thinks that is enough. :)
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by drharris 13y ago
That's a very rudimentary view of UX. If I'm writing an app that helps radiological engineers calculate radiation dose, should I pretend to be an idiot? Likewise, in a world where kids have grown up with these devices, should we s
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by drharris 13y ago
Exactly right. I've never seen so many articles that completely miss the point of the experience. Instead of "where do I tap?", the point is that everything should be a valid tap target - that's the beauty of a touch-fir
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by drharris 13y ago
I felt the same way (as a less empathic person). Things like this always make me think of that movie Idiocracy.
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by drharris 13y ago
I think this is best explained as an effect of the "go to college" mantra shoved on kids in the 80s and 90s. There are fewer and fewer adults who are not already college educated. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by drharris 13y ago
It's probably more accurate to claim "14% above normal".
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by drharris 13y ago
I'm not sure. I think this site should be mostly tech and startup related, but I also enjoy the occasional non-tech article, and find that this community sources those types of articles better than other aggregation sites (i.e. no Buzz
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by drharris 13y ago
That's fine, but from the guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. Certainly if it's not interesting to the community, it wouldn't get upvoted

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