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by gyardley 15y ago
I've got a question for DHH - or really, anyone with a widely-distributed team: how do you deal with the administrative overhead of hiring employees in a lot of different jurisdictions? I've used Ambrose in the past, and they could handle t
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by gyardley 15y ago
Uh-huh. I've paid attention to Paul just fine, and I can see he's not against Jews at all, unless we want to have a country - you know, like hundreds of other peoples. Thanks, but I can do without his form of 'tolerance'. Anyone else in t
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by gyardley 15y ago
John Mauldin frequently links to / references / includes excerpts from STRATFOR in his own newsletters. This is just an excerpt, but should give anyone curious a sense of the quality: http://www.johnmauldin.com/images/uploads/pdf/mwo08251
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by gyardley 15y ago
Inflated? I was thinking they were at least $20K on the low side.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Only Reddit would be goofy enough to target a congressman that regularly pulls in two-thirds of the popular vote in his district, outperformed his party's own presidential candidate by ~20%, and is already targeted by single-issue groups wi
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by gyardley 15y ago
Trying to make a good chunk of the Texas Hill Country vote Democrat? Why not pick an easier task, like trying to empty the ocean with a teacup? I hate to be harsh, but Lamar is in office until he dies. I'd focus on congressmen in swing dist
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by gyardley 15y ago
The deadline, January 9th, is in a rather large font on a big blue button in the middle of the linked page.
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by gyardley 15y ago
The first time I tried to use Foursquare, a couple years back, it did nothing for me, because I don't (usually) want to serendipitously meet up with people - if I'm with you, it's because we've planned it in advance. After a few months, I d
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by gyardley 15y ago
We might disagree with his policies, but this isn't evidence of corruption in the slightest. These not-particularly-large donations could very well be a consequence of his political opinions, not (as everyone seems so eager to assume) the
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by gyardley 15y ago
I can only speak for me personally - but I'd find it strange if someone I didn't know from Adam gave me a introduction to their girlfriend. I'd think 'what in hell's wrong with the girlfriend - why didn't she just contact me directly?' Even
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by gyardley 15y ago
My advice for you is the same as my advice for anyone smart and ambitious without terribly relevant experience. Take an entry-level non-technical job at a startup that's grown large enough to actually have entry-level non-technical position
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by gyardley 15y ago
Heh, that's easy to answer - it's because I was an idiot! Of course I should've prevented the whole situation in the first place, but I wasn't on the ball enough to realize it was a problem. I wasn't consciously trying to shape company cult
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by gyardley 15y ago
My eyes rolled so hard at this, it woke up my wife in the next room. Then we both had a laugh at me being described as 'enlightened' - in my neck of the woods, most people think I'm a troglodyte. Look, sometimes people do real, obvious, cor
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by gyardley 15y ago
In a roundabout way, the author points out that because of differences in preferences between groups, equal access to opportunities don't lead to equal outcomes. However, the 'equal opportunities don't lead to equal outcomes' argument is of
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by gyardley 15y ago
Apparently being a nutter gets you different results from a Bloomberg terminal than everybody else. Who knew?
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by gyardley 15y ago
Online user interfaces are intuitive when they match well with the offline interfaces you're already familiar with, so no additional learning is necessary. This is why buttons look like buttons, and change appearance when pressed. This is w
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by gyardley 15y ago
You really shouldn't have to 'learn' anything to do routine tasks on a computer - it should be intuitive. If the normals can do everything they want with their computers while still 'knowing nothing', that's a success, not something to grou
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by gyardley 15y ago
I can confirm that Kohana's code is very readable, which is good, because the documentation itself is sometimes lacking and there's not a ton of good resources and tutorials for learning it. While this sounds a little off-putting, it's actu
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by gyardley 15y ago
Why wouldn't driverless cars be purchased by individuals? I want one and I have money - when they're available, why wouldn't I be able to buy one? Are you suggesting that I won't want to? I'm skeptical - the convenience of being able to use
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by gyardley 15y ago
What a bizarre conspiracy theory. I know some of the people at Evidon rather well. They provide a mechanism that allows individuals to opt-out of behaviorally-targeted advertising via an icon in the advertisement. In other words, the compan
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by gyardley 15y ago
Cut me a little slack, I've been down here for a decade now. :)
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by gyardley 15y ago
Sure, happens to everybody. Losing your job unexpectedly does funny things to your emotions - it can create feelings of panic, and lead to rash decisions in your rush to get back to a steady income. Assuming you've got marketable skills and
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by gyardley 15y ago
Very odd example, no? While pooled revenue from taxes does pay for collective benefits, any single individual's taxes are only tenuously related to the benefits they receive. If it worked like you described, I'd expect a break from the IRS
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by gyardley 15y ago
I don't get the reason for this article's existence. Nothing is new or unusual here. In any acquisition, the CEO and senior staff simultaneously negotiate their compensation packages with the acquiring company. This always leads to major co
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by gyardley 15y ago
The usual suspects are almost certainly going to file a class-action lawsuit or two over this, but it won't be 'massive' since this isn't a clear and easy win. (The hardest part about this type of suit is showing real, concrete harm to actu
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by gyardley 15y ago
That's why I put 'liberal' in quotes.
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by gyardley 15y ago
While your Congressman has probably already made up his mind on this issue, you're not going to help him change it if your communication comes from a 'liberal' organization like the EFF. Why don't you try writing him while incorporating som
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by gyardley 15y ago
I never understood why bodies like the FTC rely on 'independent, third-party audits' for enforcement, since they end up making the entire action pointless. The independent third-party auditor will give Facebook a stamp of approval, both in
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by gyardley 15y ago
There have been tons of books written on negotiating, most of which contain more useful content than any advice thread or blog post. Given the huge difference negotiating makes, these books pay for themselves hundreds of times over. I'm a b
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by gyardley 15y ago
You don't need to change your feedback, you need to change what she's doing. Get her into some more challenging stuff, stat. I sailed through my cow-town high school and then got my ass handed to me in the first semester of a competitive en

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