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by snomad 11y ago
To add to your point, Valve and Jetbrains both seem to be suffering from exactly this. Do you think it is Agile gone too far? Minimal viable product being too broadly scoped? Modern programming culture / lack of resources?
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by snomad 11y ago
For reference, you may want to check this out (2 to the right) http://californiawaterfoundation.org/
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by snomad 11y ago
I didn't find this rant abusive. Once worked for a law firm in a high stress industry - some of those lawyers were abusive, woah nelly. Also, have a brother who was in army, you can't even imagine the language of he and his friend
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by snomad 11y ago
> 2015 has seen the lowest level of tech IPOs as a percentage of all IPOs in seven years. Healthcare and finance are leading the IPO percentage. That seems to reflect new opportunities created by legal changes (ACA + Dodd-Frank). I&#x27
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by snomad 11y ago
> Knowing how to use CVS or SVN doesn't really count for much in a world dominated by git. I don't understand the point you are tying to make. What has git so fundamentally changed that SVN/CVS don't count as knowledg
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by snomad 11y ago
Question about the 1 CSS/JS file rule. If you have a 'My Account' section w/several unique rules (say 10k), which is best? A) One website CSS (main.css) and your users download the My Account rules even though they may n
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by snomad 11y ago
I always understood it to be related to the fact that AIG was a major insurer of airplanes and cargo trucks. If they went bankrupt, all of those planes / trucks would have to stop until new insurance could be obtained.
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by snomad 11y ago
I remain surprised that Bay Area tech companies don't move to Sacramento. Near the Bar Area for quick access, near the state seat of power for lobbying, well away from major faults so less prone to earthquakes, significantly lower cost
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by snomad 11y ago
I believe it was tried already with My Rich Uncle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyRichUncle . They folded in 2009.
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by snomad 11y ago
You modified applicationHost.config which is an XML in %windir%\system32\inetsrv. IIS has its' own set of commands that you may be more comfortable with, appcmd is sorta like apachectl (just more verbose). http://www.iis.net
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by snomad 11y ago
Do you handle fulfillment to Canada as well? Or US only? How about Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands?
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by snomad 11y ago
1) From a valuation perspective, here are some of the major public tech companies of recent years. If over-inflated valuations are the definition of a bubble these are serious red flags. Symbol, EPS, P/E P, -0.24, LNKD, -0.36, Z, -2.
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by snomad 11y ago
Which only survives by selling our addresses and delivering 100s of billions of pieces of spam to our mailbox. The legitimate mail for which i ostensibly exists is drying up quickly.
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by snomad 11y ago
Has there been any word on a 'Server 2015' release? There was a passing comment, I believe at Spark / Build, but no real details. Will Office 2016 be released the same day?
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by snomad 11y ago
Just idle speculation, what happens when 30 follow-me drones are on the slopes at the same time? Will they all be able to avoid each other?
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by snomad 11y ago
GoPro currently has a P/E of 65. (Somewhat similar in that it is a niche product focused on one activity).
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by snomad 12y ago
Identity is tantamount to verifying education. Colleges need to know who you are, and potential employers need to be able to identify that yes this John Smith is the one that graduated from Stanford w/a 3.8 GPA and a degree in computer
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by snomad 12y ago
Not a framework per se, but several independent packages, http://thephpleague.com/ has some well written and nice code.
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by snomad 12y ago
MS Surface Hub could be fantastic in education.
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by snomad 12y ago
> how do you think newspapers should monetize? Idea I had is to flip the model. Newspapers pay readers, who for payment agree to see ads tailored to their interests. Users are given short quizzes after article to prove they actually read
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by snomad 12y ago
Would like multiple profiles in sync. e.g. a Work profile, a Home profile, maybe a mobile. Some things belong just at work or just at home. Some things aren't ever accessed on mobile.
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by snomad 12y ago
Integrated Unit Testing, mocked after PHPUnit+Selenium. Would love to be able to save scripted unit tests, preferably per URL. Right now it is a bit of a pain point with test suites in JS, PHP, etc... what if we want to switch to another la
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by snomad 12y ago
Many people will often say agricultural uses 80% of the water. This is not the whole picture. "Nature provides about 200 million acre-feet of precipitation to California in average years. Of this total, 65% is lost through evaporation
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by snomad 12y ago
A service requesting app that can be shared with large businesses (property owners?), govts, etc. e.g. I see a broken sprinkler, I quickly can mark it w/GPS picture, and report it. Another example would be refuse on the street, parks,
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by snomad 12y ago
To be clear, is this stating the format as outlined on Schema ( http://schema.org/ ) is dead?
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by snomad 12y ago
Minor quibble, there are around 140 million tax filers in the US. 1% = 1.4 million. Your point still stands though.
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by snomad 12y ago
UBS (Japan unit) admitted conducting a felony. http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/2012/12/...
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Sacramento Sheriff Confronted Over Stingray Surveillance (thefreethoughtproject.com)
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by snomad 12y ago
Interestingly, I first heard about CourseSmart on HN on Apr 9, 2013. At the time, HN generally (IMO) seemed positive (not coming up in HN search for me, the NY article was http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/tec
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by snomad 12y ago
From the educators point of view, it might be helpful to know if a student is struggling because they are not doing nightly reading.

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