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by rajat 17y ago
Oh, I can imagine how the author is going to love this. Look at the phrase "... may not significantly alter the meaning of the excerpt ...". Tell the author that all the time spent on finding the exact turn of phrase was wasted; don't both
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by rajat 17y ago
That pretty much prohibits any kind of law enforcement that utilizes potentially lethal force. In real life, there is no escape from balancing potential risks (in this case, of innocents being killed) and benefits.
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by rajat 17y ago
Of course they won't. They'd love it if the rest of us gave up monetary rewards and benefits and worked hard for intangibles, and they'd get to keep theirs and most of ours. Oh, you mean the CEOs will give up their financial incentives? I
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by rajat 17y ago
One alternative is coworking spaces. At the risk of sounding like an ad, I use one in Austin called Conjunctured ( http://conjunctured.com/ ) and the cost is $250 a month. For that, you also get use of a conference room when needed. That's
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by rajat 17y ago
So all the aura readers were right after all?
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by rajat 17y ago
It's not that a particular idea does not have any value; it's that without proper execution, it does not realize its potential value. In my career in computers, I have come across people with great ideas a few times, who have done nothing w
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by rajat 17y ago
He's not doing anything others haven't done before. It's what TrollTech did with QT for example, and how ghostscript was distributed. Use the GPL-ed version for open source software; pay money for a proprietary license for proprietary softw
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by rajat 17y ago
Self esteem that doesn't come from real achievement is delusion. Great article here: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/25/opinion/oe-baumeiste...
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by rajat 17y ago
What I find fascinating in this short story is the concept of THE computer. That was the vision of the computer back only two or three decades ago (and I'm old enough to remember). Everyone has a terminal into the main computer, instead of
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by rajat 18y ago
The issue of oversized compensations/retirement plans, accounting legerdemains, bad car design and bad car quality, is all related: horrible management. They didn't stand up to the unions, decided to play games with numbers instead of runni
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by rajat 18y ago
Yeah, but then you're stuck with the property taxes until you can find another buyer.
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by rajat 18y ago
The headline's a bit misleading, isn't it? Revenues and earnings are not down; they actually grew, but not as much as expected. Still looks bad, I guess, compared to Apple (disclosure: I use Apple laptops and desktops) which reported great
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by rajat 18y ago
In general, tools are important. No good craftsman should put up with a bad tool. I've seen the amount of money that companies are willing to pay for tools for hardware designers and chip designers, and seen them still turn around and quibb
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by rajat 18y ago
The last time they revamped the Mac Mini (to the Core 2 Duo processors), they didn't do a reveal at MacWorld or WWDC. The Apple store was simply updated to reflect the update. Be interesting to see if this happens again, given all the "leak
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by rajat 18y ago
One thing that's notable, from this report and others, is that there were a class of investors who knew that Madoff was doing something illegal to get these kind of returns, and were bragging about it. These investors didn't think it was
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by rajat 18y ago
It's just a favor for the rich (the cynical part of me asks how many VCs give money to Democrats?). Most small startups, computers, software or otherwise, are not suffering from high capital gains taxes. A general corporate tax cut (we have