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This seems to be as much a reflection of the finance industry's loss of luster as technology being wonderful and whatnot.
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Again, you're missing the point and buying into the myth of the quantitative analyst. Irrationality and emotion are like a balloon: you squeeze on one end by implementing a bubble factor (however you defined that...) and the irrational
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Simply put: Facebook and other social media sites are as much public places as streets and restaurants, except every word you utter is recorded forever. The solution here is to carefully and consistently remind people, especially children,
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Don't forget the tests of each. The startup's tests are all commented out because they failed at some point or another, the large company's tests are five times as long as the actual code they test, and all other categories c
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Can we please stop drawing conclusions about tech companies from their revenue figures? At this point it's a tired trope on hacker news that technology companies' valuations can't be explained by traditional equity analysis t
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Philosophically, this effort seems fallacious to me. Many of the Internet's services are only free because of advertising, and while Mozilla's intentions seem admirable, they're at best short sighted and at worst naive. As fo
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I'm actually curious about what sort of mistakes Google is obviously making here besides being a competitor to LiveNinja. Did I miss something or is this post just vague trash talking?
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What browser are you using? I believe I implemented the max-width using a container div rather than putting restrictions on the p elements.
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If you're as turned off by the formatting of this page as I am, I'm currently working on a CSS framework to beautifully display longform text. As luck would have it, this essay was my test case: http://alexgolec.github.
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I find it a major deterrent to adopting your service that I have to click twice to read the story. It's very disruptive to the "mindlessly clicking through things" mindset I'm in when I read these sorts of aggregator sit
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Digital Attack Map, a map of DDOS attacks against Google throughout the world(digitalattackmap.com)
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What I want to know is: does it matter? People hate airline companies and cable companies, but the companies are clearly successful both in the value they provide to their customers/users and in the health of their businesses.
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That does sound relaxing...
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I've noticed that the scrolling behavior on Mavericks is eeeever so slightly different. When I'm reading on a laptop, I like to scroll the text so that the line of text above the current line disappears by one pixel. This requires
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While this might seem promising in the surface, I don't see a change if leadership as an immediate indication that the agency is going to be overhauled. I'd like to read Alexander's departure as a practical acknowledgement th
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In my opinion, this is the question that separates the entrepreneurs from the wantrepreneurs. It's easy to talk the big talk when it comes to startups: how you hire people, how you lead teams, what development methodology you use, etc.
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Google has an interesting way of setting goals for their employees, which is part of group motivation: http://startuplab.googleventures.com/public-workshops-2013-0...
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I find the inclusion of the quote from Bob Cronin the remix maker smells of false hope. Suppose Lessig wins the case. The greatest impact to record labels I could foresee is they would have to be more careful about their takedown requests.
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> ... says Corynne McSherry, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group, who is representing Lessig Wow, not even the top legal scholars in a field, pursuing a case in their own field, are willi
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It warms my heart to see hints that the tide might be turning on patent trolls. While this precise effort might not yield results, it's comforting to see that this has gained attention from the body whose job it is to address these sor
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Is the graph normalized to account for lines of code per repository? WTFs by repository is a useless number: I'd be more interested in seeing the WTFs per line.
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Could anyone shed some light on the meaning of "protected speech?" There was some hubbub concerning people being targeted by law enforcement for statements made on Facebook and Google searches. Would an expansion of the definition
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> Maybe people responsible for the economic well-being of, well, the whole damned world Do you honestly think your bank is responsible for your economic well-being? Or that bankers are responsible for every economically bad thing that ha
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I don't buy the "rewards accumulate upwards, so surely blame should too" argument. This argument hinges on the idea that the executive is earning rewards that are vastly disproportionate to the risks he faces for making mista
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Acknowledged. I still argue that Google's getting more than its fair share of abuse, though.
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Is China's justice system really what we want to aspire to?
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Firstly, but this led to a conviction. Justice at work. Secondly, would the crisis could have been prevented if this practice were not in place? Absolutely not. This behavior was a symptom rather than a disease.
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I hate this view. The rationale seems quite reasonable up front: something bad happened, we should find out who's responsible for it and punish them. There's also an unspoken assumption that this punishment would be a deterrent to
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This very same point could be made against Apple, for instance, but there hasn't been a single comment to that effect in any discussion of this article. I wonder if all of this recent Google-bashing is really just a symptom of somethin
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I find it a little suspicious that a browser that purports to be private gives a unique fingerprint on panopticlick... https://panopticlick.eff.org

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