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811.
by erehweb 13y ago
Many people use desktop at work, and this will likely continue for a while. Desktop is also often preferred for more complex tasks. Though mobile use is growing, no evidence that desktop will go way of horse-and-buggy.
812.
by erehweb 13y ago
The terms of art may be important here. Tax evasion is literally a crime, and different from tax avoidance, which is reducing your taxes by legal means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion
813.
by erehweb 13y ago
From http://www.caltax.org/member/digest/may98/may98-4.htm Almost immediately after passage, the California Supreme Court sustained Proposition 13's constitutionality in the Amador case (Amador Valley Jo
814.
5-year-old boy exposes Xbox Live security bug(aol.com)
1 points by erehweb 13y ago|1 comments
815.
by erehweb 13y ago
There was a whole bookstore in S.F. that did this for a few weeks as an art project - http://www.superherolife.com/journal/archives/000453.html
816.
Oakley Thump MP3 sunglasses review (2005)(engadget.com)
1 points by erehweb 13y ago|0 comments
817.
Anatomy of a Fusion press release(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
3 points by erehweb 13y ago|0 comments
818.
by erehweb 13y ago
They can certainly try to impact policy, but are they able to? Immigration reform is stymied, net neutrality is lost. In California, major issues include Prop 13 limiting property tax increases, resistance to development in SF, and arguab
819.
One Billion Hands: Bringing Big Data to Poker Analytics(onebillionhands.com)
10 points by erehweb 13y ago|6 comments
820.
by erehweb 13y ago
Definitely part of British English, and also an allusion to the phrase "dustbin of history".
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Why The Mobile App Will Die(adexchanger.com)
2 points by erehweb 13y ago|0 comments
822.
by erehweb 13y ago
Going from "nobody has complained" to "the customers are happy" does not seem too much of a stretch, particularly for an expensive unit. Granted, it doesn't logically follow, but I would class this as a reasonable
823.
by erehweb 13y ago
Bad in column-oriented databases like Vertica.
824.
Every neighborhood in the U.S. mapped along racial lines(slate.com)
5 points by erehweb 13y ago|0 comments
825.
Inside Match.com(ft.com)
3 points by erehweb 13y ago|0 comments
826.
by erehweb 13y ago
Worked on gender-determination for a project for a client in a U.S. male-dominated industry. Baby name gender frequencies by birth year are available online. One interesting wrinkle - can apply simple Bayesian technique - e.g. even if Pat
827.
by erehweb 13y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines continues to apply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
828.
Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
135 points by erehweb 13y ago|172 comments
829.
by erehweb 13y ago
Programmers working directly with customer is a bad idea. The skills required to program and to be client-facing are very distinct.
830.
by erehweb 13y ago
There are judicial elections. Don't know if this particular position is subject to election.
831.
by erehweb 13y ago
Consider f(x) = 0. f'(x) = 0, so never changes sign. f has infinitely many zeros.
832.
by erehweb 13y ago
Anyone who's ever gotten married will tell you that weddings are very expensive. $4.5MM is a couple of orders of magnitude above average, but not out of line - what else should they spend their money on if not a declaration of their mutual
833.
by erehweb 13y ago
You're not being unreasonable. It's an indicator of lacking attention to detail.
834.
What the Obama Campaign's Chief Data Scientist Is Up to Now(theatlantic.com)
1 points by erehweb 13y ago|0 comments
835.
by erehweb 14y ago
People don't need morning news shows either, but they are still very popular. Conveniently packaging stuff for the mass market is a reasonable use case.
836.
by erehweb 14y ago
The asking should come before the axeing.
837.
by erehweb 14y ago
Interesting, but doesn't speak too well of Google. Shouldn't Google know how people were using Google Reader before deciding to axe it? And even if that information's in a different part of the company, shouldn't the chief architect of Go
838.
Search Engines for Grownups(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
3 points by erehweb 14y ago|0 comments
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Kickstarter: muppets threaten lawsuits (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
1 points by erehweb 14y ago|0 comments
840.
by erehweb 14y ago
There's absolutely no reason to share internal data unless you have to.

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