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by earl 15y ago
On the mac, spotify often fails to play songs for me as well. The problem is an intersection of weird bugs and their lack of support for low volumes. When Spotify plays an ad and you turn the volume down too low, they pause the ad and show
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Isn't this similar to what happened with opengl (industry consortium, no clear driver) vs directx (ms owns; highly motivated; actually pretty decent a couple revs in)? Carmack seems to now find DirectX superior [1]. Note I'm not a graphic
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To be fair: (1) Finding the molecular conformation is only a tiny piece of the puzzle. (2) If we were to discover a vaccine for HIV, many countries such as India, Thailand, Brazil, and China would instantly break any necessary patents. Thi
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That has not been my experience. Names: Twitter was fucking obnoxious to deal with, and I was referred by an employee. My recruiter there only responded to messages when I harassed her or emailed my friends working there. Phone screens t
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Or one of their competitors, yes. Or figure it out themselves. Thousands of retailers from JC Penny to Sears to B&N, etc etc, figure it out. Also, you'll note that all online business already do this for the state in which they're lo
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I've read it somewhere; sorry, I don't have a reference to hand. You can read about Ellison berating employees and screaming at them in a great book by Charles Ferguson called "High Stakes, No Prisoners". It's a wonderful accounting of bui
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it's an excuse. Thanks to sokoloff for digging it up, but here's at least one software suite that does just what I sugggested: http://onesource.thomsonreuters.com/solutions/indirect-tax/s...
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Amazon has 33k employees [1], estimated; they can figure it out. Also, I'm positive there's at least one company selling such information -- thousands of other retailers, most much smaller and much less technically sophisticated than Amazo
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Low class? That's sexist bullshit. There's plenty of men that speak exactly the same way -- starting with Larry Ellison, and go read about his behavior sometime -- yet don't get the same opprobrium. It's because she's a woman.
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Incensed? Did someone get his fee fees hurt? She told it like it is.
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I hate articles like this. (1) When did aspiring to a good life become wrong? The article seems to sympathize with Dharmesh Shah of Hubspot who whines about having to pay devs a middle class wage. (2) Since I've seen this with the dude fro
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from the article: " as a Scala advocate, many developers complain to me that the immature support for Scala in IDEs is a real blocker for introducing the language in their Java environments. I understand the practical issue of meeting this
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Also, anything you say about your former manager can be written off as sour grapes. So yeah, they had to choose and they did. : shrug : I dunno where you live, but if you're near SF, Scribd is always hiring good rails devs. So are a ton
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> Are you saying that the product designers at Facebook want to design interfaces and settings that intentionally confuse users into laxer privacy settings? Almost certainly, yes. Since that's how they derive revenue from users. >
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On 10.6.8 and chrome, I had to delete the certs not disable them to get security warnings when visiting eg https://onlineaanvraag.diginotar.nl/Digiforms/StartPage.aspx...
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"Your developers come in at 9:15 and leave before 6 and don't check work email at night: Hard" Am I the only person who find this attitude obnoxious? I know -- and I'd like to include myself -- some good devs who don't sell 24x7 to our emp
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And snowboarders. People spend probably minimum $1k for clothes, boots, board and bindings; plus $70+/day for a lift ticket; but won't spend $50 to go to a group class and actually learn how to do it. And they're dangerous to everyone aro
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I felt the same way -- that I wasn't blown away by the performance -- until I got used to find . -iname "*java" | xargs grep ... or ctrl-h in eclipse blowing through millions of lines of source code in 10-20 seconds instead of 3-5 m
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This is why we can't have nice things. If Rand wanted the world to know he would have said so. And guess what -- if we were to successfully guess, I'd imagine the next time someone like Rand decides to share fundraising experiences with th
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I lived on the red line and rode it daily for 5 months. I don't know about all the claims made by the post, but I do know that I rode the line on a pretty regular schedule and I think I often saw the same dogs taking the line at roughly th
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A: because coding interviews are conducted like a drunk looking for his keys.
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Not really. The ipad sold (as near as I can find) nearly 14.8M first gen and another 10M+ second gen [1]. Thus the ipad market is roughly 100x bigger, which that multiple growing every day. I can't see why you'd possibly choose to develop
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Well, $2k is probably on the low side for bills and food. Transport: $1k+/mo, roughly: $250 to park your car at home, $250 at work, $350 car payment, insurance, gas, etc. Plus $100 for public transport for your partner, plus $80 for rando
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$10K/mo before taxes == $6300/mo after taxes, at least in SF. If you have a family and either rent a 2 bedroom or have a mortgage, you'll spend $2500+ on shelter. Etc etc. It doesn't go as far as you'd think.
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Thank you for pointing that out.
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Damn. AI 3rd ed on amazon is $115. Assume the authors get $50 so Norvig gets $25. He may have just banked $2.5MM. No disrespect meant -- it's awesome to see Stanford experimenting with education like this. But still... wow. Edit: remind
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Let's start with the first argument: "His message seems to be 'I'm rich, and I want the super-rich like me to pay more in taxes.' That's great. Write a check." But him writing a check isn't the point. If Warren writes a check, we get that
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One guy who (apparently) successfully does it is Joseph Turian [1]. He is on HN [2] and quora. The reason I think you may have a hard time finding work is that, in my experience, and I believe this to be a widely help opinion, you get far
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Traffic sources for the last calendar month as measured by GA: [google, yahoo, bing] my blog about R, bash, and whatever crosses my mind: http://blog.earlh.com : [1.4k, 9, 9] my gf's blog about her life and our dog: http://danceswithcorg
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Props to Spain. The examples from the article are interesting: "In one case a domestic violence victim discovered that her address could be found through Google, whilst one middle aged woman was able to find information about her arrest as

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