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by jefe_ 7y ago
Power BI also has a free version that is quite capable. I find the charts easier to work with than Excel.
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by jefe_ 7y ago
Not to say there aren't things they could probably be investigated for, but in the cases of search, cloud computing, and mobile Microsoft has actually been the 'underdog' competitor. They successfully gained inroads to cloud
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by jefe_ 7y ago
Whenever Walmart is mentioned I like to use the rise of Dollar General to illustrate my complete lack of confidence in anything the company attempts. How on earth did Walmart see the rise of Dollar General and not think: hey we could do tha
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by jefe_ 7y ago
I started embracing and justifying spending time on hobbies when I realized they give me something to talk about with non-IT people, and that is valuable. If your hobbies are IT work, and your work is IT work, there aren't many aspects
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by jefe_ 7y ago
This was my first thought as well, think there are 2 possibilities: 1. The Mueller report presents uncomfortable yet legal, coordination with WikiLeaks, in which case extraditing and prosecuting Assange would allow administration to distanc
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Was able to get 6 nights in Japan on 4 vacation days by leveraging Thanksgiving. Told relatives I would miss Thanksgiving but attend Christmas, everyone thought that made sense. For those who celebrate and enjoy Christmas, I don't reco
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Health and Human Services was $1.7 Trillion, Social Security was $1.1 Trillion, Defense was $1.1 Trillion, NASA is pretty far down the list (~19th), at $24 Billion, .35% of budget: https://www.usaspending.gov/#/explorer
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by jefe_ 8y ago
I could get behind something like this if it also presented these platforms with a consistent framework for moderating content. They reach levels where they are more akin to public spaces than digital communities, and should have moderation
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by jefe_ 8y ago
With Facebook's recent Ad Revenue earnings and the various news organization layoffs, it sounds like money is shifting from standalone sites and into the Facebook platform. Imagine this was the Facebook dream all along, but it seems wi
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Looks like some really bad business practices all around, from planning to execution to ultimately telling the customers they're not worth the investment. It seems, having gashes in the road, exposed to salt and wear, will increase rat
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Not a security complaint but an annoying experience with the system: Sat down one Saturday to create a database for their Financial Statement and Notes data set https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-and
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Hope Apple is listening, it would nice if I could develop iOS apps without owning, leasing, or remotely connecting to a Mac.
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Jim Acosta has done this many times. If he was really interested in answers he would continually modify his approach until he got what he wanted. But he's not really interested in answers so much as making a show of Trump not answering
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by jefe_ 8y ago
I want to be opposed to this but it does seem to make sense. Photos are large, storage costs money. I will say deleting user content is pretty intense. What about people who are dead? Seems odd their photos will be deleted.
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by jefe_ 8y ago
A good reminder that with connected devices, your level of privacy is dynamic and can change with a single line of code.
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by jefe_ 8y ago
These days I'm much more inclined to automate my own job than someone else's. It seems many of the times I've taken extra steps to more fully automate other people's tasks, it's had the adverse effect of alerting th
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by jefe_ 8y ago
The other day I noticed the drama films on Netflix this month are very strong. Led to realization that as time passes, the licensing costs for media often decline. When Netflix started streaming in 2007 films that were 5, 10, and 15 years o
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Accidentally subscribed to Youtube Red / Premium through the App Store. Got an e-mail a few months ago when Youtube shifted to Premium congratulating me that I was grandfathered into the old rate and features forever. I noticed their n
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Renting is giving up money for conditional access to an item. Owning is giving up liquidity for unconditional access to an item. In renting, when you are done with the item, you terminate, yielding access and recouping none of the money. In
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by jefe_ 8y ago
I use one of these every day, found two things, one from Philips in 2011 with some PDF documents, making claims the light is safe: http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/cpindex.pl?ctn=HF3332/60&... 2011 was a whi
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Take the resources being spent to get Bitcoin onto Wall Street, spend them to get Facebook Moms onto Bitcoin and suddenly the value rises. Salvageable currency, without that utility it suffers.
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Growth or opportunities for growth must be present to convince buyers and investors to exchange more-liquid assets like cash for less-liquid assets like ownership. I part with $100 that I can spend anywhere for a share of stock that I hope
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by jefe_ 8y ago
I know Twitter is powerful, but its wild to imagine you're Elon Musk or Kylie Jenner or Donald Trump, you know that when you push send, the 280 characters you typed will cause millions of people to either smile or frown, lead to signif
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Facebook knew they were dealing with a popular blog, yet it seems they decided to approach the issue in the most expensive and inflammatory way possible. Why not simply implement mechanisms for making the data more difficult to scrape and l
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by jefe_ 8y ago
I'm really surprised this has taken so long. In 2000, I made it to my state's Invention Convention, even got an article in the local newspaper with an 'invention' I called E-Waiter. It was a 'tablet' with a sim
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by jefe_ 8y ago
When discussing system features/status with stakeholders, I've found it can be dangerously easy to shift from concrete certainties to more of a brainstorming, thinking-out-loud type dialogue. The problem is that stakeholders often
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by jefe_ 8y ago
I recently ventured beyond the in-store pickup area of a Best Buy for the first time in a while, I was pleasantly surprised. It seems they're positioning themselves as the smart home destination, pretty extensive inventory in this area
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by jefe_ 8y ago
This story has been a captivating lesson in the power of constraints. We have powerful drills and pumps, but adding the constraints of portability and time, we find fewer options. We have great mapping and tracking capabilities, but put the
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by jefe_ 8y ago
Both Google and Facebook offer Advertisers something novel. Google has Search, Maps, YouTube & Gmail data it can use to offer high degrees of targeting through AdSense. Each of these applications alone is nearly the same magnitude as Re
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by jefe_ 8y ago
For more of a guide to surviving collapses, this essay about the 2001 Argentine Financial crisis is pure gold. I have printed several copies and read it about once a year: http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2008/10/thought

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