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by suprgeek 15y ago
Kinda paints a rather troubling picture of one of the biggest tech companies in USA. Also, Cisco intimidation tactics: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-resorting-i... A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derail
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by suprgeek 15y ago
When I was reading the article, I was wondering when they would get to the role of interrogations especially aggressive ones. I cannot find the link now but there was a study which subjected people to sustained questioning that went on for
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Parallel Programming: Understanding the impact of Critical Sections(futurechips.org)
11 points by suprgeek 15y ago|1 comments
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JDK 7 GC behavior(stefankrause.net)
10 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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Are we ready for a true Cloud Phone(techcrunch.com)
2 points by suprgeek 15y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 15y ago
The bi(n)g assumption the article makes is: Firefox switches to Bing from Google and still continues to be equally popular in the medium/long run. There are multiple possible scenarios - Post such a shift FFs market share erodes quickly and
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Providing an India Centric view: Hard work is almost irrationally idolized here. True Anecdote - I wanted to check out a Car on a Tuesday afternoon, the first thing the Car salesman asked me are you on a holiday today from Work? (it was inc
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Unfortunately this rings truer every day "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold"
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Mystery surrounds outage at Amazon’s Dublin data center(siliconrepublic.com)
1 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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3 Types of Innovation-Structured [Apple], Unstructured [Amazon] & Open [Google](trak.in)
28 points by suprgeek 15y ago|3 comments
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Three Potential New Dwarf Planets Discovered Near Pluto(io9.com)
1 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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A map of all water in the Solar system(io9.com)
14 points by suprgeek 15y ago|6 comments
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How congress corrupted Patent reform(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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How to remove yourself from all background check websites(reddit.com)
231 points by suprgeek 15y ago|32 comments
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by suprgeek 15y ago
This is an excellent start. Great way to come out and clearly state "We screwed-up earlier but are now doing the right thing". Please consider adding 2 requirements: 1) Any renter should provide an actual photo 2) Valid Credit card that wil
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Seconded. It is hard to write a defense of TC given past events. However in this case they are SPOT ON. None of the stories are overtly "drama" or "editorializing" on TC's part. EJs posts are dramatic enough. PG has come out in explicit de
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by suprgeek 15y ago
If managing millions robs you of the empathy that is necessary in this situation then there is something very wrong in the whole situation. A user of your service had their life upended as a direct result of loopholes in your vetting model.
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Making sure that the people excited about Java 7 wait until this gets patched http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820204
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Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program(lucidimagination.com)
139 points by suprgeek 15y ago|26 comments
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Amazon 7" Android tablet possible by end of Sept. (slashgear.com)
1 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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Castle: Reinventing Storage for Big Data (OSCON Talk)(slideshare.net)
5 points by suprgeek 15y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Thank you for the link - this is good to know.
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by suprgeek 15y ago
I am unable to find a citation for this but I recall having read that Scientists had started to notice a pattern - The life span of a mammal is typically a function of the age of maturity. The function was a factor of 6. In humans age of ma
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Please do not present a false choice - It is not "be sexist, racist, offensive" OR "be dry, businesslike with every word sanitized". Frankly presenters who indulge in this kind of behavior are giving in to the worst kind of intellectual
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by suprgeek 15y ago
It is a sad state of affairs that Tech conferences are now having to institute acceptable behavior guidelines. Looking at some of the Past events, I suspect that at least some of this behavior is because some of the presenters want to be s
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Fluorescent nanosensor tattoo monitors glucose using an iPhone(engadget.com)
1 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 15y ago
Funny story - during my stint in Grad School there was some sensitivity to how each person wanted to be referred to. All Post-Docs insisted on being called "Dr." rather than "Mr."and all tenured Profs on being called "Prof." rather than "Dr
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by suprgeek 15y ago
This is apparently the cause http://www.medianama.com/2011/07/223-files-sharing-sites-blo... A movie producer has got a court order requiring ISPs to block file sharing of a PARTICULAR movie...(singham). The ISPs have blocked the entire s
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by suprgeek 15y ago
I think I have assimilated enough US culture/vocab during a 10 yr stay. Of course studying English since the first grade probably helped a lot too. Non-Native (India) but scored 35,800 :)
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The myth that we need 8 Glasses of water a day(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by suprgeek 15y ago|0 comments

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