purplelobster

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by purplelobster 13y ago
I suggest you read past the first two pages, it deserves at least as much.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Very interesting read. It's not only a problem with mathematics though, it's nearly every subject in school, whether it's science, languages or math. It seems to me that the problem is that to teach well, you need good, auton
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by purplelobster 13y ago
You're not alone. Although it's never been as bad as not being able to do arithmetic, I can't seem to get a job doing those kinds of interviews. I was close once at Microsoft, after having done 8 hours of coding and linear al
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by purplelobster 13y ago
That makes me wonder what would happen if we banned advertising in general.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I'm working at a big company where most employees have worked for a very long time. On my team, besides me, the person who has worked the shortest time is 9 years. The next one after that: 15 years. Most managers and senior engineers h
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by purplelobster 13y ago
As someone who's not familiar with payments, how often do chargebacks generally occur, and why are they so expensive?
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Apple products, actually. I count 8 Macs, 3 iPads and one iPhone. I understand why though, Apple products look good. I wouldn't want to put a Dell Inspiron in my ad.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
That's how Nordstrom started actually.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Well, I suppose that is the danger in going with an idea that is simple to execute and that doesn't have some kind of networking effect.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
After getting caught. The fact is that the business they're in and the technology they're developing will continue to push them to do questionable things. They rely on large contracts with government and big corporations. They wil
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by purplelobster 13y ago
As a single developer on a project, I use js on the front-end, NodeJS and CouchDB (views written in js). This means that every step of the way is js, json and http, which is extremely liberating for me, as someone who's just starting o
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Extremely creepy: http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-wikileaks-2011-2#-1 Their recruitment also reeks of creepiness, sending "confidential" letters to my work place (don't have that address listed anywhe
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Internet coupons are different from physical coupons. You can potentially find internet coupons by searching the web for 20 minutes, while if you're at the checkout at the grocery store, you're not going to go all the way home, lo
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I hope you're right, but in reality most people haven't even heard of Elon Musk. I've had to explain to many highly educated people what he has done, what SpaceX is, what Tesla is etc. While he's been rather successful s
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I do. I dock it at home with a bigger screen/keyboard/mouse, so there it's just like another laptop/desktop. When I'm on the move, I bring my wireless mouse and the type cover. It works well enough for me. The scree
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I don't really like Facebook, but those are non-problems really. I have about 250 connections, which I guess is pretty average or to the lower end. In the past, I would actively go through the list and purge people who I only met a few
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. Low quality is not the problem. App stores and their "discoverability" is the real problem.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
May I suggest you use fewer dashes and underscores? Just a tad too distracting for me.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Maybe not initially, but there are probably more (humane) opportunities to optimize a factory process than to do the same thing to animals.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Did you just call the American poor "some of the poorest people on earth?" Or were you talking about immigrants? One town in Sweden (Södertälje) has received more Iraqi refugees alone than all of the US has, the country that actua
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Can't more than agree on that. It's partly because there are no strong positions in an industry as volatile as consoles, so leveraging any perceived strong positions is probably a recipe for disaster.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I honestly think the Metro UI is pretty neat. I don't really like most of the apps I've tried though, but the OS itself is pretty innovative compared to iOS. Love the app switching by swiping in from the right. The charms bar make
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by purplelobster 13y ago
Xbox360. Went from Sony completely dominating the market with PS2 (155 million devices sold), to Xbox360 and PS3 going head to head (78 vs 78 million). And they didn't do it by leveraging Windows, Office or forcing anybody.
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I'll add to that. I tried very hard to buy a Surface Pro from their online store. It was literally impossible. They did not allow me to give them money, no matter how much I tried. They had separate systems for everything (the online s
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by purplelobster 13y ago
You're 22 and you think you know anything you piece of shit. Just fucking kill yourself you fat french fuck, you deserve to die so just do it or else I'm gonna find you wherever in france you are and I'm gonna rape your famil
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by purplelobster 13y ago
To me it's a matter of not wanting to invest into something that you will later have to give up because it keeps asking you for money. Downloading and playing a game is a sort of emotional investment. I prefer an upfront fee for the wh
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by purplelobster 13y ago
There have been instances of relatively peaceful transitions. Sweden comes to mind only because I'm Swedish, but I'm sure there are plenty others. One could argue the level of oppressiveness beforehand though, maybe exteremely opp
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I'm the last guy to be harsh on people, but if you joined Zynga and you had a choice to go somewhere else, it's kinda your own fault. Personally, I have some standards a company needs to live up to for me to want to work there...
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I'd just like to add that this is a bit less true in some European countries, specifically with regards to fatherhood. With the introduction of "use it or lose it" paternity leave, it's getting much more accepted and eve
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by purplelobster 13y ago
I wish there was a browser plugin or something that displays all the blackhat manipulation a site employs as you visit it, and give alternative options.

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