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Cinderella's Ball, with pendulums.(npr.org)
1 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
IANAL, but such an action would likely be construed as contempt of court, especially given the exactness of what was requested.
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by mfringel 16y ago
Exactly. This is all about their earnings. Given a general trend towards decreasing or outsourcing R&D, Amazon is still doing it in-house, because it's their competitive advantage. Explaining that to a bunch of panicky stockholder
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Erase the past with Last Night Never Happened(tuaw.com)
1 points by mfringel 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 16y ago
...and that's why the (fallacious) argument works, because the next step is to put a "price" on misery, and very few people, mostly involved in aviation or insurance, are willing to do that. So, the person crying out for reason feels ashame
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by mfringel 16y ago
"You got it done, but they'll never work with you again." is only about a half-notch up from "You didn't get it done." There will always be a next time, and people never go away.
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by mfringel 16y ago
How is Visa responsible for all this? Because Paypal's general annoyance factor is (likely) the path of least resistance for compliance with Visa's rules for a person-to-person payment service.
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Why Office Distractions Don't Matter.(management.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by mfringel 16y ago|0 comments
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The World's Most Complex Architecture(fastcodesign.com)
7 points by mfringel 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 16y ago
Apple wouldn't let customers "twist in the wind", it would sell them a solution. An SSD is a wear item, and consequently a revenue stream. Imagine a replacement plan similar to the current battery replacement policy. Right now, you pay a
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by mfringel 16y ago
I think there's something much simpler going on. If YC's track record has been pretty good (or at least, better than average), then Yuri Milner now has a pre-vetted list of companies in which to invest, without having to do any research a
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by mfringel 16y ago
This looks like a great way to get started with EC2, VPN or no. I've been thinking about it, but one thing still puzzles me. You choose an AMI, but does Amazon effectively create an EBS instance for you and populate it with a copy of the
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by mfringel 16y ago
They're dealing with very interesting scalability/complexity problems, and they're currently pre-IPO.
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by mfringel 16y ago
It doesn't cost them anything to transfer some amount of data, but it does cost them in the total amount of bandwidth they have left to sell to other customers. At some level transfer quantity and rate are the same thing. A bit sent for
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Stop Comparing Yourself With Steve Jobs(blogs.hbr.org)
4 points by mfringel 16y ago|0 comments