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by sabat 15y ago
I'm against these regulatory bills as much as the next guy, but this particular assertion seems overblown and unlikely. And worse, the author is remarkably uninformed about Internet basics: Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf--you
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by sabat 15y ago
I don't think that Groupon execs are widely perceived as crooks, whereas Zynga's ones are more than hard to defend here. Actually, Groupon's execs are widely perceived as crooks.
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by sabat 15y ago
With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could attract more top talent with the promise of stock. Not if the new hires find out about this previous action, and realize that the company may very well demand the stock back.
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by sabat 15y ago
As a 48-year-old (!), I can't tell you how hopeful this article made me feel.
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by sabat 15y ago
I like it already, and am already working on the xcode badge. Curious: what's the business model?
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by sabat 15y ago
You're correct. I saw "in stock ..." and assumed the second edition was brand new.
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by sabat 15y ago
Relevant enough question IMHO, despite the downvotes. Chris Pine's book Learn to Program has a good reputation, and it tackles both of your goals: learning to program, and learning Ruby. The second edition is set to be released in five da
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by sabat 15y ago
It's amazing how people forget. Bill doesn't have to worry about losing everything he has -- there's no way -- muchless worry about losing his house, getting fired in a recession, or how he's going to get his kids through college. Other tha
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by sabat 15y ago
I was just going to suggest a match with Parry myself! Parry was seriously better than Eliza and had a more natural tone. I'd love to see someone try this. I'd try it, but I don't have an iPhone 4s and don't have a running Parry engine.
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by sabat 15y ago
I love the idea -- I wish I could see it! My almost-6-year-old would love to have his drawing turn into a real stuffed animal. Bandwidth exceeded. Le sigh.
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by sabat 15y ago
Legit question, regardless of the downvotes. The answer, as far as I can see, is that founder and CEO Reed Hastings still has enough clout and power within the organization and its board that he can hold onto his position. However, he's got
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by sabat 15y ago
Fallacy: you don't need to live in Palo Alto to live in the Bay Area. There are much more sensical places to live, particularly if you have kids.
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by sabat 15y ago
This strikes me as pure arrogance. If that's Serg's general attitude about what Google does, I fear for its future.
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by sabat 15y ago
Should really be 'Report:'.
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by sabat 15y ago
Unlikely that Steve would have wanted to sit around and kvetch about his health. He probably did want to talk about the iPhone 5.
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by sabat 15y ago
The incredible company that Jobs built can handle the iPhones 5, 6 and 7 just fine. The iPhone 5 is probably already being tested on the Cupertino campus, and doesn't need any of the last 24 hours of Steve Jobs' attention. You underestima
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by sabat 15y ago
I've thought about doing an App Store wrapper around the App Store, more than once.
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by sabat 15y ago
Sounds like someone is really trying to say, "it's true, but I don't want you to think it's true until we announce it."
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by sabat 15y ago
Note that this does not begin, "Here's the the assholes, the heartless, the tactless, the people who think they are above the rest of humankind, who always know better than everyone else, who must teach us how to think." RMS has done some a
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by sabat 15y ago
Stallman has made himself a public figure, and is a spokesman. Even on a "personal" blog, he has a responsibility to be tactful and not to make angry, hurtful, and unnecessary comments.
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by sabat 15y ago
I keep waiting to hear from Woz. I think we in the Nerd World need to hear from Woz tonight.
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by sabat 15y ago
FWIW, Steve was a fan of Dylan Thomas.
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by sabat 15y ago
Salesforce is not "the cloud". It's a company that produces a web app -- a lackluster app, at that.
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by sabat 15y ago
This so could have been an Onion headline.
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by sabat 15y ago
It wasn't botched. Everything is by design. I hope so, but it doesn't appear that way. Netflix has alienated a large number of its customers. I know you can't get that esoteric or new release by streaming. There's a ton of stuff that nev
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by sabat 15y ago
That's not an excuse for radically inflated prices.
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by sabat 15y ago
I like my Chinese-made laptop more than green pieces of paper, so it sounds like a win to me. That's all well and good until the Chinese have all your green pieces of paper, and all you have to eat is your laptop.
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by sabat 15y ago
What you call "fluctuations" most of us call a downward trend. And the fact that you think that it's "same as it ever was" is somehow a positive thing is somewhat disturbing.
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by sabat 15y ago
But it's both, isn't it? Fewer Americans have health coverage, fewer Americans have jobs, fewer Americans can stay in homes. What you hear people saying is that #1 implies #2.
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by sabat 15y ago
You bet we are. But it doesn't necessarily follow that we think that the disproportion is a good thing.

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