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by luser001 15y ago
> So many job adverts ask for creative people > but on the job creativity is discouraged. The book "disciplined minds" has a great phrase to capture this: assignable curiosity. That's what they're looking for, not crea
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by luser001 15y ago
You do realize that they use a similar loophole in the US too to avoid paying taxes, right? India is calling them on their bullshit, whereas the US Congress etc have been bought off. Time to buy the Indian politicians also.
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I had a very pleasant experience the two times I went to best buy: once to get a phone plan (the guy at the counter saved us good money by suggesting a nice text plan I hadn't come across during my research). The next time I bought three bi
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that renders Amazon worthless? That seems a little harsh. Can't you just list your prices in USD? I know people in India who order books from Amazon US and pay in USD using their India-issued credit card. I think it's just a matter of UX to
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I use the PwdHash extension. It works great. You type the same password into every box; it in encrypts it using the domain name of the current web page as the key. Also I'm using SSL client certs for a recent project, and I LOOOVE them. I
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I was thinking the same thing. They probably divided calories_produced/num_people (calories_produced being derived from agricultural output). I suspect it's a mix of undercounting people and WASTED food being counted as eaten. I read an e
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Ok, I'll bite. Because you need to weigh benefits against costs? A certain number of people die from vaccines (side effects, negligence etc) every year. That's a fact. Do we stop vaccinating? No, we don't, because the number of lives saved
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wrt common practice: I don't think so. They added this feature quite recently (a year or so ago).
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I do. :) Corporate-owned apt complex.
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You'll be surprised how little time people have for useless embellishment if you keep them busy with real work. Which is another way of saying that if a team is small and optimally sized they can't go off and do random nonsensical reinventi
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Technology, economics, and society don't develop independent of each other. Due to physical distribution constraints, there were artificial limits on how widely a single book copy could be distributed. Hence, simplest system that compensate
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by luser001 15y ago
OK, I'll bite. In this instance, how is the "market" not deciding what he gets?
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Don't mind the haters here. Good luck to you!
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I watched both Joel's trello video and the asana video. I came away from Trello's video really understanding what the product was about. With this one, I didn't really understand what the product does. The repetition of "this is not microma
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by luser001 15y ago
What? You don't think articles are being systematically upvoted by groups of people? Sorry, I am a realist and it definitely seems like they're being upvoted. HN is now the tech news site for insiders. It's not some obscure backwater.
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by luser001 15y ago
"only implemented after numerous attempts at corrective feedback have failed." That's not how it works. You say something that offends some random moderator, and he/she can trivially silent-ban you. No comment under your comment saying you
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Ok, that statement seems a little misleading. I just turned on showdead. Yes, I can see the text, but the link doesn't seem to be there, so I can't convince myself that the kill was warranted. Am I missing something? E.g., "[dead] Andre
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by luser001 15y ago
Cool. I've joined. Hopefully LN will be a more democratic forum than HN.
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I know some are going to hate on you here, but you're a real hero man. Darwinspeed to you. You're helping all of us little guys here.
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Umm, you wrote "so don't expect any kind of objectivity or even truth from them" (note the last phrase). I think 'kang' was right to challenge you. Anyway for readers who don't know India: Tehelka is an independent newsmagazine that special
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by luser001 15y ago
Dunno if by PGP you literally mean the PGP/GPG toolkits or something else. I think most of us agree that PGP/GPG suite is too difficult to use. What are the challenges with using public-key encryption with a changing group of people? Key ex
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by luser001 15y ago
Hey tptacek, I know you must busy, it's late in the night etc. But it doesn't seem like you really responded to my points: you just seem to be repeating your original assertion that (paraphrasing) "it's too difficult". What aspect of the UX
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by luser001 15y ago
OK, I'll bite. :) I belong the camp which says Gmail's lack of encryption is "conspicuous". Look at Ubuntu: they're constantly improving the user experience of encrypted home directories. In the latest release, this is as simple as checking
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Hmm, I'd consider adwords and adsense as platformization.
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i like flock.fm's idea. but disliked the autoplaying audio.
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Am I to understand that you're ok with you and others in your position not being bailed out, but do think that the big banks should be bailed out? Don't you think the same yardstick that you apply to yourself and others like you should also
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"a product manager is more or less the CEO of a product line" I haven't met a single product manager who had the chops to be something grandiose like "CEO of a product". In my ideal company, the product manager role would rotate
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Am I understanding correctly that you consider reading about the occupy wall st. movement an "ordeal"? If so, I think you tipped your hand and started on an (IMHO) uncivil note by calling it "ordeal". Anyway, FWIW, I think it's about time A