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by gyardley 15y ago
Wow. Charles deserves a whole lot of credit for sticking it out over the last six years - my impression until recently was that they were having a hard time staying open. Congrats to all involved!
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by gyardley 15y ago
Not at all. When deciding whether you think someone should apologize or not for an action, the issue is not whether the party they offended can force an apology, it's whether you believe that person's action was wrong. Many of the people an
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by gyardley 15y ago
There's a huge difference between "we're sorry for our offensive behavior" and "we're sorry you were offended by our behavior." The first admits you've done something legitimately wrong; the second only says that others were offended, perha
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by gyardley 15y ago
Of course! Well, the quiet town bit and the no stress bit, anyway. I like what I do, I just don't feel like doing it every waking hour of my life. I have years where I just want to move to someplace quiet and slow-paced and spend as much ti
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by gyardley 15y ago
I would have to trust my government a whole lot more than I do to be comfortable with this - and then trust that my government isn't going to change over the course of my lifetime. Surely Swedes buy drugs and cheat on their taxes, just like
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by gyardley 15y ago
Assuming you kept your WordPress installation up-to-date, you probably ran into trouble thanks to an insecure plugin or theme. I recently ran into exactly the same exploit because I had a deactivated, older version of the Thesis theme lying
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by gyardley 15y ago
One of these days I hope and pray Google's personalized search will be smart enough to stop 'correcting' my spelling to something I wasn't actually looking for. If I actually do spell something wrong, I'll realize it and happily fix it.
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by gyardley 15y ago
You might be right - perhaps I've just missed this. I won't claim to have read every single thing Peretz has written. But are you sure the 'bad vibes' around Peretz are due solely to his racism? I figured he'd run TNR into the ground, and I
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by gyardley 15y ago
I have to question the judgement of anyone that thinks you can pick some random quote from somewhere and then use it to discount an individual's entire body of work spanning decades. Peretz is a secular Zionist and passionate advocate for I
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by gyardley 15y ago
Peretz seems to be gradually removing himself as he winds down his career, but this is a strange statement to make - I suspect it was only his leadership that made the magazine's editorial slant distinctive from other publications and there
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by gyardley 15y ago
If I were you, I'd go to the best university you can get into and you and your parents can afford, regardless of location. I'd also move into a dorm immediately. The best school possible, regardless of location, is not just so you'll get th
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Awful Recruiters(awfulrecruiters.com)
107 points by gyardley 15y ago|69 comments
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by gyardley 15y ago
Huh -- it certainly appears that the FBI had some advanced notice of the Stratfor hack. I'd be a little irritated if my credit card number was released while the FBI sat back and watched it happen. I'd be a lot more than irritated if I owne
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What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have In Common?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gyardley 15y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 15y ago
The author seems to be talking about this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644751 It got a couple hundred visits from HN and, if I've found the correct submission, no votes or comments - so he's assuming there was an act
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by gyardley 15y ago
Hooray -- maybe I'll finally stop being told about it and how important it is. Being incessantly told about the policy change was way more annoying than the policy change itself.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Just speculating -- but perhaps Blizzard prefers to get rid of their lower performers all at once in a 'layoff' instead of sacking them one-by-one. Many larger companies do this; I suspect it minimizes dismissal-related lawsuits.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Yes, and a good portion of these people will be searching with SafeSearch turned off. We as a society are either going to get a lot more puritan or a lot more tolerant.
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by gyardley 15y ago
This is also a classic bigger-company horror story -- when the developers who said "this isn't so hard, we can do it ourselves" start working on it and run into all the tiny little gotchas that aren't evident in due diligence. Maybe I've ju
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The Sorry Lives and Confusing Times of Today's Young Men(phillymag.com)
16 points by gyardley 15y ago|4 comments
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by gyardley 15y ago
Woo, a solution to a problem that doesn't exist - the current state of privacy enforcement in America works fine. Companies with something to lose effectively self-police. Companies that are a little too cavalier with user privacy get whack
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by gyardley 15y ago
Just be open and negotiate in good faith, or you'll cock up your potential acquisition. No demanding weird terms - it's only a 7 figure transaction. Running up their legal bill and being a pain in the ass will only hurt you. If you've got a
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by gyardley 15y ago
I use MailChimp's STS - really just a wrapper on top of Amazon's SES. I might just use SES if I wasn't already running newsletters through MailChimp, although MailChimp's wrapper is nice. The only event-driven emails I'm currently sending l
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by gyardley 15y ago
Researchers at Drexel have released some software to help subvert stylometry - see 'Anonymouth', linked from here: https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/Main_Page There's an interesting presentation here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/201
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by gyardley 15y ago
First, don't confuse me with Google. I'm talking about the argument Google's implicitly making here through their actions, which I wish they'd just say out loud so we could have a real and proper discussion about these issues. Of course Goo
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by gyardley 15y ago
Google really should have the cojones to stand up and state their actual position plainly, which as far as I can tell is this: "If you haven't taken an active, positive step to block our +1 buttons, we're going to assume you don't really
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by gyardley 15y ago
The sweet spot seems to be online, paid subscription-based services, priced moderately, bought with a credit card by individual professionals or small businesses.
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by gyardley 15y ago
DoubleClick is owned by Google - it is a first-party. If you're on a Google property, Google has every right to serve all the DoubleClick cookies it likes. All the WSJ's witch-hunt + Safari's pain-in-the-ass non-standard defaults mean is
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by gyardley 15y ago
Yep, OS releases have a lot of lead time vs. physical products. OS X Lion was demoed on stage in October 2010, made available as a developer preview in February 2011, and launched to the public in July 2011.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Interesting. While this could've been (and probably was) just a manual price change to try and cash in on increased demand, I wonder Sony was testing out automatic price adjustment in response to increased social network activity. That'd al

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