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by freejack 13y ago
If you knew any of the people involved in pushing the agenda that lead to the policy, you wouldn't be so quick to discount the view that this is a malicious act.
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by freejack 13y ago
The problem that needs to be solved is support availability through telephone and email channels. There's no reason for companies to force their customers to sit on hold and there's no reason to drive them through complicated voic
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by freejack 13y ago
Two things: - a GPS lock can easily be defeated by the earnest with a GPS simulator, about a $2k fix. This isn't a great solution for the honest buyer, but anyone with ill intention could easily activate these in Kansas and re-export t
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by freejack 13y ago
What makes me absolutely, terribly sick is the extent to which the USG waves its hands to dismiss the seriousness of the extent and reach of the NSA's domestic data gathering activities and at the same time deciding that Swartz's
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by freejack 13y ago
My advice is this: You and your co-founders should each take a couple of days (separately, not together) off, away from the office, in some quiet contemplative place (most hotels in America fit the bill) where you can each do some thinking
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by freejack 13y ago
I've found that the notion of the "Ideal Customer" is only useful when I'm able to line up the expectations of that customer with what our product can actually deliver. When I've been able to refer to that customer
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by freejack 13y ago
I read this story and I couldn't help but think about the actual extent of the pressure that was brought to bear on Aaron Swartz and whether or not there's a lot more to that story than we've been made aware of.
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by freejack 13y ago
No. In fairness to the operators though, I tend to think of these just like any other startup - they don't need my support for their business plan in order to give it a shot - so long as they can fund it and find customers, who am I
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by freejack 13y ago
Interesting. What is "Style management" in this context? I'm assuming the ability to modify a style once and have it applied to the whole document?
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by freejack 13y ago
I'm kinda surprised to see this. I'm a big iWork user and I didn't really miss any of the features they took out. I mean, not having those features didn't affect my ability to do my job, so I didn't really know if t
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by freejack 13y ago
I've followed this story since the beginning and I'm more convinced than ever that Flint would have eventually killed himself on his bike, with or without Strava. This article makes it exceptionally clear that Flint is a classic &
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by freejack 13y ago
The biggest suggestion I could offer would be to give your potential customers a reason to use it - ask them a question on the conversion page that qualifies them as a customer - i.e. "Want to spend your money more effectively?" o
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by freejack 13y ago
"Rapid takedown" was foisted on us in 1999 when the original registrar agreements were being negotiated at ICANN. At the time, it was held out as a threat - agree to rapid takedown, or be subject to US regulation. At the time we d
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by freejack 13y ago
I wonder how these costs fluctuate by position and country. It'd be interesting to see how these costs adjust for our own companies.
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Mass Shooting at Washington Naval Yard: 6 dead, multiple shooters(cbc.ca)
2 points by freejack 13y ago|0 comments
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by freejack 13y ago
Definitely fun. A few of the random's seemed familiar enough that I wanted to search through old business cards and Linkin contacts to see if someone I know was actually using them ;-)
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by freejack 13y ago
A great list. I'd add - Understand the cost of fitting in. Being truly outstanding at what you do sometimes means you need to do it by yourself. Fitting in is comfortable, and will rarely lead to excellence and deep personal satisfacti
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by freejack 13y ago
I don't see how considering the social implications of scientific change is a diversion, YMMV.
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by freejack 13y ago
Fair point.
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by freejack 13y ago
I'm not saying "don't bitch about paypal", I'm saying "paypal doesn't carry a lot of risk in the first place".
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by freejack 13y ago
I'm going to try and say this in the most warm and well-intended way possible. I wonder how long it will take before someone from the Christian right claims that if science can reverse DS in mice that it won't be long before we ca
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by freejack 13y ago
yeah, I totally agree. My only nit was your claim that Paypal bears risk. Its true that their model comes with risk and they've built their business model in a way that they shift it to third parties as extensively and quickly as possi
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by freejack 13y ago
Nope, Paypal only eats the risk if they release funds. They rarely release funds on high risk accounts, at least not without retaining a rolling deposit.
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by freejack 13y ago
Whoa there. Paypal loses nothing to fraud. Just like all the other middlemen, Visa, MC, etc., they shift their losses onto the merchants. The way this works out is that Mailpile files an answer to Paypal's RFI, Paypal reviews it and sa
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by freejack 13y ago
We run a psychometric test on every candidate that walks through the front door. The ones that get hired get their test results in a sit down with HR and the option to share the test results with their colleagues. I don't get to see th
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by freejack 13y ago
I lost interest at the tasteless killing your ex-girlfriend joke...
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by freejack 13y ago
Oh, that's awesome eh! I can't wait to put up my "Brew in a Canoe" project!
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by freejack 13y ago
Are you a mouse user or do you use a touchpad? I have a theory that the new OSX scrollbars only really work for touchpad users and everyone with a mouse hates them ;)
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by freejack 13y ago
With apologies to the original... "You tell everybody. Listen to me. Hatcher. You've gotta tell 'em! SOYLENT IS MARKETING SPIN! We gotta stop them! Somehow! Listen! Listen to me… PLEASE!!!" I'm not judging and I wis
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by freejack 13y ago
nothing to see here. its just showing that the query syntax for whois (in the wild) is broken. Its showing name servers with hostnames that match the query. I first read about this on Slashdot in 1998 (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating that

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