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by guyzero 14y ago
I don't think you have to apply the same philosophy to absolutely everything in life. You can buy cheap cutlery and have nicely designed, expensive plates. As a matter of fact, a lot of people have two sets of dishes - a "best" and a "worst
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by guyzero 14y ago
Because clearly no other industries or regions in the US are biased against older workers.
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by guyzero 14y ago
There were windows slates available in the same time period, like the Compaq TC1100. iPad -like in the overall form factor but very far off in terms of price, weight and simplicity.
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by guyzero 14y ago
This is great news - clockless architectures are the way of the future.
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by guyzero 14y ago
Yeah, everyone loved the free market back in 1929.
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by guyzero 14y ago
I'm an H1-B holder who pays $10K annually in property taxes. Seriously, you're just making stuff up here. Everyone pays property taxes, either directly for homeowners or indirectly through rent. H1-B holders pay income taxes just like every
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by guyzero 14y ago
Leave a little room for the possibility that John Gruber is annoyed by things that other humans do not notice.
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by guyzero 14y ago
So there's no need for a woman to have children at all, but saying "do not have kids earlier than 30 isn't great advice. There's a measured correlation between maternal age and the incidence of Down's Syndrome and other trisomies - the long
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by guyzero 14y ago
I keep hearing from iphone users that phrase almost verbatim: "Turn by turn navigation is awesome though". If it's so awesome, why didn't you buy a standalone GPS or an Android phone over the last few years? Because it's nifty but for most
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by guyzero 14y ago
It might be because some homeless people are alcoholics and it's not really a particularly nice thing to encourage someone else's addiction/disease.
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by guyzero 14y ago
Please. They play 'Call Me Maybe' on the radio every half-hour in the SF Bay Area.
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by guyzero 14y ago
I took a degree program in Entrepreneurship - http://www.conrad.uwaterloo.ca/mbet You could definitely just go out and start your own company. I'd never say that's not an option. The program curriculum covered things like accounting and t
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by guyzero 14y ago
Yeah, cold comfort, sorry.
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by guyzero 14y ago
On the other hand I took a network course that spent most of the time covering the OSI networking model. Some parts of CS are timeless, some are not.
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by guyzero 14y ago
I don't know if this is really strictly true. There are a handful of people I know of who got hired at Google the "regular" way and they don't have CS degrees. One has an undergrad in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Pure Math, although
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by guyzero 14y ago
Our main weapon is facebook users and dedicated social gamers. Our two main weapons are facebook users, dedicated social gamers and micropayments. Our three main weapons are... I'll come in again.
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by guyzero 15y ago
Once upon a time, not wearing a tie would have been unacceptable in a job interview. This is no longer the case and the world has not collapsed into a heap of smouldering cinders. I believe the point was that a few spelling mistakes should
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by guyzero 15y ago
Why can't someone taking parental leave be the best candidate? THis statement doesn't seem to be true at all and seems like somewhat good proof that we need such laws.
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by guyzero 15y ago
If you're going to interview & hire people in Canada understanding human rights law is mandatory. And it doesn't require you to hire dead weight; it's to stop people from saying that being black, or gay, or a woman is a valid reason to
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by guyzero 15y ago
Regardless of whether exploiting class divisions makes good sense for increasing product adoption, I'll reiterate that it was not class divisions that killed MySpace but bad product divisions. MySpace's ad deal with Google encouraged a site
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by guyzero 15y ago
"cooler people" - classist much? Perhaps have a look at dynah boyd's research on the class divisions between Facebook and MySpace. http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html Additionally, MySpace killed itself by pursuing the
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by guyzero 15y ago
Let's not be silly. Existing LTE phones on Verizon get a real-world top performance in the 20Mbps range. Now, that's great and all, but no one will ever get even 50% of what's basically the signaling rate of 73Mbps. Also, your download patt
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by guyzero 15y ago
I would counter-counter that there practically no teacher that can teach. Elementary & high school math teachers deliver a lot of practice, but that ultimately they really just aim to "teach" the kids who naturally understand math. The
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by guyzero 15y ago
And if anyone was wondering, it's not exactly new. When did I learn the proof that single queue is faster than multi-queue? In undergrad 20 years ago. And yet so many multi-queue setups out there...
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by guyzero 15y ago
As an Ontario boy working in Silicon Valley, there are really very few local Californians working in tech here. Talent goes where the jobs are; companies go where the talent is. If you want to discovery why one place ends up being a magnet
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by guyzero 15y ago
Nortel's accounting problems were extremely bad by any standards and made a mediocre situation terminal. Nortel had the possibility to be at least as successful as Ericsson (which isn't saying much, but). I hope RIM isn't full of Nortel's o
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by guyzero 15y ago
It would be sad to see another Canadian tech giant brought down by accounting issues.
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by guyzero 15y ago
I'm really hoping David Drummond will use G+ to tell us all about the lawsuits his staff is in the process of deposing. That's sure to happen.
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by guyzero 15y ago
Maybe they're junior positions.
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by guyzero 15y ago
Every language has idiosyncrasies. IMO it's tough to use a language effectively without knowing them, even if you don't use them. I mean, imagine trying to use Ruby and not knowing about implicit return values. Or the obscure array slice op

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