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by dschobel 16y ago
well considering the debt now has junk status you'd just buy it at pennies on the dollar (like the people buying the bad mortgages) and hope the austerity measures pass and they get their shit together.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Great story particularly because he seems like an average (but talented, obviously) guy in a cubicle farm with a wife and kids and mortgage, not yet-another Stanford golden-child.
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by dschobel 16y ago
from the highlighted comment: After that experience I never hired a Bobbie again. I would conveniently overlook them. I still believe that I am doing them a favor. So the commentator is sparing the 'wiz kids' from the shitty organization
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by dschobel 17y ago
Arrington is 40 so age obviously has no relationship to decency.
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by dschobel 17y ago
While it's certainly up any victim to testify / support a prosecution, isn't the actual decision of whether a crime has been committed and whether to pursue prosecution up to the law enforcement agencies? Any legal types around to clarify?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Certainly the number would be objective, the subjective part would be establishing an industry standard against which to compare it. Without context, the number alone can't tell you all that much. Honestly, the most surefire litmus test I'v
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by dschobel 17y ago
I've never had any luck getting a serious answer to that question. It's always hand-wavy fluff. It's the employer's equivalent of "what is your biggest weakness". It just tests their ability to BS.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Actually paying $1.2B in cash and stock is different than an investment of arbitrary size with a $1.2B valuation. Think of it more as, the perceived value way way way down the road of groupon == palm's value as of an hour ago.
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by dschobel 17y ago
If someone were to try something controversial and probably causing a lot of headaches, say building a simple webapp which is nothing more than a blank canvas exhorting the user to draw Mohammed, what's a good way to prepare? Are some webho
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by dschobel 17y ago
One thing I've seen work is to make it clear that, while you have the liberty of working odd hours if you so please, your work product will be under greater scrutiny to make sure you can "handle it". Make it clear that it is a privilege whi
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by dschobel 17y ago
I'm surprised he didn't touch on "give your devs decent hardware & tools". This should be such a no brainer but it's far and away the most common complaint I hear. $900 on a workstation every 2 years -> happier, more productive devs
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by dschobel 17y ago
They could subpoena the hosting company if it's web/hosted email (ala Gmail).
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by dschobel 17y ago
So much for the 'clever marketing ploy' theory.
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by dschobel 17y ago
That video shows it still broken on the N1. The droid (and droid incredible) never had the issue.
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by dschobel 17y ago
umm, people disagree that it's broken? I don't get downvotes.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Here's hoping for a software fix for the N1's crappy multi-touch: http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on...
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by dschobel 17y ago
He could merely be alluding to the fact that a lot more people know C++ than Erlang and therefore will be able to contribute to MongoDB's development.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Unfortunately this isn't a paranoid position anymore. Even if 23andme.com are responsible and take every precaution with your data, they'd still be subject to subpoenas and I sure as hell don't trust the federal government to respect data p
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by dschobel 17y ago
or more precisely, evil and popular are not mutually exclusive.
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by dschobel 17y ago
But in a competitive job market you’re less likely to get the chance to tell me your sob story. That may be a little delusional (might be his MBA showing) in light of the recent reports of major hiring drives from the big names: http://
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by dschobel 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_scalping
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by dschobel 17y ago
While White Americans made up roughly 75.1% of all persons in 2000, 87.93% of all households in the top 5% were headed by a person who identified as being White alone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
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by dschobel 17y ago
similarly, if you look at scala's relative growth it actually is growing faster than ruby: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby,++scala&l=&re... but obviously there aren't as many scala jobs out there as there are ruby.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I agree but it's impossible at this point. Even if the moderators delete it so that it doesn't show up as [dead], it's an interesting enough story that people will keep reposting it and up-voting it. This bell can't be un-rung unfortunately
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by dschobel 17y ago
did the original story get nuked? I don't see it even in [dead] form.
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by dschobel 17y ago
What's your point? We live in a world where communication obviates the need for everyone to be first hand witnesses. The entire concept of news reporting is predicated on credible third parties.
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's particularly funny because on the one hand, these people are doing something of non-trivial technical sophistication, and on the other, they have zero understanding of what they're trying to accomplish.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think I just heard tptacek's head explode.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The piece definitely has a quaint naivete to it. Thinking that it's somehow the things we build which are ruining our lives rather than we creators and our priorities in building them.
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by dschobel 17y ago
That fact that you think air travel fails to qualify as fast or easy shows how spoiled we are and is kind of humorous.

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