korch

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by korch 16y ago
A possible contributing factor just popped into my head, and only applies to a small subset of the tech industry. I know from experience that big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and undoubtedly many others, all have significant numbe
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by korch 16y ago
You are absolutely right in pointing out that Linux has greatly benefited from being able to run Oracle. But I would argue that Linux no longer needs Oracle more than Oracle needs Linux. Linux has been mainstream for many years now, while O
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by korch 16y ago
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? —Alexis de Tocqueville I ag
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by korch 16y ago
Hubris like this triggers unstoppable nerd rage in me. I can't even imagine how big of a jerk one would have to be to seriously believe they can appropriate the work & passion of hundreds of thousands of developers from all over the w
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by korch 16y ago
The first time I saw these unusual barefoot shoes was when Sergey Brin was wearing them on stage at some tech conference. I don't even rememeber what he was saying—all I could do was stare at those weird, awesome shoes. Then I thought "oh I
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by korch 16y ago
Google choosing Java: <nelson> Ha-Ha! </nelson>
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by korch 16y ago
I think my terse reply emphasized the wrong point and was completely misunderstood. Sorry. I am not saying to maliciously lie about being underpaid , nor about non-salary compensation to your new potential employer. What I am saying is tha
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by korch 16y ago
Why do they assume the compensation you tell them is the true amount you received? Lie. Bang! they just lost the negotiating game. There is no honor amongst theives, and I might be an idealist, but as long as money exists in the world, we'r
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by korch 16y ago
Many, many years ago in my first job developing software I made the worst possible mistake and asked for an absurdly low salary out the gate. I was happy just to be paid to code at all, and I was utterly naive about how money truly drives t
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by korch 16y ago
I think the problem with the CrapStore isn't that there is too much crap(Sturgeon's Law afterall, it's to be expected), rather Apple's interface to search, sort and present apps completely fucking sucks . Apple really ought to at least try
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by korch 16y ago
Hmm, after you put it that way, you are right of course. I think you just broke my Reality Distortion Field!
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by korch 16y ago
I love the look of the site! And kudos for using Haskell + Raphaeljs. It's a great example use-case for data mining Twitter. There are so many interesting data-mining mashup possibilities on Twitter that I've been disappointed by the lack o
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by korch 16y ago
What ever happened to Apple taking the lead, standing up, and doing the right thing, damn the consequences? One of the reasons why Apple fans have been so fanatical about Apple products is because they know Apple will do the right thing. Un
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by korch 16y ago
While this is cool, I'd be truly impressed if it was expanded to all 500 million Facebook users, and included all the friend graphs. Basically a fully scraped copy of Facebook's data, kept up to date, and available for free via Bit Torrent.
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by korch 16y ago
s/homes/startups/ Rev your engines Wall St., here it comes! Can this please become the foundation of the Internet Bubble 2.0? Just so I can hope to found a startup that is ridiculous, overhyped, and doomed to have no realistic business mode
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by korch 16y ago
I wish every reply was like this, thanks!
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by korch 16y ago
I've never been clear on whether stating Godwin's Law is equivalent to it happening? All of these Internet Laws can be confusing.
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by korch 16y ago
A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety nine retreat: that is progress. --Henri Frederic Amiel It's sad to think academics and education policy wonks are still struggling with the question of what is the fair market va
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by korch 16y ago
How did you pull those stats into Google Docs? It was automated, right? If Google Docs can take an arbitrary page, figure out what the data is and slurp it into a spreadsheet, then there are some very interesting kinds of data mashups to ma
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by korch 16y ago
As an IRC junkie, this is an incredible tidbit of info to find out. So all those wasted years of scripting irc bots could have real-world application at the highest levels of global warfare! > LET'S PLAY GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR? Y/N
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by korch 16y ago
Microsoft for one would love to have a big chunk of Internet real estate that couldn't be found and indexed by Google. It's funny you mention Facebook. I would say Facebook's chief motive right now is to stop Google from encroaching upon th
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by korch 16y ago
By decoupling urls in the browser from urls in the web app, it's only going to increase the amount of content in the Deep Web that Google can't index. I imagine it'll be difficult to make GoogleBot crawl and index "pages" after large swat
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by korch 16y ago
Theoretically, an Age of Bureaucracy can last until a paper shortage develops, but, in practice, it never lasts longer than 73 permutations. — Adam Weishaupt — Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy I say great, bring it on!
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by korch 16y ago
I had no idea Google even had a page for listing all of your books! Now if only there was a way to seamlessly import that data from Amazon that didn't involve hand coding a screen scraper script...
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by korch 16y ago
This is the greatest html5 feature I've never heard of, and it's really going to change how everybody make web apps. Here's my wild prediction: 10 years from now, with the benefit of hindsight, we will trace the moment where Google's Page R
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by korch 16y ago
I bet this contraption is trivially circumvented for less than $100 of gear. It's just microwaves, and there are many ways of shielding and rending them inert. But it's fantastic that DoD spent billions to create this high PR weapon that th
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by korch 16y ago
I love this! Is there a way to cut to the chase, taking it to the logical conclusion: a plain, old, linear RSS feed for every published academic journal?
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by korch 16y ago
Competing on price is the one fool-proof way to always defeat Apple. Google must hammer Apple on price! Besides, is sheer craziness to just let Apple rule the smart phone market and let them have 40% profit margins! Just as hardware and m
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by korch 16y ago
Canada too! Their English speakers sound subtly more British than American. The New World-Old World divergence also applies to French speakers in Quebec. If you take their perfect French from Montreal to Paris, to the Parisians much of it s
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by korch 16y ago
This whole farce is a blatant and indirect DoD psyops attack on Wikileaks and Assange. So it's okay and even expected now for the US military to attack journalists and the grey-information-area of their domain? I thought only nations like "

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