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by easp 14y ago
In easing this, I couldn't help but think of complicated derivative schemes.
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by easp 14y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. When I first heard about the Pair social app, it was in the context of a discussion about social apps, and I never thought about Pair.com. Since then though, about half the time I've seen or heard me tionof
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by easp 14y ago
Yes, that is your experience, and you seem very aggressive about offering it us as something more than what it is, an anecdote. I don't think skipping college is necessarily a bad choice for some people, including you, but you are exhibitin
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by easp 14y ago
You've made many references to engineering jobs, but many engineering professions require not four, but five years of college, with next to no option of employment, much less advancement without it. Let's be clear, you are talking about sof
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by easp 14y ago
This is great to see. For the last week or so I've had this uneasy feeling that much of the potential of this wave of elearning was going to get strangled by patents, and other IP concerns. This looks to me to be a big chunk of openness an
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by easp 14y ago
Yeah, one of the long term benefits was that you could work there your whole career, if you wanted to. By the mid-80s though, it was clear that layoffs were to become a regular fixture of corporate life.
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by easp 14y ago
Plus, people who want a Mac, but find the RAM prices odious, can save a bunch of money for a slightly more effort. This allows apple to capture larger margins from people who aren't as price sensitive, while still Making a sale to those who
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by easp 14y ago
Plus, it is a machine with a small screen and an SSD, which means, people aren't as likely to be interacting with multiple apps, and swapping isn't as painful as it is with a spinning disk.
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by easp 14y ago
No, you really aren't paying a great deal for OS X. If you are buying a Mac because you like the hardware quality, then you should compare it to Windows machines of similar quality. If you were to do so, you would see that the Mac laptops
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by easp 14y ago
I think getting user feedback early is critically important, but most of the things you mention learning sound like things that would have been caught by what we used to call testing.
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by easp 14y ago
I'm going to point out that if significant numbers of these unemployed young people were as enlightened as some of the commentators here and had learned to program, the whole structure of the technical job market might look very different.
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by easp 14y ago
Hmmm, seems like something you could have worked around by running phantom.js against a proxy that intercepted and rerouted requests to the data collection server.
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by easp 14y ago
Have you gone back to look at the code you wrote as a teenager?
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by easp 14y ago
Seems likely. Automotive engineers, and the companies that employ them, are (appropriately) conservative about things, give the $ involved, and the safety issues. Toyota is only just starting to ship Lithium batteries in some of their hybri
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by easp 14y ago
I don't think this is closer to OLPCs goal of providing a laptop per child. OLPC was, literally, "batteries included," they even had a charging solution for the batteries. The OLPC device as a tool for kids to learn about computers and pro
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by easp 14y ago
1. His app spend estimate is for his entire household, not him individually. 2. He isn't just talking about buying things online. Note mentions of Square.
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by easp 14y ago
And your point is? Drug kingpins spend considerable effort building their operations, often at considerable risk to their own safety. Does that risk and hard work mean that we should simply accept their corrupt activity and influence? Corru
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by easp 14y ago
It seems likely that a lot of the information Facebook would want for its due diligence would already have been pulled together for the funding deal.
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by easp 14y ago
You think API requests from all those mobile clients are some how "free"? Plus, I'd guess that they are resizing photos on the server.
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by easp 15y ago
I think you dramatically overestimate Apple's profit frm apps and content relative to hardware sales.
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by easp 15y ago
Yes, clearly she was asking for it...WTF!
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by easp 15y ago
Um, no. Maybe they are transparent once you've signed up, but until you do, they are opaque. My best source of information on their actual speeds, rather than just the burst rates they advertise, was Wikipedia, and I'm sure that was at le
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by easp 15y ago
He must be old, like me. I loved Spy Magazine it was one of very few things I read for pleasure in college. Even so, I think it was instrumental for me in forming a critical view of media the included cultural, economic and political persp
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by easp 15y ago
Do they typically sell the foreign distribution rights, or an option on those rights. It is an important distinction with respect to business model. If it is an option, then the foreign distributors can wait to see how the film does domest
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by easp 15y ago
I think this is an area that is screaming for innovation. Top problems with excel: * Much of building a spreadsheet model is copy and paste programming, either literally, or aided and abetted by the ability to "fill" * you can't easily dif
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by easp 15y ago
Publicly funded projects are such an inefficient mess, in part, because of all the shit that is done to make sure that tax dollars aren't "wasted."
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by easp 15y ago
They aren't forcing you to hold their stock.
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by easp 15y ago
And many teenagers don't have a laptop of their own, and even if they do, or have a computer they can use in the house, it doesn't mean that it is theirs to break, and perhaps fix. And yes, surely some have >1 already. So what? How do
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by easp 15y ago
You may imagine that to be true, but more likely than not, you don't know what you are talking about. For one thing, Ferarri's aren't known for comfort...
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by easp 15y ago
Grrrrr. I wish someone would give Comcast some competition in Seattle's neighborhoods of single family homes, because CenturyLink, the telco, doesn't seem up to it.

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