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by earl 14y ago
A consistent email format is only useful for companies too lazy to set up a directory service in their email clients. And personal names are way easier to remember for people outside the organization.
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by earl 14y ago
Oh my fucking god. I need an MRI. stat.
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by earl 14y ago
In theory, I agree. In practice, college is a very useful signal. And it's not just the coursework from the college major. College demonstrates a variety of soft skills: time management, the ability to plan and meet deadlines, the abilit
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by earl 14y ago
For the millionth time: If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. [1] This is the inevitable end game of developing for a platform where the majority of users refuse to pay for applicat
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by earl 14y ago
Dude, were you arsed to see what Ars offers for their $5/month? Because IN GIANT BOLD TYPE, they offer -- and I'm quoting -- "Ad free, premier page layouts." http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/ So, to summarize: (1) You don't want to "
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by earl 14y ago
nm it's open to all. I'm planning on learning to read any time now.
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by earl 14y ago
Congrats on launching! When do I get an invite?
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by earl 14y ago
LinkedIn is the world's premier social network for professionals. I'd imagine there's a lot of ways to make money off that besides their current scheme of basically charging recruiters a ton of money. Just to throw wild ideas out: build m
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by earl 14y ago
So $120k and (very expensive) lottery tickets is what you're saying =P
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by earl 14y ago
Who is paying $200k for entry besides maybe google?
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by earl 14y ago
@NyxWulf: where do you work / email me / curious
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by earl 14y ago
pmb is (correctly) saying that there is, by definition, no shortage of big data people. There's just a shortage at the (obviously below market clearing) price employers wish to pay. Also, you're ignoring the steep lead time to become a de
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by earl 14y ago
I was curious if browsing via ip still works, and at least for Y! it does. $ dig yahoo.com [ ... ] ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 1153 IN A 98.139.183.24 plugging 98.139.183.24 into the omnibar on chrome leads to yahoo just
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by earl 14y ago
Maybe try this introduction to web publishing with wordpress [1]. Google cache of the blog post: Also, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... [1] http://codelesson.com/courses/view/introduction-to-web-publi...
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by earl 14y ago
And yet companies (and I'm going through this with my employer right now!) refuse to consider remote workers. Working in the bay area is kind of a shitty deal: evaluated economically, it's probably a better bet to live in the midwest where
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by earl 14y ago
Not in sf or nyc. a low end (not dumpy, but definitely not high end with a doorman) 2 bed apartment is going to run you $650k in the decent bits of sf and more in nyc. In sf, you end up paying approx $1100 per month per million dollars of v
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by earl 14y ago
I am not a lawyer. If this is of concern to you, you should see a real live employment lawyer in the state in which you will work. That said, CA law (and I saw the word California in that document) places some restrictions on invention ass
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by earl 15y ago
Our corgi broke his spine 18 months ago [1] (enormous incision [2]), and was fully paralyzed from the midsection down. We had an operation performed and he's now kind of ok, but permanently restricted from going up or down stairs or any ki
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by earl 15y ago
Anyone looking to hire in the Bay? Are you kidding me? Easier to make a (short) list of who isn't hiring in the bay right now. If you want to work on hadoop / clusters / ad tech / rtb, send email to ehathaway at quantcast and I
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by earl 15y ago
I think Y! Research has contributed (1) hadoop enhancements (a friend works there on exactly that), which are a nontrivial cost savings given the size of Y's deployed clusters (2) ad matching tech, which should be considered of the highest
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by earl 15y ago
Just a quick point: Yahoo is quite profitable [1], just not as profitable as some investors wish. I only see one quarter of the last 20 with negative EPS. http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/YHOO/tab/5 edit: Also, I see essentially no hope for Y
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by earl 15y ago
I love this anecdote: Likewise, when Jobs was shown a cluttered set of proposed navigation screens for iDVD, which allowed users to burn video onto a disk, he jumped up and drew a simple rectangle on a whiteboard. “Here’s the
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by earl 15y ago
I think you didn't really get to the motivation, which is simply that the carriers want a piece.
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by earl 15y ago
It may be a throwaway because his employer doesn't yet know about this. I've had something I posted here (about maybe looking for a new job) come up at work. It actually led to a good conversation with my boss, but that isn't a preordaine
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by earl 15y ago
Paypal does bring with them a strong reputation for enjoying fucking their customers. I and my gf refuse to have anything to do with them, and if they're the only option offered, I simply won't buy.
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by earl 15y ago
Annie: _why was a public figure. The person behind _why was deliberately not. That person decided to kill _why, and the integrious thing to do is to respect his decision, particularly in light of the fact that he's not some criminal shunn
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by earl 15y ago
Isn't that windows sharepoint? And I think it is a huge business. See also yammer (that's probably where they're going, no?), box.net, and atlassian's products (jira, wiki, etc).
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by earl 15y ago
I personally hate graph algorithms and all the stupid associated questions. I have to spend two weeks reviewing all that stuff every time I change jobs to go ahead and never ever use it again. It simply never comes up in the type of wor
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by earl 15y ago
You may be blocking cookies; I had the same problem. (1) Click on cookie on far right of chrome bar. (2) click show cookies and other site data. (3) click on blocked; (4) click on static1.scirra.net and choose allow or allow for session and
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by earl 15y ago
Yahoo Research should have a big role to play in the company's future if Thompson was serious about yahoo being a data company. They work on lots of interesting ad matching / targeting tech. Thompson can't be that stupid, can he? I can't

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