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by floppydisk 12y ago
I'm going to push back on this otherwise excellent answer a little bit and raise the issue of company culture. While personal issues shouldn't--in the ideal sense--impact the workplace, knowingly bringing them into the fold could
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by floppydisk 12y ago
But is that what the government was gunning for them about or were they doing an 'Al capone' and targeting tax fraud? Without details of the settlement, it's just projection to say that's what the settlement concerned. T
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by floppydisk 12y ago
The point isn't that the companies were or were not doing something wrong, it's the opacity of the entire process--it's almost Kafkaesque. The government accuses them of a crime, gets a payout, and everything gets settled hus
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Ask HN: Getting a job in VC
1 points by floppydisk 12y ago|0 comments
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by floppydisk 12y ago
1. Music that's not trancey enough to help me get in the zone or quiet enough that I still hear the office. Hard to find good music that hits both sweet spots. 2. Library incompatibilities (Eclipse I'm looking at you). 3. No code
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by floppydisk 12y ago
Parent had a lot of good advice. Take the time off to build some good life habits that will carry on past college. I'd add a couple more - Read everything you can in as wide a range of subjects as you can. Building a solid base of know
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by floppydisk 12y ago
It depends on what you want to do and where you want your career to go longer term, but that's specializing. Realistically, you should start him out learning the entire stack and understanding how different pieces fit together to creat
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by floppydisk 12y ago
> Should he be able to have that information removed from search engines who provide no context and social media accounts he owned? Absolutely. By the same logic one should also provide a means for people to protest indexes and tables of
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by floppydisk 12y ago
parent has some great points. You only will really learn by doing. A couple of things you can do is start reading up on well designed systems and the gotcha stories. Personally, I track highscalability.com since I spend a lot of time workin
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by floppydisk 13y ago
It really all boils down to what problem you're trying to solve, what kind of analysis you're trying to do, and what the performance requirements are. For basic stats, R and Python will be comparable in terms of library availabili
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by floppydisk 14y ago
It's even the simple things, like build quality. A job recently required I use one of their new dell latitude enterprise laptops and I don't think I've had the privilege of using a more shoddily constructed computer. It looked cheap and the
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by floppydisk 14y ago
Peeling back the exterior and getting at the meat of the argument, I think the author is really arguing that the future "makers" of things are having their perception of the internet and computing shaped by their interactions with walled ga
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by floppydisk 14y ago
I started writing a reply and realized your question was harder than it first looked when it comes to companies like Twitter versus a service like AWS. Short Answer: AWS provides a agnostic service focused on utilization with no specific pu
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by floppydisk 14y ago
The "tale" of many of the big startups you mentioned is that they still can't figure out how to effectively monetize their platforms. For instance, if you look at Twitter, they made a huge push to get the developer ecosystem to fill in hole
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Ask HN: Tech Down South?
7 points by floppydisk 14y ago|16 comments
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by floppydisk 14y ago
This reeks of rampant selectivity and trolling by making sweeping generalizations then choosing very specific examples that "poke holes" in the chosen sacred cow. For instance: On Linux: "It can be very difficult to get hardware acceler
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by floppydisk 14y ago
In the instance of online auction marketplaces, you could create an escrow system where the seller ships the good to the auctioneer's warehouse (with some practical limitations) who verifies condition and that the good is legitimate (not st
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by floppydisk 14y ago
I had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on LinkedIn. To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruit
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by floppydisk 14y ago
Hooray! Now that recruiter who really wants to offer me a world class position(tm)(r)(c) at a unnamed world class company(tm)(r)(c), just like Facebook but located in my metro area, can call me at dinner time to inform me of the good news!
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by floppydisk 14y ago
Yes, for products we usually think of us consumer GPS products such as phones and navigation units this won't change much--unless you're willing to listen to your navigation unit's voice yelling at you to make a U-turn onto that road you dr
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by floppydisk 14y ago
I've got a 16GB iPhone and it's listed as having approximately 13GB of usable (non-OS/firmware) space. The ipad is about the same percentage, I just haven't looked at it in a while.
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by floppydisk 14y ago
I must say though, they do get a lot of bonus points for honestly laying out exactly where everything went and how much space each component takes up. On top of that, they even gave storage improvement options aren't simply giant advertisem
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by floppydisk 14y ago
Star Wars merchandise and expanded universe rights will generate an insane revenue stream (Legos, Video Games, DVD re-releases. . Hasboro toys, books, etc.) on top of a new movie coming out in 2015 that will only supercharge those streams.
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by floppydisk 14y ago
I've used Storm for a couple of projects and really liked it. It significantly simplifies building real time data pipelines and makes deploying them KISS easy. I'm really excited to see some improved metrics coming out as well--if I had one
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by floppydisk 14y ago
WACOM tablets http://www.wacom.com/en/products/bamboo.aspx
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by floppydisk 14y ago
There's an app for that.
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by floppydisk 14y ago
This really reminds me of the game Telephone. Someone whispers a message to the person on their right, who whispers it to the person their right until the circle is closed and the last person whispers the message back to the original sender
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by floppydisk 14y ago
I'm going to have to track this guy's book down. Subject looks interesting, and the nature article leaves some information lacking, sadly. For instance, Turchin mentions seeing this pattern in Ancient Rome and Egpyt (past and present) but h
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by floppydisk 14y ago
Correct, the information remains open--however, how many people are going to go about writing a new ad for each site they post on and make sure it's different enough to avoid triggering someone else's license protection? Reading real estate
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by floppydisk 14y ago
You're right, I got my wording mixed up. Still doesn't change the argument though, if they're the only licensee of the content.

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