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by jbob2000 9y ago
Ageism was just a side effect, I don't think IBM committed it intentionally. IBM's business changed and some of their employees failed to change with it. That the employees who failed to change were generally older is just a coinc
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The US has weak food safety laws when compared to the EU, but I don't see anyone bitching about that. Food has a much more direct impact on your health and safety than Facebook does, we would be better off if we brought those regulatio
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I wouldn't blame the tools here. When law enforcement needs something done, they'll get it done, justice be damned. Before Palantir, law enforcement would have just spot checked every single car passing through an area, under the
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by jbob2000 9y ago
GUI development isn't broken, you're just trying to build a skyscraper with sand.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
> Typed OM landed in Chrome 66 and is being implemented in Firefox. Edge has shown signs of support, but has yet to add it to their platform dashboard. Sigh. What happened to standards? This entire update is a bucket of changes that nobo
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by jbob2000 9y ago
> We have some ideas in the consumer space. So I’ve been meeting with different founders and just seeing what’s happening in the industry. This is so foreign to me, it's the height of privilege; "Meh, I don't really have a
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Ok, I read your link. I still think my comments stands. My argument would be that the "Community Analysis and Feedback" section is practically impossible to maintain. Back in early science days, this used to be a valuable section
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I think we're passed the point where studies can be reproduced effectively. I actually think the scientific model is falling apart. We've discovered the easy things, and those studies were easy to reproduce. We built a model of sc
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Having been part of a company that depends entirely on seasonal business (christmas), I would understand why the IRS is unable to complete technical projects. You spend all year working on a system, then the time comes for you to demonstrat
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by jbob2000 9y ago
It's a fair sentiment. Infertility, while sad, is good population control. Unfortunately, it tends to affect well-educated, high earning people the most. Meanwhile, teenagers in fly-over county have had 4 children before they hit their
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I am just sharing what I experienced when I was part of a program providing health care services to under served areas of Africa (specifically one part of Ghana). It was markedly different than when I was part of a program to provide health
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The hope was that we could export a lot of knowledge in a very small package to people who were susceptible to its uptake. We might not see the benefits of OLPC until these children become adults. One of the problems with providing charity
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by jbob2000 9y ago
They are just a "random" company. They don't sell any product a regular person would know about. Why was I able to setup a Google Play account without D&B? Amazon let me use EC2 without D&B, SendGrid let me use their
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I know your pain about the D&B issue. That was a huge slap in the face when I saw that. Apple, one of the largest companies in the world, has presented some random company as the face of their Developer portal? "Couldn't be...
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I've been subscribed to Apple Music for about a year now. I like the tight integration with the Apple ecosystem, but it leaves a lot to be desired. For one, the curated playlists and radio stations are garbage. It seems like Apple has
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Whew, what a gross way to over-engineer a text editor. If the NYTimes structured themselves like a dev team, they could use common sense tools to get much better results. Why is the journalist responsible for how it's presented? Wouldn
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by jbob2000 9y ago
You always had the right to ignore after-work email, it was never the law that allowed this, only social pressure. The law isn't going to change the perception that if I answer this email, it will get me further along in my career . E
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I am reminded of a charity that was posted to HN recently. They were helping mothers in Africa birth children. I asked what they were doing to help the children after they were born, and the reply was that other charities would fill that ga
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by jbob2000 9y ago
You'd have to be pretty stubborn to remain at this company after all of the bad news it's been getting lately. The writing was on the wall like a year ago that this ship was sinking, why would anyone stay?
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The patent will kill it in its tracks. mp3 is dead now because of the patent (well, also because of streaming). The open source community tends to provide a lot of the system-level technology for using things like this and I'd expect t
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by jbob2000 9y ago
> presently going bankrupt trying to pay for each other's healthcare. Only a problem for 2 countries in the world. The rest of us have this figured out.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
> People are not rational optimizers, they're mammals True, but people DO spend a lot of time optimizing their food; dieting is a huge trend. > have you considered the possibility that you, specifically, didn't do a good job
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by jbob2000 9y ago
You make a lot of grand statements there without backing anything up. If it was so convenient and cheap to cook this way, then everyone would be doing it. I have tried and tried and tried to cook like you suggest. I end up wasting food as i
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by jbob2000 9y ago
This detection is easy to circumvent: use an outhouse or septic tank.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Just some general advice, but you should tailor your resume to the job you're applying for. Never submit a general resume that attempts to capture your entire career. That you apply to hundreds of jobs tells me that you aren't mak
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The terms are out dated. I disagree with "up" and "down" because that is even more wrong (I'm up for buying that stock like I'm up for a game of chess, and I'm down to sell these like I'm down to go t
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I had never heard of an interferometer, it actually sounds like something out of a movie haha. Thanks for sharing!
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Oh man this is cool! Now we just need OpenSimpleLaserWindow and we can listen to conversations and track people's movements just like the CIA! I forget where I read about this, but essentially, as you speak, your sound waves vibrate ne
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Why don't I have to do it for Android?
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Oh man, is this why I have to complete all this encryption and export compliance bullcrap every time I have an iOS release?

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