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by frogpelt 11y ago
This is more a press release than reportable news. The companies were sold last year.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Good point. I assumed a 1-year, $33-million was just as bad as a long term deal but it may not have been.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
You sound paranoid.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
You're right, bureaucracy/red tape generally increases with size. But the federal government is distinctly different in one major way: private corporations must make money. The federal government is immune to going out of business
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by frogpelt 11y ago
The federal government has proven more times than any other organization that they are inept and inefficient at almost every task they undertake. And yet the people all but demand that they do more, more, more. Please! Take more of my money
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Very few would vote for a redrawing.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
This is true. But I've noticed that when playing basketball I'm more willing to give a shooter an open shot in this area than behind the arc or a few steps inside of it. It made me realize why some players are willing to take a s
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by frogpelt 11y ago
This is revisionist history. Jordan was signing 1 year contracts for 30+ million and that was 20 years ago.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
It wouldn't be weird if the specific search engine mentioned was Google.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Not even close. Very few people/companies get rich by not caring about their users or customers. Most "greedy" corporations are actually improving the lives of their users or customers at least from the customers' perspe
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by frogpelt 11y ago
So, I guess the point of the notebook was probably not the statistics but the scraping and plotting of the data. And furthermore, the author just used the data that Bloomberg used here: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data&#
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Is it meaningful to compare the median annual income of software engineers to the average annual income of the general population? I'm legitimately curious, what is the statistical significance of an average versus a median?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
We better get used to hardware-as-a-service. Cars will soon be all-electric, self-driving and pretty much unrepairable. IoT and smart devices will push everything to subscription model. Your television and the Internet will no longer be the
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Then what?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
The smart/connected device companies seem to be headed toward Hardware-as-a-Service for a business model. It's unsettling.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Good luck with that. Because if they lose, then you pay to bail them out again.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
More cities? This sounds like a solution China would come up with.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Absentee parents are bad parents regardless of affluence. But bad parents are bad regardless of whether they are present or absent.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Hilarious. Apple wouldn't give the FBI access but now the FBI should give Apple access to their information? This conversation has jumped the shark.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Facebook/Zuckerberg have obviously been successful because this particular motto has been dissected countless times in blog posts and HN comments. Try this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fast+break
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Different methods of governing can basically all boil down to a simple balance scale: On one side you have the rights of the individual and on the other side you have the rights of the community. Some people tend to lean the scale toward in
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Have you been to a restaurant lately and noticed the tables of people not looking at each other but at their phones?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
But interesting =/= useful, most of the time.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
And yet she didn't get to experience what my great-grandmother did, which was to live in parts of three centuries. She was born in 1899 and died in 2002. Admittedly, she probably didn't remember the first '99.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Walmart still meets or beats them on price many times and I can buy online and pick it up on my way home which is effectively same-day delivery.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
It's sad for Apple. Apple is a business. They want to sell new hardware. How is this confusing?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
This is so silly. Apple is a company that makes money when you buy their products. If there are 600 million people who are using something besides one of their product they are going to say that those people should use their products inste
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by frogpelt 11y ago
In addition to the tuna?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
I maintain a rather large code base and have found several // FIXME comments in random places, put there by people who no longer work here.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Buzzfeed is reporting stock offerings? Who knew?

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