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by jdpedrie 10y ago
You only have to go back a couple of Presidents to get to one for whom that motivation isn't so far out of the question.
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
There's a lot of companies that need or prefer on-prem or non-cloud offerings for storage. EMC does really well in enterprise services, and likely will continue to do well.
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
Sure, but we're having this conversation on a forum for members of a rather upper middle class profession using a $1000 computer, talking about a $600 phone. We're all firmly in the camp of first world problems. Being extremely fo
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
Minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of life doesn't mean it can't be a major inconvenience in the moment. And when I'm out, or indisposed to charge my headphones, in that moment it's a major inconvenience. Especially
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
My dad works for EMC, and he's fairly bullish on the whole situation.
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
Has there been any analysis on the upswing in acquisitions of cloud computing and storage companies? First EMC gets bought by Dell, now Rackspace is getting picked up. Is it just in response to growth on the part of Google and Amazon?
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
That's silly. How do you propose to "evaluate what is better, healthier, more rational"? I suppose some panel of experts could give you their best approximation, but it will always be sub-optimal. Markets exist in order to an
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
/r/The_Donald is like... the opposite of neocon.
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
The author of this article spoke to Russ Roberts about this topic on EconTalk[1] a couple of years ago. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/03/velasquez-manof.htm...
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by jdpedrie 11y ago
nope, diesel is yellow. never seen a green fuel can.
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by jdpedrie 11y ago
A similar thing happened in Detroit, after the fire of 1805. Augustus Woodward designed a plan for the city which was partially implemented, especially in the large avenues leading out of the city center. [1] [1] http://www.metro
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by jdpedrie 11y ago
Bower is on its way out. Most projects use npm for front-end assets nowadays. This article is about two years late.
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by jdpedrie 11y ago
Am I seeing a summary of the book? Or is it really only 17 pages long?
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by jdpedrie 11y ago
A lot closer to none than 10,000...
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by jdpedrie 12y ago
wut? in what world does "free association" equal "mandatory all-union workplaces"? Just your words.
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by jdpedrie 12y ago
A lot of this is inspired by Quicken Loans' Isms. Both companies are at least partly owned by Dan Gilbert. http://www.quickenloans.com/press-room/fast-facts/our-isms/