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by jobu 13y ago
It does seem pretty stupid to put it behind a paywall though - this is just a blog post, it's not even part of the newspaper
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by jobu 13y ago
What I don't understand is why the US government would point fingers at the Chinese for putting backdoors in Huawei devices when it was really the NSA all along. It seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot by giving poin
873.
by jobu 13y ago
Facebook has made some good purchases that align with their overall strategy, but I definitely don't see how this fits. And why would Oculus sell to them?! It makes no sense. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Sony... The list of better techn
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by jobu 13y ago
That's a great point. They only looked at the last 25 years, but I bet the story is different in the late 70s and early 80s when interest rates were significantly higher.
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by jobu 13y ago
"Even as Washington grapples with the diplomatic and political fallout of Mr. Snowden’s leaks ..." That statement is a perfect example of the real problem with the US government and many journalists. They don't see the act
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by jobu 13y ago
The stated reason for going to Mars is to create a backup population for humanity. If a major asteroid impacts earth (or any other Extinction Level Event) then potentially every human will be as dead as those killed by Polio.
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by jobu 13y ago
Looking at the parts list I see the largest cost is the 2x 40-port SATA cards (aside from the drives). I wonder why they didn't decide to reduce the number of drives to 40 so they could just use one SATA card and save $688?
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by jobu 13y ago
I would be very surprised if Keynote '09' would even run in Mavericks. When I upgraded to Lion a couple years back I couldn't use any of the iWork suite that came with the computer. Fortunately I had only made a couple throw
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by jobu 13y ago
I've often heard people use the term "mute point" instead of "moot point". That seems fairly similar to the borrowing similar words from other languages.
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by jobu 13y ago
This is funny and I've seen startups do it as well as product managers at bigger companies: One of the biggest mistakes startups make is treating launch like the be all end all. "It's like if you just launched, dropped the m
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by jobu 13y ago
An impressive example of the senior developer route is David Maynard of Box.com: "Sometimes I have to leave a company when I get promoted to the stage when I can’t code anymore" ( http://www.fastcolabs.com/3007250
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by jobu 13y ago
"Only the U.S., Somalia and South Sudan have declined to ratify the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits juvenile solitary confinement as a matter of international law." Nice.
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by jobu 13y ago
I had no idea there was a skeptics stackexchange site. That's very cool (although not as cool as landing a plane with one wing). It will be interesting to see if this site has any effect on Snopes.com
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by jobu 13y ago
I've heard that rapid-fire updates to Android apps can hurt rankings. Have you had any problems with this?
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by jobu 13y ago
At first I laughed at the government getting scammed by Sprint, but then I realized I'm paying for the scam (and now lawyer fees) with my taxes. /sigh No matter who wins this one, everyone (in the US) loses.
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by jobu 13y ago
Hopefully it works with mapping apps other than Apple's. Not only are the directions often questionable, the app has a terrible user experience. I don't need to be told five times that I should be turning left while I'm wai
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by jobu 13y ago
"For the record, Tesla has not said it will locate its new Gigafactory in Texas in exchange for the state changing its franchise laws." Are there any legal restrictions on a company making demands like this?
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by jobu 13y ago
Wow! They weren't even caching database calls: HealthCare.gov had been constructed so that every time a user had to get information from the website's vast database, the website had to make what's called a query into that da
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by jobu 13y ago
There's some very good advice in that article, and I really like the Russian anecdote about the man who loved his dog too much. One thing I do disagree with is this: "A lot of management training ties you in knots trying to say t
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by jobu 13y ago
Once again, the internet routes around failure.
891.
by jobu 13y ago
How durable are these synthetic muscles? (i.e. how many contractions?) Anytime I've dealt with twisted or tangled fishing line it seems like the strength is severely compromised.
892.
by jobu 13y ago
"Second, all surveillance of Americans should be moved to the FBI." This sounds like a great idea in theory, but in the current age of global communications I'm concerned that it's impossible to separate surveillance i
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by jobu 13y ago
The incentives for the financial sector are broken "Bloated and inefficient, the financial sector is focused on hooking up bankers with large bonuses rather than matching savings with investment."
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by jobu 13y ago
The bit about laughter surprised me the most. I had no idea it was considered embarrassing to laugh publicly in Japan.
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by jobu 13y ago
The article mentions Gallium Arsenide and that it's prohibitively expensive as a straight up replacement for Silicon. They're tinkering with the form factor to figure out the best way to focus more light on small bits of GaAs.
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by jobu 13y ago
Listening do user complaints doesn't always mean listening to their suggestions in fixing the problem. You shouldn't necessarily remove something that every user is asking you to remove if you feel it's a critical feature, b
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by jobu 13y ago
> A job can be just a means to an end, and there is nothing wrong with that. Trying to get your employees emotionally invested is just a way to increase productivity while keeping labor costs down. I worked in advertising for over a de
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by jobu 13y ago
The title of the article seems like linkbait. What Marcus said was: "In closing, if you are one of the folks who refused to install the PayPal app or if you can’t remember your PayPal password, do yourself a favor, go find something t
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by jobu 13y ago
"Maybe social skills come harder to programmers than to other people (I’m not convinced that’s true), but developing those skills will certainly pay off a lot more than trying yet another development methodology." Like almost an
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by jobu 13y ago
She quoted this line from some of the TV coverage: “How many distressed babies does AOL pay this guy?” Does anyone know who said that? That's really dark, but also hilarious.

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