thr0waway1239

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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
While the notion that Google is going to "do something about the ad problem" is completely laughable, it would turn out to be a great thing if they just blocked all ads from Facebook as a starting point. This would start some kind
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
So this article was written in 2010. FB's trajectory after that point had a few step functions which had nothing to do with talent or execution (i.e. more predictable factors), but the remarkable mutual back scratching arrangement goin
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
It was created by someone who was at Microsoft. If the past is any indicator, you will see a splashy introduction, the follow-up and follow-through will be horrendous, and in the end everyone will hold their noses and still use it anyway.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I support your message in spirit. But I have a concern. The more open publishing becomes, almost by definition, the more dilution happens to the citation process. Want to know where this happened before? Trace back to Google's origins,
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Hey you just gave me an idea. An exclusive photo sharing app for people who are worth a billion dollars or more. I mean, how will those poor people show off their private mansions without attracting unnecessary scrutiny? Since the service h
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> Or maybe you think people doing competitive programming are damaged. This is nuts. I don't see how that is implied by GP's comment. It is one thing to read between the lines, but now you are reading between the characters
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> This exactly mirrors a MAJOR decision-making framework taught in the Marine Corps--we actually call it the "70% solution." This is ironic. Taken as an entire group, people who go to fight for their respective countries ar
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
On the other hand, imagine if this is adopted by one of those clueless marketers at the megacorps and then someone leaks the notes - it will be a much easier read and probably even juicier than the code. Wouldn't that be something! Jus
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> Then you see all those shitty ads for I remembered an old maxim. Apparently, a successful copywriter was asked "How do you write a good ad?" and his answer was "Its very easy. Get the Yellow pages for this year, last
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
A famous author once made the following observation - When faced with the option of either doing more exercise or less eating for losing weight, take the option which requires you to a) spend less time and b) not add anything new to your l
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
The amount of money that Chinese people send abroad to buy overpriced assets (housing in Vancouver, as an example) tells me that they don't trust their rule of law. I don't know if innovation can thrive in such an environment, but
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Factual Unbiased Checks for Knowledge Upkeep by Google.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> The vast majority of people in any organisation are good people who want what's best in the sense of the greater good No. The vast majority of people in any organisation are timid folks who want what's best in the sense o
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
The dogmatic belief also has side effects. If you have ever been with someone you considered generally wise but also held on to some non-scientific belief, you know two things. 1. Taking away the non-scientific belief will cause a genuine v
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> This is still predicated on the assumption that there's a STEM shortage right? Not at all. It is predicated on the assumption that a programmer is not the same as a compiler writer, and the former cannot exist without the latt
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
I wonder if this means Amazon can just focus on Android for their supposed Office killer instead of making it web based?
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Because people who start with economics to provide commentary on social issues need some anonymity to express themselves freely. Economics is the dismal science, and you don't want to have a face associated with the sourpuss who keeps
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Good story, but probably not one answering the question. You only regret something when you realize you ignored all the bad signs initially. In this case, your feeling was probably vindication and not regret. Besides, if this person was onl
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Apparently, Thomas Jefferson once said, "Once a generation or so, we need a rebellion and the folks who participate should be punished, but not too harshly". I think he was getting at the point of how easily people take their free
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
The author writes: "Discursively, this frame is used to highlight every form of problematic content, including both blatantly and accidentally inaccurate information, salacious and fear-mongering headlines, hateful and incendiary rheto
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
1. Google/Facebook try a lot of underhanded things to triangulate more information about you (for e.g. with sleazy tactics such as inference based on your friends' data even after you have left FB) 2. The very notion of a lookalik
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Also, almost certainly, you don't want to hire engineers after they end up working at one of the tech giants, and the more experienced they are the worse. Having had the unfortunate experience of working along side some of the '
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
>> There's no way to defeat these companies, because they are full of people struggling to get ahead and doing their cog's part in the machine that ultimately does this to us all. I don't think this is true at all. It c
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Maybe its just me, but nowadays I am not feeling any better about that either. :-)
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Too late, suckers. Just on a lark, I looked up whois records for hideyourface.com etc and found it is registered to Amazon.com [1]. [1] http://whois.domaintools.com/hideyourface.com
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
In other words, there is very little demand for "Busting confirmation bias via Objective analysis of customer discovery interviews" as a service, even though you might think it should be profitable. There is some kind of lesson fo
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Too early to say, but ask me again in 5 years. If humanity fails to overcome the debilitating psychosis induced by Facebook in that time period, the island might become that much more tempting.
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
From the comments section: "I want to support MS, I’m a development partner. But I feel like you guys spend way too much time thinking about how to push intrusive ad’s into the OS and trying to get easy ad-based revenue from your brows
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by thr0waway1239 10y ago
Gotta love it when Google claims to fight for the small guy. They are more like one of those vengeful comic villains who turn into absolute batshit psychos if rubbed the wrong way. At least with actual comic villains, you know what you did

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