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by gcheong 16y ago
She seems to have the tendency to take what is true for her and extrapolate that to a general theory of what is true for everyone else. Oh well, certainly not the first person to do that.
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by gcheong 16y ago
Not necessarily. Birthrates in developed countries where resources are plentiful and infant mortality rates are low tend downward, not upward. Our species has adopted the strategy that it is better to put more resources into fewer offspring
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by gcheong 16y ago
Cash and Short term investments stood at 2.75B as of June 30, as the article says their market cap is 19.5B. I would guess it wouldn't be an all cash purchase but likely a combination of cash and stock.
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by gcheong 16y ago
Then we'll write an app to help people sift through them.
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by gcheong 16y ago
You might look at http://procasts.co.uk/ I haven't tried them personally but one of the founders wrote an ebook called The Screencasting Handbook which I used to help me make a screen cast: http://thescreencastinghandbook.com/
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by gcheong 16y ago
I think it may be more accurate to say that complex problems don't have "simplistic" solutions as sometimes there can be relatively simple solutions and I would not rule out the possibility for a problem like bullying. For example, depressi
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by gcheong 16y ago
I think the problem is that there aren't any perfect solutions to bad human behavior. Sure, this kind of retaliation can happen but that doesn't mean it was wrong to fight back in the prior incident where one doesn't have this foreknowledge
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by gcheong 16y ago
I had a rather indirect experience of this. I had a paper route as a kid and on one part of it lived a bully that would come out and harass me to the point where I would avoid the neighborhood (didn't go over well with people who missed the
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by gcheong 16y ago
"People don't get bullied in adulthood because there is a working police and judicial entity." Unfortunately while adults may be largely free from the physical violence, workplace bullying does occur. Usually it is more subtle than the outr
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by gcheong 16y ago
There appears to be some evidence that bullies are more likely to have too much self-esteem rather than too little: "The highest and lowest rates of cheating and bullying are found in different sub-categories of high self-esteem." From: ht
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by gcheong 16y ago
You're taking a couple complaints and extrapolating that to mean his manager did not appreciate him. You don't know to what extent his manager may have tried to show appreciation in other ways or what their relationship was like.
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by gcheong 16y ago
Lots of good info in the blog posts. Congrats on your success with the app.
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by gcheong 16y ago
I guess I can understand that they want to test the waters with a brand name app, but now that they've actually published something the continued stinginess with the sdk is off-putting. Maybe one consolation is that, by the time they open i
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by gcheong 16y ago
Was anyone here let into the developer's beta program?
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Indie Games Should Be Too Cheap or Too Expensive.(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
7 points by gcheong 16y ago|0 comments
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IPhone Development: My Experience(slaterjohn.com)
1 points by gcheong 16y ago|1 comments
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by gcheong 16y ago
I don't see web startups as inherently being more ethical than that of the average investment bank, but in any case the IT people are not usually dealing with the same ethics decisions as those doing the investing at an investment bank.
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by gcheong 16y ago
I did some googling and it seems that on a lot of the reptile boards they say that the only safe way to feed your snake is with dead mice.
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by gcheong 16y ago
Their liability coverage is better - up to $1mil per incident vs. $300,000 with zipcar. I know at least one person who chose CityCarShare for this reason.
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by gcheong 16y ago
I wouldn't say that being a nonprofit makes them any better from a customer service point of view. When I closed an account with them, they continued to charge my card and didn't refund my deposit until almost 2 months later.
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by gcheong 16y ago
That's a good question. I think instead of asking Zipcar it might be better to ask an insurance company.
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by gcheong 16y ago
I think the person just calls to get a new card on the same account but with a different card number. In fact, I recently got new cards with a different number from my credit card company because they apparently had information that my orig
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by gcheong 16y ago
I always thought snakes didn't seek out and consume prey that was already dead but apparently that isn't so from this tactic.
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by gcheong 16y ago
A friend of mine in Japan had 50 books scanned to OCR'd pdf for him by a scanning service (scanning was desctructive). Took 2 weeks and cost 200yen/book.
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by gcheong 16y ago
Maybe he wanted to burn the bridge publicly in order to make it more likely that he will keep to his decision. "Can't go back now that I've said I'm leaving." kind of thing? But if he does decide to go back it leaves a nice opening for the
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by gcheong 16y ago
Reed did publish a findings report from their Kindle trials: http://web.reed.edu/cis/about/kindle_pilot/Reed_Kindle_repor...
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by gcheong 16y ago
I wonder if this is referring to the "unique" way the Kindle has of referring to locations in a text. You can't just tell it to "go to page 10" but instead have to give it some rather odd looking location such as 1768-79.
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by gcheong 16y ago
It's interesting they chose to interview a professor from Reed given that the CEO of Apple dropped out of Reed and Reed has always been rather Apple centric when it comes to computing platforms for students ( http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/
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by gcheong 16y ago
CTO Sean Gourley gave a TED talk on the "Mathematics of War": http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_...
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by gcheong 16y ago
I was in my apartment in Tokyo. The phone rings and suddenly my roommate is yelling to turn on the TV. I was working for Nikko Salomon Smith Barney at the time and the next day they started ID and bag checks on entry into the building. It w

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