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by qq66 13y ago
In some situations (not sure which), having one part of a contract ruled unenforceable makes other parts unenforceable.
902.
by qq66 13y ago
The courts have established that certain contracts are simply invalid by their nature, and many instances of "signing away your right to sue" fall in this category. The real reason that companies have you do this is to reduce the
903.
by qq66 13y ago
Judging by the number of high level departures from Apple after Jobs' death, it seems like that devotion to Jobs was the main glue holding those personalities together.
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by qq66 13y ago
Yes. Facebook's "cost of revenue" (which they state is mostly infrastructure) was $1.875 billion in 2013, a year when they made $1.5 billion in net income. For comparison, research and development was $1.4 billion. Facebook&#
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by qq66 13y ago
iDevice captures the same category without any derogatory intonations.
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by qq66 13y ago
Many universities do this, but usually only after the first pass of applications is removed. Also, even though 5% of the applicants are admitted, a much larger fraction of the applicants are completely qualified (i.e., if you selected a gro
907.
by qq66 13y ago
Also, because brick-and-mortar stores don't raise prices (often due to price-gouging laws), people who find themselves in a store with bottled water, for example, will buy much more than they would have if the water was suddenly $50 pe
908.
by qq66 13y ago
That increase in applications per student is totally rational, since students have learned just how random the process is. Admissions officer ate some bad sushi last night and feels ill while he reads your application? Rejected. Admissions
909.
by qq66 13y ago
Not an office manager, but I know an executive assistant who was making $4-500K before she retired, working for a Fortune 100 CEO. She was incredibly effective but hated the stress of the job, so she kept quitting and the CEO kept raising h
910.
by qq66 13y ago
The fact that you need to keep the button pressed to move other standing desks is a feature, not a bug. It's a safety feature designed to make it impossible to get yourself in a situation where a body part is trapped in the desk but yo
911.
by qq66 13y ago
The article was staying completely focused on why "I" am not going to buy a smart watch, but snatched defeat from the jaws of victory when he started extrapolating to the market. He may be right, though. People have up on watches
912.
by qq66 13y ago
Someone should inform OKCupid of William Shockley's views on eugenics.
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by qq66 13y ago
I don't know what you mean by "stories are cheap" but popular movies with great, unique storylines are extraordinarily rare (yes, that's equally the audience's fault). Most top grossers are sequels or derivative o
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by qq66 13y ago
Is this only for homesick Dutch expats? I'd like 3 per month in a regular envelope.
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by qq66 13y ago
I use an iPhone because whenever I find an app that I truly love (iMaschine, Machinariun, iSequence, Disney Animated, and now Microsoft Office) it's very frequently iOS exclusive. Of course the opposite might be true if I used Android
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by qq66 13y ago
No data, but as a user I do expect to see a card type selector or indicator, even though I rationally know its superfluous.
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by qq66 13y ago
I've worked in competitive pricing before and have a little knowledge of how this works. At all times, companies in competitive situations have a basic economic model they use for pricing. Individual sales reps are allowed to cut price
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by qq66 13y ago
52% of Apple employees are in Apple Stores through the retail division.
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by qq66 13y ago
Amazon is very calculating when it comes to operating at low margin. What they mean by running a low margin business is that their operations are capable of running at close to zero margin for almost any product they carry. When they can, t
920.
by qq66 13y ago
Why abolish software patents but not all patents?
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by qq66 13y ago
I wonder what the actual purpose of this project is (and whether such purpose is known even to Facebook today). I really doubt that either Google or Facebook really intends to use aircraft to provide Internet access, just like I doubt that
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by qq66 13y ago
What a company is buying in an acqui-hire is not just individual capability, but also team chemistry and cohesion. The team has proven that it can work together effectively to ship a great product. They're acquired (and given appropria
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by qq66 13y ago
Well, if you are an employee of an acquired startup, you always have the option of leaving. The acquirer will try to make sure that between unvested equity and retention packages you have enough incentive to stay, but it's really your
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by qq66 13y ago
>I think the next big thing could be bringing App Stores to servers VMware Virtual Appliances and Microsoft Azure apps try to do this. They are of course strictly enterprise-focused though.
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by qq66 13y ago
The problem here is that a framework built in one environment (settlement-free peering) has a lot of problems as the underlying environment has changed. Let's say everyone in the United States had a second mailbox, and each mailbox is
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by qq66 13y ago
The tone that Eustace, a Senior Vice President at Google, uses with Jobs is beyond deferential. "Based on your strong preference that we not hire the ex-Apple engineers, Jean-Marie and I decided not to open a Google Paris engineering c
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by qq66 13y ago
Except Google mining all your data (if you use Android)
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by qq66 13y ago
Making an action undoable often more than doubles the development cost of that feature. Google can do it, for a small startup it only makes sense in a few situations.
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by qq66 13y ago
> Equity costs nothing to give out Only if your company isn't worth anything.
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by qq66 13y ago
The Google App Engine price increase was functionally equivalent to a shutdown for many applications.

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