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by gyardley 14y ago
Yep, I'm guessing whoever wrote the Verisign application didn't know about כתיב מלא. Whoops.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Heh. You want to see generic, check out Verisign's applications. '.com' in a whole bunch of scripts other than Latin - they've applied for the Cyrillic script 'ком', the Hebrew script 'קוֹם', and what I assume is the same thing in a bunch o
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by gyardley 14y ago
Verisign's name grab is more interesting - the most natural spelling of the '.com' TLD in scripts other than Latin. Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. Now that's going to be fun for people who already own .com domains targeted to those audien
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by gyardley 14y ago
So ban that, instead of cameras at school.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Hellbanned for violating a site guideline, huh? Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big
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by gyardley 14y ago
Even 'good liberal folk' talk about lawsuits in these situations, no matter what their views on sexuality, because lawsuits do result from this sort of thing and they prefer to avoid getting sued. Even 'good liberal folk' don't hold work ev
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by gyardley 14y ago
Of course Facebook can ignore the result / set impossibly high hurdles. It's Facebook, not a democracy. I'm boggled that they bothered with this thing in the first place. We all agree that 270mm people is impossible, but many other things m
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by gyardley 14y ago
Of course Facebook didn't promote this properly. It's not in Facebook's interest to promote this properly. Those of you who care about this sort of thing should be asking yourselves why the Facebook privacy advocates didn't or couldn't prom
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by gyardley 14y ago
This sounds like really good advice, because executing is so important, because there's a whole slew of other things that fledgling startups worry about that they really don't have to, and because sorting out equity can be hard and awkwar
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by gyardley 14y ago
Because they did it correctly. When you start working with others on a company, structure and ownership needs to be sorted out before, not after. Yes, it ended up being a bit of a pain for this guy and his startup, but it's not nearly as pa
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by gyardley 14y ago
There's a working market for electronics.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Incredibly annoyed. In such cases, I use an alternate account no one follows and my perception of the company takes a big hit.
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by gyardley 14y ago
For web and mobile products, the act of building or prototyping is where you do most of the learning. I believe that you can't come up with great ideas in a vacuum. You build some mocks, you write some code, and you discover a bunch of th
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by gyardley 14y ago
Le Mans, France or New York City, with possible remote work for the right candidate. Jirafe ( http://www.jirafe.com ) provides customer intelligence, analytics, and insight for ecommerce businesses, so they can make more money. Thousands of
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by gyardley 14y ago
Is it $11 / month? I couldn't find that anywhere. This would be a cute gift for my wife - the posted socks fit her style, and if it is $11 / month, it's certainly affordable. But I'm not going to sign up for something if I'm not sure I know
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by gyardley 14y ago
Comic Sans is a terrible typeface. Frequency of use has nothing to do with it.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Oy. Comic Sans isn't problematic because everyone uses it, it's problematic because it's a bad font. The kerning alone is reason enough not to use it. http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/ By this author's logic we sho
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by gyardley 14y ago
In my experience the pretending changes, not masks, your real emotions. You start by smiling because you're pretending to be a happy person, and you end up genuinely happier.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that the questionable premise is true. I don't know about the rest of you, but when an action is bad for 'class X which I happen to belong to' but right for me personally, I'm still going to take th
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by gyardley 14y ago
'Pretend you're someone that can X' works for all kinds of things, not just challenging tasks. People on the subway grating on my nerves? I pretend I'm someone patient. Need to bang out a particularly annoying task? I pretend I'm someone wh
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by gyardley 14y ago
This article should probably be retitled 'Working for half your market salary? You are probably getting screwed' - but then the whole thing sounds a little obvious, no? If the company is strong, paying you appropriately won't make or break
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by gyardley 14y ago
Kids are a lot of work, but you don't have to make it unnecessarily hard on yourself by raising them American-style. As long as your child is healthy, it's perfectly possible to wean them early, send them to child care, get them to sleep th
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'm more conservative than libertarian, but I'd argue that since laws generally have unintended, often negative consequences, the bar has to be pretty high before establishing a new law. I'd also argue that in America, there's far too many
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by gyardley 14y ago
Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" was terrific.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Let's assume they have an average net worth of not $1M but $10M each, and that the US government is able to confiscate 100% of it, leaving them utterly penniless but netting $18B. The federal deficit for 2012 was ~$1.3 trillion, so that $18
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by gyardley 14y ago
I know that some level of taxation is necessary to keep society running along, and am not against taxation per se . But I do try to legally minimize my taxes, because I want my own family to be well-provided for and because I want to direc
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by gyardley 14y ago
He presumably paid capital gains taxes on his Facebook stock when he left the country. You might find his disloyalty to America distasteful, as I do - if his citizenship was so easily discarded, perhaps he shouldn't have acquired it in the
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by gyardley 14y ago
That's really interesting -- thanks for the correction.
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by gyardley 14y ago
When it comes to news organizations, it's not the presence of an organization-wide viewpoint that's objectionable - every organization has a viewpoint. The content of that viewpoint is what's being objected to. You might feel that the vie
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by gyardley 14y ago
Well, sure. This FTC-imposed delay is standard operating procedure for almost every large tech company acquisition in the United States. Some recent examples on the Google side: AdMob - announced November 9th, 2009, FTC approval May 21st, 2

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