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by wdr1 14y ago
Fully disagree. I've had terrible service & I've had great service. While I've never completely stiffed a waiter, I have left a tip on the low-end (10-15%). And I've left killer tips (>50%) on some really killer service. By and la
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by wdr1 14y ago
> I don't know what the answer is, but I think hindsight will lead future generations to condemn perceived inaction on our part. If only. The Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rowanda, North Korea... History is replete with ex
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by wdr1 14y ago
Does this even matter? Aside from beer recipes & death stars, what success stories are there behind these petitions?
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by wdr1 14y ago
Here's a direct link to the legislation in question: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d102:s.00266 :
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by wdr1 14y ago
> The whole US government tried to ban encryption wholesale in the 1990s This simply isn't true. I'm not sure if you're attempting to absolve Biden of his dreadful part in banning encryption, but if the entire government wanted someth
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by wdr1 14y ago
As long as you have good search functionality, it shouldn't matter. From what I can tell, so far Amazon does.
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by wdr1 14y ago
It doesn't look like he was interviewing for a software engineering position.
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by wdr1 14y ago
> If you're a hacker who loves to see code run and solve real world problems you may be frustrated at the UoC I graduated from the U of C in '97. Did the startup thing for a while, then went on to Yahoo & Google. In my early caree
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by wdr1 14y ago
I don't think that's true at all. Salman Khan was certainly not mainstream (in general or in education) when he gave his talk on Khan Academy.
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Joel Spolsky: "The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange"(youtube.com)
2 points by wdr1 14y ago|0 comments
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> That made me laugh, too. Somehow this has become received wisdom for the press, but not only is it false, it's very false. Here in CA we're spending twice what we spent per student in 1970 (in constant dollars), and if anything outcom
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by wdr1 14y ago
No, I want them to give an opt out or, ideally, stop this behavior all together.
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Also, here's a screengrab of some of the texts: http://imgur.com/8wNav
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SMS Spam from a Y Combinator Company?
10 points by wdr1 14y ago|8 comments
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by wdr1 14y ago
But frankly, there isn't anything in the GOP platform that is anthropogenic global warming denialism: http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_America/ Rather, many of those associated with the party do it, which is congruent with
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by wdr1 14y ago
> It correlates! Not extremely well. You've cherry-picked your data to support your theory. Specifically, I notice you don't touch on those who reject vaccinations, practice homeopathy, or believe Feng shui goes beyond aesthetics. As s
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by wdr1 14y ago
FWIW, we used client certificates for the Beijing Olympics ticketing system. I have to admit they were a giant pain in the ass, but I still have to image they saved us more pain than they created.
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by wdr1 14y ago
> Instead of writing an opinion piece that will likely influence a few people, why doesn't this guy use his exemplary knowledge of Facebook and the stock market for profit? Why not keep this information to himself and short $fb or sell
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by wdr1 14y ago
> As a geek , I fully grasp Facebook's 12.24 pages/visit stat. Even Reddit is just a hair below, at 10.6. (source: Alexa). That type of engagement is insanely hard to get for a site as big as Facebook. Investors do not look at these thi
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by wdr1 14y ago
Thank you!
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by wdr1 14y ago
> just about everything they have developed since DOS has been something they could use in house. Not to rain on the parade, but most Microsoft employees I know use Google. Not a lot of them used Microsoft Bob. Or Zune. Or the Kin.
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by wdr1 14y ago
Former TM employee here. Some thoughts: "Given that LiveNation is the by far the biggest promoter in the US, it would be an enormous risk for a venue to forsake Ticketmaster and go with an alternative." This is far from inconceivable. The
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by wdr1 14y ago
Does anyone have a link to the straight up PDF version? It's easier for me to read the text that way & I think it's sorta evil Scribd wants me to log in (or give access to my Facebook account?) before I can download.
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by wdr1 14y ago
I'm relatively certain people can already return Olympic tickets.
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by wdr1 14y ago
Former Ticketmaster Employee here. I was a director of engineering & very much involved in the ticketing of the 2008 Olympics. I ended up leaving shortly afterwards for Google. So while I don't have any firsthand knowledge of the 201
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by wdr1 14y ago
Or simply let them expire & then start another 5 day period... over & over & over again. Sadly, this did happen.
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by wdr1 14y ago
If there comments were recorded as they watched the actual, live ceremony was, are they really lying?
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by wdr1 14y ago
"Give a manager a numerical target & he will hit it, even if it means destroying the company."
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by wdr1 14y ago
> Microsoft bought aQuantive as a knee-jerk reaction to Google's acquisition of Doubleclick. Sometimes blindly copying your competitor isn't the best idea.
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> My wish is that Apple adds paid upgrades for apps in the app store. As a user, I very much like the current business model. I'm actually more willing to buy an app because I know won't be socked every X months with a fee to update. I

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