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by melted 11y ago
Not really "soon" — more like towards the middle of the century for Poland, and end of the century for Mexico. I'm curious about his predictions on Russia and Turkey in particular.
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by melted 11y ago
FWIW, George Friedman (of STRATFOR) predicted this, except he believed the implosion of China would be on a truly catastrophic scale. So they could still be at the edge of a much deeper hole. See: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st
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by melted 11y ago
Just get a MacBook Pro and skip the aggravation entirely. You pay more for a reason. That reason is that no one else knows how to make a proper laptop anymore.
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by melted 11y ago
IOS 8 does not allow a 4 digit key IIRC. And it has rate limiting against brute force enumeration.
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by melted 11y ago
Same thing is easy to see in established companies: management is more inclined to throw piles of cash at businesses that don't make money while at the same time cutting costs in the "cash cow" divisions to show better growth
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by melted 11y ago
A VC taking the valuations down and encouraging the companies to become profitable sooner, to get a fatter slice of a tastier pie when founders come begging for money. News at 11.
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by melted 11y ago
They don't design them from scratch, but they DO participate in sensor design. That's part of the reason why wide angle Leica lenses don't suffer from terrible vignetting, corner smear and peripheral color shifts when used wi
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by melted 11y ago
I bet there'd still be gnashing of teeth and consternation. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
35 benefits significantly from f/1.4. 50 benefits too, but to a lesser extent. You get better subject separation at greater distances.
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by melted 11y ago
Compared to 35mm 'Lux, Canon is a Coke bottle bottom. It's worse than Nikon 35 f/1.4, and it is really an f/2 lens at best, with inflated specs. Rent a Lux if you get a chance. I held Canon/Nikon in much higher rega
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by melted 11y ago
Wrong on several counts: 1. Their digital bodies are garbage (that's how they're different from Apple). I owned an M9 and between its crappy sensor and faux leather peeling off, I was not impressed at all. The only good thing abou
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by melted 11y ago
Who gives a damn. At this point Uber could choose a turd as their logo, and they'd still be successful.
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by melted 11y ago
I believe G+ had 300M+ users at the time, and G+ was still considered a failure. 1M is a rounding error by Google standards. They can get 1M users by releasing _anything_ that does _anything_ at this point.
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by melted 11y ago
So? I've found 1:10 to be a good ratio between leads and grunts. 1:5 if lead is technical and also contributes work and not just leadership/management. And that's when those 10 (or 5) people are working full time.
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by melted 11y ago
Should have gone full @Nero, and started tearing them new ones. They can't win against a well spoken gay person who chooses to not give a damn.
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by melted 11y ago
You do? How much of that $2.5M is your money?
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by melted 11y ago
You simply don't grok vim. Don't know about Emacs, I'm not a Emacs user, but chances are pretty good you don't grok it either. To begin to grok vim, please refer to the following StackOverflow answer: http://s
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by melted 11y ago
Why do they need 4 team leads for 8 engineers?
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by melted 11y ago
A software engineer qualified to work on this kind of thing is worth about $350K in combined compensation on the market right now. Typically half of that is base, while the other half is stock and other taxable benefits. The number can be h
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by melted 11y ago
That's how much 5 qualified software engineers would cost to employ for a year (gross, including compensation, benefits, payroll taxes, office space, hardware, etc, and that's on the low end of the range). Good luck with that.
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by melted 11y ago
Python was never a front end language, and it was never a systems/backend language, at least not a good one. Its main strength is that "batteries are included" and you can get something usable going really quickly. None of th
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by melted 11y ago
Note also that this could be due to the fact that clicks (and I suspect likes as well) that come from the internal company networks (which includes VPN) are not billed to the customer, and are not counted for anything involving revenue. Goo
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by melted 11y ago
User counts were so pitifully small in those projects that they were destaffed for years before they were shut down.
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by melted 11y ago
Makes for a nice demo of Python Notebook capabilities, especially when it comes to graphing.
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by melted 11y ago
It does. Alphabet would care a great deal more if Twitter lives or dies. Wall St doesn't care in the slightest.
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by melted 11y ago
It also frees the management from "fear of God", which results in ridiculous investments and initiatives, accelerated (and unnecessary) hiring, proliferation of middle management, empire building, politics, etc, etc.
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by melted 11y ago
Actually, the surname seems to be Armenian. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
I hope they buy it for a different reason: so they could drain this useless sea of vapidity and narcissism, and drive the company into the ground within 3 years tops. Or maybe Dorsey will do it on his own, who knows. Twitter's chance o
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by melted 11y ago
Both.
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by melted 11y ago
I think it's an elaborate prank.

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