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by spinlock 12y ago
The problem with that is it would put lots of innocent employees out of work. You'd have to sell the company to a competitor or something so that the operation kept going but shareholders got wiped out. Make shareholders feel the pain
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by spinlock 12y ago
I wish I had a link to review this but I don't think that's the case. As I recall, Netflix published data showing that there wasn't actually a bandwidth problem and they offered to upgrade the equipment. They've ended up
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by spinlock 12y ago
Were you treated fairly in terms of a severance package?
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by spinlock 12y ago
They can be done by hand but doing them algorithmically usually involves working around machine limitations or figuring out a non trivial algorithm to reduce the runtime complexity to something that will run in seconds rather than days.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I'm always confused when stories like these are spun as a "strong debut" rather than saying Box left a lot of value on the table. Why do we care more about the people who've held the stock for < 1 day than the capital
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by spinlock 12y ago
I bet they came up with the strategy during disclosure.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I put on headphones if I want quiet. What I really need to get away from is flowdock/hipchat/etc... invading my screen. That kills my flow worse than anything else.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I think those are exactly the deals he had access to in his IRA.
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by spinlock 12y ago
Aren't the cards all different? I assumed it would be a one-time-pad which is much more secure than a simple substitution.
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by spinlock 12y ago
> Pre-authentication seems insecure. Very true but what is the cost to Amazon if it's stolen? They regularly refund thousands in EC2 fees when people check their keys into github. I'm sure there's a loophole where they don
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by spinlock 12y ago
The difference is people go to jail for robbing banks. This is a serious crime and sound markets are hugely valuable but I start to agree that we should throw out the laws if they aren't being enforced. It would make the markets more e
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by spinlock 12y ago
I seriously doubt the wisdom of a CEO who is willing to go from 70 to 100 programmers in one morning. What's he going to do after lunch?
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by spinlock 12y ago
It's amazing how we only tortured the guilty but somehow managed to commit drone strikes against red-blooded Americans.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I'd consider the _biggest_ problem to be invading Iraq under false pretenses. We've destroyed millions of lives because we tortured people until they told us what Dick Cheney wanted to hear. Yes, we love our children more than Ira
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by spinlock 12y ago
Is there an obligation to show a movie on the theaters part? I always assumed they paid for the right to show a film but were independent in their opperations.
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by spinlock 12y ago
Just to be that guy ... it actually _increases_ the bus-factor (which is good). The _higher_ the bus-factor the more people you can loose before your company goes under. Pedantic niggling aside, I completely agree this is a huge benefit to
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by spinlock 12y ago
what languages are more appropriate for today's hardware? The majority of my experience in C (Linux) is on embedded hardware (and quite a few years ago). I've never run into wasted cycles before but that setup is really different
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by spinlock 12y ago
8% what? Revenue, workers, employers, tasks ....
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by spinlock 12y ago
this kind of monitoring is often required by law. when the shit hits the fan, it is bad to not be able to get all the data on _company_ channels. But, if you want to own your communication, use _your_ cell phone.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I'll give you a hint, it's not the consumer.
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by spinlock 12y ago
With your companies 401k or equivalent. Just put whatever percentage you want into a low cost, broad index fund. The most important part is to make this allocation before your paycheck gets cut (i.e. you never see the money).
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by spinlock 12y ago
> Are you being intentionally facetious? How could science defy "reasoning"? Science often defies reasoning. Think about the history of our understanding of gravity. Newton was ridiculed when he proposed his model of gravity. A
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by spinlock 12y ago
> I bled for for ActiveAdmin I know exactly how you feel. Arbre is neat and all but I think it's a bad idea to use yet another language for your admin stuff. I always use partials so I can work in slim. I probably wouldn't swit
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by spinlock 12y ago
fwiw, we use active-admin for our Ember front-end/Rails backend app. We don't have a lot of actions that our admins can take but it's been really nice to expose some of the account details for support tickets, etc...
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by spinlock 12y ago
I was just thinking about the second point you bring up. Isn't this still an illegal search because they purposefully circumvented digital security?
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by spinlock 12y ago
Why would a fund want to participate in a series A with an entrepreneur who screws their investors? Wouldn't the logical conclusion be to screw the series A investors when they go to raise a series B?
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by spinlock 12y ago
OP had a 3 month contract which was not honored (according to this side of the story). That's why he lost his deposit on the apartment that he'd let for 3 months.
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by spinlock 12y ago
That's typically not done because it means your burning cash at a rate that adds "unnecessary" risk to the business. This is why early employees are paid $75k instead of $150k and are given equity in the business. It greatly
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by spinlock 12y ago
Drivers don't see you when they take the ride so there is no racial bias. When they refuse to take you across abridge, they leave a digital trail so you can contact Uber about the specific person that refused the ride.
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by spinlock 12y ago
You've obviously never been a black person trying to hail a cab. I can't tell you how many times I've had taxis refuse to take me across a bridge (which is part of their responsibility that comes with the monopoly). The taxi

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