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by ignostic 13y ago
> "The reason? Mobile" I don't buy this at all, nor do I believe that this is a It seems like everyone blames everything on either the economy or a shift to mobile these days. Intel, Microsoft, EA, and now Zynga. All of this despite t
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by ignostic 13y ago
Are you sure droids aren't modeled after CEOs? Unfortunately, there's no great way to say "we're firing 18% of all employees." If you're whimsical or casual, you'll be blasted for not taking these people's lives seriously. If you're gloomy
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by ignostic 13y ago
To be more accurate, a hacker claims that airplanes WILL BE vulnerable. I'm a little confused about how he claims to know this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but he hasn't seen the system in development or explored its security vulnerabilities.
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> "This almost seems like just someone being contrarian for the sake of it." Retorted a very angry person, disagreeing sharply with a short, lighthearted post written about how enjoyable latte is. From the sounds of it, you're a bit ou
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by ignostic 13y ago
Ooh this is embarrassing; the article was about click-through rates and not rankings. But maybe now is a good time to tell people how terrible the CTR data in WMT is. Also, are you sure the site was hit by Penguin? This doesn't look like th
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The first cloned dog, in fact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuppy
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Interestingly, this relates to the recent Time article summarizing Pew research. > "The holdout cities — those where the earnings of single, college-educated young women still lag men's — tended to be built around industries that are he
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by ignostic 13y ago
Bill Gates WILL have an impact, even if it's only on a dozen people. So will the people who are inspired by him, and so do the people who have been working with the Indian people for years to make the country better. The only people who can
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by ignostic 13y ago
Definitely because a bunch of people agreed to upvote it around the same time. Hopefully it'll be taken down soon.
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by ignostic 13y ago
This is the Daily Mail re-hashing a BBC article, but the BBC article kind of missed the point. That article hit the front page of HN about a week ago. Daily Mail's article was just amazingly shallow with no new information. Original paper:
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by ignostic 13y ago
Legally, Moz =/= Mozilla. Moz (SEOmoz) has the following trademark: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:tp... You can search the site for yourself. Aside from tires (for which there is no "likelihood of confusion") t
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by ignostic 13y ago
I understand your point. Like you, I disagree with xemoka's assertion that "you agreed to live and earn in the society." It's not quite right (and a little naive) to say all government is voluntary because you happen to live in the countrie
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by ignostic 13y ago
Rand built "exaggerated" characters, that's true. Unfortunately the style results in a bunch of cheesy straw men. The business leaders like Rearden are hard-working, smart, and good looking. The villains are stupid unattractive leeches, or
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by ignostic 13y ago
I'm something of a libertarian myself, but this is really stupid. Taking advantage of the infrastructure, market, and support of one country only to flee to a tax haven abroad is neither moral nor respectable. If this happens, it's going to
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by ignostic 13y ago
The differentiation between what Moz does and what SEOs do is both real and useful. Moz hasn't fit into the paradigm of "SEO" for a while, so it's best they don't call themselves an SEO tool company anymore. Interestingly, the same is true
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by ignostic 13y ago
Sorry, but not a chance in hell that Moz got hit by Penguin. 1) You can look at their links yourself, if you have any clue how Penguin works, and see that it's not even close to spammy enough to get hit by any Penguin algorithm. 2) Their ra
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by ignostic 13y ago
Just change (unfair) to (sometimes unfair), and I think he's dead on. Most of the SEO companies out there are still either link spammers or impotent content marketers. There are exceptions: SEO-centered companies doing legitimate digital ma
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by ignostic 13y ago
I was so confused about how the ball would "change everything" that I looked up product demos. > "This is literally at the cutting edge, blending the physical and the virtual world." Sounds pretty impressive. "What am I missing!?" I wo
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by ignostic 13y ago
Almost all of our crops are genetically modified. The difference is that in some cases we modified genes through imprecise selective breeding, and in other cases we've done it through direct manipulation. As the article admits, the anti-GMO
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by ignostic 13y ago
I'm not sure what the answer is. Women of child-bearing age are already discriminated against by some employers. I imagine this only getting worse if the employer is also forced to pay full-time wages for two months. The owner of a former c
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by ignostic 13y ago
While I'm sure the survey was (probably) administered with the best of intentions, it was poorly anonymized and thus both risky and completely invalid.
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Wow, those childish ad hominem tweets look really bad coming from a company account. I know nothing about PrivCo - is this a one-person shop?
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For those who don't know, this is a Google algorithm that has targeted SEO link spammers. I credit it for doing a lot of good in cutting down on spam and forcing SEOs to do less spammy stuff or go under.
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Nice find, and not just for the obviously wrong side of it. I've heard it argued that the housing bubble was somehow "unforeseeable" and that "no one saw it coming." > "Many economists argue that house prices have risen too far too fast
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by ignostic 13y ago
Nothing about the comparison is untrue, and I wouldn't really even call it manipulative. It's just Microsoft doing marketing.
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It's OK - browsing HN all day can make a lot of people cynical. I'm cynical when it comes to cynicism. You don't need to analyze tone and phrasing here. Just look at the facts. Google has employed some of the most diverse and qualified peop
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Fascinating that there would be such a simple and universal solution to a relatively complex problem. Real-world application seems limited, since there's rarely a need to make a decision right after an interview.
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "In an ideal world, you'll get a CFO that totally jives with you culturally, accepts a lower salary (or limited equity stake), and just handles all the paperwork." Again, I have to disagree. Ideally you get a proactive CFO who under
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Why they thought they could launch their flagship at the same time Samsung did is a mystery to me. The phones became available on my carrier in the same week. It's a nice phone, but not shockingly different from the S4. Guess which phone ev
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by ignostic 13y ago
I'd strongly disagree that it's not the CFO's job to foster and enhance company culture. If your CFO is a cost-cutting machine, I hope he's not highly compensated. Any qualified first-year accountant can do that job. It's a good CFO's job

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