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by gamble 16y ago
They haven't, because putting a large amount of weight on assignments leads to endemic cheating. Exams are highly weighted because they take place in a controlled environment where students can't easily copy answers or crib off the Internet
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by gamble 16y ago
My first two startup jobs were in the Canadian health and education sectors, respectively. As government responsibilities, education and health care are covered by provincial freedom of information and privacy protection (FOIPP) laws. They
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by gamble 16y ago
The adoption of capitalism and participation in international institutions doesn't imply that China has westernized. By 'westernize', most people mean that they expect China to adopt democratic, individualistic consumer culture and a politi
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by gamble 16y ago
True, I don't want to downplay the distinctiveness of Indian culture or its ties to Pakistan. But speaking from a western, utilitarian foreign policy perspective, the aspects that are desirable about India are the parts that are distinctive
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by gamble 16y ago
Never underestimate the effect of growth, or lack thereof, on the public attitude.
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by gamble 16y ago
One of the great American foreign policy mistakes for the last fifty years has been the decision to keep India at arms length, while embracing Pakistan and China. It goes back to Cold War politics - India was suspiciously socialist and non-
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by gamble 16y ago
There's no better recruiting tool than options in a company that's about to launch a major IPO.
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by gamble 16y ago
Disagreements over policy don't strike me as a good reason to blame Obama for uncertainty. The financial crisis and the oil spill would have existed if Obama wasn't president, and the gov't reaction would have been just as controversial. I
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by gamble 16y ago
Except Netflix, unfortunately.
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by gamble 16y ago
> Many of its 2,000 members, he adds, are unwilling to invest in new initiatives while there is so much uncertainty about future policy. What is this 'uncertainty' Obama is supposed to be responsible for? I don't think Obama has been pa
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by gamble 16y ago
I cancelled my satellite service last week. We were paying $100/month for hundreds of channels, and all it amounted to was a backlog of DVR'd Family Guy and Simpson's reruns. I'm much happier so far with Netflix and AppleTV, with the occasi
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by gamble 16y ago
Is working for someone as a personal assistant really 'building relationships', though? I suspect that personal anecdotes are poor proof in this case because the huge number of low-level employees who pay their dues and get nothing out of i
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by gamble 16y ago
I think this is a common problem for any programming job that's particularly visible or technical. Most programming jobs are boring, frankly, and there are a lot of very smart people in the industry fighting for the few stimulating, high-st
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by gamble 16y ago
I know nothing about the entertainment industry, but this idea of 'putting in your dues' by working your way up from a menial position based on personal relationships has always seemed naive. Either you can do something or you can't, and wo
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by gamble 16y ago
The last thing this world needs is more people in positions of power who think that ECON 101 is all they need to know about economics.
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by gamble 16y ago
This is exactly what happens. I often work from home, and I see them do this all the time. You would think that with the explosion of personal shipping in the last fifteen years caused by the Internet, that these companies would have figure
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by gamble 16y ago
Yes, just like the original EDGE iPhone.
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by gamble 16y ago
This is also the first quarter where Apple's revenue was larger than Microsoft's: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/28/apple_beats_mi... Microsoft is still more profitable, for the moment.
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by gamble 16y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that Dropbox took off just as smartphones became popular. People use a service like Dropbox because they're juggling more than one device. Dropbox has the advantage of being available on every platform and i
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by gamble 16y ago
What? Lucent lost 90% of its value thanks to Carly's leadership, and HP's stock lost 50%. If she was effective at anything, it was destroying shareholder value by the billion.
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by gamble 16y ago
HP may be a shell of its former self these days, but they were the prototype for Silicon Valley. Hewlett and Packard were a couple of bright engineers who parlayed a clever oscillator circuit built in a garage in Palo Alto into a billion-do
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by gamble 16y ago
Sorry, but I disliked Fiorina way before it was cool. I would dislike her regardless of party, for the way she destroyed HP culture and turned my friends at Compaq into bitter, insecure husks of human beings. (Those that haven't been fire
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by gamble 16y ago
I agree, but in the case of HP I would add that the board has been entirely capable of disgracing itself independently of Fiorina. Fiorina, Hurd, and Apotheker didn't manifest out of thin air, after all.
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by gamble 16y ago
Even when she was CEO, it was widely believed within HP that Fiorina was only there to fluff up her Republican credentials in preparation for a run at higher office. The HP/Compaq merger was at least in part motivated by her desire to be th
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by gamble 16y ago
Indemnify them against lawsuits? I understand that a large part of the reason hardware manufacturers don't want open or third-party drivers is that they could be used as an excuse to troll through their product looking for potential IP viol
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by gamble 16y ago
Firefox has never looked or felt like a native application on the Mac. It didn't even have native form controls or pixel-perfect scrolling ala Safari until fairly recently.
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by gamble 16y ago
The truest measure of wealth is the degree to which working becomes a choice. It's a continuum - a little wealth gives you short-term freedom like choosing to start a business, whereas $10m+ gives you the option of doing whatever you like f
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by gamble 16y ago
Apple didn't stop piracy, but they did something almost as amazing: get the average person to spend money on software. Just look at the anemic PC software sections in any Best Buy. The average person hardly buys any PC software. Maybe a vir
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm not sure why a mobile games studio would need a publisher these days. In the bricks-and-mortar games business you go with them for distribution and marketing. (Or an advance, but mobile games are still relatively cheap to develop) I don
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by gamble 16y ago
Or just listen to or watch the classes online. Plenty of great schools have audio or video podcasts of lectures available.

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