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by jobu 12y ago
"IV was originally created as a "patent defense fund," getting investment cash from big Silicon Valley companies like Google, Apple, and Cisco. Soon, IV moved its focus to patent enforcement, and the firm is generally dislik
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by jobu 12y ago
Yeah, given the end result I can't imagine what they're thinking by saying that. To their credit, the auditors said this was their first negative review of the company: "Charles Collins Jr., the lead author of the MTG repor
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by jobu 12y ago
Sounds amazing... What are the challenges, limitations, and tradeoffs for using React Native? There have been similar initial reviews of Titanium, Phonegap, and Xamarin, but in my experience they all have serious issues that make native d
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by jobu 12y ago
> This is unsubstantiated. Has anyone met a 40 year-old in Silicon Valley that's gotten plastic surgery? How many would admit it if they had? It's probably overblown, but last year there were a number of news reports about a bo
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by jobu 12y ago
Based on what the article states, the sudden bad reviews are particularly evil for many older employees. In order to bypass previous layoffs, many agreed to a specific retirement date and reduced pay/hours until that date. The catch wa
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by jobu 12y ago
The article linked in from that bit is pretty good too: "IBM redefines failure as 'success,' gives underachieving CEO huge raise" - http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-ibm-redefin.
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by jobu 12y ago
It includes 25-54. Currently the age of retirement for full Social Security benefits is 67. Seems likely that they're missing a large chunk of Baby Boomers that are working longer.
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by jobu 12y ago
Your definition of "time sucking drudgery" is another's way to make a living. Sometimes the factory job that was just automated was the only job in town, and companies aren't going to retrain a 50y/o to program comp
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by jobu 12y ago
Some people would argue that Social Security Disability Insurance is soaking up a huge number of people that would rather be working as well: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/ "But, in most cases, going on dis
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by jobu 12y ago
It seems more an opinion piece about the unemployment metric than about the politics. Granted, the White House is mentioned, but more for framing than any political slant.
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by jobu 12y ago
The article describes the selection process as setting a very high bar - "You don't just have to be healthy. You have to be really healthy." What sort of requirements are they talking here? General health, physical fitness,
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by jobu 12y ago
Filing this away in my memory for future reference. It will be interesting to see if one man can change the direction of a language, even in a small way. Language is a fluid thing, and the phrase "comprised of" seems perfectly nat
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by jobu 12y ago
Obligatory link to "Humans Need Not Apply": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU I highly recommend giving it the full 15 minutes if you haven't already seen it. We as a society need to figure out how
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by jobu 12y ago
Yeah, I wonder how many paid apps are now free.
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The FCC has changed the definition of broadband(theverge.com)
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by jobu 12y ago
The use non-public information is what the article talks about - there are plenty of other non-public data sets that traders use to gain an advantage (e.g. using helicopters with infared sensors over oil fields). The difference in this case
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by jobu 12y ago
A few years ago there was a good article on Cracked (of all places) about the annoying trends for movies: http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-... There is the orange and teal trend, but also color tr
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by jobu 12y ago
It is interesting to see the "established news media" try to tear down the youtube media by using their stupid stunts against them. The Daily Show has been doing that same thing against the news media for years, and like Hank Gree
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by jobu 12y ago
The 6+ is awkward to hold and almost impossible to use one-handed, but for me, the bigger screen and longer battery life (almost double) more than offset the shortcomings of the form factor. It also seems to have louder speakers than any iP
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by jobu 12y ago
"I sculpt a virtual toy (a fluorescent green snowman) that I can then produce with a 3-D printer." This sounds amazing! She didn't go into a ton of details on this, so I wonder if it's as cool as I imagine. If done wel
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by jobu 12y ago
It was my impression that the torture debate was settled after World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions Torture is wrong, bad, illegal, and ineffective. In a modern world it shouldn't be suppo
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by jobu 12y ago
After working on a couple API's used by mobile devices I would recommend starting with some static pages containing JSON, then write a client against them first. That will help verify that you have all of the needed data and the format
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by jobu 12y ago
Arguably true, but only the U.S. government has the ability to drop a bomb on you in many (if not most) countries.
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by jobu 12y ago
The NSA keeps using this "54 terror plots thwarted" rhetoric, but there has never been any information released to back up that claim. From Sen. Patrick Leahy, after reading the full classified list: “We've heard over and ov
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by jobu 12y ago
This is the biggest problem - police officers have a huge incentive to seize money when most of it goes directly to their department, and often times there is there is little to no oversight on how this money is spent: http://www
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by jobu 12y ago
Most likely this huge growth over the last couple months has been the $0.99 for three months offer - http://www.cnet.com/news/get-a-3-month-spotify-premium-subsc... It's a great way to inflate subscriber numbers f
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by jobu 12y ago
It's not very hard to lie about your age - they don't ask for any proof or verification. My middle school aged kids have no interest in Facebook at all. Instagram definitely, and texting constantly. I'm sure Snapchat will com
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by jobu 12y ago
> I tempted to write "What could go wrong?" or "Life finds a way.". My thoughts exactly. Try using it in large scale animal farms for a couple decades and I'm betting something will become resistant.
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by jobu 12y ago
Every 5 minutes further from the office is about 40 hours of commuting over a year. When I look at a job that's further away from my house it helps me to weigh the cost/benefit of losing a week or more of vacation.
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by jobu 12y ago
This makes me wonder if it will be possible to reverse engineer some of the complex things we're building today.

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