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This is not necessarily a bad thing for China or a good thing for countries that want these millionaires. I bet after migration many of these millionaires migrate will establish companies that connect with sources inside China for outsourc
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>Why spend $149.99 on a Biology textbook that only has 3 chapters you need? Unfortunately, that's not how textbooks are written. Unlike music albums, where an artist invent 1, 2 or even 3 good songs, and then must fill the album with l
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Certainly. It's really laughable that people put Wikileaks at the same level as the NYT. Really. You might recall not too long ago, a Wikileak cofounder took off and decided to destroy all the data he had beyond recovery. What happened
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Reading this article several times, I really failed to see a clear logic from the author as to why the supposed dying of Wikileaks is the NYT's fault.
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15y ago
Despite the hatred for Windows and other Microsoft products, I don't think it is that bad. There has been no OS that has been able to accomplish what Windows has accomplished. OS aside, the Office Suite is a pretty good product. Windows
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I don't think the interviewer intends to portray Arrington as a racist. I don't think a reasonable person looks at this interview and conclude that Arrington is racist. I think Arrington himself probably misses the point here. At worst, h
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15y ago
and the first to do about that is blogging about it.
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I don't the technology itself can do much about human weakness.
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>Likewise, he explained that around 22 percent of people don't complete their course of antibiotics, which helps to creates bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. "You have to change the way you deliver medicine." When you have a
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15y ago
>Given that any recursive function can be written using a while loop with O(1) memory bounds, recursion seems quite a poor choice for all practical purposes. It is very unfortunate that many programmers (including Guildo, circa 2009) th
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15y ago
as the main picture is too small to view, it remains a mystery why the Japanese IT industry destroys talent.
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15y ago
There are two types of dropouts: (1) those who can't keep up with the rest, and (2) those who are and realize they are far above the rest and quit because school would slow them down. Those in category (2) like Gate, Job, Zuckerberg are rar
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15y ago
>This pattern called “power law” or “80-20 rule” is found everywhere. Is it found in China? >If we could ban public corporations from the entire world, I would imagine that we would make the power law curve flatter. Would it be flat
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Computing plays a role in all sciences, but to say all science is computer science is a little far-fetched.
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>Revolutionizing textbooks may seem a bit ho-hum by Jobs’ standards, but it’s pretty clear that Jobs was passionate about the U.S. education system, and felt this country was falling behind. Oh please, Steve Job showed very little -- if
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15y ago
the medium upon which you presented this view was invented for military purposes. It's just a tool, which can be used for good or evil.
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Apple's business model has apparently based on selling premium products at a premium price, not giving away some products and selling in add-ons.
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Steve Jobs is a brilliant man, but please he won't be talked about a thousand years from now.