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by squidi 12y ago
I would find it more intuitive if the most expensive countries had the light green rather than dark green i.e. reverse the colour scale
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by squidi 12y ago
I love the irony of the contrast between this article and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584285 . Not that either are wrong, but it demonstrates the constant flux of the software world.
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Adobe Password Breach: What You Need to Know(blog.eventbrite.com)
5 points by squidi 13y ago|2 comments
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by squidi 13y ago
> Why not give everyone the same bonus based on company performance? Make it collective good. I wholeheartedly agree. Apart from niche examples, like measuring sale people on sales, there is no good reliable way to measure employees base
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by squidi 13y ago
Yet their earnings [1] (and share price [2]) keep going up and up. Maybe the point is that our perception of GOOG has changed and we all have a little confirmation bias. [1] http://investor.google.com/pdf/2013Q3_google_
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by squidi 13y ago
This is not a condemnation but people often like to invent perfect employee performance systems, as you have done here, and it is akin to people writing their own cryptography. There is evidence-based research out there - look for papers by
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by squidi 13y ago
1) In this case the cruise company was at fault, so that is why they went into "don't get sued" mode. No need rely on a stereotype here. 2) I'm not an American but I think your legal system is very good and many objectiv
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by squidi 13y ago
> borderline breach of fiduciary duty. Fiduciary duty to who? The shareholders that cashed in today are the same ones who are behind the IPO. You're trying to make it seem like some poor distant shareholder got screwed over, which i
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Simplicity(ben-evans.com)
2 points by squidi 13y ago|0 comments
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by squidi 13y ago
It's spelled internationaliSation (joke!)
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by squidi 13y ago
The title of the article (as fascinating as it was) seems rhetorical. Can't easydns just point the PIPCU to their own Domain Takedown Policy and instruct them to take it further with ICANN and the courts of the Province of Ontario?
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by squidi 13y ago
I hoped that with products like the iPad and Chromebook Pixel we'd get back to taller screens again, at least 16:10. 1366 x 768 is not something I want to go back to.
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by squidi 13y ago
In case anyone is not aware of it, Jeff Miller has created twitter and RSS feeds which also provide the same info (albeit without push): http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
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by squidi 13y ago
> Americans drive an aggregate of 3 trillion miles, while Tesla drivers have done 100 million. That's well over an order of magnitude difference. The data on 100 million is probably enough to compare with the 3 trillion miles. The p
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by squidi 13y ago
Civil disobedience can be a wonderful thing. If the Civil Rights movement followed every judge's instruction they would not have achieved what they did.
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by squidi 13y ago
It's impossible to have only "essential" staff as you will always need "non-essential" staff to support their work. For example, NASA TV employees are "non-essential" [1] but without the TV station it may
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by squidi 13y ago
You seem to think that keeping the pilot awake is the only option (based on your car example and rhetorical question) but actually there are several options but it's important to be tracking pilot drowsiness as a datapoint first.
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by squidi 13y ago
Does anyone know if the latest airplanes detect pilot drowsiness, as various cars have been implementing that for a while ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_drowsiness_detection )
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by squidi 13y ago
I think it's hard for airlines to innovate much as many factors that determine the quality of service are outside their control. For example they don't own the airports (like Apple owns their own stores) and that affects a lot of
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by squidi 13y ago
The airline industry has the lowest return on invested capital of any industry: http://centreforaviation.com/images/stories/2013/jul/05/ROIC... This analysis from McKinsey is worth a read: http:&#x
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by squidi 13y ago
To corroborate your point, here is the transcript from the 5S launch: "The third feature is all about security. Now we have so much personal information on our devices that we want to protect. <snipped> So we have to protect them
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by squidi 13y ago
Yes, you're correct: "Apple purchased fingerprint-reader specialist AuthenTec in 2012, and the U.S. government recently approved Apple's patent for its own fingerprint reader technology. The company, like other makers of fing
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by squidi 13y ago
Yes, I think they failed to make a strong point in their blog post. I will be glad if Apple makes fingerprint scanning mandatory, as it will at least introduce the concept of securing your device to the 50% of iPhone users that currently do
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by squidi 13y ago
All been done before. iPod Shuffle: http://images.apple.com/euro/ipod-shuffle/images/hero2.jpg iPod Classic 2009: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18mm44f9lif04jpg/ku-medium.j... Sur
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by squidi 13y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right
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by squidi 13y ago
HTTPS URL is https://go-read.appspot.com/
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by squidi 13y ago
I hate having to enter my details (name, email and address) over HTTP. I hope they can update that to HTTPS soon.
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by squidi 13y ago
Whilst it might not suit the needs of "serious cyclists" it could do well being sold on Amazon or on high street bike shops. I'm a non-serious cyclist and happily suffer using my Nexus 4 as a GPS. The biggest downside I exper
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Does 485th richest person in Britain need to crowdfund mobile phone?(newstatesman.com)
1 points by squidi 13y ago|0 comments
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by squidi 13y ago
It's good that legal teams never do anything that looks insane then ;-)

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