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by gujk 15y ago
For a company with no plans to float new debt or investment, and a CEO who plans to stay in his job for a decade, short term accounting games have no effect on company performance.
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by gujk 15y ago
Why would it monitor constantly, and not just when you are using it, like how the phone behaves during a call with the face-disables-touchscreen?"
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by gujk 15y ago
Apple touted Voice Actions in OS X 10 years ago. Why is it different/better this time?
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by gujk 15y ago
The government acts For Your Benefit, citizen. Business acts For An Exciting Opportunity, Especially For You!
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by gujk 15y ago
Call the bank and ask, and consider whether she may be lying to you to protect her preferences.
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by gujk 15y ago
What the heck bank is this? I bank with the reviled BofA, and once a year or so I misjuggle my accounts and bounce something, and every time they courtesy credit the fee, which is their official policy. Usually when this overdraft sob stor
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by gujk 15y ago
Honestly, is this post valuable information previously unknown to anyway, or a cheap PR/SEO gambit by the company that posted it?
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by gujk 15y ago
How is it screwing poor people to have a flat fee that eliminates the negative-sum game of debit/credit shuffling? Even if flat fee was considered bad, by taking away the chance for some folks to skate the line and win, that is trivial to f
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by gujk 15y ago
Isn't "intending to overdraft on the big charge" analogous to "intentionally reading from freed memory because you think it hasn't been reallocated yet"? relying on undefined system behavior is dangerous.
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by gujk 15y ago
Free startup idea: create a pseudo-bank that provides a pass-through account number for all this stuff.
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by gujk 15y ago
Yes. An onsite interview is 4-hour sell meeting: sell your coworkers on the candidate, and sell the candidate on the coworkers and office and etc. If you aren't pretty confident in a hire before the onsite, the onsite won't help.
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by gujk 15y ago
Yes. The one valuable ability that is exclusive to a recruiter (and any other deal broker, like real estate) is to abuse their position as a trusted mediator to slyly violate confidentiality agreements to help the deal close: tell the compa
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by gujk 15y ago
That's crazy talk. A hiring manager's job is to acquire talent. HR's job is to smooth the details of the process and keep it legal.
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by gujk 15y ago
Recruiters are marketplace makers, not matchmakers. A recruiter is completely incapable of determining who is a good fit or of asssessing talent, and traditional compensation models (x% of annual salary, paid on hire) are not aligned with s
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by gujk 15y ago
Use a backup system. A factor of 2x isn't life changing. The cost of crash recovery is more than balanced by the improved productivity pre-crash.
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by gujk 15y ago
I get the feeling Apple knows and uses extremely SSD upgrades to drive higher checkout prices with artificially depressed advertised prices. (Yes, I am bitter that my old MBP is not user upgradeable. I understand that the newer ones are, th
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by gujk 15y ago
No one is upset by high resolution or DPI. They are upset that Apple ships a 150dpi system with a 120dpi UI.
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by gujk 15y ago
2 weeks milestone/warning for the next few months: It gets worse. Then it gets better. Then you just have to get used to the new lifestyle.
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by gujk 15y ago
Social Security and friends in the US are approximately 7.5% deduction from an employees "advertised" income, plus about the same on top of (called the "employer's portion") that is not advertised as part of the salary. It is a bizarre form
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by gujk 15y ago
In theory, you're complaint is valid. In practice, my browser is quite capable of detecting those ads and dispatching them according to my wishes.
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by gujk 15y ago
Finding evidence "against people you don't like " is exactly the problem privacy intends to solve. I never want to meet you, if you see nothing wrong with snooping around my life and sharing all my secrets with everyone.
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by gujk 15y ago
The phone company has been blackmailing the public with its White Pages for decades. Unlisting a number costs money. Nothing new under the sun, just bigger and worse.
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by gujk 15y ago
Why are you downplaying "minimizes friction"? Friction is the only shield we have ever had to protect against invasion of privacy.
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by gujk 15y ago
Whoa, iOS doesn't have Share function?
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by gujk 15y ago
Plenty of problems. Apps never look quite right, because there are too many different resolutions, and maybe or maybe not have this or that button. With engineering resources split over so many products and conpanies, you don't get the best
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by gujk 15y ago
A poster above makes the opposite claim, that the contest graduated from Waterloo to Google.
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by gujk 15y ago
For one, it exposes a heavy-hand predisposition makes me worry that a bug in my program might result in a visit from police.
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by gujk 15y ago
He needs a source of material for his literature.
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by gujk 15y ago
I have a feeling that people who invent entire sectors of he economy and accumulate billions of dollars don't do it by taking "bait".
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by gujk 15y ago
The Gettysburg address as something like 3 minutes of a 22 hour ceremony. It proves Brin's point exactly. Steve Yegge's blog is called "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" and not "Stevey's Key Points of Great Ideas" for a reason.

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