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by rscale 14y ago
It's likely that other casual agreements that you don't think of as contracts are also contracts. I'm not a lawyer, I'm a guy who took a business law class during undergrad, but my prof drilled it into my head that a contract consists of of
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by rscale 14y ago
I absolutely agree that Fog Creek needed to support Git, but I don't think Harmony sells meaningfully more than Git-only + hg-only would've. That's why I refer to it as a cute feature. Fog Creek's emphasis on how they achieved git suppor
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by rscale 14y ago
My unproven theory is that assholes are less of a problem, because it's relatively easy to identify assholes and avoid hiring them in the first place. Likeable B/C-players are tougher because if you lack domain expertise (and aren't getting
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by rscale 14y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think the git/mercurial integration is the big point of Kiln. Rather, harmony seems like an interesting side effect generated when Fog Creek built some swank tools for mercurial-based corporate developers, and
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by rscale 14y ago
This won't fix the past, but it's not a bad idea to go to: https://www.linkedin.com/settings/ and 'Turn off activity broadcasts'.
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by rscale 14y ago
How to unfollow a company: 1. Go to this page: http://www.linkedin.com/companies?dspFllwed=&trk=hb_tab_... 2. Click 'Stop following' under the company you wish to stop following.
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by rscale 14y ago
The only thing I'd consider changing on this deck is point 6 about hiring and firing. The point has validity, but I've seen more (and larger) problems caused by likable but not-quite-qualified employees than I have by unlikable but qualifie
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by rscale 14y ago
If you're really struggling with the material and can't get an A after giving it 110%, you're just not at the top of the curve. This was me in my first collegiate art elective. I put in enormous effort, but there was no there there. I
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by rscale 14y ago
I recommend Selenium before I'd recommend PhantomJS in situations where Mechanize/Nokogiri don't cut the mustard, I've found Selenium scripts much easier to comprehend, modify, and maintain over time than the PhantomJS scripts.
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by rscale 14y ago
> Any stories of inadequate examples or meaningless correlations? A customer's marketing group was tying visitor data to geodemographic data. They put together a database with tons of variables, went searching, and found a multiple re
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by rscale 14y ago
I also chose my words carefully. Some people (like you) understand that reliability and validity aren't just "p < 0.05", but that's far from universal understanding. I've seen intelligent people accept and reject hypotheses with woeful
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by rscale 14y ago
I get concerned about usages of big data that concentrate on "'discovery' of reliable relationships in the data." The problem being that as we add more data, the chances of spurious relationships increase dramatically, and the human brain i
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by rscale 14y ago
It's especially strange because if you want to do that, you can Airplay the video to the TV, and not have to deal with a cable from your phone to your TV.
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by rscale 14y ago
He seems to have brought his junk food carrots to market, except for one thing: they now contain 200mg of sodium. http://www.babycarrots.com
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by rscale 14y ago
Community colleges cost money, but they cost less money. In my county in Pennsylvania, the community college charges $7,140/yr for tuition and fees. Unfortunately, they issue 2-year Associates degrees that have relatively little market va
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by rscale 14y ago
Dropbox has access to all your files at all times, and will honor government requests to view your data. They used to claim that your data was inaccessible without your password, but this was always a lie.
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by rscale 14y ago
I did the same after the acquisition was first announced. It took about an hour to get it running, and fully monitored by my Nagios installation.
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by rscale 14y ago
That quote is often wrong. For example, there are "freemium" business models where the users are segmented by usage level, or by need of additional features. In those models, the "free" users aren't being sold, they're just potential custo
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by rscale 14y ago
A person who owned a few dozen slaves and a huge plantation was incredibly rich, high in the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution. Given the choice of being rich during the age of slavery, or being rich today, I'd prefer today.
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by rscale 14y ago
You're right. In 1996 my home directory was stored on an Andrew File System folder that allowed me to securely authenticate from untrusted networks using Kerberos, and then access my files remotely, from multiple machines, and it used loca
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by rscale 14y ago
This is also starting to become true with the kindle for consumers. Anecdata: I'm an Apple customer who purchases Kindle books specifically because they're cross-platform. I like that they're at least future-resistant.
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by rscale 14y ago
I got the idea from his post. The vast majority of BD candidates can't open a CRM and provide detailed information about it's structure and the deals it contains without revealing confidential information. As such, I think it's a poor id
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by rscale 14y ago
I'd be extremely reluctant to hire somebody who was willing to give me a guided tour of another company's CRM. Even ignoring the ethics of the request, if somebody is willing to act against their current employer's wishes, they're almost ce
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by rscale 14y ago
Willful blindness isn't a particularly strong defense. Aimster tried it and failed.
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by rscale 14y ago
I take issue with a few parts of this comment: 1) Mayor Nutter's office is working to find ways to support entrepreneurship. A concrete example of this was the city working with First Round Capital to get them to move their offices from Co
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by rscale 14y ago
I feel like he's describing this: http://www.bamfordwatchdepartment.com/customiser.cfm but I could also be misreading the comment.
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by rscale 14y ago
Two key points: 1) Many companies already have most of these skills, or can acquire them cheaply and reliably via a service contract. The cloud isn't the only way to outsource operations. 2) The performance/reliability constraints imposed
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by rscale 14y ago
I found myself thinking of this essay by Mike Turitzin as I read your post: http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/how-to-be-a-naysayer/ It's clear, concise, and well worth consideration.
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by rscale 14y ago
A contract clause withholding outstanding payments until certain conditions are met would do the trick.
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by rscale 14y ago
Dropbox used to say: "All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES256) and are inaccessible without your account password." even though the files were accessible without their account password. Mega might be doing the same thing:

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