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by gamble 15y ago
A friend of mine has lived in Japan teaching one-on-one English lessons for a number of years. A good chunk of his customers are recently married women. Their husbands don't want them to work, but with nothing to do at home they end up taki
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by gamble 15y ago
HP is so far from the founders' ethos that hearing people talk about the old days is like looking at pictures of Beirut before the civil war. I have friends who still work for HP, and it's an amazingly toxic environment with absolutely no c
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by gamble 15y ago
There is no way Android represents 20% of the tablets sold this year. Seriously, I doubt it's 5%. It's incredible that anyone can make that claim when it's patently obvious from simple observation that there are hardly any Android tablets
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by gamble 15y ago
Exactly. Apple can't go after the enterprise market in the way Microsoft or Oracle do without sacrificing the soul of the company. It's the converse of the reason that Microsoft does so poorly in the new consumer electronics markets.
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by gamble 15y ago
I have a couple of friends who works at the former Compaq campus in Houston. They've been laying off former Compaq staff and outsourcing for years. The speculation has always been that they've been trying to entirely outsource the PC busine
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HP Rumored To Spin Off PC Division(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
You gotta pay to play. Retailers always demand a fee from the manufacturer before they provide special displays like the Apple section at BB. The contract likely specifies that BB employees will keep Apple's products charged up and function
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by gamble 15y ago
If Google really bought Motorola for the patents alone, we should expect massive layoffs as they wind down the phone manufacturing business. If, as many have speculated, Google actually wants to follow Apple into the integrated software/har
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by gamble 15y ago
If you come to the site through external links, like Facebook or Google News, you'll generally circumvent the paywall. Anything you find by browsing nytimes.com directly counts against the twenty free articles allowed for your account. Peop
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Short Selling of Stocks Banned in France, Spain(bloomberg.com)
2 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
The financial industry represents a third of American corporate profits. Goldman Sachs is the most prominent player in the financial industry. Like Britain, the US is quickly becoming simply a hedge fund, with a government attached. With pr
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by gamble 15y ago
Most companies like enthusiastic customers, so long as they aren't too enthusiastic. Marketers like customers who respond to campaigns, but they get very nervous when customers take control of the brand on their own initiative. It sometim
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by gamble 15y ago
Considering both Starbucks and Mobiquity are actively promoting Jonathan's Card, I'm inclined to believe the relationship is ongoing. (Frankly, this is the kind of thing that companies like Starbucks usually aren't cool with if they don't
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by gamble 15y ago
There's still the question of why Mobiquity pulled their client list from the website. That's either an eyebrow-raising coincidence, or they're not cool with casual visitors knowing there's a business relationship.
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by gamble 15y ago
Something about this story seemed to hit a nerve on HN. It didn't get nearly the same traction on Reddit or Metafilter.
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by gamble 15y ago
I heard this theory as well, in a history of science class. The professor claimed that you can extract something like 60% more food energy from an egg by cooking it.
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by gamble 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with being a craftsman. I think programmers would be better off if they embraced programming as a craft, instead of pretending that it obeys scientific principles as yet undiscovered and can be practiced without refere
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by gamble 15y ago
Warren Buffet isn't the average value investor. He rarely buys stock on the open market. The average investor doesn't have his ability to buy control of the company, or to direct profits from a declining cash cow into another company with m
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by gamble 15y ago
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't see accreditation of engineering programs as proof that software engineering is a legitimate field of engineering. The problem for me is that there don't seem to be any basic principles of so
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by gamble 15y ago
The difference between Wall Street today and a century ago is the availability of capital. A century ago capital was much more scarce and was mostly held by wealthy private (mostly European) individuals. The stock market was one of the few
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by gamble 15y ago
Most/all people who call themselves software engineers are not engineers. I'm not convinced that software engineering itself is actually a field of engineering, for that very reason. At most universities, software engineering is just a weak
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by gamble 15y ago
Speaking as an engineer, no one in the financial industry remotely qualifies as an engineer. A real engineer applies physical laws to create a product with some certainty of functioning properly. Wall street 'engineers' create products that
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The Onion Tests a Paywall (No, seriously)(paidcontent.org)
2 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
Most Bitcoin enthusiasts are speculators. These exchanges and online wallets are popular because they allow speculators to respond instantly to opportunities.
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by gamble 15y ago
Technically, this is a slightly newer version of a very similar bulb Phillips has been selling for a while now. You can usually find the original model at Home Depot for around $50.
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by gamble 15y ago
Uh, what? Blockbuster had revenue of approximately $4 billion in 2010.[1] Where did the data come from for this chart? No operating business has zero revenue. Blockbuster has plenty of revenue, they just can't pull in enough gross profit to
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by gamble 15y ago
> the whole thing suffers from increasing amounts of link rot. Citations on Wikipedia are a joke. At least a quarter of the citations I check are broken links or go to a wildly inappropriate or biased source.
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by gamble 15y ago
Good for them! I have one of these at home, and of the various LED bulbs I've tried this is the only one that worked well enough to be a true incandescent replacement.
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by gamble 15y ago
Read his blog. He admits to contaminating his stove and the surrounding area with americium, radium, and beryllium. Or just look at the accompanying photograph. This is not a man who knows how to conduct experiments safely. I'd say that if
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by gamble 15y ago
Honestly, it's a good thing he was stopped. He's contaminated his cooking area with radium and beryllium. Is someone that sloppy really going to strip that room down to studs to decontaminate it, or is he going to leave it to poison the n

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