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by ekanes 16y ago
Still, a power law applies and you can get huge gains by punishing the biggest offenders and moving down from there. And yes, spammers can always restart, but the sandbox helps with that.
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by ekanes 16y ago
The bigger you are, the clearer it becomes if you have gender biases in your hiring, pay or advancement. Walmart is a current example. eg. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/business/04lawsuit.html?_r...
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by ekanes 16y ago
>> Piracy is not theft. No, some piracy is not theft. And some is.
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by ekanes 16y ago
Bank of America's budget vs Internet's creativity... I wonder how this will turn out?
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by ekanes 16y ago
Aside: how come people are voting this comment down so hard? Even if it's incorrect, it's not nasty or ill-spirited. Shouldn't it be left at a "1"?
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by ekanes 16y ago
If you scribble a silly poem called "Green Froggy Dance!" on a soggy napkin and tuck it under your mattress, that work is still copyright. It's not registered, so your damages in case of infringement aren't the same, but nonetheless your wo
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by ekanes 16y ago
I'm in a similar boat, though I used caffeine mints to gently ease down that slope, reducing by one mint a day. Worked great. In terms of creativity, taking time off from tech helps a lot, and the occasional cup of coffee does as well, wit
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by ekanes 16y ago
[Mac only] Of that list, I'm pretty impressed with (and just bought) Divvy - it elegantly improves window resizing/moving options for Mac users.
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by ekanes 16y ago
If you like this stuff, you will love Jeff Potter's "Cooking for Geeks" http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Geeks-Science-Great-Hacks/dp/0...
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by ekanes 16y ago
I don't see what's wrong with saying "no problem" honestly. In statements like this, so much more is conveyed with your tone of voice, facial expression and body language. If you meant it, you could have said "have a nice day!" "sure thin
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by ekanes 16y ago
Flagged; while this could be technically of interest to hackers, it's much more likely to cause flamewars and religion discussions.
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by ekanes 16y ago
Showing how many comments is a good improvement. Consider only posting when the other thread has comments, otherwise it's a waste of space and a distraction (why would anyone leave the perfectly-good version they're on to go to an empty o
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by ekanes 16y ago
True, but the effect popped more because your eyes were physically closed and your brain knew it.
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by ekanes 16y ago
Tough love: I like that you're putting yourself out there, but you could make it a slam dunk by offering your services to others as well, even just to show how badly you want it. (Blogging about how much you deserve it doesn't count.) No m
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by ekanes 16y ago
How many times have you called back? Generally, every time you call, you'll have another shot at it. Even if they're taking/referencing notes, if your case truly is reasonable, someone will make it happen on their end. In every case, that's
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by ekanes 16y ago
We can't explore all possibilities because of our limited time, so people use simple heuristics to get by. Prior experience/information always trumps no experience/information.
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by ekanes 16y ago
They break out contributions by OS, which is kinda neat to see. Admittedly an outlier could move the needle if they really want to throw some money down. ~4k individual purchases. Average contribution: Windows $5.48 Mac $7.09 Linux $11.
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by ekanes 16y ago
Flagging, because this leans much more political than technical. It's more about Michael Moore than anything else.
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by ekanes 16y ago
Couldn't someone deduce that his hotmail password is abcho123? Edit: If they compromised one of his other accounts...
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by ekanes 16y ago
1 year is still far too short (and only a touch longer than the current 270 days). 5 years is more reasonable. It costs them so very little to keep the data, and it costs people so dearly to lose emotionally important stuff over a techn
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by ekanes 16y ago
>> In those cases, I open up the efreedom link and click through to SO. This seems to be happening more and more. I completely understand why you're doing that, but you should know that's seen by the Goog as a big +1 for efreedom.
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by ekanes 16y ago
The whole thing is an ad for Keynotopia, so it's not that surprising. That said, a hugely useful ad, which has me pretty excited about trying Keynote for mocking up an iphone app. I didn't know Keynote could do hyperlinks.
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by ekanes 16y ago
If your wife might be interested in writing beginner's tutorials for some HTML basics, please ask her to get in touch with me. Thanks and good luck with it!
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by ekanes 16y ago
The leaks have been on the home page of the NY Times for days.
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by ekanes 16y ago
> I'll happily play show-and-tell with the non-proprietary parts if folks want, after it launches. I'd love to hear more about this, thank you.
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by ekanes 16y ago
If the locals are "just as bad if not worse" why did you single out Hasidic jews? Yikes.
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by ekanes 16y ago
Fantastic thanks. Running with that and extending it a bit.. I want it to turn distractions off between 8am to 11am, I'm doing it with hosts.on and hosts.off, so I can have it all come back online again at 11am. Cheers!
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by ekanes 16y ago
I use the /etc/hosts block, but defeat myself if I edit it... would you be willing to share the cron job? Much oblidged!
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by ekanes 16y ago
This book is made of win. Please pass along an encouragement to make it available on Amazon if possible. I'm sure he's thought of it, but please add a +1 to the thought. For better or worse, lots of people buy there because the checkout/
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by ekanes 16y ago
Specifically, successful entrepreneurs are persistent.

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