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by slapshot 17y ago
Four ways that Lexis/West will survive for now. None are permanent, but this is not a perfect solution yet: 1 - Lexis/West both allow lawyers to search based on jurisidiction. If I am a lawyer in Florida, then I want to see results from F
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by slapshot 17y ago
This is a great effort. But it is also ineffective. I am a lawyer. I am also a software guy. But I'll be the first to say that this is WAY too technical of an explanation for 99% of lawyers to follow, let alone be persuaded. It reads lik
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by slapshot 17y ago
Thank you for posting good news! Too many sites post only the bad news and then hide the clarifications/corrections.
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Court: federal trial rules prohibit reporter from live-Twittering a trial(volokh.com)
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by slapshot 17y ago
All Supreme Court cases from this term will be decided by June. The average time would probably be 3-4 months from when the case is argued (i.e., February or March), but it could be faster or slower. The ruling will basically go into effec
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by slapshot 17y ago
Have you ever seen two lawyer argue over what "strictly necessary" means? One would claim that ad serving cookies are always "strictly necessary" to an online business, the other would argue that cookies are never "strictly necessary" beca
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by slapshot 17y ago
There is a huge redundancy here: if a user does not want cookies, every modern browser gives the user an ability to simply deny cookies. Just use the browser and solve the problem. Now, even if you want to allow cookies (and have signaled
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by slapshot 17y ago
The fact that people in this discussion aren't sure if it's a joke tells you something about the OpenOffice experience. Now all we need is some brash young designer to skin the default screen for each program, tell OO to fire its whole expe
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by slapshot 17y ago
I'm wondering whose bread is getting buttered here? What new weapons platforms are competing for Army dollars, and which one solves the reliability "problem"? Seems like this is the sort of article that comes out of a press junket to a wi
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by slapshot 17y ago
Skype becomes AIM in 3..2..
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by slapshot 17y ago
You might not need to have a _formal_ process at that size, but it would be good to have some kind of plan to recognize and reward the employees (she's an employee, not a founder) who excel. There are lots of startups that don't get this a
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by slapshot 17y ago
... in the European Union. It might make the jump across the pond sometime, but not today. That said, I'm sure that at least one lawyer read the article and is getting some deceptive advertising lawsuit ideas right now.
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by slapshot 17y ago
When he does real investigative stories (like this one), he is as powerful as the best of the old newspaper / TV investigative journalists. When he does Silicon Valley gossip, he gets clicks but no action.
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Startups can teach NASA to budget: pick decision criteria, then spend $billions(popularmechanics.com)
4 points by slapshot 17y ago|1 comments
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Most Google users only look at the first three results(reputationdefenderblog.com)
3 points by slapshot 18y ago|2 comments
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by slapshot 18y ago
The summary is that Google doesn't know that a brand-new $400 million shopping mall exists, and refuses to give directions to the address. It's wild that being in Google is now a prerequisite to offline commerce too.
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If it's not in Google, it doesn't exist: Why Google is the gatekeeper for offline commerce too(reputationdefenderblog.com)
2 points by slapshot 18y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 18y ago
The article says nothing of the sort. It says that TV is a waste of time since you're not making anything new or different. The same would go for watching baseball games, going to concerts, sitting in traffic, eating at a sit-down restaur
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by slapshot 18y ago
It's not just about the negotiation power. It's about the total price for the whole deal. A VC might be willing to negotiate away a liquidation preference, but he would be very worried that he was buying a lemon. The total price would go
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by slapshot 18y ago
Look at the example of the BBC's style guide. If you're using the BBC guide, then things that are all-cap are said using letters. If we wanted to call it the "beebuk" then it'd be "Bbc" (like "Nato"). We just need all high school teachers
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by slapshot 18y ago
Just to be clear, Reddit (the .com) won't save software development, especially since the author points to a lack of "rigor" as one of the main problems. That site is a bath of noise and juvenile disputes. Reddit (the template) might, but
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by slapshot 18y ago
The New York Times style guide is a handy way to tell: If the Times puts periods between the letters ("A.C.C." for the basketball conference) then it's to be pronounced as individual letters. If the Times puts no periods between the lette
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by slapshot 18y ago
Not at all a paradox. A paradox would require two inconsistent things to be simultaneously true. This is just an answer that's counter-intuitive. It's entirely consistent, but surprising.
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by slapshot 18y ago
Debt financing isn't just about avoiding a "down round." It's also about maximizing the upside value for current stockholders. There is some maximum possible business value of Facebook, no matter how much capital they take in. The founder
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by slapshot 18y ago
This is shady.
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by slapshot 18y ago
I don't know if Silicon Valley Bank is made up of former VCs, but they will lend to startups. If you have real assets to back the loan (here, the physical servers they are buying), debt is a far better way to get money than equity. Sure, F
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by slapshot 18y ago
Seems like this would be more appropriate a few years ago. Sales of the Trailblazer are down 73% (last year this month to current year) and sales of other SUV lines have dropped similarly. Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?
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by slapshot 18y ago
Doesn't work for me. Win XP pro on a 32-bit machine. I get an error called "NBack has encountered a problem and needs to close." Edit: Same problem on a Vista system. I know this isn't a tech support forum, but I wanted to let other read
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by slapshot 19y ago
I'm just going to point out that this sets a troubling precedent. If one firm thinks it's legitimate to discriminate in favor of mothers with children, that suggests that being a parent is an acceptable basis on which to discriminate. It
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by slapshot 19y ago
In real life, nobody ever sues over individual non-commercial use. First, the company is unlikely to ever know. Second, it's just not worth the hassle--suing costs tens of thousands of dollars and they'd recover far less. The law is on th

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