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by rg 17y ago
The site says "We currently do not offer private key encryption," and adds "You are giving the key to those intrusted (the online Backup provider) with encrypting and storing your data." But it isn't true that online backup requires giving
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by rg 17y ago
The "classic SV" along the south-western corner of the bay (Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park) dates from the old days (the '60s to the late '80s). Back then, all the VCs lived up north in urban San Francisco, and
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by rg 17y ago
"hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble", by Tom Evslin (pub. 2007). Tom is a software hacker himself and a very well known serial startup entrepreneur, with successes in comm and graphics apps (both M
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by rg 17y ago
An anecdote about hospital negotiation: I just got a bill for $7,000 for a two-hour visit to a San Francisco hospital emergency room. The bill arrived with a letter offering me a 20% discount if I paid directly (and claimed it back from my
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by rg 17y ago
One day as I lit a cigarette someone said to me, "I used to smoke, and then I realized that I was the smartest person I knew who still smoked, so I quit." Later I thought about this and realized that I was the smartest person I knew who st
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by rg 18y ago
I was in a large up-to-date teaching hospital the other day, and all their networked PC stations were running Win 2000 with some third-party specialized hospital information systems software.
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by rg 18y ago
Tried signing up using Chrome, to be told that the best results are available only when using Internet Explorer, although I could try using a beta for Firefox. (WTF?) Accepted the mistaken option for FF, but that required a missing Java plu
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Needed for AIG and the TARP: Silicon Valley Compensation Schemes (Brad DeLong, UC)(delong.typepad.com)
5 points by rg 18y ago|0 comments
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by rg 18y ago
That's right! Obviously, this test is used to reject applicants who otherwise seem extremely plausible when they present themselves. We'll know in a couple of years whether the test was right or wrong about our new hire Obama.
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by rg 18y ago
I've had excellent results from using smoking as a quick test to disqualify applicants for programming positions--on the theory that anyone who smokes can't really be smart enough to be a good hire. This test might occasionally make a mist
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by rg 18y ago
The result was amazingly bad on one trial HTML page; font (Verdana) was mostly far too small. This is a smart page that checks the display size and re-sets em measurements for DIV's and text to account for the increasing density of display
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by rg 18y ago
Tried to see what it was, found a clickable link to something that sounded interesting, but couldn't see a sample without registering; so I gave up immediately.
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by rg 18y ago
Switched yesterday. I transferred 8 tabs from FF3 and 8 tabs from IE (formerly ran both, for different sites), and started using Chrome exclusively. So far, 100% perfection, 100% stability. All the financial sites, news sites, Amazon, ..
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by rg 18y ago
There was nothing offensive or harmful in Dijkstra's original article about the go-to statement; on the contrary, it was brilliant and for many people (including me) communicated a deep and lasting insight in a flash.