medearis

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3% decline in tech spending forecast for '09(sfgate.com)
1 points by medearis 18y ago|1 comments
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Dentist sues over negative Yelp review(sfgate.com)
2 points by medearis 18y ago|0 comments
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by medearis 18y ago
I don't really see a huge problem with government hiring people to sell its side of a story in itself. For better or worse, there are highly-paid lobbyists on both sides of every policy issue these days. I think the issue is that the Chine
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by medearis 18y ago
While public schools may have been "assimilation engines" back in 1950, my experience was that they are staunchly opposed to the "melting pot" and far more partial to the multicultural mindset. Since main stream public schools are essentia
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by medearis 18y ago
True, attracting users and traffic may not be easy and seems to be the fail point for many ideas, but why not consider scaling issues as well? With products like EC2, ruby on rails etc. its easier to plan for the "techcrunch" scenario than
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by medearis 18y ago
It seems to me that the reviewer read the first 50 pages of the book then put it down and wrote the review. On the whole, I think Gladwell did a decent job arguing that it is a confluence of factors -- base intelligence, hard work, opportu
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by medearis 18y ago
I'm starting to wonder if, in this day and age, there really is such a thing as a "career job." The system which predominated in the 50's of spending your entire career working for a big corporation and then living off of a retirement pens
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by medearis 18y ago
A few months ago, Goldman Sachs "experts" were predicting oil at over $200/barrel. Obviously, things didn't work out that way, which is why the concluding paragraph is exactly right -- information now travels faster than ever in our economy
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by medearis 18y ago
He does have to travel to meet with clients, but from what I've gathered, it is not particularly frequent. He had a pretty solid resume as an engineer and is definitely one of the most creative, smart people I know, but I don't think that
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by medearis 18y ago
I have a buddy who apparently took the 4HWW to heart and moved to Argentina to work as a freelance software engineer... he seems to be doing well. Personally, I thought Ferriss made it seem a little easy, but who knows? Did you actually do
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by medearis 18y ago
If the issue is really the resource consumption of the OS, I'll believe it when I see it -- thus far every iteration of Windows has been more bloated than the last. Is XP still shipping on most low-power notebooks though? Not from what I'v
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by medearis 18y ago
Malone isn't crediting Regan for the internet boom of the 90's. He is saying that cutting capital gains taxes helped spur the electronics boom in the 80's. Since we have had relatively low capital gains taxes for the last 30 years, and mo
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by medearis 18y ago
Its interesting that Rosenberg focuses on the self-funded model only for what he calls "ecosystem" startups. I disagree that the issue is risk in that way that he describes -- i.e. that Facebook or Apple could theoretically crush these com