jmngomes

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by jmngomes 13y ago
I think Gladwell arguments about the "manner of speaking", not the language used. Some countries/cultures are way more deferent than others and view "powerful" people as someone to (almost) worship. Feeling conforta
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by jmngomes 13y ago
After working in IT consulting, I second that. I often found myself wondering how most of what I did was a waste of my skills. I had learned a lot of cool stuff in college, like distributed systems, that was completely useless to what I did
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Wants to Build NSA-Proof Messaging App(mashable.com)
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by jmngomes 13y ago
I have the a) problem and have yet to find a solution that doesn't involve (manually) sending a fixed-format file with transfer orders to the bank we work with...transfers within the EU are free, though, but this is the bank's pol
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by jmngomes 13y ago
You just reminded me of the closing words of Killing Them Softly ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V6GHnxEJjg )
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by jmngomes 13y ago
Maybe those 5 "conventions" are in no particular order, but I'd argue you should first check your indexes and only then consider "trying cacheing". Also, I'd think it'd be better to create indexes after &q
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AI bots figure out the key to survival is peace and ganging up on warmongers(kotaku.com.au)
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by jmngomes 13y ago
Doesn't that apply, or was applicable at some given point in time, to the vast majority of currently successful startups? http://www.quora.com/Startups/How-do-you-make-a-new-business...
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by jmngomes 13y ago
Definitely. Just because it's been going on forever doesn't mean it's right. Google understands the need to fraud/abuse protection in AdSense: advertisers would flee if there was no trust in the system. Same thing here:
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by jmngomes 13y ago
Agreed. And building on that analogy, Animal Farm would be about the stick holders.
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by jmngomes 13y ago
Also, I think there are some physical limitations that keep chips below a certain clock speed. Besides, the bet has been on "smarter instead of faster", i.e. producing chips that suit our computing needs, which are more adequately
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by jmngomes 13y ago
We're going from "companies launching social networks so they can get your data to do better advertising" to "governments launching social web services so they can get your data do better 'threat monitoring'&qu
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by jmngomes 13y ago
Hmmm, that makes it clearer why their CEO is at Bildeberg this year ( http://news.rapgenius.com/The-bilderberg-group-list-of-atten... ). I once had a startup project (shot down by internal "concerns") to spin-off an
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Spotlight on landing page for marketplace businesses
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