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by gamble 16y ago
Simple economics is most of the reason Americans dont travel internationally very often. You can take a RyanAir flight from the UK almost anywhere in Europe for a fraction of the cost of any international flight out of the US. Americans who
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Apple Buys HP's Former Campus In Cupertino(appleinsider.com)
2 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
Employees should consider their options to have an expected value of $0. (With a not insignificant variance...) There are so many ways things can fail to pan out or you can get screwed, and employees simply can't protect themselves in the w
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by gamble 16y ago
The 3G never got the percentage battery meter or iOS 4 folders. There may be times when it's a hardware limitation, but it often feels like an attempt to nudge you toward an upgrade.
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by gamble 16y ago
I think they made the right decision. The orientation lock is still available on the task switching bar, which is a better place for it since there's no need to lock orientation unless the iPad is already unlocked and in use. The problem wi
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by gamble 16y ago
RC aircraft are distinguished by weight restriction, direct line-of-sight operation, and purpose. The latter is what kills commercial drones. If you offer a commercial service, it isn't hobbyist RC. It's like ham radio in the sense that you
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by gamble 16y ago
We're in a cheap money environment and tech companies are sitting on piles of cash they're genetically predisposed not to distribute back to shareholders. There's only one place for it to go: acquisitions. Meaning we see more deals at highe
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by gamble 16y ago
Don't try operating this commercially in the US or Canada. Drones aren't exempt from FAA rules just because they resemble RC aircraft. (In fact, the rules are more stringent since drones are still new and have failure modes that traditional
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by gamble 16y ago
Inspections, subcritical testing, and computer simulation. The Russian solution is much simpler: when their bombs reach their shelf life, they're recycled into new weapons. Like the Soyuz versus the Space Shuttle, it's a lot easier to just
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm sure this is true for any sufficiently complex engineering project that wasn't wound down with an eye towards restarting it later. It's practically impossible externalize all the practical details that the individual engineers hold in t
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by gamble 16y ago
Yep, you'd think that an easy cash sale would be attractive to car salesmen, but it screws with their compensation system to a degree that they'd just as soon tell you to suck a lemon. I suspect the reason a lot of dealerships created 'Inte
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by gamble 16y ago
One of Scott Adams' great insights, but I'm surprised more people don't notice it. Any time you have a professional seller and an amateur buyer, confusion is the persuasion technique of choice. Car dealerships institutionalized the practice
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by gamble 16y ago
The salaries I saw advertised were mostly around the lower end of that range (~35k GBP) for London. Less elsewhere. In Canada, that's starting salary for someone fresh out of university. $80k-100k CAD would be a good salary for an experienc
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by gamble 16y ago
My husband and I are both programmers, and as he has dual UK/Canadian citizenship we were looking into a move to the UK. We found that developer salaries in the UK were shockingly low, even in comparison to Canada. (Which is itself not exac
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by gamble 16y ago
Anyone who teaches these days needs to keep in mind that pirated solutions manuals are easily obtained online for almost any text. Using problem sets or exams that are provided by a publisher for any course component with significant weight
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by gamble 16y ago
Job advice: never be the guy who spends his day writing 'documents'. 'Write-only media' is not just a clever pun.
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by gamble 16y ago
The answer is that most large companies aren't run like centrally-planned economies. Executives may imagine themselves as generals at the head of an obedient army, but they are in reality deeply dependent on the actions of middle manager
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Defying Trend, Canada Lures More Migrants(nytimes.com)
4 points by gamble 16y ago|5 comments
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Are Canadian Universities 'Too Asian'?(www2.macleans.ca)
43 points by gamble 16y ago|49 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, I think the tech industry has consistently overestimated how much people want to interact with their television. TV is a fundamentally passive experience. Basic DVRs are probably pushing the limit of how much thought most people want
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Carriers May Block Windows Phone 7 Updates(arstechnica.com)
5 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
> this concern that the US manufacturing industry is dying or dead is a myth The counter-meme that US manufacturing is still strong is also something of a myth. The biggest components of the manufacturing sector are things that most peo
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by gamble 16y ago
If you look at company reviews on glassdoor.com, you'll notice that people either complain that their company has too many layers of management, or that there are no opportunities for advancement. I've never heard anyone claim that Apple is
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by gamble 16y ago
Thanks to the government response to the financial crash, large companies are sitting on mountains of cash they can use for stock buybacks to offset the dilution from issuing options. Not to mention that the stock market is still depressed.
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by gamble 16y ago
Are you a government bureaucrat desperate to leaven all the recent talk of cutbacks and austerity with a touch of high-tech fairy dust? Enjoy the idea of hobnobbing with exciting personalities like Steve Ballmer and Mark Hurd? Follow my sim
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by gamble 16y ago
It's not only about the money, but it's still about money. No matter what the company's 'mission', anything that changes the distribution of equity or profits will bring out that truth awfully quick.
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by gamble 16y ago
And yet, even with the most amateur and underfunded campaign imaginable and opposition at all levels of government, it still got ~45% of the vote in a year that heavily favored conservatives. I choose not to interpret this as a setback for
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by gamble 16y ago
Good for them. I heartily encourage News Corp to put all of their newspapers behind pay walls. In fact, if my meager contribution were enough to convince them, I would be the first in line to pay so that all of their television news could
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Polio: The Deadly Summer of 1956(independent.co.uk)
1 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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A Superpower in Decline: Is the American Dream Over?(spiegel.de)
5 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments

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