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by pinaceae 11y ago
they were trying to do what Slack is succeeding at. HipChat as a trailing entity. Chatter was free, standalone, came actually close to what Slack does. But it wasn't hip enough to start in the early adopter circles, they went straight
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by pinaceae 11y ago
he is saying that it has 4x population on 5x the area. the latter being the kicker, most euros do not comprehend the distances that hit you in the US. plus, cali is a desert. try cycling in 40C heat, for 10miles (15km). people use cars beca
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by pinaceae 11y ago
why does twitter not have a default feed of the most favorited/RTd individual tweets? they only show trending topics/hashtag, but not a default feed. or have create a couple of curated best/of feeds. tech, sports, humor, etc.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
totally, who needs the FDA. a little thalidomide is good for you, nothing like untested and unproven stuff to shove into your veins. let's also abolish the FAA, air travel needs to be freed from the shackles of safety. because innovati
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by pinaceae 11y ago
how does youtube make money for google? ads.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
they had soemthing that attracted a lot of eyeballs, but nobody wanted to pay for. using ads as a substitue for micro-transaction was a brilliant idea, made google possible. and ever since then, no other venture/product coming out of g
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by pinaceae 11y ago
so Germany has not taken over all of Europia? color me surprised. oder aber du checker überlegst mal, für wen die simplifizierung 'Europa' gedacht war.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
seems like people in the US mistake the Human Resources department with Workers Councils. in Europe, you go to the Council, never to HR. the Council is job protected, guaranteed pay - hence no way to apply pressure from the company. HR is n
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by pinaceae 11y ago
the funny thing is that nearly every musician learns through playing covers. be it stumbling through a riff or trying to make a mashup in FTL. some progress into soemthing the audience likes, eventually start making their own music. which t
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by pinaceae 11y ago
other possible reasons for obesity: - increased car ownership - lower cost of food, allowing binging (people could not afford meat all week) - shifting nature of work. most jobs now are done in a sitting position of some sort, hard manual l
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by pinaceae 11y ago
Online reviews of doctors are already useless. People rate their "experience", rather than actual effectiveness. Tons of reviews about bad docs that turn out to be hurt feelings of the morbidly obese when told to diet. Especially
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by pinaceae 11y ago
this and the Ustream debacle points to a16z being in the snakeoil business, backing weirdos with massive money. and if this is true for these clear cut cases of BS, what does it mean for their overall method of investing?
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by pinaceae 11y ago
well, let's look at someplace where ads truly work well. fashion print magazines. buy a vogue and look at the ads. hard to tell apart from the content, glossy, relevant, beautiful. they make up at least 70% of the whole magazine. i lik
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by pinaceae 11y ago
so the polar opposite of anything google has done so far? ads pay their bills and ads and privacy don't mix.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/n230b/til_a_w... the original papers are to be found in mil resources.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
well, the new ms office for osx is really good, so if all you need is web apps for business tools (erp, crm, etc) plus productivity apps a mac is the machine to go with right now. mb, mb air, the small mbp are all excellent office machines.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
that thing has been debunked so often, it gets boring. motorcycle couriers operating at lightspeed, with no losses? etc etc etc.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
sure there are, a lot focuses on enterprise though. the peoplesoft legacy lives on in various forms over here.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
"The thing is, most managers are bad, especially the middle ones, and their opinions about their reports tend to be bad and flawed. " oh bullshit. unless you make it broader and state: "The thing is, most employees are bad an
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by pinaceae 11y ago
absolutely. so please, once you have a serious condition only take your spices. no penicilin (or does it count as mold?), no insulin, no aneasthesia for you. just a little cinnamon. wear glasses or contacts? away with them! a little pepper
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by pinaceae 11y ago
ahh Oracle, the elephant's graveyard of software. "I'd like to buy a CRM system" - "No problem, which of the 6 we have accumulated over the years would you like? Siebel? CRMonDemand? Peoplesoft CRM? Fusion? ....&qu
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by pinaceae 11y ago
all those useless emotions. simple facts can't be avoided. nobody is willing to lend greece money besides the ECB. tsipras tried putin and china, both turned him down. the greek-style of socialism (coalition with the extreme right notw
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by pinaceae 11y ago
seriously. i never got how reddit grew and k5 died. now that reddit is on life support, mayheps k5 rises from the ashes? haha, who am i kidding....
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by pinaceae 11y ago
as if greece was a-ok when it had the drachma. exposes the underlying problem that the greek economy in itself is pretty useless, hence all the drama right now is focused on financial shenanigans. the EU expansion to the east broke greece&#
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by pinaceae 11y ago
this was a BRILLIANT pr orchestration. blogs, articles, etc all over the globe were written about apple music, for free. would have been far more expensive to buy all that airtime than this little scandal. so taylor swift gets more publicit
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by pinaceae 11y ago
oh my. let's look at animals again, shall we. ants? bees? any form of colony or swarm? penguins? birds all over? cherry pick examples to fit a narrative, nicely worded but utterly wrong. for some things small and nimble is best. for ot
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by pinaceae 11y ago
overall, it is interesting to see pure market forces at play here. revenues with computer games and movies are going up, revenue with music is going down. the consumer does not value music that much, plus there is so much musical content wh
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by pinaceae 11y ago
Salesforce.com runs on Oracle DBs, is in fact the largest customer. Benioff was a SVP at Oracle before he founded SFDC.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
which is a scenario that is not happening, anywhere. wtf are you babbling about?
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by pinaceae 11y ago
you're completely clueless about what it takes to bring modern medicine to market. you argue from a moral high horse that has no bearing in reality. developing a cure for cancer costs real fucking money, gobs and gobs of it. you think

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