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by nickbp 16y ago
The downside to that strategy is if they improved their service (which is what they should be focusing on in the first place), their old users will never come back out of irritation with their past behavior. And the friends of those users w
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by nickbp 16y ago
Not at all. "Charity is not for the sake of others."
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by nickbp 16y ago
AT&T might not be the best choice as an example of a non-hamfisted company.
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by nickbp 16y ago
You might want to try out one of the other WMs, whether thats KDE or something less well known like xfce or openbox. I've myself been using gnome just about continuously since early 2.x and I may end up switching to something else as well.
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by nickbp 16y ago
At my last workplace around half the people I worked with were in their 50's and still going strong, working on things they love. A couple were just a year or two from retirement. You may be glad to know that HN ⊂ 'the' developer community.
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by nickbp 16y ago
I remember seeing a bit of this mindset shortly after the bailouts. GM pension obligations? Just drop em. But AIG bonuses? Those contracts are sacred!
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by nickbp 16y ago
If you witness a car accident, do you ignore it because you didn't cause the crash? Do you walk up to the shattered window to yell "I'm not responsible!"? Or do you help them out of their current situation so that they can better help thems
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by nickbp 16y ago
Given his $1 salary, his effective income is all capital gains, which is taxed at 15%. In any case, taxes are (in theory at least) paid in return for services provided to you and your country, whereas charity is paid in return only for the
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by nickbp 16y ago
I totally agree with this. A lot of people don't realize how much they are helped by their society because they've never seen how bad it can truly be. Here's an example of I mean (and a worthwhile read to boot): http://www.expeditionportal
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Those who would be benefited by a charity are unlikely to be impacted by Jobs' computers. What Haitian can afford or would be helped by a MacBook?
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by nickbp 16y ago
Yes, all those fashionable computers they sell for what would be years of income in many countries are really helping the non-rich world.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Only to those who can afford it.
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by nickbp 16y ago
On the flip side, they apparently optimized for large sequential accesses, so this can be good drive if you do a lot of image/video editing.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Hey, welcome to SF. Take the good with the bad.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Another possible contributing factor: If I were homeless, I'd try to go somewhere with mild weather.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Adsense and Indexing are separate services. One tracks you, the other tracks published sites.
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by nickbp 16y ago
I don't get that impression from them at all. They maintain a very comprehensive and useful listing[1] of 3rd party licenses which goes over their histories, tradeoffs, and whether they're compatible with the GPL. And that compatibility is
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by nickbp 16y ago
From the article, it sounds like 'fiscal 2009' must've encompassed late 2008/early 2009, in which case 30% losses would not be abnormal. Otherwise this line sounds a bit odd: At the end of fiscal 2008, Yale continued to turn in the best 10
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by nickbp 16y ago
The best thing you can do right now is taking a good 3-6 months to figure out what you want to do with this money, framed in terms of what you want to do in your life. Just park the money in a safe place (eg money market fund, treasury bill
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by nickbp 16y ago
SLASH LINUX. SLASH. -rms
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by nickbp 16y ago
Looks like its just doing markov chaining against previous messages.
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by nickbp 16y ago
I have. It's creepy, and about as useful as any line that begins with "SUP DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKE..."
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by nickbp 16y ago
That's because Snow Leopard was Apple's equivalent to a Service Pack.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Big company with all its bets on downloadable purchases makes product available for download alongside physical media. Vapid tech journalist follows along, declares all physical media to be dead in hopes of harvesting pageviews.
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by nickbp 16y ago
From the user perspective, I don't use Facebook Connect because I don't think a third party site should be given access to any of my Facebook information, nor should Facebook know what other sites I visit. I'd much rather they all stay igno
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by nickbp 16y ago
I don't disagree with the overall point, but the McDonalds analogy doesn't quite work. By specifically going to McDonalds you are indeed showing them that you're shopping for a McDonalds Happy Meal, because that's all they've got to sell. B
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by nickbp 16y ago
The rules of ownership vary by country, and even by US state! That section might be intended to accommodate a diverse audience.
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by nickbp 16y ago
Big company? Small company?
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by nickbp 16y ago
If you take the top several dozen or so most-blocked domains from the Chrome extension, then this algorithmic change addresses 84% of them I wonder what those domains are.