rbarooah

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811.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Craigslist's revenue is estimated at >$100m, and is mostly that low out of choice. Also, Google buys reach and influence as much as revenues with their investments (e.g. Android, YouTube)
812.
by rbarooah 16y ago
What opportunities did Google miss? They have plenty of cash, so I don't think buying YouTube prevented them from buying anything else they wanted.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Thanks - but I was hoping to hear from DanielBMarkham, basically because his position seems fatalistic to me but it's also intelligently reasoned, so I was wondering if I was missing something. Incidentally - when was the last time politici
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I understand the selection principle, but do we realistically think that's what's happening? Are there really lots of people recording detailed, insightful, coherent, highly varied, but wrong theories of the future that we are rejecting?
815.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Since you agree with the general sentiment (about individual freedoms), but think that expressing outrage here is futile, can you suggest a response that is constructive instead?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
How is this a bias? What value would it be to pay attention to all incorrect statements people have made over the years except to understand why they were wrong? People like fuller who had insight that seems to have lasted over time are i
817.
by rbarooah 16y ago
I think it's clear that Steve Jobs is fully aware of this. It's why he changed the name of the company to Apple Inc , just before announcing the iPhone - he wasn't indicating that he was going to start building hundreds of different consu
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I am not sure why what a government says about its own qualities should determine the level of responsibility its people bear for it's actions.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It's only one walk to the voting booth if there's an alternative available to vote for. Significant changes in US politics have cost lives, blood, and suffering.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Does this have an advantage over well organized documentation? How about just adding a tags field to the metadata?
821.
by rbarooah 16y ago
To me the strongest argument for keeping development in house is that programming Is a very powerful way to learn about a domain, so if your business involves an innovative or differentiated product it's probably valuable to have this learn
822.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Why would compartmentalizing them be valuable? They form a rich vocabulary of fundamental building blocks. Wouldn't splitting them up make them less usable because then you'd have to remember which namespace they were in as well as their
823.
by rbarooah 16y ago
I think the key point here is not about never expanding your comfort zone - it's about not doing it just because someone else advises it. There's a world of difference between choosing to step outside your limits because you've identified s
824.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Indeed - what you say is very important. You can legally enter on the visa waiver in order to attend business meetings. If you do this for extended periods you will probably be required too prove that you aren't being paid, have your resid
825.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Hah - I knew bhutan would be mentioned. It's the exception that proves the rule.
826.
by rbarooah 16y ago
We can't move towards a more perfect world without facing some painful truths, and the current state of affairs is pretty far from perfect. Secrecy and manipulation as mechanisms of power are good for the powerful and bad for everyone else
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Can you name a government that isn't cynical, self-serving, and supportive of bad actions?
828.
by rbarooah 16y ago
I agree - that definitely makes it feel more ethical.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It seems like the basic assumption behind this kind of thing no longer holds; when systems in the past couldn't do power management, the idle time processing power really was wasted and these kind of thing simply utilized that. Many modern
830.
by rbarooah 16y ago
I found this a little disturbing (having just put a new app on a node there - fortunately pre-production), but then I remembered that the last two places I worked paid the premium to be hosted at 365 Main in SF, with its flywheels and diese
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by rbarooah 16y ago
He's wrong about not being able to link to song information on iTunes. That's been possible for about a year. What's interesting is that presumably this is because at a certain point (once they had secured the market) Apple found it more
832.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Indeed - frankly when I saw it I was surprised the guy had accepted this as valid in their contest - if he's allowed to use an offboard compiler the 'interpreter' could just as well emit some generated C to a file and pass it through GCC -O
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Would the people who are upset that Marco is using his 'home' computer feel the same if he instead said it was at his office? Offices get broken into or have equipment stolen too - I'm not sure why people think this is so irresponsible give
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by rbarooah 16y ago
So then perhaps the best way to protect a nation from terrorism is not to be influenced by it.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Why would you want to tell the person anonymously that what they are tweeting is uninteresting to you? Isn't that just a needless insult? It's not as if you are paid money to receive quality tweets. If you actually care what they think,
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by rbarooah 16y ago
FolderShare wasn't made by microsoft - it was built by ByteTaxi, the people behind the legendary AudioGalaxy using the same engine. It was the dropbox of its day. The issues began after Microsoft purchased and then neglected it.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
What level of tax professional does someone in the OP's situation need? Will a trip to the local H&R block sort it, or does he need to look for someone more specialized and if so, how would he identify them?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
it's also curious that some of them (notably Gizmodo) found the software to be a complete mess, whereas other found it to be nearly as slick as Apple. Is this journalistic bias, or is there a background process or bug that was affecting so
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I've found the combination of google instant plus the new previews to be impressively useful when using Google professionally. I'm working with clojure at the moment which is new to me, so I find myself doing a lot of rapid-fire Google sear
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by rbarooah 16y ago
No, because these machines have different I/O & graphics hardware and no common operating system or BIOS layer to abstract them.

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