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by joedev 14y ago
The same reason that one goes to "Camera" on an iPhone to take photos and goes to "Messages" on an iPhone to send messages. They do different things and it's clear when you open the app what you want to do. And though you can take photos
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by joedev 14y ago
Good job! btw: I love how their Revenue counter is poised to go up to a trillion dollars.
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by joedev 14y ago
"The question is whether or not MS has a responsibility as an underwriter to disclose that information to an audience broader than its own clients" That is an interesting question and will be a good suit to watch. If the finding is that th
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by joedev 14y ago
Here's the facts: the information upon which analysts reduced their estimates was publicly available. There was no secret, insider information. It was based on FB filings with the SEC. Failing to research a stock before investing is just
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by joedev 14y ago
"It can't possibly be my fault that I way overpaid for FB stock. It must be someone else's fault." - The grand American way! Gotta love it.
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Stripe Team Schools vs. Don't go to College
9 points by joedev 14y ago|0 comments
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by joedev 14y ago
If you don't remember what mobile phones were like before the iPhone, you must have either a short memory or a revisionist memory.
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Verizon to End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans(androidcommunity.com)
32 points by joedev 14y ago|35 comments
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by joedev 14y ago
"These resentful programmers also hate that the new kids seem to be skipping all of their favorite indoctrinations" Reminds me of the old ditty: "Flowers are red young man Green leaves are green There's no need to see flowers any other wa
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by joedev 14y ago
"We are slouching toward a glorified form of vocational training." What's wrong with vocational training? Maybe the issue is that the market is demanding vocational skills yet schools are trying to find, or trying to artificially create,
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by joedev 14y ago
95% of non-conformists are sheep. Just look around you. All dressed the same, all act the same, all with the same too-cool-to-be-conforming attitude. It would really take a special kind of defiance to say "no thank you" to what the non-co
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by joedev 14y ago
The setting of the lead photo looks not much different than the sweatshops from days of yore.
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by joedev 14y ago
I won't work with 'brogrammers' not because of gender issues, but because their general attitude and ego is just plain sucky to be around all day.
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by joedev 14y ago
This article points out the issues I have with the "software craftsmanship" movement. By definition, crafting is building by hand. When we treat software development as a "craft", we attribute too much benefit to hand-building software an
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by joedev 14y ago
Amazon Prime is not about books or Kindles, but everything else you would ever want to buy in all areas of your personal and professional life. That is why Bezos dangles all of these carrots in order to get you to become a Prime member. B
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by joedev 14y ago
The real title should be: "How many Atlassian PR people have called you to pitch you a story on their company? You guessed it - more than zero."
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by joedev 14y ago
"having upper class parents is probably a very high return as well" True, which is why the studies account for factors such as family education and family income in order to attempt to isolate the impact of the one factor being measured: th
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by joedev 14y ago
"Your earning potential is essentially given to you at birth" Interestingly the data shows otherwise. Factors such as parents' education, where one lives, age, race, family structure, IQ are measured and factored in. Two stats techniques
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by joedev 14y ago
If you read the study you'll find it does take into account opportunity costs.
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by joedev 14y ago
"On average, a four-year degree is the equivalent of an investment that returns 15.2% a year." - http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/30/a-college-degree-r... Stay in school kids.
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by joedev 14y ago
Like it!
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by joedev 14y ago
I give him 2 months.
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by joedev 14y ago
Some of the best story-tellers and happiest people I know take few pictures and have little twitter or Facebook presence. In order to truly experience something at the level where you can recount it for the rest of your life, you have to be
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by joedev 14y ago
Ryan, How did you convince your VCs that it's okay to work 4 day work weeks when the Valley famously continues to call for startups to work non-stop night and day?
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by joedev 14y ago
I've found an easy answer to age discrimination. For the past seven+ years I have worked from home. Many of my clients and coworkers have little idea of my relatively advanced age.
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by joedev 14y ago
The money quote: "In an effort to bring more suckers in, they just passed a law that makes it legal to pimp these startups to people who don't know anything. You will be able to take their investment by swiping a credit card. Probably using
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by joedev 14y ago
" It’s just something I do for money, nothing more or less." Amen to that. To be able to close the door behind you and not think or worry about work at all is a pleasure in itself. To be completely, utterly, un-encumbered by work for most
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by joedev 14y ago
Love Stripe!
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by joedev 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. I left an otherwise good job just for this reason: I was hired as a programmer, built a 15+ year career as a programmer, and while I love programming, I hate late-night systems support. Most companies do not staff th
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by joedev 14y ago
SMS helps prove the point that email is broken. When my wife sends me a text message, does she care about the protocol? No, she just wants to remind me to pick up appetizers, wine, and beer for tonight's party. Does she want to be limite

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