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by smokinn 12y ago
If that's your most pressing concern about expanding the business you should probably consider challenging the validity of the patent if it's truly as obvious as it seems. http://info.legalzoom.com/challenge-patent
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by smokinn 12y ago
That wasn't the inventor, it was the CEO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
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Why People Are Leaving One of Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups(vocativ.com)
2 points by smokinn 13y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 13y ago
You're right. I was purposely straining the term. What I'm saying is that CIOs of pretty much every medium to largish company needs to justify their salary to the other C*s. If he can justify it in terms of cost savings he justifi
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by smokinn 13y ago
What about recycling the "private cloud" into something actually useful? Microsoft has amazing expertise into taking any computer a 3rd party provides and making it work with their software. What about providing "cloud servic
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by smokinn 13y ago
Same here for Comcast in Seattle. From 6-8pm I can't stream youtube on anything more than 360p or it buffers constantly. Other video streaming services seem to stream fine (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video) and speedtest.net reports
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by smokinn 13y ago
There's also Google's own version of trimmed down youtube: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta After enabling that I've never looked back. No comments and loads way faster.
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by smokinn 13y ago
In politics, getting anything done from scratch in 4 years is pretty hard. That said, this is hardly some half-hearted promise. He ran on this promise and worked hard on pushing it through. In fact, when I moved I made sure I was in a cover
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by smokinn 13y ago
Thousands is kind of downplaying it too. 32 thousand in the us alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in... Probably in the hundreds of thousands globally. Self-driving cars can't come fa
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by smokinn 13y ago
Although Google is usually the brand associated with self-driving cars, DARPA actually did most of the work. The self-driving car challenge went on for many many years with ever increasing goals until DARPA decided the tech works now and st
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by smokinn 13y ago
One of the problems with for-profit is that the company is likely to sell its community out if they think that'll make them more money. See: Elsevier buying Mendeley and the backlash from that: http://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by smokinn 13y ago
The article certainly seems wrong. Other than Hawaii which is an obvious outlier (36.61) the most expensive mainland electricity in the US is in California at 16.71. http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table
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by smokinn 13y ago
I don't believe it's at-will employment though in the UK. You have to give a month's notice because your employer can't arbitrarily show up at your desk, say pack up your stuff and get out of the building within the hour
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Jeff Bezos Thinks 100% Ad-Supported Businesses Are Bad For Users(businessinsider.com)
5 points by smokinn 13y ago|1 comments
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by smokinn 13y ago
The current sense of the term in which I use it now is capital-maximizing. If you have money, if you're capitalistic, you should be investing in what can make you the most money, or, if you're bought in to a system, you should be
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by smokinn 13y ago
Sounds like the problem isn't actually medicare, sounds more like it's adding a capitalistic, profit-maximizing middleman into the system.
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by smokinn 13y ago
60% of that most certainly does not go to the creators. The creators only get a small fraction of that and only after they've repaid their studios' various costs. A lot of the studios' costs come entirely out of their artis
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North Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent “Unfair Competition”(slate.com)
31 points by smokinn 13y ago|1 comments
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by smokinn 14y ago
Actually if you're interviewing at one of the big tech companies this is great advice for that as well.
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The Bodybuilding Diet: How I lowered my Cholesterol by 60 points.(qaboom.com)
2 points by smokinn 14y ago|0 comments
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by smokinn 14y ago
For the rank and file 2 weeks is standard. For upper level executives as soon as you resign you're escorted out the door by security and you're not allowed to touch anything. The level of access you had was so high that they don't want you
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by smokinn 14y ago
How is it borderline impossible? There's a technique pretty much every company that knows what's it doing applies to figure out exactly what you mentioned and it's called downstream impact analysis. I'm absolutely 100% certain if you're an
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by smokinn 14y ago
Same happened to me. I think their email settings servers/subsystem is just getting hammered right now as more and more news articles are being written about this.
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by smokinn 14y ago
That's very debatable. While you may think that people working big companies are wasting their potential, those working there might think the same for people at startups. Let's explore a counter-argument: At a big company you get incredible
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by smokinn 14y ago
They were incredibly arrogant and are now paying the price for it. I remember going to the CUTC conference (Canadian University Technology Conference) and having one of the ex-ceos (don't remember which) lead a chant on stage of "Waterloo!
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by smokinn 14y ago
Don't worry too much about the "brilliant people" that may or may not be competing with you. I've never heard of a startup failing because of competitors. At the beginning you aren't competing, you're trying to get traction. Only once you h
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by smokinn 14y ago
I think you're making OP's point quite well albeit inadvertently. Personal ownership of a self-driving car is a ridiculous concept. Why would the car have to wait around in the parking lot all day while you're at work? It could easily keep
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by smokinn 14y ago
If you read the article you would know the answer is "Ike", the nickname of former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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by smokinn 14y ago
The passions they're referencing aren't software development. You're right that if your passion is software you'd already be doing it. There are lots of markets that are underserved due to the homogeneity of geek culture. I myself am male b
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Twister: Iterative MapReduce(iterativemapreduce.org)
2 points by smokinn 14y ago|0 comments

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