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by kevbin 16y ago
The distinction between tenured and assignment mentalities made in the HBR article is vital: before offering or accepting a position, make sure you understand the other's understanding of the relationship sought and the nature of the work.
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by kevbin 16y ago
The headline is misleading. As the article points out, it's not clear what Jobs is "noping": that there will be a Mac app store, that Macs will only run Apple-authorized software, or that there is such a rumor going around. I suspect Jobs i
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by kevbin 16y ago
It's not too heavy to be good in bed, but too slippery to play with in the bathtub without its rubber jacket.
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by kevbin 16y ago
No sarcasm. I don't love the case qua case, but for it's feel in hand and as a reference to the Newton's case material. I'd prefer a Newtonized bottom in lieu of the wrap, but you can't have everything in one swell foop.
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by kevbin 16y ago
Scully oversold the Newton idea to the extent that the MessagePad 110 seemed inept. By the time the 2100 was released, the Newton brand was sullied enough to ensure its transformative ideas would not take hold. We settled for a decade of c
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by kevbin 16y ago
My favorite feature of the iPad is its $39 Newton wetsuit case. Anyone fortunate enough to have owned a message pad knows the good vibes that flowed from holding their little rubberized-metal gifts from the future. There may be no soup, no
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by kevbin 17y ago
How far did big-name talent hoarding get Microsoft or the Washington Redskins over the last 10 or 12 years? Going after big names is a warning sign.
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by kevbin 17y ago
Can it run ColecoVision games?
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by kevbin 17y ago
Why do you assume that "jumping into an awesome job to get rich" and "help[ing] the world become a better place" are mutually exclusive? I'm not sure what you mean by "social justice." If you mean it in the sense of ensuring equality of out
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by kevbin 17y ago
> During the second half of the decade, the Chinese bubble will burst. I agree. As a result, Chinese-American co-dependency crumbles like a bitter divorce, the world falls into war, inclusive of even the most pacifist, post-military sta
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by kevbin 17y ago
…and I thought Monty only misunderstood database transactions. I hope he enjoys as much success rolling-back this MySQL transaction as users have had rolling back their MySQL transactions :)
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by kevbin 17y ago
Xmonad is a revelation for anyone who spends most of their day on the computer. It takes about a week or two to adapt, but it's a great productivity enhancement. Its really a kind of desktop construction kit: I find myself making layouts th
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by kevbin 17y ago
If one is unwilling to share their data and methods, then they should not participate in scientific research. The American Physical Society, for one, expects scientists to "Expose their ideas and results to independent testing and replicati
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by kevbin 17y ago
As Geoff Boldglum might say: "There's no step 39!"
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by kevbin 17y ago
According to the BLS* Computer Programmers (15-1021) average $73,000/yr. Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics(49-3023) average $37,540/yr, or roughly half what programmers make. * http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/oes_nat.htm
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by kevbin 17y ago
"Teachers are under paid" What makes you think so? Working 9 months/yr, elementary school teachers average $52,240 or $5804/mo., high school teachers $54,390 or $6043/mo.. These are jobs with tremendous security and benefits. The average re
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by kevbin 17y ago
"College is unquestionably more rigorous today." This is likely true at the high-end. But the vast majority of college students are not at the high-end. At the mean, universities have to mop-up after a dysfunctional K-12 establishment based
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Nanny State Says: “Shhhhh That Commercial is Too Loud"(techliberation.com)
1 points by kevbin 17y ago|1 comments
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by kevbin 17y ago
They jumped the shark when they gave the prize to a boastfully-amoral purveyor of warmongering realpolitik in 1973, an unrepentant terrorist in 1994, an ineffective cronyist international kleptocrat in 2001, a self-aggrandizing bigoted apol
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by kevbin 17y ago
Looks like John William Waterhouse's Ulysses and the Sirens: http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=5614&n...
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Beware Book Learning(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by kevbin 17y ago|4 comments
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by kevbin 17y ago
Depending on your needs it may be. The NanoHub project has made good use of Joomla for scientific community websites with extensive integration of resources: http://nanohub.org/about/hubzero http://hubzero.org/
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by kevbin 17y ago
Well, that's certainly a snotty, elitist rant full of guilt by association and name calling. This bit: "But would [Walmart] have become such a powerhouse if inequality had not grown so dramatically or if conservatives had not so demonized g
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by kevbin 17y ago
Wow. That's very close to home. The author's other essays ( http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/index.htm ) are interesting, too. I particularly like "Why I am Not a Professor". After reading that one, I wonder if the BBM he rescued in "The
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by kevbin 17y ago
The article overstates CA's response to its problems. The slashing and "vast numbers" aren't enough to right the ship and are pretty minimal compared to private industry, or even other state governments. The response of state employees and
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by kevbin 17y ago
The SAI concept looks a lot like some of the Boeing Sonic Cruiser concepts from a few years back, like this one: http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w238/Christopher_Cvel/114... The SAI and early cruiser concepts both have winglets, but th
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by kevbin 17y ago
Finally some remembrance of TextTrain!
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by kevbin 17y ago
One of the interesting bits to come-out of the alaska gas line debates is the apparent unwillingness of producers to develop fields even when they are economically feasible (whether on their face or through incentives). Leads me to believe
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by kevbin 17y ago
The US needs to revitalize its M&A department, see if the (Western) Canadians and Mexicans would like to swing a deal: take care of energy independence and the immigration debate in one fell swoop.
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by kevbin 17y ago
"In several states, such as California, profits are 'decoupled' from consumption." Hmmm, I wonder why CA has such unreliable, expensive power?

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