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by kevinpet 15y ago
The problem isn't whether the patent is in software, it's that that patent office grants patents on trivial things. Should be patentable: RSA Should not be patentable: One click The patent office needs to say "what problem does this claim t
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This is key. Dropbox needs to work as a backup solution, not just as a file sharing convenience solution, because that's how users will actually use it. This potential conversation doesn't sound good: Grandma: My computer crashed, I got a n
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Social media experts aren't known for their math skills.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Not entirely clear if you are asking for what it is, or what we'd like it to be. I have a asus 1000he, and I think the ideal is 11-12" (i.e. just a hair larger). I'm considering upgrading to a Thinkpad x220 later this year, but I'm hoping s
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by kevinpet 15y ago
They may have already written off the employee lock-in effect and are taking their time going public just to avoid the disclosure and compliance hassles associated with it.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This is the second completely unreasonable press attack on Dropbox. They are so unreasonable that I have trouble believing a reasonable person would think they are valid complaints unless they were trying to sell me a competing product. Eve
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Because it attaches a set of names to straw figures who are clearly only props in a parable about bad security practices? I saw no implication that Honest Ahmed was anything other than honest. The story isn't about shady sleezeball's strip
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Last time I tried to look at Glassdoor it just required you to provide information to get information. Once you provided a salary, you could access salaries for a year.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If the bottom two people were people that the company didn't want to lose, sounds like management wasn't doing their job. If they were people you wanted to lose, good job!
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by kevinpet 16y ago
The home button does need an off switch. Your objects are nothing some good design couldn't solve. For example, allow parents to explicitly enable toddler mode for specific apps in settings. Also, allow multiple versions of exiting toddler
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I very much doubt dropbox is insecure by design. Skipjack was insecure by design. Dropbox is (arguably) insecure by oversight, or by lack of thoughtful security design.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I thought I understood the basics of startup finance, but these seem fundamentally contradictory: - Competitive salary (we’re funded & generate significant revenue) - Stock options (… in a pre series A company) Not the salary vs. stock
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by kevinpet 16y ago
My gloss of this story is "I harassed the tech support guy until he told me what I wanted to hear so I would go away." Let's see confirmation from someone who doesn't think an MS in IT is something to put at the top of every article, and th
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by kevinpet 16y ago
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." is this a mistranslation? It doesn't appear to make any sense. Should it be "experience praises most happily the one who made the most people happy"? Where did Marx
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by kevinpet 16y ago
<i>Non-compliance due to one gray area or another could force Apple to release tons of proprietary source code.</i> No, it cannot. Anyone who repeats this FUD is revealing he has no understanding of the issues. The GPL may n
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If the grid supports it, they might be able to switch over some generators near the crossover point from 60hz to 50hz. California's San Francisquito hydro plant has been running 50hz turbines from the 1920s at 60hz for decades with no probl
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Bubbles are produced by rational small-scale behavior. That's the fascinating thing about bubbles. The "greater fool" theory is frequently a good bet. Except, of course, when there is no greater fool and you're left holding the bag. More im
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I'd say link bait title, but the whole article follows it. The sites described don't use SEO as a marketing strategy. They used SEO as a business model. Marketing is about getting people aware of your business. What's discussed in the artic
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I don't think a startup that is not fundamentally technical has much to say about the merits of different technologies. This is a startup, and it's innovative, but it doesn't rely on the technology. Technology is just one piece of the puz
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Seems like a good message to future generations would be long half-life radioactive material. Enough to detect but not to harm near the boundaries, and then a little bit more at the center so that there's a clearly indicated "this gets stro
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by kevinpet 16y ago
They have a chart showing how people get out of debt, and the chart seriously does not include the option "pay your damn bills?" I'm reminded of statistics saying that the average wedding costs $28k or whatever. The reality turns out to be
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Don't confuse a great company with a great investment. The crux of the matter is to find stocks that are priced below their value. Which he argues professional analysts can't do. But somehow amateurs are supposed to be able to do this.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Ten years ago it was because the features were smaller than the light wavelength used to print the mask (not sure of terminology here). There's always something that looks like an insurmountable barrier, but billions of research dollars c
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I'm not seeing the win here. I think it's not a very compelling product. The message may be that they are so good at doing the store that they have been able to sell the product despite the significant downsides: 1. Small market for adult s
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Java is pass by value with mutable objects. Pass by reference is a different thing. I think Java causes this confusion because it's so restrictive about what you can do with pointers. In C, the difference between a struct and a pointer to a
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Debatable. Well, technically correct of course, it doesn't have to be signed. But it's an open question where the lines are drawn with regard to agreeing to a contract you never read and understood.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Little Rock?
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I posted it that way to pair with another old Cato network neutrality paper that was on the main page.
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Cato Institute: Current Network Neutrality Paper(cato.org)
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This is a very poor article that does nothing to provide any insight into network neutrality. That's not too surprising, though, since it's 7 years old. If the knee-jerk fans of benevolent government want to criticize their position, it wou

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