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871.
by gamble 17y ago
It doesn't seem like there's as much incentive to misclassify employees as independent contractors in Canada. With government-provided health care and low/no payroll taxes, it isn't as lucrative to substitute contractors for full-time emplo
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by gamble 17y ago
The Japanese also had a reputation as 'skillful mimics' in the US during the 1950s and 60s. It wasn't long before they could outdo their mentor.
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by gamble 17y ago
Even worse, many companies (Microsoft included, apparently) have an up-or-out mentality where you either graduate to management or are shown the door.
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by gamble 17y ago
Honestly, if Swift had published "A Modest Proposal" on a blog, he'd have been hammered in the comments for ignoring that French children are obviously tastier.
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by gamble 17y ago
Unless you're talking about the truly elderly, that's not true. The average age of an entrepreneur in the US is about 38. (The average age of successful entrepreneurs is even older) It skews younger in tech, but the middle aged are still
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by gamble 17y ago
Not on the desktop - but definitely on the server. The public Internet pretty much runs on Linux today, whereas Microsoft servers are all but confined to corporate IT departments. Imagine how much more money Microsoft would be making if the
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by gamble 17y ago
I noticed a theme while reading reviews of tech companies on Glassdoor: people either complained that a company had too much bureaucracy and layers of management, or they complained there was no room for advancement.
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by gamble 17y ago
This and unenforceable noncompetes are probably the two biggest things in California's favor. It's amusing how much lip service politicians give to the importance of small business, when protecting these two rights would promote them more e
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by gamble 17y ago
The real irony is that diamonds are all but worthless on the secondary market. You'd probably get more for the gold it's set into.
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by gamble 17y ago
It really depends on the field. Mechanical and civil engineers are the most likely to get a PE, whereas electrical and computer engineers are IIRC the least likely. Mechanical and civil engineers are just more likely to be in situations whe
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by gamble 17y ago
They'll still need that spyware-ridden computer to use the iPad.
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by gamble 17y ago
99% is probably being charitable to Apple. The iPad's limitations will only be known once people get their hands on them, but I think you can extrapolate from experience with the iPod Touch and Apple TV. All of Apple's devices are limited t
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by gamble 17y ago
My 3G is unresponsive regardless of what app is running or whether an app is using the CPU. Even the springboard locks up at times. It's the OS itself (or the 3G hardware, more likely) that's the problem. Not saying that multitasking wouldn
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by gamble 17y ago
I hope it doesn't take a decade for the publishing industry to come to the same conclusion as the music business and ditch DRM. There's no way that I'm going to spend $15 on a book that can only be read using a specific device and depends o
885.
by gamble 17y ago
Obviously you aren't using an iPhone 3G. Unbelievable lag at times...
886.
by gamble 17y ago
I think you've actually identified the key problem with the iPad - it doesn't do anything better than other devices. In contrast, the iPod had the scroll wheel - an interface so superior to the alternatives at browsing large collections of
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by gamble 17y ago
One can hope. The Apple TV is an obvious counter-example. Despite being on the market for nearly three years, Apple hardly updates it and has yet to add any truly compelling features like divx/xvid support or DVR functionality despite obvio
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by gamble 17y ago
I wonder how many people write in the expectation of a financial reward. It seems like - aside from the occasional King, Brown or Rowling - even the most popular writers have a tough time supporting themselves by writing full-time. Most wri
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by gamble 17y ago
Absolutely. The ideal system would combine high worker mobility (at will employment, no non-compete agreements, etc) with a generous safety net to minimize the cost of losing one's job. It seems like the issue here is the way unemployment i
890.
by gamble 17y ago
Apple gets so much press precisely because few people have the capacity for indifference toward them. Write a story about a new Microsoft product, and half the audience will yawn. Write a story about an Apple product, and the other half wil
891.
by gamble 17y ago
This is the pithy offhand comment that gets ten times more upvotes than any well-reasoned and thoughtful response you'll ever write.
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by gamble 17y ago
The moon has never made any sense as a stepping stone to Mars. Why truck fuel and materiel down a gravity well, only to bring it right back out again? Nor would the Apollo-redux spacecraft suitable to a moon mission be useful for a trip to
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by gamble 17y ago
Good? NASA has spent decades pouring money into scientifically-useless programs like the shuttle and space station, while starving out the robotic missions that actually produce results. Spirit and Opportunity were such a slam dunk, it's ha
894.
by gamble 17y ago
From a developer's perspective, there's a real possibility that the iPad will be trapped in the valley between cheap, simple iPhone apps and powerful, albeit expensive desktop applications. The economics of the App Store are already a bit s
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by gamble 17y ago
Going nuclear on Macmillan was a mistake. It made Amazon look like the bully, and I wouldn't be surprised if it scared the other major publishers into standing behind Macmillan.
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by gamble 17y ago
Also, many (most?) of their customers are in California. An accessible factory is a good marketing tool for high-end vehicles.
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by gamble 17y ago
It's not a good sign that the best people can say about the iPad is that their mom could probably get by with one, even though they would never use it. We've been hearing that refrain for decades, and it's never worked out in the marketplac
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by gamble 17y ago
There's a reason "doubled-blinded A/B tests" are dirty words among many audiophiles.
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Why taking a temp job can reduce your income(thestar.com)
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by gamble 17y ago
I thought this was pretty amusing, but it's not much of a surprise. High-end audio gear is mostly a marketing business. It doesn't make much financial sense for these companies to do their own hardware engineering when they can license it a

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