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by earl 16y ago
edit: nm, thanks bbatsell original comment: Yeah, except if you use them for dns -- which I prefer to leave on my registrar -- they're assholes who spam everyone who mistypes a subdomain. Better yet, they throw ads on there and pocket the
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by earl 16y ago
sorry, that was my point. I use dropbox, and I knew they hashed files, but I didn't think through the implications.
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by earl 16y ago
I go to Heavenly and Kirkwood basically every weekend in ski season -- at least until I broke my ankle mid March -- and I'd say the demographics at Heavenly match sf pretty well. Kirkwood less so, but I'd guess that's the difficulty gettin
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by earl 16y ago
Not to mention stupidity like this: "hoice of occupation also plays an important role in earnings. While feminists suggest that women are coerced into lower-paying job sectors, most women know that something else is often at work. Women gra
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by earl 16y ago
It's far from obvious that some crusading DA can pick files and force dropbox to tell him or her who has copies of that file.
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by earl 16y ago
you can also hold down ctrl and scroll up or down the trackpad with two fingers to magnify the whole screen. Really helpful for zooming in when your laptop is hooked up to a projector.
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by earl 16y ago
This wasn't used in jest -- the owner of the bed and breakfast in Vicksburg, MS was giving us a tour of her house the next morning and casually mentioned the war of northern aggression in the context of the civil war era siege of the city.
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by earl 16y ago
I'm pretty sure OSM did start initiatives in Africa to do this.
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by earl 16y ago
The original poster specifically said, "not particularly well known for having a strong tech culture". I read that to exclude at least the research triangle and Austin.
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by earl 16y ago
I don't like driving and I prefer to live in a city with good public transport. I want to have lots of employment alternatives. I'm an atheist and quite happy with it. I'm allergic to anyone who says, "The war of northern aggression." The
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by earl 16y ago
Social is apparently so important that one of the founders of Google has concluded their lack of it is an existential threat. What should the punishment then be for execs of Google fucking up one of their best shots at social? Setting and
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by earl 16y ago
Pure invention is overrated. While it's nice if a technology exists in a lab somewhere or in somebody's head, I don't really care. Microsoft put cheap GUI computing on everbody's desk and broke the vertical hardware micromonopolies, commod
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by earl 16y ago
Dennis Crowley has to be one of the single best examples of jdp23's point. Google bought 4square v1 nee Dodgeball, and had one of the people with what seems to be the best insights into social / gamification / local in house. That he left
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by earl 16y ago
Perhaps related to the nuclear test ban treaty [1], which is not in force? There was a partial test ban treaty [2] in the 60s. I'm not informed at all about nuclear politics, but perhaps some combination of better physics knowledge and/or
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by earl 16y ago
Hence physician assistants. Stanford's program takes 1.5 years post ba. They can do most/all of what doctors and surgeons can do, but they may require a doctor to sign off on what they do; this varies by state. See http://www.princetonr
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by earl 16y ago
Has anyone noticed salaries rising in correlation with this supposed demand? I personally haven't seen salaries rising as much as I would have thought...
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by earl 16y ago
Amazon should be paying taxes in CA -- they have a major dev shop here [1]. a2z is right off market street in sf, and while they somehow managed to finagle their way out of being technically employed by amazon, employees there (1) receive
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by earl 16y ago
The article's thesis seems to be that you can't actually -- or it's very difficult -- to run a successful business on etsy, particularly given etsy's requirement that everything be handmade. This in turn is bad for etsy, since sellers will
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by earl 16y ago
AR?
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by earl 16y ago
Yeah. Having to pay people when they work for you. What sort of crazy shit will people dream up next?
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by earl 16y ago
If that were a random sample you'd be completely wrong -- that's more than enough to get extremely accurate numbers. What's more likely is that compete is based on a panel [1] [2], and the members of that panel tend not to include the type
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by earl 16y ago
You simply can't give unlimited post-contract support -- it's unreasonable for them to expect it and it's unreasonable for you to give it. In a better situation, as zck said, you should have this written into your contract. Lesson learned.
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by earl 16y ago
Only if, in your opinion, special treatment is equivalent to the community not acting like misogynistic assholes, or at least tolerating such behavior. Similarly, gay people will tend not to feel welcome at homophobic places, black people
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by earl 16y ago
I was fortunate enough to visit Star City while in Russia in 2004 or so. There is a statue of Yuri Gagarin there, and according to an engineer at the facility, it is a popular place to get married. I don't have a hard time believing that e
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by earl 16y ago
What bugs me about Alex's post is that he started at twitter what -- 9 months in? I think I read that somewhere. So it's not to hard to imagine that, given his early start date, and given Twitter's amazing valuations, and given that some
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by earl 16y ago
As was clearly pointed out, seller feedback -- over which you have no control -- is also public. And from your CEO's statement: "We do have plans to give buyers on Etsy the ability to hide feedback for certain purchases. We certainly appre
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by earl 16y ago
This particular official (or his office, honestly) doesn't have much to gain from downplaying the possibility of a meltdown This is the same Japan, you'll remember, that actually doctored video footage to downplay a previous accident
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by earl 16y ago
Good luck James.
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Yeah. In particular, Joel's blog is essentially a giant ad for everything Fog Creek makes. Not that that's a bad thing -- I tried Fogbugz because I found it through Joel, was willing to give it a try because I thought highly of his writin
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by earl 16y ago
Considering that you still need a mac, I don't see how much difference it makes. Note that I still think it's a terribly stupid idea.

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