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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Welcome to the 1990s!
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Does the use of connectors imply that users could replace failed LED boards instead of trashing the entire bulb? Or even upgrading to more efficient LED boards?
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
This is exactly the problem I run into as a technical person with an MBA. It's very hard to demonstrate broad technical knowledge via a cover letter and CV. Without languages and acronyms recruiters have nothing to match up my "skills" aga
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Absolutely. My wife and I do the same thing with content from the iTunes store via Home Sharing. No way we'd buy separate copies of electronic books.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
But here's the problem - on a whole, no one is paying marketers to solve these problems. Marketers make their money by shilling for products that are the opposite of the issues you listed above. For example, a newly minted MBA in Marketing
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
There is nothing more evil in modern business than marketers. Between real life experience and MBA classes I have come to despise most everything involved in modern marketing, especially in the technology space.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Yes, but such manipulation is much easier to spot given everyone's familiarity with GAAP.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
It's called Sunny Delight. And you would be shocked to learn how many people think Sunny D is real orange juice.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
The script sets a cookie indicating when it was last run; it will not history steal more than once every twenty-four hours. Wow. Pretty kind for an otherwise evil script!
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Bitcoin.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Hopefully you are never involved in any legal dispute, because the discovery process is going to be hilarious when this comment turns up.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
I dunno, I actually see this complementing and strengthening YouTube. Assuming Google can keep the content, it would make YouTube the place to go for both funny videos and network TV. Google has been working for a while to get more "progra
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Sorry but that sounds like an absolutely awful place to work. :(
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Yes, but the majority of the 1bn+ valuation rests on FB. That's exactly why it is listed first in the risks section.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
I wouldn't touch this IPO for one major reason - reliance on FB. In fact, the first risk that Zynga lists in the filing docs: "If we are unable to maintain a good relationship with Facebook, our business will suffer,” according to the fili
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Absolutely not. A key quote from the WSJ article: "That could value the game publisher, which had about $850 million in revenue last year, at roughly the same as the two biggest videogame publishers—Electronic Arts Inc. and Activision Bliz
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
That's exactly how a company should respond to something like this! Excellent on 2k's part,
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
But at least that number still has meaningful impact. Regardless of the total percent of emissions, that's still 10 billion less into the environment. Much bigger impact than the "lost productivity" numbers!
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Way too much sensitive data in my gmail account that I don't want broadcast to the world via twitter. It doesn't matter what kind of controls are in place, I'm not taking the risk that all of my online shopping, password resets, private em
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Here's a Venn diagram showing the relationship I want my Gmail and twitter to have: O O
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Hate to break it to you, but not everyone on the Internets speaks American English.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
The comments thus far show exactly what is wrong with HN. HN has become an echo chamber where we all love certain people/companies/ideas and immediately dismiss any counter viewpoint. Instead of immediately discrediting the linked article
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Long-term average stock market return is 5-8% depending on who you ask. So an index fund or balanced fund of funds would yield much better returns than bitcoin.
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
This won't be a popular option, but why not just pay the tax? Why try to invest or involve yourself in some complicated scheme just to save the 15%. If the sale is enough money to be somewhat comfortable, pay the tax and be appreciative o
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by maukdaddy 15y ago
Excellent analysis and line of thinking. The tech community really needs to give up the idea that hard work should be given away for free. Trail periods are fine, but legitimate businesses need real cash flow, and very, very few can survi
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by maukdaddy 16y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. I've been following the Google datacenter efficiency project for a while, and an opensource competitor will only make things better for the world. I can't wait for the day when more large companies either emb
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by maukdaddy 16y ago
Maybe people are just tired of the stupid conspiracy theories that seem to run rampant throughout the tech community.
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by maukdaddy 16y ago
This guy is rehashing a concept that universities have been teaching since the 90s. The era of mass customization is actually behind us, replaced with purpose built hardware and software (i.e. iPad, iPhone, Xbox, etc.)
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by maukdaddy 16y ago
The acquisition made sense if they wanted to diversify into the consumer space. What did NOT make sense was the astronomical pricetag of $590 million. How many flips + services would need to be sold to generate $590 mil in revenue?
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by maukdaddy 16y ago
Overall I think eliminating the point display on comments works very well! I'm no longer tempted to pile on, either positive or negative, on comments.

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