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by trimbo 10y ago
Plus, all it takes is one bad setting to accidentally spam all of those people.
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by trimbo 10y ago
>We also have this fun problem where nobody's actually been verifying that TV ads actually run when they're supposed to Have you considered hiring Kantar to check if the ads are running? They do this.
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by trimbo 10y ago
> Similarly I'd love to see an operating system that operated like a database. Microsoft has really wanted something like that too. For example, WinFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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by trimbo 10y ago
> Have you tried it lately? I would, but it's still swapping back into RAM. (For real though: yes, I use it all day)
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by trimbo 10y ago
This might mark the first time in history that Emacs was trotted out as an example of a performant editor. I say this as an Emacs user.
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by trimbo 10y ago
So where is the ping-pong index at? https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping...
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by trimbo 10y ago
Why not just use NCSA Mosaic's group annotations? All you need is a line in your .Xdefaults file... https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/support/html/Docs/group-ann...
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by trimbo 10y ago
Vista was better than Windows 10?
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by trimbo 10y ago
UPS and Fedex pay New York millions in parking fines as a cost of doing business[1]. How come we don't really think of them as scofflaws, but we do with Uber? (I include myself when asking this question) [1] - http://www.cra
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by trimbo 10y ago
> Are they actually too big to fail? Enron's peak valuation was $70bn. Worldcom's peak was ~3x Uber's ($186 billion).
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by trimbo 10y ago
11% since earnings.
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by trimbo 10y ago
Myspace was founded only 6 months before Facebook!
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by trimbo 10y ago
Most people will simply evaluate this on the fact that Apple TV is $150. But if you want streaming, Chromecast/Fire/Roku are $35 and for streaming + high-end gaming, PS4/XBone are $250. The pricing of Apple TV makes no sense
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by trimbo 10y ago
Beyond actual savings amounts, one thing that was pointed out to me recently is that travel costs the same for everyone. So if you like to travel, living in a high-cost/high-salary area can provide a major advantage for your endeavors.
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by trimbo 10y ago
> Our last president is the first in history to have the US in armed conflict for every day of his presidency I don't know if this is true. Off the top of my head: Lyndon Johnson.
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by trimbo 10y ago
Or maybe the European team simply agreed with the concern?
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by trimbo 10y ago
> they're one of the biggest companies on the planet Yeah, making hamburgers! Out of 420,000 employees, they have all of 17 IT jobs on their career site. They deserve a break today.
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by trimbo 10y ago
> why is the cereal business so profitable? My mind was boggled until I realized that he said this in 1994. The cereal business has been collapsing for years.
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by trimbo 10y ago
As pointed out by many gamers on Twitter: Switch officially ends the era of consoles with free online services[1]. [1] - http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/13/14261018/nintendo-switch-p...
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by trimbo 10y ago
It's also on iPhone Here ya go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youtube-music/id1017492454?m...
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by trimbo 10y ago
> The whole ethos of Silicon Valley and the reason why it exists is lack of regulation allowing for huge amounts of innovation Bill Hewlett's oscillator or Moore/Noyce's processor or the Macintosh have unsurprisingly littl
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Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family(wsj.com)
352 points by trimbo 10y ago|133 comments
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by trimbo 10y ago
This is why there is a fingerprint ("Safety Numbers" in Signal), and a warning on every message when that fingerprint changes.
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by trimbo 10y ago
> There's plenty of jobs available for digital artists Jobs in the 3D/VFX business: * Are contract only (edit: I should say.. the OPEN jobs are) * Require moving between continents for projects. * Require 80-100 hour weeks when
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by trimbo 10y ago
Great list! What people should know is that getting a great BBS list used to, in itself, be a big deal. As you mention, it's like the anti-internet-of-today: truly decentralized, random discovery, and little virality. And if you had a
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by trimbo 10y ago
> Skipping testing in IE is one thing. Skipping testing in Firefox is a sin By most measures, an equal or larger number of people use IE than Firefox.
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by trimbo 10y ago
> We run an average of 14k logs/sec through a two-node RMQ cluster How many MB/s are you indexing?
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by trimbo 10y ago
> cluster failing with some network issues we had with Rackspace Were you using Zen Discovery at the time? I haven't kept up with ES development in the last year so maybe they fixed this, but a flaky network can cause a cluster usin
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by trimbo 10y ago
It looks like clang-tidy just committed a check for this case: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23353
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by trimbo 10y ago
> Airline companies represent a substantial demand for jet fuel but you don't see them merging with oil companies They are creeping in that direction though. Delta purchased their own refinery in 2012: http://www.reuters.

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