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by jdp23 16y ago
Interesting! Exaggeration often does sell well in the US, but I don't think it's required. And negativity is very much in fashion here (alas) but positivity can be even more successful. So my guess is that your campaigns would work well
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by jdp23 16y ago
To me, the site has gotten a lot less informative and interesting since the votes have been hidden. The voting numbers really help me understand what people are thinking: how strong the consensus is, how much support there is for dissentin
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by jdp23 16y ago
One of the lessons I took away from the static analysis tools I architected (PREfix and PREfast) was just how many bugs you can find with simple pattern-matching. To make it work in practice, you need some UX support -- including explanatio
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by jdp23 16y ago
it just feels like 2641 hours of downtime since it started :-)
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by jdp23 16y ago
Got it. If that's what you're reporting, then you might want slightly different language: "have been up" is past tense, so implied (at least to me) that you were just talking about year-to-date.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Is the percentage right? AWS went down about 30 hours ago, and in the Seattle area we're 111 days + 7 hours into the year. so by my calculations, it's closer to 98.9% than 99.66...% Or did I make a mistake?
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How to disable your iPhone's creepy tracking feature(technolog.msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
Remember that the several clauses of PATRIOT Act will sunset unless they're renewed by the end of May. Once Congress returns (the week of May 2) expect floor fights in both the House and Senate. It's a great opportunity to introduce reform
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by jdp23 16y ago
Love this: "All author proceeds will go to the Stop Girl Trafficking Project"
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Canada bans election-night tweeting and Facebooking of results until polls close(montrealgazette.com)
2 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
agreed, I think lack of trust (or alternatively the desire for the illusion of control) is a huge barrier for a lot of managers and organizations
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by jdp23 16y ago
Yeah really. And why was this post downvoted?
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by jdp23 16y ago
He said "The same thing is happening today with a Republican official who emailed some friends a humorous photo of President Obama's face on a chimp and a punch line about his birth certificate. If your only context is what the Internet sa
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by jdp23 16y ago
it's definitely worth checking out the comments on Adams' blog -- the top one is from mathowie and other Metafilter folks weigh in as well http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/planned_chaos/?CmtOrder=Rating...
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by jdp23 16y ago
"The momentum is driving a wave of deal envy and trash talking—complete with power plays, personal feuds and turf wars among Wall Street bankers, billionaire speculators and venture-capital veterans." Sounds like a bubble to me. Anybody re
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by jdp23 16y ago
very true. Vajrayana Buddhism is a great example of this.
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by jdp23 16y ago
right you are. how embarrassing. can i downvote my own post?
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by jdp23 16y ago
Well said. Skills and attitudes from improv are incredibly useful in all kinds of situations ... A variant I'd suggest when playing the game in real life: as well as imagining an ace on your own forehead, imagine that the other person also
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Facebook censors pictures of guys kissing(advocate.com)
2 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
This is only one of the findings of the study ... Carr didn't bother to quote the rest. From the abstract at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1951356 "The findings showed that the SNS use had a negative association with NFC and a po
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by jdp23 16y ago
Without knowing more about the study, I'm skeptical. Back in 2009, a study claiming that Facebook use was correlated with poor academic performance got a lot of press. Once people looked at the data in more detail, though, a different pic
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by jdp23 16y ago
it certainly sends a clear message to employees and other stockholders that Larry doesn't see it as important to keep the stock price up.
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by jdp23 16y ago
It's not blaming the author to notice that he doesn't appear very interested in this essay with communicating with most people in terms they'll understand. Sure, it's just his style, but it's hard to be optimistic about how much buy-in he'
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Crowdsourcing the Censors: A Contest(tech.slashdot.org)
1 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
and a decade later, Google's been making billions of dollars each year, and despite massive investment Microsoft is barely breaking even. so true, MS still has the Windows, Office, SQL/Excahnge, and XBox businesses. but its failures in the
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by jdp23 16y ago
I think tying bonuses to social is a great idea (more at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=2374&cpage=1#comment-... ) but getting people focused on key corporate goals is important for any CEO, wartime or peacetime.
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by jdp23 16y ago
In the 1990s it may well have helped contribute to an attitude where nobody stopped to think whether business practices are anti-competitive. It also contributed to some really horrible software. At one point in the early 2000s I was meeti
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by jdp23 16y ago
It's not that simple, though: legal sites have had their domains seized as well. These days any site with user-generated content is at risk although thus far they've focused primarily on hip-hop and other music sites.
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by jdp23 16y ago
TorrentFreak had some recommendations a couple months ago: http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-stop-domain-names-being-seize...
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USPS accidentally issues Vegas Statue of Liberty stamp(boingboing.net)
8 points by jdp23 16y ago|2 comments

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