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by glimcat 15y ago
There are bigger crimes than breaching a paywall. It's not hard to see an argument for downloading as civil disobedience in this case.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Bad surveys are often worse than useless because you leave thinking you learned something when all you got was garbage data.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Basically, follow Maslow.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It is very hard to make a computer do this due to the problem of meaning. Google will get you about 80% whereas a highly-optimized purpose-specific tool would buy you maybe 90%. Either way, you still need to stop and ask a native speaker. G
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by glimcat 15y ago
Think about LinkedIn vs. Bootcamp. LinkedIn, a lot of the value comes from there already being lots of other users when you sign up. Further, a lot of their revenue model is based on selling user attention to advertisers and recruiters. Hav
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by glimcat 15y ago
If the value of your product is not directly tied to the total number of users, charge for it. If the value of your product is directly tied to the total number of users, charge for it some of the time.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You say you're getting paid well and that the valuation is in the single-digit millions. Run the math on that. The most you are likely to get out of that for ANY likely equity share is on the order of a nice bonus, NOT on the order of FU mo
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by glimcat 15y ago
To start with, it shouldn't have two submit buttons. Do A, then B if A returns an error. Also, the response if you don't specify a TLD isn't good. It should assume .com or at least return an intelligent error. You need to be validating the
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by glimcat 15y ago
http://getdoma.in
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by glimcat 15y ago
The page is basically blank if JavaScript isn't available. Turning it on shows that it is only being used to populate the main content pane. This is a bad design decision since (a) not everyone with JavaScript off will bother to enable it i
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by glimcat 15y ago
Probably the case, which may have the judge and the employees in question both making the same error.
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by glimcat 15y ago
NASA does both science and the engineering necessary to achieve the science. You can do something for its own sake and still achieve more pragmatic benefits.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Particle physics isn't really my specialty, but I think you're wrong on all counts. Gravity affects light, so particles going backwards in time wouldn't suddenly experience gravity as a repulsive force. The curvature of spacetime is what ma
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by glimcat 15y ago
For every billion-dollar probe that comes in over budget, NASA tends to have a thousand little tidbits that end up getting reused over and over. The topic is taking a run at the perennial arguments about monolithic vs. incremental developme
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by glimcat 15y ago
He was a tech for Atari at one point.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Feynman's also the one quoted as playing with the idea of what it would be like if 3 + 1 spacetime was instead 2 + 2 (i.e. 2-D space, 2-D time).
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by glimcat 15y ago
The priority-based process scheduler says "Hi." Like being able to run multiple things on your computer without having the less-important tasks block more important tasks? Thank the Apollo computers.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It sounds like a rather toothless precedent, since the employer can just wait a week or two and use something else as an excuse for termination. Even if the employee keeps the job, the bridge is thoroughly on fire. Not that I have much symp
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by glimcat 15y ago
Doing 14 with an option to extend may often be superior to starting at the full term. It makes them say "yes."
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by glimcat 15y ago
In the battle of Amazon vs. Walmart, I have to vote Bezos. Also, healthy interstate commerce is rather important to the continued success of the Union. WTF, Walmart? If this goes ad absurdum and any jurisdiction can tax any transaction whic
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by glimcat 15y ago
Because there's a single failure mode. If your project is hosed after one guy gets hit by a truck, it's a risky project - no matter how good everything else looks.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You can run a web browser on either. Everything from there is UX. SaaSy should work.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Why this instead of PhoneGap?
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by glimcat 15y ago
The web has some usability quirks, but it's not that bad if webmasters would only learn to keep their hands off and stop screwing with my interaction affordances.
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by glimcat 15y ago
They're both easy. Python is more broadly useful, while Ruby has Rails. What do you want to do with it?
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by glimcat 15y ago
I like this, but it's sometimes victim to Google's capricious Market compatibility algorithm. Also, try an in-house wiki. It lacks window dressing, but it's a pretty solid tool for collaboration.
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by glimcat 15y ago
XRDS is pretty cool. It's the ACM's "crazy stuff grad students have done lately" magazine. http://xrds.acm.org/
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by glimcat 15y ago
Remote work isn't really the problem. Something like this has effectiveness which goes as a function of the number of active nodes. It's much easier to increase that locally. Scaling by adding other areas after you've knocked a few corners
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by glimcat 15y ago
I was looking at microcontracting for a while and came to much the same conclusion. Limited roll-out helps solve the criticality problem and increases relevance. Also, C&P looks too convoluted; it's trying to fuse too many different thi
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by glimcat 15y ago
Now you can spill your coffee and erase your work at the same time!

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