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by weego 17y ago
This is exactly correct. You only have to look at the criticism of Mi5 not having the resources to track people they knew were potential terrorists when they crossed paths with people they were actively tracking to know that the chances t
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by weego 17y ago
In the latest installment of "Things thousands of people have said about working at Google already" Tim tells us that Google us unlike other businesses because people who work there know lots of things that they don't make public straight a
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by weego 17y ago
Unfortunately this is only a strategy you can play before you float. Once the company ultimately relies on market value your primary strategy has to be to compete and you can only do that by making the playing field you chose to play on as
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by weego 17y ago
I gave up my job as software "architect" (really I was tech lead and in charge of production) for an education company and decided to spend some time "not working". The goal was to see how I could get by in life while just doing a bit of wo
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by weego 17y ago
Absolutely correct. Drilling it down to the logical nth degree you are effectively paying to be part of a defined marketing demographic that can then be sold to advertisers. The reality of course is there is a more symbiotic relationship go
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by weego 17y ago
They are credible because of the penetration of the brand Windows throughout the world. People will buy win7 phones because 95% of the world are not developers and do not live their lives by technological zealotry, therefore there is a mark
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by weego 17y ago
We _know_ that the UK, and while it isn't within my direct sphere of knoweldge, it seems common knoweldge the US too are in a fairly dire financial situation, though their AAA credit rating and various other orchestrated advantages cover th
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by weego 17y ago
The basic outcome of that article is that any country is bankrupt on paper if you apply the right criteria and filter them through some historical information super-imposed onto what may or may not be happening now. The fact they picked Chi
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by weego 17y ago
A whole page about typography in a typeface that is completely inapproprate for users reading a screen.
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by weego 17y ago
If you can sign off $55 million you must be a very powerful person. Anyone can sign off buying a software box. Same reason why in Japan there are bridges that link 2 places no one needs to go to.