jacobquick

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by jacobquick 13y ago
Scare quotes are what you use when the thing you are discussing is not the word you're using. They are completely appropriate there. The guy who replied to you is correct, as everyone who paid attention in Econ 101 is aware: there is n
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by jacobquick 13y ago
It's almost as if we should tax people proportional to their ability to pay.
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Finally someone gets it right. There's already a bunch of comments in here comparing the federal government's "debt" to city, state, corporate, or individual debt. It's ridiculous and incredibly damaging to try to d
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Those old people should have paid for the undercoating
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Your CEO is like 10 years too late on this one, companies who offshored or outsourced mostly brought those projects back internal since. The companies that were successful got there by starting a development office in the country they wante
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by jacobquick 13y ago
The definition of CDR, even though there's a standard, isn't really standardized between companies, networks, or hardware. The switches actually puke a huge blob of semi-trustworthy data in a long record and internally we called i
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by jacobquick 13y ago
They call non-smartphones 'feature phones' and unlike 3g network phones, they all have gps as part of the CDR. LTE has it as well, only 3g doesn't. 3g network stuff uses old PPoE because phone companies are lazy.
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by jacobquick 13y ago
I was at a different telecom a couple years back and legal handed down a ruling that we couldn't keep things beyond two years, even though we were research instead of billing. Research was the last group at the company to have to delet
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by jacobquick 13y ago
You should look up "regulatory capture" it means something very different than how you are taking it. Just so it's not a low-content post, a company can lobby the government to change, weaken or not enforce existing regulatio
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by jacobquick 13y ago
metadata is what they are looking at now. they collect everything else so they can look at it later when they break the encryption
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by jacobquick 13y ago
There's a comment on that blog post that says "what is meant by 'the server'?" That's probably the best possible question here. What's the point of building another messaging system and key distribution me
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by jacobquick 13y ago
I actually got a peek at Facebook's behavior maybe 5 years ago when I signed up to beta-test a video game. They had used the Facebook login API for their beta forums without marking it on their site, so signing up for the game signed m
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Rust has it right, python is a programming language. One of its more common uses is for "scripting," because you can just write it and run it at a prompt, the compilation will happen automatically if you don't do it manually.
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Nothing. The answer is you don't monitor production processes directly, ever, it's a waste of your time and effort. Certainly this sort of foolishness should not be used to page an employee off-hours if that's where you'
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Apple isn't a utility so isn't a relevant comparison. Cake isn't a utility either, that's a foolish aphorism and is not a relevant comparison because we aren't talking about a limited resource. I can have both reaso
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by jacobquick 13y ago
This article is ridiculous shilling. Who do you think lobbies state and local governments to keep the cost of entry high for access to the streets they've been digging around in? The "big cable" trade association who "sh
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Go is going to become very popular for network services other than http. It is likely to be used by anyone who gets really sick of bind or postfix and decides to make their own network daemon. Additionally it will probably be used for high
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by jacobquick 13y ago
"Before it launched in private alpha in March, Drizly formed a vital partnership with Gordon’s Liquors in Watertown. Gordon’s is currently the main store out of which Drizly’s deliveries originate. The service delivers to most of Bosto
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by jacobquick 13y ago
It was cut and paste from an ama on 4chan. Really you should understand this already.
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by jacobquick 13y ago
They'll make the same money, if not more, charging $40 for the game downloaded via xbla than they will for charging $60 at retail. Retail stores are incredibly expensive compared to web anything and so they take a huge cut. MS' lo
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by jacobquick 13y ago
The text for this is incredibly misleading, the headline of the article is the exact opposite of "Mozilla Moving Persona moving servers outside the US". This submission should be deleted.
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Actually we can't. We specifically don't get to vote on foreign relations, ever, and it doesn't pass through the normal bicameral legislative thing. It's just the president draws up whatever and then the senate OKs it. L
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by jacobquick 13y ago
There are a lot of benefits to organization beyond simple salary negotiations. Other professions in very high demand like doctors organize themselves to an incredible extent, and are able to have significant pull with both employers and gov
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by jacobquick 13y ago
This is ridiculous, it wasn't an employee it was the CEO, who dropped hints they were doing it all through April. Shouldn't expect better from Wired I guess. This being a entrepreneur tech site, it looks like there's a market for non-terrib
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Should change this link to an actual news item, currently it goes to their front page which of course provides no information. I know reddit's crappy but this post is actually doing a good job aggregating info as it becomes available: http
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by jacobquick 13y ago
If that were sales for your own company's product would you really come to the conclusion that iTunes caused CD sales to drop? Seriously, imagine for a moment it's your business on the line so you'd damn well better get the analysis right:
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by jacobquick 13y ago
this is no longer the case, if you want a grizzly bear song that appears only on a warner bros soundtrack you have to buy the whole soundtrack
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by jacobquick 13y ago
Isn't "a game company that empowers its employees" the same story as Gabe Newell and Valve? It's cool that there's another company doing it but that management style has plenty of previous examples, some basic research would've made for a b
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by jacobquick 14y ago
I thought they were limited to driving on the highway in the empty parts of nevada?
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by jacobquick 14y ago
So did Borders. Was it book piracy that did that, or digital distribution?

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