kjackson2012

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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I worked for Yahoo in the years surrounding the Microsoft debacle. Let me tell you in no uncertain terms that Yahoo was the worst company I worked for. I had very little work to do. Period. End of statement. I spent most of my time doin
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
In Canada they have a system where you input a PIN number every time you use a credit card at a POS. I've heard from my Canadian friend who owns a Shoppers Drug Mart, that it has cut down chargebacks to almost 0. Why they haven't implemente
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
They can't claim the merchants' money as gross revenue, if they are using GAAP. It's the same issue that Groupon ran into and got slapped for.
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Ask HN: "What's the Word" and IP protection on the App Store
4 points by kjackson2012 14y ago|1 comments
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
No, because HN doesn't have a good way to manage comments the way Reddit can. In Reddit, it's easy to close an entire thread if you're not interested in it, but HN natively does not have this facility. I've seen some hacks that allow this
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
It depends on what your goals are, and what foods you eat. I eat A LOT of spinach, it basically replaced bread, pasta and rice for me. As well I eat bell peppers, broccoli and other veggies. They may have some carbs in them, but not a wh
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I mentioned I kept track of all the food I ate in June 2012, and even after increasing my calories after going on low-carb, I still lost weight. What part of that did you not understand?
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
There are plenty of ways to lose weight. Cutting calories is a very effective way of losing weight. This doesn't discount the fact that cutting carbs also works. In my case, it has been working spectacularly. I believe that I don't need
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
A basic text on biochemistry will educate you more than this "expert". You really should educate yourself properly instead of following random web sites that confirm your own biases. Carbohydrates ARE converted to fat under normal dietary
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
"carbs are very rarely converted into body fat". Yeah, you probably need to brush up on your biochemistry before you make statements like this.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I'm currently on a low-carb diet. Since June 2012, I've been tracking my weight almost daily, the food I ate, and the amount of times I've worked out. I drastically increased my workouts from October to December, working out almost 4-5 tim
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I used to buy from buy.com often, back during the dot com bubble. They were pretty big then, and they had pretty decent deals. Then mid-2000's Amazon stepped it up with their free shipping and lower prices, and basically buried buy.com.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
It's a cool idea, but has Google actually guaranteed any certain level of support? What if someone ends up creating a site with a huge amount of bandwidth, and then Google pulls the plug? I know that the offered amount of bandwidth is droo
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
This was extremely well-written. It's a shame he had to sully his good name by taking the easy route and make up quotes, etc. Hopefully he can bounce back and revitalize his career.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
Mainly speed, usability, etc. If you have a large spreadsheet with tens of thousands of rows, trying to scroll back and forth makes it unusable.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
The only thing holding me back from going completely to Google Docs is the spreadsheet. For anything real, the Google Spreadsheet is simply not usable. It's a great proof of concept, and it works for small, unuseful spreadsheets, but for
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
No they do not need to attempt to contact the merchant. Especially companies like American Express, they will usually chargeback first and ask questions later. In fact, if customers call in to ask what a particular charge is, they will di
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
No, they don't serve the same purpose that market markers and specialists do. MM and Specialists serve to stabilize the markets and are obligated to create and maintain orderly markets. HFT have no such obligation, so they can create liqui
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
This is why I strongly believe that regular people should not learn how to code, despite all the "you should learn how to code" articles. Excel is a really good example of how easy it is to get up and running, and how easy it is to get your
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
Does anyone have any particular recommendations on which one is better? I don't mind paying for iExplorer, I'm just wondering if there is any issue with reliability/safety/security with either of these two.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I switched over from Windows to Mac hardcore for 3 months as well. I did all my development on Mac and used Mac tools for everything. I simply didn't enjoy the change, so I switched back. It's just personal preference, but I didn't like s
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
It seems ridiculous that an "intelligence" organization would upload files to a server that identified themselves so blatantly like that. Could it be that it is some ruse of some sort? I don't doubt that someone broke in, but would it rea
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A Pep Talk(pragcap.com)
1 points by kjackson2012 14y ago|0 comments
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I would agree that before, the risks from injuries like concussions were not known. In this era, however, most people playing these contact sports like football and hockey know about them. And if they play at a high-enough level such that
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I don't dispute any of that. My point is that it's a risk that everyone, to a great extent, knows about and are willing to take. Most of the NFL players don't care about the health effects until it gets extremely drastic, they are willing
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
Where did I say that the majority of players have million dollar contracts?
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
I hate when people complain about football injuries. It's the risk and conscious choice that athletes take in order to make an enormous amount of money. If I were able to make millions of dollars for 8-10 years and risk having concussions
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
At least in his particular situation, committing suicide was not rational because they hadn't even gone to trial yet, and there was still a very reasonable chance that he could have escaped the charges. If presented with several viable opti
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
As usual, ChuckMcM steps in as the voice of complete reason. I have no doubts that we are undergoing climate change, however, since when have we NOT undergone climate change? We have had catastrophic ice ages and the Medieval Warming Period
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
Submitted a resume as a junior IOS programmer and got hired as a "solutions architect" and "R&D head"? That doesn't even make sense. Sorry but I smell troll-bait here. I'm flagging this post.

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