talmand

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by talmand 8y ago
I'm not dismissing that talent, I'm pointing it out.
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by talmand 8y ago
>> $250K since I bought it in 2012 That is really, really bad.
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by talmand 8y ago
Or live in their parent's home with their spouse and children.
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by talmand 8y ago
Woz had the ideal of giving everything away for free. Of course he had no business sense. Pixar wanted to be a studio, Jobs wanted it to be a hardware/software company. The people of Pixar forced Jobs into letting it be what it is toda
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by talmand 8y ago
I believe that I made that clear. He was a salesman, obviously a great one, for other people's ideas.
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by talmand 8y ago
When the first keyboard type interface was invented for typewriters and such, did people instinctively know how to use them immediately? Besides, at that time the concept of a two button mouse was not new and had been in use with computers
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by talmand 8y ago
1. Wozniak 2. Lasseter (and others) 3. Ive His success was being involved with people with genius and vision that were willing to put up with his shit.
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by talmand 8y ago
I often have conversations with some of my juniors about imposter syndrome. It's interesting how each of them think of it differently and apply it to themselves differently as compared to their peers. Some don't seem to have it at
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by talmand 8y ago
This chain has made me curious; has there been any study of the negative health consequences of people's behavior with shoes within their living space? I'm not aware of any health concerns (major or minor) over such a thing. For e
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by talmand 8y ago
The fact I have to use an ad blocker to avoid having them pollute the search results proves my point I believe.
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by talmand 8y ago
>> there's no logic in this setup. That's why if I'm ever presented with such a setup I would protest by voting to veto everything, even the talks I would be interested in. If any one person is to be censored by such dr
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by talmand 8y ago
I think I would disagree with the notion of teaching about intellectual property by stealing somebody's intellectual property. For a company to publicly express "we are about doing the right thing", I would hope that wouldn&#
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by talmand 8y ago
They may be labeled as ads, but they still appear at the top of the search results as if they were search results. The only difference is that there's a small word with the url line that says "ad"; otherwise looks exactly the
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by talmand 8y ago
Yes. Whatever creates the revenue is the product that is being sold. Broadcast TV creates content for the purpose of attracting viewers that watch the ads that are sold as ad space/time for revenue. Product placement within the content
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by talmand 8y ago
Can't know which people to mistreat if you can't label them from the beginning. Regardless, I believe the statement was more like certain groups are trying to get something in the HR for people to volunteer such information. Not t
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by talmand 8y ago
Indication of receiving mail "with a computer". Yep, checks out. Patent granted to new invention never thought of before.
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by talmand 8y ago
>> in hope of getting that lucky set of algorithm wankery questions that they can answer If true, hiring based on luck seems broken to me. Like the joke of the hiring manager throwing away half the resumes and not hiring "unlucky
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by talmand 8y ago
>> non-negotiable Sure.
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by talmand 8y ago
Why do you assume he sucks working in a team and that the other team members were not the issue?
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by talmand 8y ago
Now we're tacking on an additional aspect of the job that we didn't know about before. If the job requires a social interaction with people outside of the company then, of course, it becomes a factor. Let's not be silly in an
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by talmand 8y ago
Well, I fall on the side of calling a situation involving a company promoting a service that is monetized and then suddenly (sometimes quietly) removing said monetization from people with little or no attempt at justification with strange&#
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by talmand 8y ago
Plus by screwing their current clients, they are in effect working towards not getting new ones. It's a win/win scenario I suppose.
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by talmand 8y ago
So you are somehow claiming that YouTube offered these services purely out of the kindness of their hearts and didn't receive any form of revenue whatsoever?
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by talmand 8y ago
If a company can't support the number of customers/clients it eagerly takes in, it's time to either scale up support or scale down customers/clients.
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by talmand 8y ago
There's an interesting thought in there somewhere. Something about maybe that hick from the country wasn't as stupid as he was made out to be and people bought into the derogatory term to their own detriment. Seems some modern era
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by talmand 8y ago
>> I'm not condoning willfully damaging something Yes, you are. By using it as a point against the landlord in saying they thought there was no risk in renting out property. The willful destruction of the property is the risk. Th
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by talmand 8y ago
I imagine the point being made might be more along the lines of owning software versus renting it. If you purchase software that your company relies on, it belongs to you. Regardless if that third-party disappears. You still have use of the
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by talmand 8y ago
I suggest reading the book as well.
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by talmand 8y ago
I lived in Vegas at the time. I saw it for the obvious problem that it was. I told everyone in the area that the bust was going to happen, but everyone was blinded by the money they were making. The shock people had was both amusing and dis
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by talmand 8y ago
What happens when the source of the tax revenue decides they had enough and leave?

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