jmngomes

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by jmngomes 11y ago
Neither party owes the other anything, but giving some sort of feedback, besides being polite, is a simple and useful positive contribution the other part's life, namely because the candidate has invested time on the process. Much for
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Making Phusion Passenger Up to 4x Faster Than Unicorn, Puma and Torquebox(rubyraptor.org)
1 points by jmngomes 11y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money(qz.com)
553 points by jmngomes 11y ago|300 comments
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by jmngomes 11y ago
You'd expect they'd learned their lesson after the result of what they did to Iran in the 50s...
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The sound of dialup – pictured(windytan.com)
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by jmngomes 11y ago
You've had drone operators coming forward and exposing problems with the "program". That's a very good reason to keep humans close to these tasks.
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The Myth of the Bell Curve(medium.com)
2 points by jmngomes 11y ago|1 comments
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by jmngomes 11y ago
I'd also recommend reading "Warriors of the Steppe" for an account of the rise and fall of the mongol empire.
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Also curious...I'd be surprised if they are still paying 30% to the publishers.
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Deep linking was being touted as the next big thing in mobile advertising, namely by some well known VCs (1) that love to play the predict-the-next-breakthrough lottery, yet it has proven to be more of a nuisance than anything else... (1)
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by jmngomes 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1...
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A Detailed Look at Hacking Team’s Emails About Its Repressive Clients(firstlook.org)
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by jmngomes 11y ago
...plus the big and traditional hurdles of corruption, and of getting customers to actually pay that longstanding invoice.
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by jmngomes 11y ago
I founded a startup creating an innovative media for mobile that, while probably not "immune" to fraud, had very little space for, and provided accurate and real measurements on engagement and content exposure. While trying to sel
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by jmngomes 11y ago
No, it's a capital being emptied from its center and people moving away from their birthplace/families so they can have a decent life, due to real estate speculation and money laundering through mass property acquisition.
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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?(bothsidesofthetable.com)
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by jmngomes 11y ago
"Lobbying is a way of structuring administration of regulation that shifts responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to people" Or does it "shift responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to" corporations looking to maxi
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Correct. This also goes for everyone asking "Why does AirBNB require such a large investment at this point?!" on a recent post...
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Since we're briefly on the topic of razor blades: wipe the blade with alcohol after using it, it'll increase its lifetime by deterring oxidation
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Facebook News Feed displays political bias(irishtimes.com)
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by jmngomes 11y ago
I think the OT is referring to cases that don't have advanced technology as a competitive advantage...
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How Facebook is eating the $140B hardware market(businessinsider.com)
1 points by jmngomes 11y ago|1 comments
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by jmngomes 11y ago
It's appalling that overbloated public spending due to corruption and crony capitalism isn't even mentioned as a cause of Greece's problems, when it is in fact a major determinant (just like in Portugal)
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> Yes. In the case of a database, "safety" is safety from downtime, data loss, data theft. So companies want a database that is fault tolerant and secure. "Safety" is also having someone to blame when things go bad. T
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Walmart is a cultural sickness(salon.com)
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Perhaps they had adopted the pet before a completely unexpected event turned their lives upside down and out of their control?
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Consider that a lot of people that are in that situation probably come from a background that is less positive than the one that you use for reference when making those statements. It's a parent's duty to guide and assist their ch
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by jmngomes 11y ago
"People who are treated like animals tend to act like it" I'd alternatively say that "people tend to act defensively/aggressively when they are mistreated the way humans mistreat other animals so often"
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by jmngomes 11y ago
Neo4j is a graph database suited for link analysis and for data that is naturally expressed as a graph, e.g. social or dependency networks. Cipher is one of the languages that can be used to query Neo4j and generally design queries for grap
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CHIP – The World's First Nine Dollar Computer(kickstarter.com)
4 points by jmngomes 11y ago|6 comments

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