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by jdp23 14y ago
Indeed. How embarassing. Thanks for the correction!
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by jdp23 14y ago
Agreed about The Innovators Dilemma; and from the original list, Founders at Work, Crucial Conversations, and The Design of Everyday Things. Your mileage may vary on The Alchemist; some people find it transformational, others aren't so exc
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by jdp23 14y ago
Still, Gundotra won't rule out the possibility of sponsored stories down the road. We don't serve ads [on Google+], but that doesn't mean we won't have sponsored stories," he says. "There may be more relevant forms of advertising that we
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Did Twitter Just Deliver Third Party Apps A Death Blow?(idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
118 points by jdp23 14y ago|46 comments
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by jdp23 14y ago
Personally, I would agree with you. But Hutchens' own paper was called "How to Win the Turing Prize By Cheating" -- http://www.csee.umbc.edu/471/papers/hutchens.pdf -- so I guess reasonable minds differ.
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As Microsoft retools, Ballmer has chance to rewrite his CEO legacy(news.cnet.com)
1 points by jdp23 14y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 14y ago
Thanks for the background. When I first saw that Comcast was doing the right thing here, my head almost exploded. Now I understand :)
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by jdp23 14y ago
It looks like the stats on all my older links (everything before April) have disappeared? If so, disappointing.
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Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers(nytimes.com)
6 points by jdp23 14y ago|0 comments
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UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data(zdnet.com)
3 points by jdp23 14y ago|4 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
One thing that can help with responsibility is to do a final pass at the end of the meeting and call out action items, including these near the top of the document.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Excellent all the way around: taking responsibility, explaining what happened without making excuses, describing what they're doing to keep it from happening again, making up for it with 3 months credit. The photos are a great touch too.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Nothing new here -- many people on HN routinely downvote comments like the above. It's almost like they don't want to acknowledge the issue or take responsibility for changing their behavior or something ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
What apenwarr said. Also the "rule of law" is nowhere near as objective in the geek sense as you seem to think. It's filled with concepts like "the reasonable person" and "mens rea" which are heavily contextual and subjective.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Agreed. The author of the article has no idea of what I'm doing so leaping to the conclusion I'm wrong (and so is everybody else who reads his article) comes across as arrogant and clueless.
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Valuations double for early-stage startup companies(geekwire.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Excellent point. I don't think they realize how much actions like this erode people's trust.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Back in the 1980s, research showed individual offices for developers resulted in significantly higher productivity. [Peopleware has a good chapter on this, if I recall correctly.] This was a core part of MS culture until the mid-2000s, wh
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by jdp23 15y ago
Interesting. I cut-and-paste from the PDF report, which uses the word "companies". The language in the press release is slightly different.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Here's the specific rights they call out: − Individual Control: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data companies collect from them and how they use it. − Transparency: Consumers have a right to easily understanda
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by jdp23 15y ago
Daily Muse is targeted at professional women. So companies recruiting there presumably want to highlight that they already have women employees in key roles. [And it's not _exclusively_ women.]
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Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Location Data Without a Warrant(eff.org)
4 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
> In this society, to be called "sexist" is pretty close to excommunication. Nonsense. Larry Summers, Michael Arrington, and tons of other guys have done just fine after being called sexist. > So maybe we ought to be more careful a
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The Senate’s SOPA Counterattack?(cato-at-liberty.org)
51 points by jdp23 15y ago|9 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
here's the pricing info: "Direct checkout will cost a 3% + $0.25 USD payment processing fee per sale."
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by jdp23 15y ago
Ditto. Sure, a lot of people prefer the convenience of being able to log in without creating another account and password, and will just click okay without looking at how many privileges the app is asking for; so having a FB (and Twitter a
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by jdp23 15y ago
Here's EFF's take: Some of the worst aspects of the previous draft of the ACTA agreement, such as a provision requiring ISPs to adopt a Three Strikes Law,[3] were removed from the U.S. Trade Representative’s final version of the instrument
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by jdp23 15y ago
Agreed, very courageous -- and very powerful.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Inspired by this poll, I'm taking a similar poll on G+ as well -- https://plus.google.com/u/0/115324919838980591640/posts/ZL5d...
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by jdp23 15y ago
The same thing happened to me last month. I was writing up something right after reading a few IBM Tivoli and Websphere white papers and suddenly noticed I was talking corpspeak without even realizing it.

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