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by redler 14y ago
Apple has the interesting distinction of having been gleefully kicked while they were down (nonstandard toy, the "beleaguered" epithet, clone or die, just build Windows boxes, Michael Dell's infamous corporate governance advice) -- and glee
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by redler 14y ago
If it gains traction, I don't think it would surprise anyone if HelloSign were acquired by Google and incorporated directly into Gmail -- perhaps as part of the paid version.
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by redler 14y ago
Continuity of consciousness is a fascinating problem to contemplate. To Be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc See also the Grandfather's Axe paradox, aka Ship of Theseus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus A longer pi
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by redler 14y ago
To learn.
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by redler 14y ago
For a time I shook my head at the irony that the smaller the client and the smaller the job, the higher the maintenance and the harder it was to get paid. The nickel-and-diming, the offers of creative means of payment ("I'll take you out to
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by redler 14y ago
I wonder if, someday, it might be practical to integrate the "micro history" of a change into the overall version control system's understanding of the "macro history". I'm thinking of something like an intelligently-condensed version of th
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by redler 14y ago
Windows seems like it's heading toward being an indistinct blur. There's Windows Phone 7, which was an innovative break from its WinCE-looking predecessors. Now we have Windows Phone 8, an evolution. Looks good. We also have Windows 8, with
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by redler 14y ago
Sure. At the margins, people make adverse health care decisions when they have no money, even if they're insured. Call it the flip side of moral hazard: co-pays, co-insurance, multiple deductibles, and all the other methods insurance compan
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by redler 14y ago
Even if you have expensive debt, you should aim to have some ready cash for whatever situations life presents. Paying down ten percent of that 100K will be the opposite of helpful if you find yourself unable to go grocery shopping or to cov
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by redler 14y ago
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Scale, hubris, karma, schadenfreude, and a glimmer of hope, all wrapped up in one convenient package.
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by redler 14y ago
It's not a terrible question, but it's really not that different from more common corporate-speak interview questions like, "We like 'out of the box' thinkers here. Does that describe you, and if so, how?" If anything, it's an easier versio
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by redler 14y ago
The example would be much clearer as an aggregation query. Roughly: db.demo.aggregate([ { $match: { score: { $gt: 0 }, person: { $in: ["bob","jake"] }}}, { $group: { _id: "person",
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by redler 14y ago
You're responding to something I did not say. I said "amoral". It's different.
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by redler 14y ago
I'm trying to be very careful to avoid responding to things you're not actually saying. This would be more fun to discuss over some beers. Trying to tiptoe away from Godwin, I'll agree the use of moral/amoral is worth the quibble. Certainly
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by redler 14y ago
I'm almost certain you're not arguing that "dollars generated per person" is the only valid measure of the success of a government as compared to the success of a large corporation. So how do you factor in all the other measures of success
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by redler 14y ago
I certainly don't have the answers either. But you bring up a good question: So why doesn't Twitter just charge for API access? $X per K API calls? They charged for the 'firehose' (too much though, nobody seems to want to pay that much) bu
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by redler 14y ago
Annual pricing can be a great thing -- simplification and money up front: what's not to like? But anyone being paid long in advance of when a service will be delivered should keep in mind that, from an accounting perspective, some portion o
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by redler 14y ago
One theory is that, yes, something different is going on in the brain when speaking on a phone, as opposed to speaking with a passenger. "It may be that talking on the phone generates mental images that conflict with the spatial processing
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by redler 14y ago
What's a little surprising to me is that as of now www.fogcreek.com returns nothing but an error message. Presumably they have control of their DNS, and could quickly throw something -- even a simple web page with a status message -- on a s
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by redler 14y ago
As a side question, is it common practice for Google to hire people using employment contracts with fixed terms? Is there an underclass of employees who join as a result of an acquisition, but who have expiration dates?
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by redler 14y ago
This is a problem that could take up to dozens of dollars to solve, and tens of minutes. Check back in early 2013?
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by redler 14y ago
I wonder if clicking "more" still leads to "unknown or expired link" in 2019...
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The blurring had previously been achieved with css rules (easily disabled). Interestingly, now they've escalated to serving blurred images of paragraphs. Unless there's some serious black-hat SEO going on, they're now letting each question'
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by redler 14y ago
Google using Maps exclusivity as a lever to drive the sales of Android hardware doesn't really make sense. Google's goal is to place Google properties in front of as many engaged eyes as possible. Sure, there's a cohort of iPhone users at t
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by redler 14y ago
digiDoc is all about converting paper documents like receipts and business cards into searchable database, and so a document database seemed like a logical fit(!). It looks like this single initial assumption is where things started going
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by redler 14y ago
One of the secrets is Rock Band et al. These games often have the original music remixed with isolated tracks for the various "instruments," vocals included. There are ways to set up a Rock Band session so the end result is just a single tr
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by redler 14y ago
Without getting into the fact that you're heavily paraphrasing the second amendment, surely you're not suggesting that "all men" should be able to possess, like the government, surface-to-air missiles, 1000-ton bombs, or nuclear weapons. An
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by redler 14y ago
If a developer is going to offer a version upgrade, it's the fact of a previous version purchase that signifies eligibility. The app store clearly has this purchase information. So why not give the developer the option to set previous versi
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Any review of sufficient length and thoroughness is likely to include at least some criticism, if for no other reason than the reviewer not wanting to look like a cheerleader. The NYT often selects reviewers with relevant domain knowledge,
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AT&T to Charge for iOS 6 Facetime(9to5mac.com)
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