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by shawnee_ 15y ago
And _why himself thought of his [(poignant) guide to Ruby] as a literary project. “The book I feel is closest to my book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which interleaves brief math puzzles and astronomical diagrams w
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Ford Is Celebrating Pi Day By Giving Away Free Math(forbes.com)
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On Utah's 'Silicon Slopes,' Tech Jobs Get A Lift(npr.org)
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Traditional supply-demand economics just doesn't explain the behavior of "middleman" industries, such as lawyering, real estate agenting, etc. Traditional supply-demand economics assumes a 1:1 ratio where there is one buyer and one seller a
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
I mean lack of laws. Net neutrality lite protects consumers only in the realm of hard-wired ISP service, not mobile broadband. The regulations ban content blocking and require transparency from ISPs. They also require network management
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Dumbphones are underrated. Last year, when deciding whether or not to jump on the smartphone bandwagon, I did extensive research and ultimately came to the conclusion that it was just not worth it. Yet. If or when telecomms ever stop try
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Facebook "timeline" goes mandatory(siliconrepublic.com)
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Why? The only way you'll get that return is if you sell your stock today. That destroys any chance for you to earn future value from the performance of the company. Dividends are the better way companies return value to their shareholders
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And this is a company allergic to paying dividends. If I were a shareholder, I would be asking some questions.
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Probably the best reason to forsake the traditional resume is to keep incompetent "headhunter" agencies away. I annihilated my linkedin profile a couple years ago, and keep just a tar.gz of a HAML formatted resume on my site.
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Yes, this technically applies to "big" companies (which is probably a good thing) ... A new California law that takes effect Jan. 1 requires that the more than 3,200 California companies that have gross receipts of $100 million or more hav
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Doing business in CA? Prepare to disclose use of slave labor.(abclocal.go.com)
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Zynga hopes to turn $10 IPO into $1B(usatoday.com)
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Personally posted over 15,000 stories, rejecting a million more. Although 15K is not a small number, for some reason seems like it should be more. I guess that makes every user submitted slashdot story that was posted by cmdrtaco himself
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Post-Enron, the government suddenly felt it was really important to have all options be priced by third parties, even tiny three-person private companies, so it’s now a legal requirement that if the Board wants safe harbor from lawsuits, i
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Yelp's motto: 'Let's legalize extortion!' Built a review site? Fine, but leave the reviews alone. All of them. No, it is not "OK" to close users' accounts with no warning, thereby demolishing all of their reviews. No, it's not OK to "hi
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
It's also completely and totally useless Not really. A CSS logo would be useful for performance issues and overall page rendering speed. A CSS animated logo, such as the Atari example, even moreso than a Flash / JS counterpart. CSS r
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Separately, when you look at successful tech companies, it seems that dividends are an approach used by cash rich operations to distribute excess earnings — in fact, the most successful, cash rich tech company in the world, Apple, hasn’t i
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Final draft of "new" Net Neutrality filed w/FCC (arstechnica.com)
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Milton Friedman said that most fallacies in economic thinking were derived from the "fixed pie" assumption: that one party can gain only at the expense of another. In an ideal world, the pie would always be growing, and those marginal incr
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
And as for apples? Believe it or not, my research found that while it may look fresh, the average apple you see in the supermarket is actually 14 months old. I'd believe 4 months. Maybe 8. But 14 as the average ? That would mean apple
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The Dark Side of Hight Achievement(bigthink.com)
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Census Bureau says record 46.2M live in poverty(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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IBM's Watson gets a job(indystar.com)
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The lesson here: it was 1998. "The industry" was still a little fledgling, so the legal territory was still largely unchartered. But it grew into an ugly duckling, quickly. Sent the contract to my lawyer. She marked it up, sent it to th
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Demographics: Twitter's 100M active users(pcmag.com)
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Our Avatars, Ourselves(pbs.org)
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Good analogy. Although I've mentioned this before here, it's relevant; the way the tax law was originally put into effect was very smart and not complicated at all. ($4000 in 1893 ~ $100K today) (1) Zero tax on any person making under $4,
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Learned this the hard way. Back when LinuxCon was still called LinuxCon, I made the mistake of making a beeline to the first "booth" I saw that was manned by a fellow female. I studied the setup, ascertained what kind of hardware being sh
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Earlier this summer, a Yelp salesman called Brader's house to ask if he wanted to advertise on the Yelp site. Yelp will never make it as a public company, which means that it should technically fizzle and die sooner rather than later. Wh

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