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by lmg643 13y ago
I totally disagree on the "professional manager" - that's what ballmer was. and this is coming from someone who thinks ballmer is unfairly criticized. (eg - what google and apple unleashed on the world in the past 10 years wa
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Google Failed at Smartphones. Can It Really Build Smart Homes and Robots?(businessweek.com)
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Bill Gates would have to believe his efforts were worthwhile in order to keep himself motivated to try. He's essentially "all-in" on the Gates Foundation. His pronouncement on eliminating poverty is an aspiration he phrases a
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by lmg643 13y ago
that's exactly what i was thinking about - thanks for the post.
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Microsoft seems to be making progress in unwinding the habit of convoluted naming schemes. I would love to hear a testimonial from a Microsoft marketing insider as to where the naming trend came from, and how they view it internally. My mos
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Ask HN: Any seasoned Double Robotics testimonials?
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the point this article is making is that powerpoint is not useless because it is a great sales tool - precisely for the reasons tufte says it is anathema to clear thinking - that it is about control of the audience and not empowerment in th
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by lmg643 13y ago
It is funny that there would be reason to complain, given that this statistic would probably show that tech is a profitable place to work relative to other industries. But we're talking about the tech employee's relative share of
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by lmg643 13y ago
This whole episode is pretty depressing. But, it's far better for people to live without illusions about the nature of their bosses, etc. At the risk of a hundred downvotes, I wonder how many people can see the parallels in the current
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by lmg643 13y ago
I agree with you - seems very similar. They may use data from individuals, but they will aggregate it - needs to be a relevant sample size with some kind of pattern to it. IMHO, having a flat panel TV in my wishlist is probably not reason e
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by lmg643 13y ago
Appreciate the sympathy. I'm used to minimizing applications to get them out of the way, and alt-tab on windows restores the window you want. on the mac, it only restores a non-minimized window, and command+~ only works if both windows
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>It always amused me how Apple is capable of producing so quality hardware and has so bright ideas in design, but makes so awful lot of questionable decisions in software. Amen. I recently migrated to iMac/Mavericks from Windows 7 a
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Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants(nypost.com)
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McDonald's on employee resources site: Not lovin' it(cnn.com)
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U.S. Treasury cautions Bitcoin businesses on legal duties(reuters.com)
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what were the pros / cons from your perspective?
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I love the Treehouse article. 90% of the employees voted for it. The 10% who did not were the managers. :) I wonder if any managers voted for it; or it any employees voted against it. I would be curious to hear from the displaced Treehouse
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by lmg643 13y ago
The only point that this guy has is that working for a big corporation is a safer average payout than starting your own firm. Paraphrasing the logic: the 10,000th engineer at Google adds more value, which is why he is paid more than the ave
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by lmg643 13y ago
I'm not an expert, just an interested layperson, but from what I read, I am starting to wonder whether cancer cures might be more basic than we realize, we're just not looking at the right things. The example that keeps coming to
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by lmg643 13y ago
in terms of benefits you list - let's not forget a job at bristol-meyers. somehow a phd faking data, and working at a big pharma company, seems like a good fit.
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there's no question that the author of this article wrote it with linkbait in mind - calling bitcoin a ponzi scheme. having thought about it - the argument that bitcoin is going to be worth a lot "because there are only 21 million
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by lmg643 13y ago
> But being taken advantage of is a fact of life Hello? Beth Israel is a non-profit teaching hospital in New York City that is over 100 years old. that they might have a role in bilking an elderly patient is shocking, plain and simple. (
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BMW Has Seen the Future, and It's Carbon(businessweek.com)
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i am wondering if i am the only person who read this, who felt the piece was a very strange way to consecrate his father's passing. "i wish i could have put him down like a cat, and if you disagree with me, i hope you die a horrib
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by lmg643 13y ago
along the same lines - seems to me that the # of cars, number of buyers - is too low relative to other models to really have an apples-to-apples comparison. the car fires are an interesting wrinkle. i like how people are arguing over the st
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by lmg643 13y ago
There's a lot of truth in what you write - but ... there is a legitimate concern that even in a "democratic society" the "security" apparatus can be used to maintain the party in power. think about watergate - it wa
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by lmg643 13y ago
this definitely hits on a problem i deal with on a regular basis, but it looks like a gmail feature, but i use microsoft outlook for all work email. so would be interested to learn more about the implementation.
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depending on the market dynamics, it is quite often that "someone" can capture 1/4 of the market (it just may not be you). if there are many perfect stores of digital value then bitcoin will be one of many, not that special,
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by lmg643 13y ago
not to add fuel to the fire: but if bitcoin is really un-hackable (can't guess individual keys held offline by private owners), untraceable, and all that goodness ... ... and there are only 21 million of them in the world ... ... then
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by lmg643 13y ago
Employers are to blame. "Developers are all the same, find the cheapest ones." Never mind that it might take twice as long to get it right as paying the right person more for half the time. Not to say there isn't a place for

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