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901.
by gamble 17y ago
Absolutely. I love the Economist in its way, but just for once I'd like to see them write an article where they admit that they don't have any idea what should be done.
902.
by gamble 17y ago
I don't see grandma putting on the shutter glasses to watch Leno in 3D. Even with the ideal target market - kids watching 3D animated movies - do you really want your kids tethered with expensive glasses to an even more expensive television
903.
by gamble 17y ago
What most distinguishes Silicon Valley from elsewhere is how much easier it is to find investors - not just VC, but angels who are comfortable putting their money into tech startups. Startups in the Valley are never more than a couple degre
904.
by gamble 17y ago
The degree to which East Asian economies are built to exploit Western liberalism is almost as astonishing as the amount of abuse Western nations will tolerate in pursuit of another quarter's profit. The Chinese may participate in free trade
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Number Of U.S. Business Start-Ups Drop 24%, Leading Global Decline(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by gamble 17y ago|0 comments
906.
by gamble 17y ago
Perhaps Google finally came to the conclusion that the Chinese government has its thumb on the scales. It doesn't matter how much potential the Chinese market has, if only Chinese companies are going to be allowed to succeed. The hacking pr
907.
by gamble 17y ago
I suspect that the motivation for an official 'Google Phone' is to provide at least one model that's guaranteed to get firmware updates in a timely fashion. With luck, it will pressure the other handset manufacturers to provide the same ser
908.
by gamble 17y ago
I agree, but it seems ironic since your chances of breaking in are probably a lot better outside CA these days. It's become common for studios to clamp down on hiring in high-cost locations, while ramping up in cheaper cities. If I was tryi
909.
by gamble 17y ago
Game studios in California typically have nasty reputations, in my experience. The rest of the industry isn't renown for good working conditions, but I can't think of many studios in CA with a good reputation. Could be that the huge program
910.
by gamble 17y ago
The "Friendster Effect", perhaps?
911.
by gamble 17y ago
You might be surprised by how much leverage games programmers with experience can have. Video games are like the movie industry - hard to break into, but once you're established (shipped titles) you can write your own ticket - particularly
912.
by gamble 17y ago
Don't drink the Kool-aid. Working for a company because you think they're going to change the world or make you rich is a sucker's bet. They won't. Anyone who promises otherwise is deluded or playing you. Work for a company because you like
913.
by gamble 17y ago
The drawback is that you're spending significant amounts of your time working and commuting instead of studying. Realistically, there's also a limit to how professionally-relevant a job you can get while working part-time. I worked summers,
914.
by gamble 17y ago
The payoff for working while in school is now quite low. When my father was in university during the early seventies, he could pay for his tuition, texts, and car for the whole year with one summer job. The kind of job you can get today wou
915.
by gamble 17y ago
I thought the 2000s were generally kind to Canada - certainly better than the previous decade. Americans may forget that the '90s (or the '50s, or '80s...) weren't a golden age for everyone. Many of the countries that did well in the last t
916.
by gamble 17y ago
Steve frickin' Ballmer... Does anyone believe that he'd still be CEO if Bill Gates hadn't anointed him as his successor? He's the Gordon Brown to Gates' Tony Blair. Microsoft is never going to be relevant until Ballmer and his horde of bean
917.
by gamble 17y ago
I don't miss Flash on my iPhone. There's nothing useful Flash can do that isn't better done with HTML 5 or a native app.
918.
by gamble 17y ago
Whether the 2000s feel like a lost decade depends a lot on where you lived. I don't think they were particularly bad for Canada - we had a strong economy and currency, decent government, and Quebec separatism is almost a non-issue now. We s
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The end of influence(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by gamble 17y ago|0 comments
920.
by gamble 17y ago
I attend the University of Alberta and this is the first I've heard of a controversy, so I think the story may be a bit overblown. I don't recall seeing any of the posters campus was supposedly 'awash' with.
921.
by gamble 17y ago
By design, the average GPA should be close to 2.5. Most schools try to modulate the difficulty of their courses to maintain a C+ average year-to-year. In my engineering school, they had a schedule of expected class averages for each year in
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by gamble 17y ago
"I've only run into a handful of software companies who have a hard grade cutoff anywhere. None of the big names (MS, GOOG, etc) do it" Isn't Google notorious for requiring a 3.0 or better GPA?
923.
by gamble 17y ago
These lists are derived from employees' own reviews of the company on glassdoor. I'd trust them more than most.
924.
by gamble 17y ago
The documentary mentioned in the OP, Mondovino, is a great watch if you're interested in wine.
925.
by gamble 17y ago
I don't know what the world will look like in 2020, but I know what Kurzweil will be up to: still trying to turn a buck hustling bizarre 'life-extension' supplements. That is, if the 100+ pills he takes daily or the weekly transfusions don'
926.
by gamble 17y ago
This reminds me of the advertising DSL-based ISPs used to run claiming that 'data hogs' on cable ISPs destroyed the experience for everyone else. Even if the iPhone was inefficient, that's something you compensate for with more aggressive n
927.
by gamble 17y ago
Australia's libel laws are similar, but not quite so terrible. I'm tempted to say that they'd have filed in Britain if he wasn't British. If the goal is to intimidate him with bankruptcy, a country on the opposite side of the world is a bet
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by gamble 17y ago
Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock, has been on a crusade against naked short sellers, blaming a group of hedge funds for driving down his company's stock. He's been all but called a nutjob in the financial press, which has led him to crit
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by gamble 17y ago
I recall reading rumors when AT&T's network quality first became an issue that they were upgrading the radios at base stations in major cities, but not the backhaul capacity. Not sure if it's true, but it would explain why you get full
930.
by gamble 17y ago
Is there even a single other country where the iPhone has the problems it does on AT&T? I've been using my 3G on Rogers here in Canada since it was released. I've never seen a dropped call and Rogers' network is consistently faster than

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