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by frossie 15y ago
Talent acquisitions make me sad because they reduce diversity in the product place. I find it hard to believe that a company with 2,000 talented engineers will put out as much interesting stuff as 100 shops of 20 talented engineers. Also, w
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by frossie 15y ago
It's not a petition. It is a form that emails your congressperson, which it derives from your address (you can either include your own message or use their form letter).
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by frossie 15y ago
The whole stay-abroad until you see "their" point of view is admirable. The flip side is that after that, you can never really go home. I mean obviously you can physically, but you give up your ability to fit in with your own people. This m
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by frossie 15y ago
Aside from the STD issue, a condom is a contraception method that is instantly verifiable. "It's okay baby, I have had the invisible sperm destroying procedure" is a bit harder to check.
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by frossie 15y ago
I am one of those people who asked for a Bank Simple invite. At the time I had an account at a bricks-and-mortar bank. Since then I have switched to ING Direct and in some ways I am a harder sell. But I will say this: UI does matter. It's n
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by frossie 15y ago
I am amazed how many people in the field don't read Ars Technica. If there is a better source for quality tech and science news reporting, I haven't found it.
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by frossie 15y ago
Also, once you get to the FAQ it's not obvious how to jump back to the landing page. Do you really want to send me to the posterous home page after I just read up about you?
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by frossie 15y ago
Marco (or rather Instapaper) is not the garden variety app. I have noticed that many apps, especially games, launch as free in order to garner reviews, and then switch to paid later. Some sites (eg. AppAdvice) will not promote free apps unl
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by frossie 15y ago
I don't think any chair will give you great posture, (though the wrong one will definitely make things worse). You need actual exercise for that. In case you don't have $$$$ to spend on a high end chair, remember that the reason chairs cos
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by frossie 15y ago
Well the question is whether people mind. For example most web content aimed at kids is flash-based (pbskids etc) so you can't play those on the iPad; but then if you have an iPad there are many equivalent native games that you can use for
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by frossie 15y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that creating an alternate currency is strictly illegal. IANAL either, but I would be interested in a citation on that. My understanding is that say in the US (a) you can't print US dollars (becau
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by frossie 15y ago
One day of the week is team lunch day (and a longer lunch at that) There is nothing better than a 2-hour team lunch in a park, on nice sunny day. You don't need to do it every day, or even every week, but it has many of the advantages wit
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by frossie 15y ago
If I understood correctly, OP said that the Dropbox CTO stated the DMCA was "an accident". Why didn't they say it was "fake" if it was, ya know, fake?
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by frossie 15y ago
In Greece, for example, it is unthinkable for an ad to acknowledge the competition, Many countries have advertising standards that, if not outright prohibit negative advertising, at least set the bar very high as to what can be said and w
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by frossie 15y ago
sometimes I want to sit at home in silence or listen to music, and othertimes sitting at a coffee shop with a lot of ambient noise helps me get into the zone Sounds like a DIY version of the Hawthorne effect - you just need to occasionall
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by frossie 15y ago
Is there a need to name him/her? I find myself saying "I'll ask The Duck" as the equivalent of "I'll google it". I don't feel I need to get more personal than that :-)
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by frossie 16y ago
Then make those people a class of superusers, but do so invisibly. That actually reminds me of the metacritic scheme. IIRC they take reviews and then (a) translate them into a numeric score according to some method they don't tell you abo
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by frossie 16y ago
So, this is a good idea, but won't replace actual postcards for me Well I have been doing this with the Postino iOS app for a couple of years now and it has replaced postcards for me (though obviously I don't expect it to do so for ever
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by frossie 16y ago
Big shame. While in the SCO case groklaw was useful as an information source and an advocacy conduit, I feel there is a need for detailed coverage on court cases that revolve around technical issues or major technical players, even if the
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by frossie 16y ago
"few things rile me up like a manager giving me directives to 'evangelize' products to my family" Few things make me worry more about the product too. If it was good, you wouldn't need to order people to evangelize it. They would be doing i
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by frossie 16y ago
It's a bit strange, if you read the follow on thread the person who presumably sent the email claims he did not make any legal threats, and his email was merely "abrasive". http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-Apr...
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Color App Is Universally Slammed, Especially By One Reviewer(appadvice.com)
6 points by frossie 16y ago|1 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
I like this. Your model has a long history - the no-choice "prix fixe" dinner at the neighbourhood eatery in many European cities. The delivery option seems a neat way to transport it to the (generally) non-walkable US environment - I suspe
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by frossie 16y ago
I think this article is perfectly valid. Of course it is. My bigger surprise is that it doesn't feature what I now think of as the ultimate Dropbox evangelising line: "It's a folder. That syncs". [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=215
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by frossie 16y ago
The biggest problem I've seen with performance reviews is that most managers actually spend very little time actually working with or observing their employees. Flip side: if you are a small enough group that know each other very well, pe
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by frossie 16y ago
The content is free to the end user. In the event it has ads (certainly not all I donate to do), my access through readability is no different from using AdBlock on my browser or even, in my case, completely failing to notice ads. The point
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by frossie 16y ago
It's actually worse than that. Readability is passing money to publishers for FREE CONTENT. Its model is not a purchase or even a subscription - it is essentially a donation. I don't have to pay to see this content, I choose to. I wonder ho
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by frossie 16y ago
try to name your kids something normal Normal to whom? Aside from cultural issues, and aside from the notion that people should name the children to make up for the lack of a proper personal identification system on the Internet, that shi
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by frossie 16y ago
I think the angst is not so much because of a perceived temporal decline; rather because of an unstated expectation that the U.S. should be first. This is possibly aggravated by the fact that nobody knows for sure why the test scores are lo
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by frossie 16y ago
If you mean webreakstuff.com, may I gently suggest you have a landing page that does not make explicit reference to 2010...

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