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by gamble 16y ago
One thing I would add is that if you have any interest in graduate school, it's important to become involved in research ASAP. Research experience is an important differentiator on grad school applications and scholarships, but it's a rare
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Legacy of Bias(insidehighered.com)
1 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple Policy Changes End EU Antitrust Probe(appleinsider.com)
1 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm largely sympathetic, but it's not an entirely black-and-white issue. Some DRM systems help content creators and users. For example, Steam and hardware DRM on game consoles combat the piracy that is otherwise endemic to games and helped
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by gamble 16y ago
It would be interesting to know the male-to-female ratio in trade schools and apprenticeships. One of the reasons (white) males apply to college in lower numbers is that they have the easiest access to the good jobs that don't require a deg
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by gamble 16y ago
Many game companies already have proprietary libraries to manage the SPUs. It's still a struggle to make PS3 games look as good as the 360. In fact, I know there are at least a couple of games where the 360 version is crippled to match the
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by gamble 16y ago
How many 'freelancers' are really just temps who would take a permanent job the moment one came along? There's a huge difference between the few true freelancers with the skills and hustle to build an independent career, and the majority of
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by gamble 16y ago
The success of the iTunes music store is huge impediment for Apple in video, tv, and books. Content owners look at the way Apple dominates the music retail business, and resolve to do anything rather than let another Apple service achieve n
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by gamble 16y ago
I wouldnt point this out if it wasn't so apropos, but... This is basically the same story I submitted last night, but posted by a user with higher karma and on the front page. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1722777 Oh, the irony. =)
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Digg Redesigns, Loses More Than A Quarter of Audience(fastcompany.com)
14 points by gamble 16y ago|6 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
I've always suspected that it would discourage some OSS-focused companies from acquiring you, but I don't have any proof. It would be interesting to hear if there are any startups that had difficulty finding an exit because their product wa
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by gamble 16y ago
IBM has a policy of shipping as many jobs overseas as can be managed. They've moved tens of thousands in the last decade. What I've heard from friends suggests that it's not a pleasant environment for rank-and-file employees. AFAIK, Oracle
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Baby, You Can Rent My Car(nytimes.com)
1 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
Nokia reminds me of Nortel as it was imploding in the early 2000s. Nortel also had tens of thousands of employees and huge market share, albeit in a shrinking market. They were both technology standard-bearers in countries not normally know
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by gamble 16y ago
Because Person A is paid more than B, is older, lacks a critical skill or difficult-to-replace experience, has less seniority, has distracting family obligations where B is single, or maybe A just doesn't have as warm a personal relationshi
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by gamble 16y ago
Emphasizing that the cuts are unrelated to individual performance is very important. It always bothers me when someone excuses a layoff as an opportunity to sweep out the deadwood. That's just rationalization. The exigencies of a layoff mak
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by gamble 16y ago
None of my grandparents were in a position to work after 70. If you're able to live independently at that age and not in a home, you're doing pretty well. I'm not going to plan on being healthy enough to work.
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by gamble 16y ago
And the unemployment rate for that group is 2% lower than the overall rate. This story hams up the emotional manipulation, but the statistics it presents make it look like this group is better off .
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by gamble 16y ago
I would be surprised if the insurance companies had to depend on the honesty of their customers to know whether they'd be in collisions. Financial companies don't depend on my honesty to know if I've taken out a loan. They must share inform
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by gamble 16y ago
> If you go through the netbook models currently available on the market they are very similar to the initial 10 inch netbooks. Blame Microsoft. They dictated a set of maximum hardware specifications that netbooks had to conform to if t
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by gamble 16y ago
> you just loose your no claims bonus but surely that's reasonable? Unfortunately not. In my experience, the slightest break in insurance coverage is an excuse to push you into the highest-risk pool. It's completely ridiculous. Perhaps
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by gamble 16y ago
It's interesting how many stories appear on HN claiming that too many people have college degrees, when a historically low proportion of Americans have degrees in comparison to other nations. The proportion of Americans with degrees - aro
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by gamble 16y ago
I said it will get difficult below 22nm, not that 22nm was itself a limit. Moore's law isn't going to end at a discrete point. What will happen is that each generation will become progressively more difficult to put into production, until
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by gamble 16y ago
Experience with the iPad shows that you really, really don't want to use apps designed for a phone on a tablet. It's a stopgap measure at best, until apps are designed with that specific form-factor in mind.
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by gamble 16y ago
The consensus today is that traditional semiconductor scaling is going to get iffy below 22nm for most devices. Flash is going to hit that limit first, because it's on the leading edge with component densities doubling every 12 months or so
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm speaking anecdotally, of course. I've had pretty good luck finding scanned versions of my engineering textbooks, to put onto my iPad. There's only been a couple of obscure or OOP books that haven't been available. It does take some digg
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by gamble 16y ago
In my experience, every textbook an undergrad is likely to use is already available on a file sharing site or torrent.
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by gamble 16y ago
The academic publishers are in for a swift attitude adjustment when the average student realizes that scanned copies of almost any undergrad textbook can be found online. It seems strange to me that so many 18-22 y/o's won't pay $0.99 for a
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Why pornographers no longer love the web(economist.com)
67 points by gamble 16y ago|54 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
It'll be interesting to see if these catch on or go the way of so many "iPod killers". The iPad depends more on 3rd-party apps than a phone, and apps have been a weak point for Android so far. They'll also have to compete without the huge m

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