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by maukdaddy 14y ago
Why are there so many articles from torrentfreak on HN lately? Every time I visit there's a couple on the front page. Can we please get some non-biased news if we're going to continue talking about Megaupload?
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by maukdaddy 14y ago
From a business standpoint this is absolutely brilliant. Everyone should be doing this, doesn't matter if you're a SaaS or selling real-world goods & services. > 2) Having Extras at checkout. When we first started, you would checko
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
HAHA that brings back memories. I would imagine most of the HN audience was born after those characters were popular.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
No buildings in Stockholm, but they appear to have marked their office with figures wearing propeller beanies: http://g.co/maps/hjpgu
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Oh come on. There is absolutely no excuse for fucking up accounting and numbers like this. There are more than enough smart finance MBAs walking around Chicago that could handle the job. This is just further evidence of a company culture th
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Ah yes, but it's using a ~30 year old technology (RPC).
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
That is an incredibly impressive feat, especially considering there's no VBA involved.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
I cannot up vote you enough for this insight. I'd like to add a couple of thoughts: To all the developers who think they wouldn't learn anything in college - how are your English skills? Marketing skills? Do you understand the theories b
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
And that company sure as hell isn't wasting time developing iOS apps.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Immediate and public is certainly the best approach, although it might depend on the environment, who is present, etc. Sometimes a conversation in private might be better. You are exactly correct in regards to top down. A leader, manager,
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
This just makes me sad for the industry as a whole. Unbelievable that in today's world women have to put up with this. Guys, want to know how you can help change these kinds of attitudes? When you see/hear another guy make these kinds of
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
If you would spend 5 minutes thinking instead of playing the victim, maybe you could see the rediculousness of what you're saying. As you well know, doctor/nurse fraternization is a time-honored pursuit. Do you live in the 50s? Do y
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
but that doesn't really need to bother them Oh yes it better bother them. Cook and the Board have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. They can't just go spending money however they want without regard to shareholder wishes or st
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Maybe Apple doesn't feel they can be successful in areas other than consumer electronics. Trying to get into another line of business would be a HUGE distraction for management as well as the employees. As for your green energy comment: I
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Apple does not want to become a conglomerate. No matter how "alone" you want to leave a subsidiary it will always be a distraction to management.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Yeah via Abilene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_Network .edu to .edu transfer was unbelievably fast back in those days.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Then don't pay for the premium device. No one is forcing you to. If you want something hackable, and let's be honest, cheap - buy an android device.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Oh wow hotline, that brings back some memories. On a university network Napster was quite fast. I could routinely saturate my (for that time speedy) 10mbit connection, especially to other clients on Internet2. One other point to your argum
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Ugh woefully inadequate article. On a macro level the "cloud" represents a tremendous opportunity to reduce greenhouse emissions by consolidating many inefficient datacenters into fewer VERY efficient datacenters. The average 100+ person f
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Just another sign that there's a huge VC bubble forming in the Valley. Yes, there are plenty of legitimate companies that will generate substantial value for VCs, but when you see money being thrown at companies who exist to make infographi
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
This pretty much mirrors my experience in college. From 98-00 I took Computer Science (and did well) but eventually switched to MIS. Why? Because I spent two years making terminal-based C++ apps and became so frustrated at not being able
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
1. Read The Innovator's Dilemma. 2. Tablets are the future. If Adobe doesn't make a photoshop for the iPad, someone else will and Adobe will go out of business.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
I'm married, so unfortunately I don't know.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Yes, absolutely. I just moved to Sweden and immediately noticed the lack of "dishonestly niceness" that I took for granted in the US. It's quite refreshing actually and communication is more efficient. Edit: In a US workplace you can't te
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Make sure to randomize the paste codes. Otherwise it's too easy to just increment and see what everyone else has done: http://paste.ly/pastes/25
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
A lot of naïvety in this post. Expense tracking sucks, but there are IRS regulations that both employees (contractors included) and businesses must follow. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc511.html
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
That's exactly what's done with cameras and microphones in high-security environments.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
That's a really good point! Many other languages too, including Swedish. Not too many sites can combine a useful resource as well as studying.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
What??? Huge numbers of NBA and NFL players wear compression garments under their uniforms!
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
I think it's time to block zdnet content on HN.

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