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by parsnips 10y ago
SinglePlatform did _exactly_ what this business did (centralized menu mgmt), but was profitable and sold for $100million.
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by parsnips 10y ago
>Here’s our big insight / little secret — selling to restaurants is a dead end. But fantastic if you can make it work a la Grubhub and Seamless who got $360 million in revenues primarily by selling to restaurants. The restaurant bus
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by parsnips 10y ago
Vasily Smyslov was a world championship candidate at age 62, and lost to Kasparov in a match.
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by parsnips 10y ago
Yeah that's more Karpov's thing.
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by parsnips 10y ago
This. I worked in the PTC space in the early 2k's. The person that the FRA send to be their regulatory representative to our program did not trust transistors over electromechanical switches, because you couldn't see how the tran
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by parsnips 10y ago
How about "stop soaking the working class and spending like drunk sailors?"
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by parsnips 10y ago
You believe bitbucket represents the market?
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by parsnips 10y ago
>This is shit developer experience. Why bother with a Rube Goldberg sequence of piped commands when you can just curl? For which developers?
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by parsnips 10y ago
>No they most certainly are not. QE puts money into the economy. Did a helicopter fly over your house?
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by parsnips 11y ago
>Finally, I increasingly wonder where else diseconomies of scale rule? They can’t be unique to software development. In my more fanciful moments I wonder if diseconomies of scale are the norm in all knowledge work. The pop music industry
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by parsnips 11y ago
Depends. I have a money market option in my 401k account, for example.
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by parsnips 11y ago
I would think nowish would be the time to get money into equities.
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by parsnips 11y ago
Or, more importantly, understanding securing information from the government is a good thing.
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by parsnips 11y ago
Looks like you found eachother.
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by parsnips 11y ago
Poor analogy follows: Programming ability is like chess ability. The skill lay on a regular distribution, but the game that 1900 players play (top 5%) is much different than the mean (~1400).
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by parsnips 12y ago
The point was I'm addressing is this idea that "sprawl" is somehow the problem that needs curing. It reminds me of a young child asking: "If people are so poor in ___________ why don't they move to _______?"
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by parsnips 12y ago
So in other words, subways are solutions in search of a problem.
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by parsnips 12y ago
So, fission?
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by parsnips 12y ago
So where do these experienced programmers sit?
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by parsnips 12y ago
Look at Norway's demographics and immigration policy for a clue or two.
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by parsnips 13y ago
Better question: Why should your relationship status give you better tax benefits than being single?
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by parsnips 13y ago
Sadly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
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by parsnips 13y ago
If the historical purpose of the second amendment is to have a citizenry capable of defending itself from unjust government force, and the government is increasingly using unjust force; How does it follow that the citizens need to concede a
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by parsnips 13y ago
To be fair, that's just beginning to change because of analytics.
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by parsnips 13y ago
Sucks. I had a friend/mentor pass and not find out for two years as well. I went to his blog, and was wondering why he never finished his house remodeling project... Found his wifes blog and found out about his year long fight with ca
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by parsnips 13y ago
Telecommuting.
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by parsnips 13y ago
How is this not identical to sending the user password in the clear via email?
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by parsnips 13y ago
If the attacker has the phone, the second factor (typically sms) won't work very well.
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by parsnips 13y ago
They are not a front for US Bancorp. They're a front for Bancorp Bank ( http://www.thebancorp.com/ ), which is in fact a completely different and unrelated small bank.
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by parsnips 13y ago
A nitpick, but decentralized & distributed systems do not guarantee "no single point of failure". For example, Skype switched from pure p2p because of a software bug which affected the whole network (ie the client software wa

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