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by sgustard 9y ago
"Investing" in those days was "speculating." Hundreds of dubious companies made it to IPO that would never make it that far today, and most of those lost all their public investors' money. https://matterm
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by sgustard 9y ago
Yes, this has become an HN meme/trope. The other one illustrated here is "what's up with web page design trends where I can't read the text or scroll properly?"
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by sgustard 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Transaction_flow
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BlackBerry misses sales forecasts, shares tumble(reuters.com)
1 points by sgustard 9y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 9y ago
Along similar lines: Why are there so many mattress ads on the radio? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
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by sgustard 9y ago
Not the same at all. To say that the site newsfeed.fb.com uses Vue is a fact. To say that Facebook owns and operates that site is a fact. The valid point is that Facebook is a large company made up of many people and not a monolithic entity
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by sgustard 9y ago
JSX is not a requirement for React. React has the same kind of flexibility you are criticizing. https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-without-jsx.html
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by sgustard 9y ago
The risk of borrowing something from a maker space, taking it home, then finding it to be broken is non-zero. That's a tax on the system paid by the borrowers. And it's another outcome of our plethora of cheap goods: just buy some
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by sgustard 9y ago
>But this nut is the Everest of retail. It will be a challenge to get it to fit into their model. Looking at it the other way: Amazon knows it's bad at this, so it's acquiring the expertise.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Here's a list of about 30 female CEOs of S&P 500 companies. Most are not generally familiar names. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-ceos-sp-500
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by sgustard 9y ago
If Google doesn't differentiate between "the WSJ or a scam site", its value to me is severely curtailed.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Problem: our food has too many poisons we need to disclose. Solution: better icons for all the types of poisons! Did anyone think of a different solution?
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by sgustard 9y ago
The weird thing is I get plenty of telemarketing calls now, but they almost never leave voicemail. I had assumed their whole business model was to get a live victim on the phone, not in leaving spam behind.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Shuffling a deck of cards is a basic coding interview question, but I prefer a more interesting version. How do you code a simulation of real-life shuffling? Take a basic riffle. Cut the cards roughly in half and interleave the cards. Of co
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by sgustard 9y ago
Yes, it would be delightful if the $8-$12 spent on a cup of coffee included a $5 tip.
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by sgustard 9y ago
A modern electric car like a Tesla, Bolt or i3 (I've driven all of them) really takes off like a roller coaster. Silent and instant smooth acceleration. They are amazingly fun to drive.
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by sgustard 9y ago
So no Google Maps for you? I remember mapquest 20 years ago where you'd pan the map by clicking arrows and reloading the page. Good times! Usability totally won that day.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Thankfully my email is @@@@@@@.......
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by sgustard 9y ago
Ask the machines who replaced me what to do next?
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by sgustard 9y ago
I don't think movie ratings are the cause of bland movies. The mass market has voted and superhero/transformer movies that cater to 15 year old boys are the biggest moneymakers. All the original programming has moved to TV, which
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by sgustard 9y ago
Every culture for thousands of years has had rules about what is appropriate. Kosher laws, Halal, and so on. Modern Europe is probably the main exception.
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by sgustard 9y ago
What do you see as the build vs buy preference here? Are you better off being Uber and investing billions in self-driving technology (assuming an ideal world with no lawsuits or misconduct), vs Lyft partnering for the same features? Frankly
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by sgustard 9y ago
"revenue would fall between $356 and $362 million for the year." There's a sentence that should be written more carefully.
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by sgustard 9y ago
"The plan would also eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes, a step that could hurt taxpayers in places with high state taxes such as California and New York." Relevant to the tech industry for that reason; salaried wor
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Trump Administration Proposes 'Massive' Tax Overhaul and Tax Cut Plan(npr.org)
10 points by sgustard 9y ago|8 comments
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by sgustard 10y ago
>If it's free for you, you're the product. So hypothetically, if you paid $5 a month for this service, you would be confident they were NOT selling your information? Since the answer is obviously no (and in fact, purchasing beh
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by sgustard 10y ago
Just turn the problem around and replace large turbines with mini-turbines attached to the birds themselves. As they fly they charge, um, small batteries that they carry around and then periodically return to dropoff stations. OK I'm s
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by sgustard 10y ago
The alternative isn't squeezing their juice packs, though. The alternative is buying a carton labelled "Juice" and pulling it out of the fridge.
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by sgustard 10y ago
This is like a Keurig if Keurig squeezed coffee out of pods that were full of hot liquid coffee.
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by sgustard 10y ago
Ten years ago MapQuest was state of the art, and you'd click "next tile" over and over to traverse a map. Then Google Maps showed up with its voodoo ajax and infinite scroll and ushered in the modern web app era. Sure, some f

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