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by swombat 13y ago
> if the details were not damning then they should be clearly explained. The details of the Brendan Eich were pretty clearly explained. He donated some money to a bad cause, he refused to publicly apologise for it, so he got ousted. I&
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by swombat 13y ago
Indeed: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor ) > In the United States, the federal government generally considers a crime punishable with incarceration for one year or less to be a misdemeanor. All other crim
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by swombat 13y ago
Hey dang, what's happening here?
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by swombat 13y ago
I hate mobbings as much as anyone, but I have to say, this is one lousy character the tech scene could do without. His self-defence post earlier today, including gems like: > The situation that resulted in my legal case began when I dis
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by swombat 13y ago
FYI, we (GrantTree) are that first client. GrantTree has had enormous ROI from this lead source - much better than the other lead sources we had found before. Also, this is one of those products where the MVP was an email.
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by swombat 13y ago
Unfortunately, it sounds like you fell in the same trap that I was in for a number of years after school. I'm sorry to break it to you, but in your case, the bullies have won. > For whatever that brief moment. It looked like the bu
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by swombat 13y ago
It's not ironic, it's infuriating... But the best way I've heard it explained is that everyone knows and cares about Mozilla and Github, and no one knows RadiumOne. I tweeted John Gruber suggesting he might link to this, and
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by swombat 13y ago
Imho if you want to look for someone in the tech industry worth crucifying for his treatment of women, here's your guy.
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Startup founder ducks jail after beating girlfriend 117 times(huffingtonpost.com)
9 points by swombat 13y ago|3 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
I explained how it's unlikely, but here we go again. Tom has spent considerable time (as I have, in my own company) getting people to a point where they think for themselves, make decisions as a group, and generally behave as independe
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by swombat 13y ago
> Preston-Warner can snap his fingers, and someone who was getting a check to put food on the table and a roof over their head is suddenly not going to have the rent check by the end of the month. Very, very unlikely. Even though emplo
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by swombat 13y ago
Doesn't sound arrogant to me either. It's a bit like saying "I tried to exceed my customers' expectations"... in fact, it means exactly that...
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by swombat 13y ago
Obviously agreeing with the points, but this seems to be more an awareness piece than an actionable one.
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by swombat 13y ago
It's more complicated than that. He was using a so-called "Registered Tax-Avoidance Scheme" (TAS for short). TAS's are basically entire schemes built around a loophole in the tax law. Each time the government announces a
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by swombat 13y ago
I never said that was all it took (you seem to be replying to a straw man), but it is a necessary element.
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by swombat 13y ago
Not true - there is one team in Government that could do this: the gov.uk team. http://gov.uk is hands down the best government site I've ever seen. I'd trust those guys to be able to deliver it.
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by swombat 13y ago
Looks like the uk government has found an entirely novel angle on the concept of "transparency"! Between that and the NHS data and their reaction to Snowden, the meaning of transparency in the uk is clearly "we'll releas
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by swombat 13y ago
Agreed. There's plenty of people leaving around Greater London who only commute for work. A place like Wimbledon might be a solid 40 minutes trip out of London (at the end of a tube line) but if you live there, there's everything
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by swombat 13y ago
Depends on the country. As far as I know, at least back when I was a kid, taxi drivers in Geneva earned very well due to the monopoly and limit on numbers. In London, black cab drivers still earn a very decent amount, able to take home £500
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by swombat 13y ago
I have 15 people on Dropbox for Business, so it's not so straightforward to migrate off, but it'll be done before our renewal deadline. Mostly because of this. The $2.5k/y was just an annoyance, but this is a matter of princi
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by swombat 13y ago
False. What you say reduces the usefulness of encrypting everything but certainly doesn't make it "useless".
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by swombat 13y ago
So perhaps this should start with a reduction in the cost of valid, "don't throw a security warning" certificates down to zero. At the moment the SSL certificate industry is one big ripoff fest...
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by swombat 13y ago
1) There's still fairly rampant sexism, we're far from being out of the woods. 2) This whole habit of degenerating into insults just because you feel the other side is wrong or disgusting is really not serving any good purpose. I&
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by swombat 13y ago
Would you say that to her face? Would you say that to anyone's face? Or is it just something you're willing to say from a comfortable distance on the internet, where you're not actually saying that about an actual human being
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by swombat 13y ago
> She sounds horrible and I hope she fails. That's a horrible thing to say. I hope you withdraw it.
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by swombat 13y ago
You're missing sarcasm tags there. I hope.
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by swombat 13y ago
It's a fair argument, and one that looks favourable to Einstein. As someone who did a Masters in Physics, I find that his theories were so counter-intuitive for the time that it would have taken decades or longer for them to be discove
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by swombat 13y ago
> Also, what relevance is the 20 days figure? You owned the product for 63 days before the upgrade was released. The cutoff date for getting version 3 for free is 1st March.
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by swombat 13y ago
Glad to see they didn't pull a TIME magazine...
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by swombat 13y ago
That's launch pricing, not upgrade pricing.

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