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by iigs 18y ago
It's death by 1000 cuts. The unions aren't the problem, but they definitely contribute, along side inflexible plants that can't be reassigned, never laying off white collar workers (until last month? wtf), not building cars people want, c
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by iigs 18y ago
One thing that the US federal government could do to spur innovation is offer exempt categories (low volume) for vehicles that don't meet all safety or all emissions requirements. It's obvious that we don't want millions of people driving t
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by iigs 18y ago
The only thing keeping me with sprint is that I have a soft spot for the underdog. The device situation on CDMA is bleak, and Sprint aggravates it by not allowing devices they didn't sell (ESN filtering) onto their network. Being able to bu
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by iigs 18y ago
I can't imagine PG directing that essay either toward a business the size of facebook now nor toward someone with the intent of telling them to get to facebook's size before having profit (let alone revenue) figured out. It's one thing to h
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by iigs 18y ago
Are you implying that it doesn't? How are you supposed to pay for all of those salaries? It seems like until they have the business model figured out it's not a business -- it's a charity.
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by iigs 18y ago
Sure, some people apparently get a runners high and really enjoy exercise, and they'll say how much people like me are "missing". My dad is apparently one of those freaks, as is my wife. I'm not. I have never in my life felt like exercise
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by iigs 18y ago
I read the title as "forbes.com is Apple's secret weapon", leading me to expect an article about the Jobs RDF. Flash and the low price of RAM are two things lately that have given me that feeling of awe about the progress of computing. Tech
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by iigs 18y ago
Why won't they? In my limited experience working with parents and the in-laws, they've generally been excited to use something that I positioned as better (even if it was barely founded).
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by iigs 18y ago
The position in .wa.us that has authority over this role is "Secretary of State". I assume that it's the same in other states. Here in WA, one SoS's core platform is basically this. http://www.jasonosgood.com/platform.html . I'm not attem
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by iigs 18y ago
The overriding factor, I think, is that the overall scope of the Mac platform (and Windows, too, for that matter) has grown so large that it supports a wide variety of UI design philosophies and styles. Apple has also wandered around a lo
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by iigs 18y ago
One caveat to this is that Apple frequently puts something at or near bottom of a range, particularly a new range, that is especially crippled. The first instance of this (Mac LC) is old enough to vote. Check out http://lowendmac.com/roada
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by iigs 18y ago
The argument is predicated on an assumption, namely that "modularity" in desktop OSes will mean different commercial SKUs and Microsoft will continue splintering beyond the 4-5 different Vista models. Therefore, as people pick the SKU that
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by iigs 18y ago
Below 1mm I think this is all pretty masturbatory. You never hear anything about durability, tear/crease resistance or other packaging concerns. It doesn't much matter (to me, anyway) if it's 0.0000001 mm thick if it has to be attached to a
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by iigs 18y ago
“They may struggle to sell 911s to hedge-fund managers for years and years to come,” says one investor. Because they'll all be eating Top Ramen for the next 20 years. I think it's interesting how many different types of failures of transp
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by iigs 18y ago
I value the well tended nature of this forum. Barring a specific comment from a candidate regarding the VC or entrepreneurial environment ("interesting in a way that transcends politics", as stated above), politics represents enough of a de
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by iigs 18y ago
When I was in Texas last year, we went to a bank and they had these pneumatic tubes that suck in your cheques! Like a gas station. I felt like I had time travelled to some alternate reality. I've lived in the US my whole life, and using t
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by iigs 18y ago
I wrote that before lunch when I was hungry and cranky. I saw that it was going downhill, so I shut it down. The browser situation is something I didn't cover, but it truly is the most awful smartphone browser experience. By far the most ch
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by iigs 18y ago
Been doing a few interviews lately. Here's my take: The following things values are logarithmic or exponential (depending on the case), not linear: 1) Page count -- One page isn't a hard limit anymore. Your resume has to go through keyword
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by iigs 18y ago
For a long time I was an unflappable Blackberry fanboy. The reality of the situation currently is this: 1) Enterprise ready isn't the unique feature it was 18 months ago. ActiveSync on WM no longer sucks to the point it lowers the barametri
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by iigs 18y ago
This really isn't hacker news, even if Mr. O'Reilly has been on a preaching-about-startups kick.
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm assuming free-form textual data here, if you're doing something more constrained (like CDDB data) this will probably not be helpful. You can push the problem around with technical features, but I believe this is a meat-space issue and n
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by iigs 18y ago
You needn’t do more than attempt to watch a streaming video on a busy office LAN or oversubscribed DSL circuit to understand that even the best-served markets for Internet connectivity are struggling to keep up with demand for networked co
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by iigs 18y ago
You both saw the note on the front page this weekend, yes?
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by iigs 18y ago
That one may or may not have bit me, as well. :)
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by iigs 18y ago
Does anyone have parking advice for an eastsider making the trip?
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by iigs 18y ago
Now that you mention it, it fits more into Churchill's type of humor -- a little more build up than self deprecating one line zingers.
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by iigs 18y ago
Why not take a more individualistic moral stand and stop doing business in China (or any other place that routinely violates human rights) and show the world that your principles demand you to forego current and future profits? This joke
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by iigs 18y ago
Wow, interesting. Thanks for the info and the link. This is a surprising and disappointing aspect of this CPU. Do you know if there's something about this (seemingly trivial) workload that is pathologically bad for this processor, or do you
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by iigs 18y ago
We never get a chance to ask [Palin] in detail about these things, but she is known to favor the teaching of creationism in schools [...], and so it is at least probable that she believes all creatures from humans to fruit flies were creat
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by iigs 18y ago
I think that if there's truly a valuable market there that people will be able to charge a premium for quality products. Granted stuff like the Virtual Beer might not ever cost anything but I think well produced games might have quite a fut

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