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by dschobel 17y ago
I liked his suggested solution: PS: Here's a zero-technology solution to the "Yeah, but they'll overhear your secret knocks" problem: Scream while knocking
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think fear of litigation is probably a significant factor. I have a friend who practices labor and employment law and he's kept on retainer at a few big companies to field calls such as "can we fire this person and not get sued?". They li
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by dschobel 17y ago
'Shocking' racism in jobs market [1] The figures show black, Asian and other ethnic minorities are twice as likely to be unemployed, half as likely to own their home and run double the risk of poor health, compared with white Britons. [
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by dschobel 17y ago
I just looked up my state's (Illinois) welfare application[1] and it doesn't mention anywhere that having dependents is a necessary condition to receive it. If being a care-giver is the policy, they do a good job of hiding it. Also, those c
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by dschobel 17y ago
I love these for playing with syntax. Here's one for python: http://try-python.mired.org/ and one for ruby: http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think it's a vicious cycle. The more blog drama (AA killed my dog!) which gets through, the more people who like blog drama are drawn to the site and up-vote it. If I were PG, I would look at the data and try to categorize the type of sub
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by dschobel 17y ago
Maybe this story is riding the coat-tails of the AA story about how "big companies just don't get it". Who knows.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Precisely. I remember a psychology professor who did some consulting for marketing firms telling us: "No matter how sophisticated your tastes or your decision buying process are, there's a marketing profile targeting you". Don't ever under-
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by dschobel 17y ago
They’d just say it’s harder and more expensive than doing it with Open Source Well hopefully this program will highlight some usages of .net where open source (or proprietary non-MS) has traditionally dominated like scientific computing,
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by dschobel 17y ago
The most important quote: Under the compromise, any decision to sever Internet access, an approach championed by several E.U. countries seeking to clamp down on digital copying of music and movies, must be subject to a legal review.
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E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections(nytimes.com)
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by dschobel 17y ago
I saw that as well. No idea when I approved that one...
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by dschobel 17y ago
Spare the boycott for a cause which merits it. AA just lost a competent and passionate employee and announced themselves as a lousy place to work for creative people.
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by dschobel 17y ago
You learned how to jump through hoops and perform passable work on things which didn't necessarily interest you. In other words, real world training.
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by dschobel 17y ago
If you're a Java programmer and want to have a rude awakening, go download Jester. Jester is an automated mutation testing tool—it goes in and replaces “<=” with “<”, “&&” with “||”, “!” with whitespace. And then it re-runs
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by dschobel 17y ago
The value added over a "dumb" directory is that you can use ratings to inform your decision instead of taking the service provider's word of being "the best in town". I'm not making this stuff up, tons of people use Yelp, Zaggats, GetSatisf
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by dschobel 17y ago
Imagine what it will be like for him when he gets to 1,000? And imagine what happens if he loses just ten. That sword cuts both ways.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Although when you think about it, fundamentally it's no different than Yelp or Zaggats. It's just another level of service layered on top of a directory.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Are your mom and pop really doing high-frequency trading in their spare time or are you being facetious? In reality the people that GS wins money off of on a given day are wearing charcoal grey suits and driving ridiculous cars (just like t
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by dschobel 17y ago
that they're doing so unfairly and at the expense of taxpayers and individual mom-pop investors Untrue. They're doing so at the expense of other day-traders who try to go toe-to-toe with them in timing the markets. If you're holding long
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by dschobel 17y ago
How are they not the same thing but at different time scales? So maybe GS realizes some loss every day, but surely they hold some positions on longer time frames. They don't wipe the slate after every day.
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by dschobel 17y ago
EFF's statement: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-pr...
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by dschobel 17y ago
Excellent point. People have become accustomed to an unfettered flow of media and information. They're not just going to throw their hands up and go back to the pre-napster days of walled media gardens.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Right but the take down notices would require that you own some IP to allege infringement upon and have the resources to actually produce a non-frivolous legal missive. I really doubt this is going to be some grand populist legal tool.
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by dschobel 17y ago
There was a great Inc.com interview posted on HN yesterday (until some jerk commented on one line from the interview and ruined the whole conversation...) about what an average day looks like for Jason: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101
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by dschobel 17y ago
My guess would be the that actual computation problem will be something suited to distributed computation as they tried (and failed) to do with their first contest. The twitter part is obviously for visibility. edit: sorry that sounded real
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by dschobel 17y ago
the SSH daemon which unless modified remains running with default users root and mobile, using the same password on each and every device. I'm not sure I'd want to be known as the elite security expert who exploited this subtle vulnerabil
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by dschobel 17y ago
Norway in this case. I'm not sure what America's delusion would be. I've been living here too long to tell. In any event, I think America's dirty laundry has been thoroughly scrutinized at this point. Every time I return to Europe most peo
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's fascinating to see how even a nation with a free media can still have total buy-in to an entirely delusional self-image. Scary stuff.
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by dschobel 17y ago
That does explain a lot. I had a coworker at my last job who was appalled that I could quit and not have other work lined up (I just went and bummed around Zurich for the summer). This guy was in his late 30's, single, had a low-level IT jo

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