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by theoj 15y ago
With the erosion in Windows' market share and the increased use of Macs, it was a matter of time before Macs became a target for malware. Based on what happened with Windows and its base of "gullible" users, can't say that one couldn't see
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by theoj 15y ago
+1 Use the right tool for the right job is the proper approach. Right tool depends on your project requirements.
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by theoj 15y ago
No conviction does not necessarily mean no guilt. And you may want to take a look at a counterpoint, because convictions may finally be on their way: Matt Taibi - The People vs Goldman Sachs http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-pe
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by theoj 15y ago
What I find fascinating about the whole Facebook story is how many lawsuits are connected to it. Zuck vs Winklevii, Winklevii vs Chang, Zuck vs Aaron Greenspan, Zuck vs Paul Ceglia. The Facebook story is the gift that keep on giving... laws
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by theoj 15y ago
It's a low return high risk move. Low return because Social Circles is not a major player or a significant threat. Large risk because it's very likely you will be outted and it's a very large, public failure. Why would anyone want to do thi
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by theoj 15y ago
In some ways nothing new here. For example, right now you can type in pi into Google, and Google will provide its value above the search results. I doubt that the page of links will go away anytime soon. For restaurant addresses and other h
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by theoj 15y ago
Let me see if I have this right: You complain about the US not allowing high skilled immigrants in the first paragraph, but then you say you want to hire low skill mechanical turks at below minimum wage in your last paragraph. You are upset
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by theoj 15y ago
The fundamental question is this: is lunch work time or is it free time? I actually subscribe to the view that lunch is free time, and because of this I agree with the parent comment and disagree with Joel dictating my lunch choices. At the
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by theoj 15y ago
The job has nothing to do with it, it's about the co-workers. You're not doing your job at lunch, you are interacting with your co-workers.
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by theoj 15y ago
Do they have another option? If no site had survived the outage, then they may have been on to something. But with some sites surviving the outage, they just have no excuse. Sure you can blame AWS because they said multiple availability zon
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by theoj 15y ago
Sounds good on the face of it, except that the evidence points in a completely different direction. Have you ever seen any of these wealthy people you mention go to Washington to champion a strong dollar policy? I haven't. Have you ever see
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by theoj 15y ago
Not sure if over-emphasizing the site title and the navigational layout at the expense of the content is the right way to go. As a HN reader I came to the site for the content, but in your screenshot the content is small and hard to read. T
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by theoj 16y ago
Somewhat related... Derek Sivers attempted to port CD Baby to Ruby on Rails, but ended up abandoning the port effort after 2 years and switched back to PHP. See his post on why he came back to PHP and what he learned from Rails (from 2007):
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by theoj 16y ago
In face to face selling you already know who you're dealing with and have prepared to address that person's (persona's) needs. With a website you never know what person (persona) will see it, so you need to cover more angles.
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by theoj 16y ago
It's more than just about queries. Ruby on Rails is an absolute pig in terms of memory used. That's something you find out pretty quickly if you build your own VPS setup.
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by theoj 16y ago
Once you increase the scale sufficiently, it's more cost effective to hire a team that makes the code run faster rather than add large expensive servers. This is what's happening now at Twitter. It's not that Java is now absolutely 100% bet
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by theoj 16y ago
People might initially be excited about your idea, but after 3-6 months of you building it and not hearing from you, that excitement might die down or be tempered. I'd say you need to do a couple of things. First, provide progress updates w
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by theoj 16y ago
One problem with this approach is that if you get lost, there is no way to get back on track... you are off-the-grid and into unmapped territory (literally!) quite quickly. Your map becomes useless and you really can't go back to your compu
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by theoj 16y ago
>> Veil-piercing isn't about "transacting business on behalf of the company in a role that doesn't legally exist." That's what I thought, because it doesn't make sense. But I wanted to give him a chance to defend his statement.
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by theoj 16y ago
Can you post some cases or background regarding piercing the corporate veil for an LLC based on "transacting business on behalf of the company in a role that does not legally exist"? Who is to say what does or doesn't exit? Based on this lo
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by theoj 16y ago
Baffling on the face of it, but I think he answered that question when he said he wanted to be paid a compliment. I took that to mean he just wanted reassurance that he and his company did not come across in a negative light. Maybe they wer
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by theoj 16y ago
You can sometimes get away with admitting ignorance if you promise to follow up with action. As in "I don't know the exact particulars of Y, but I'll look into it later today and get back to you tonight." This is one of the things that stud
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by theoj 16y ago
Then again, refactoring without permission could be a really bad idea. You need to ask yourself a few questions before you proceed. Do you have thorough unit tests for the code that you are trying to refactor? If not, be aware that there is
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by theoj 16y ago
"We also used the dating site HowAboutWe.com to go on dates so we had the undivided attention of a female for market research. No judgment; we paid for dinner." Interesting way to go about collecting market research. Though I have to wonde
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by theoj 16y ago
Sure enough, it happened just like the author says. Tuned in to CNN this morning and the announcer cheerfully smiled (?!) and said that ATT will acquire TMobile and this is great because we will now get access to iPhones! Nevermind that ATT
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by theoj 16y ago
For me, it's about quality. Guess who had the worst network in America? http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/12/consume...
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by theoj 16y ago
As many as 40% of CEOs are actually introverts. http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-06-0...
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by theoj 16y ago
I have heard something slightly different with regard to classes of players: "A players hire A players, B players hire C players, and C players hire losers." Here is a discussion from long ago about the phrase's origins: http://discuss.joe
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by theoj 16y ago
With radiation you shouldn't bet, you should know with certainty.
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by theoj 16y ago
I used Virtual Stock Exchange for a test portfolio last year. http://virtualstockexchange.com/Game/Homepage.aspx

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