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by jpdoctor 14y ago
... especially since there is more than one historical example for all of Manhattan losing power. (One of those times involved looting and civil strife.) Combined with the verbiage about "once-in-a-generation storm", it is fortunate tha
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Just to try and pinpoint the time frame: I'm 48, my dad worked the same place for 35 years. He made comments about seeing the implied-employment structure break down during his time. It probably had a lot to do with the failure of unions,
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> If as an employee you invent something that is related to your normal job activities, then it is deemed the property of your employer You have not fully digested the implications of the invention-rights assignment that all large com
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> but arguably it's why people on that level of the enterprise get paid the big bucks. People several levels down are getting big bucks too, they're necks are only incrementally less exposed. It's not like these are gov't jobs.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Try seeing at least one shade of gray, you'll go farther.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Do you know that they didn't? I know that they either didn't tell him, or didn't tell him in a manner that he listened. It's really not rocket science: An organization is not fixed by chopping only one head.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> He simply can't say he was getting information from a small number of direct underlings - he should have been in the trenches talking to the developers, testers and beta users and getting feedback directly. True enough, but my point
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
... and note that making the deadline while being hit by a massive hurricane is a powerful litmus test. Of course, the question is: A litmus test for what? Hope y'all are safe out there.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Lopping off a senior exec over the mapping fiasco is completely warranted, but here's the next problem: The exec had several people feeding him information that the mapping app was somehow acceptable. If Tim Cook does his job right: There
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Another vote for: You really need a different name. Open is taken; a small token variation on that word will mislead folks. How about "streamed captions"? Also: The rebroadcasting copyrights have to be fraught with issues. Any comments
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> self-righteousness and pompadour Hair styling is everything when exuding self-righteousness. Choosing the Reagan model is as good a style as anything.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Let's try to put this discussion on the right track. (There doesn't seem to be any posts here from people who actually design analog circuits.) The SO post reduces to comparing two versions of noise: One from (A) software control of th
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I'm curious whether NYT will get the block as well. And HN too for linking to it.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> If I had any cash sitting in my brokerage account, ... Uh oh, classic indicator.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I'm not sure what that has to do with my point. The point of yours that I addressed was: "that VERIFYHOST=1 exists primarily to give people the feeling of having configured SSL/TLS well without making them actually do that." Put sim
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> and that VERIFYHOST=1 exists primarily to give people the feeling of having configured SSL/TLS well without making them actually do that. API doc: "When the value is 1, the certificate must contain a Common Name field, but it doesn
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Very interesting details! Thanks again.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I wanted to say: $1.1 million is life-changing first: congrats. I'm curious: How much of the $1.1 did you manage to keep (taxes etc.) BTW It might be a good entry in your blog on how to set up a biz for such events.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Help me out: Surely FEC over wireless can't be new. Why is this worth writing about?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Second the turnaround time for a prototype was at least two weeks. If you made a small mistake you'd find out two weeks later when your prototype arrived. [Cue Four Yorkshiremen] Try an fabless IC company: 8-10 week turn times on f
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The barriers to entry ahead of you are obstacles to your success. If you choose it right, they are obstacles to everyone's success, which is kind of the point. A well-funded company that can make a biz work with lower-margins and
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Barriers to entry are a good thing for incumbents and for the market leader. There was a time long long ago where it was also considered a good thing for startups, so that young funded companies would not be competing with bootstrap
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Rather, the two big problems are margin and, worse for a startup, inventory costs. You know there was a time long long ago where those were considered barriers to entry, and that barriers to entry were considered a good thing?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Rise of? Apparently the author wasn't around during the 90s?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The company is public [slaps forehead] Thank you. I should have checked. 25x trailing earnings. I'd say: Sensible.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Anyone calculated how many 9's Heroku is down to this year?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Anyone seen actual financials? FTA: To monetize all that information, the website has a subscription model that two million people pay into at $12.95 to $34.95 a month, according to the company. So (say) $20/month = $200/year * 2 millio
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Allie prefers to not have her own keyboard. Not my experience at all. Purr programmer would demand to be part of the process and would lie across my wrists, because she needed to be close to the action. Best damn programmer I ever
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Let's see: Michael Chertoff was head of the TSA, oversaw the decision about the safety of the scanners, and held a financial interest in the company that made the scanners. Sounds legit, nice work Mike.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Sometimes people who are actually good guys get confused for bad guys. The bigger problem is the opposite: Really bad guys come across as good guys, with exactly the traits described in the article.

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