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by param 17y ago
"“In this environment, where transparency is critical, the more information you give the marketplace the better,” said Charles Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. “For a tec
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by param 17y ago
I'm surprised. You managed to press send before adding any justification or references to why you think so.
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by param 17y ago
In enterprise software, there is another angle to this problem. If you know that the deployment process is going to take 3 years, should you tell your customers that there are features in your product that are right now sitting on your imme
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by param 17y ago
I don't think the situation is so black and white. I have always preferred this approach above everything else: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/02/27/renting-versus-buy...
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by param 17y ago
I thought the title was flamebait. ARE YOU KIDDING! science is more important than football. But once I went through the article, he does make some valid points. I just wish that he hadn't inserted so many pics from his new book - now the a
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by param 17y ago
That is exactly what I meant when I said 'swindled' :-)
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by param 17y ago
I heard IBM is offering positions in India to current US employees. While it sounds like an adventure, please be advised before you try this out- even though you will need a pittance compared to US salaries to live lavishly in India, a lowe
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by param 17y ago
that made me LOL. An ex-colleague started his own company to increase availability of cheap robotic tools in Indian high-schools. I know this isn't what you meant, but it made me think of him.
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by param 17y ago
Well, to his point, he is saying that you should never give away the core parts of your business for free, else you will never be able to charge for them. In the example you cited, I would think of it as the videos being the marketing for t
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by param 17y ago
Were you referencing this: http://xkcd.com/378/ ?
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by param 17y ago
I think you mean "You should not trust _anyone_ with your password".
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by param 17y ago
I am sure that its just the owners who are Jews. Employees would be regular folks, and theft just means getting fired - no different from other stores.
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by param 17y ago
Not sure I agree with this approach. I would rather have the waste of competition than 20 mediocre scientists coming together and putting out dubious research simply to protect reputations. Failure of an individual is much easier to stomach
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by param 17y ago
I remember how you could sell your low slashdot id. Did you try selling your hacker news login on ebay?
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by param 17y ago
other than the fact that the homeless guy in question is a programmer, the article in question does not seem to be related to 'hacking'. I went in looking for details on - how to find free space to sleep in, tips on avoiding the police/gett
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by param 17y ago
is there a cliff's notes version?
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by param 17y ago
everyone says out their birthday in order of seating(randomly seated). If someone hears their birthday, they shout out of turn. I guess you were expecting an algorithm faster than O(n)? That was the best we could do, given n processors with
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by param 17y ago
The funniest example of how that's just probability was when this problem was discussed in my bachelor's class of about 60 people, and the prof confidently starts asking us for our dates of birth, and there was not even 1 matching pair. The
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by param 17y ago
Interesting feature. Good that it doesn't keep recommending people ad infinitum. It stops after it thinks the group is big enough.
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by param 17y ago
Then don't you mean that the original statement is false? You always change the software to fit the company, and never change the company to fit the software?
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by param 17y ago
didn't even cry. RTFA, and you see its a useless exaggeration.
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by param 17y ago
I am not sure why that statement, in itself, is bad. I've been in the enterprise software industry for a while, and I have seen how customers have a tendency to request customizations on top of the base product that are huge in scope and wo
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by param 17y ago
This guy : http://altgate.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/5-reasons-conve.html seems to think convertible debts are a bad option. Would someone explain why both he and pg are potentially right in their own ways? (don't know if that's the case, b
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by param 17y ago
Now, if there was a way to link what I ate with how bad smelling or frequent the farting was (Assuming we can get a gas sniffer that can isolate foul smelling farts), we can link how the diet maps to the smell and the frequency. Since every
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by param 18y ago
You only need a PIN to withdraw money from ATMs. Most debit cards can now also be used to shop, without specifying the PIN
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by param 18y ago
True. Most such innovative tech articles are always incredibly optimistic. I am sure there are tons of engineering problems that need to be solved before this can actually be used.
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by param 18y ago
I think you generalized a lot of things there. I personally am arranged married, and I couldn't be happier. I have a lot of friends who are in the same situation (even ones who are 10+ years into marriage). I also know people who married in
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by param 18y ago
Don't know why this was down modded, so I waited 5 days, and I was proven right - 2m+ downloads in the first few days - so I am sure skype gave away a genuine revenue opportunity.
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by param 18y ago
I am not, by far, an electrical engineer/scientist, but the inverse square law applies to vacuum. All the details about Tesla using the Earth and the ionosphere as a conductor may have meant that he was trying to solve the power loss proble
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by param 18y ago
This is one application I would easily pay for on the iPhone, especially given that I use skype's paid subscriptions already. I wonder why they chose to make it available for free download.

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