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by silentmars 14y ago
Fitnesssf took down their Facebook pages.
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by silentmars 14y ago
Anyone else expect the article to be one sentence long: "by hiring 5 female engineers!"
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by silentmars 14y ago
That's a pretty good post-mortem for any startup.
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by silentmars 14y ago
Anyone else read the article, see the picture of Lee Cheng and say to themselves, "damn I wish I was that guy"?
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by silentmars 14y ago
Not meant to be a criticism. If this was a normal "I'm sorry," a tweet or private message would have done the job. The very public dimension of this situation makes it a case requiring damage control, hence the multiple apologies on twitter
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by silentmars 14y ago
Reasonably good damage control exercise here.
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by silentmars 14y ago
As damage control goes, Ortiz's statement is inadequate. There is a well-supported petition calling her out by name to be fired. There are major media outlets openly questioning not only her actions, but the fitness of the entire Justice De
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Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (part 1) [09/12](forbes.com)
1 points by silentmars 14y ago|0 comments
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by silentmars 14y ago
"Ok, Tom Dolan, we'll offer you a deal. The entire internet will leave your wife alone and stop saying nasty things about her, if you agree to plead guilty to possessing child pornography and serve 6 months in prison."
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by silentmars 14y ago
Big fan of this article. The world asks us to sell out our integrity for such a pittance on almost a daily basis. "Convenience," "convention," "getting along." These are the meager rewards for our silent assent. It's great motivation to rea
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by silentmars 14y ago
How horrid. "Unfortunately, writing about being gay is still eye-catching." Shame on you.
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by silentmars 14y ago
Bit of a sloppy analysis... The $40 that the worker is "shorted" doesn't disappear into some magic portal that leads to another dimension where rich people secret it away from the economy. It goes to the workers at the bank, or to other bus
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by silentmars 14y ago
Decent basic points, but superficial and often missing the real underlying trends. For better analysis on the same general ideas, I recommend: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-... http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011
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by silentmars 14y ago
Doesn't seem too likely to me, or at least it would be a fairly significant reversal of Apple's approach to things. It's such a niche market. That's not the kind of space Apple cares to play in it. Where's the opportunity for the kind of ma
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by silentmars 14y ago
There's an old saying that goes something like, the lower the stakes, the more bitter and destructive the disagreement. It goes along with that old anecdote about how the disputes among people involved in volunteer organizations are more ch
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by silentmars 14y ago
I tried helping a stereotypically computer-unskilled person with some Facebook issues recently. They had some problems that made it look like someone might have gotten access to their account. So I wanted to go in and make sure that they we
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by silentmars 14y ago
Key business logic #1: get people interested by saying that the awesome stuff is coming next.
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by silentmars 14y ago
Sorry if it annoys anyone to bring in politics on this beautiful article here on Christmas, but here's what I have to say: Bookmark this article. Then, next time you are talking to some dittohead who is in favor of No Child Left Behind-styl
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by silentmars 14y ago
Hilariously written article. Here are some of the most wonderful snippets: "this is possibly one of the biggest war that as been witnessed ... Paolo Bonzin, who has maintained the Free Software Foundation's GNU grep and GNU sed, has quit fr
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by silentmars 14y ago
My first, gut reaction was this was a very pretentious-sounding letter from some singularly pretentious people. It's probably got a lot to do with the fact that I hate TED. I can't articulate exactly what it is about TED that bothers me so
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by silentmars 14y ago
I like Google... And Dropbox is also good. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel! HN always tells me who the villain in a story is. Someone please help!
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by silentmars 14y ago
Next story headline: "McAfee Escapes Hospital After Faked Heart Attack"
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by silentmars 14y ago
When there is a lawsuit, one of the pre-trial phases is called "discovery". During this phase, both parties can compel the other party to hand over documents and information relevant to the lawsuit.
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by silentmars 14y ago
Admittedly, the API example was not totally on point since it was dealing with copyright. However it illuminated the problem with lawyers even under the best of circumstances not understanding software and programming. I agree that the ques
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by silentmars 14y ago
I wish I could pay say, $300, and have it come with a higher resolution screen.
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by silentmars 14y ago
I read most of the transcripts of the Oracle v Google trial. This was a case where both sides had highly paid expert legal teams staffed with the best lawyers in the country that spent an enormous amount of time preparing to argue a case ab
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by silentmars 14y ago
I kind of like the image of Stallman standing up and blasting away at these legal people offering half-baked ideas for a problem they only barely understand at the 10,000-foot level.
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by silentmars 14y ago
He was likely talking about the situation in that particular conference, which was using Silverlight for its streaming.
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by silentmars 14y ago
It might be helpful to add the article's subtitle, so that it reads: "Why Steven Sinofsky is out at Microsoft - Let's Make Some Guesses"
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by silentmars 14y ago
Another article in what has really become a vast sea of Gnome criticism. I definitely appreciate the extensive quoting of Gnome and Ubuntu people, though, which is not too common in these kinds of articles. The thing is, Gnome is focused on

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