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by wilfra 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. It's terrible, but completely expected in an age when sites like RottenTomatoes and TripAdvisor already know who I am, which of my friends are on their site etc when I haven't even signed up - all from deep Facebook Con
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by wilfra 14y ago
Article says direct sales doesn't make economic sense in this market. ADP employs an army of well payed outside sales reps. I interviewed there out of college. Seemed like a good job. What's the difference between the businesses that ZP can
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by wilfra 14y ago
That isn't much better though. With very few exceptions, it looks like regardless of major people tend to enter various fields in very similar proportions. If the data were displayed in a table, I have a feeling the numbers would tell a muc
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by wilfra 14y ago
I got a free one. Submitted two reviews and have gotten three back so far :) Idea: take a page from the Yelp/Quora/HN/StackExchange playbook and gamify it by letting people build up some kind of reputation points/karma/credits or whatever.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Generating the screenshot was slow but didn't take anywhere near a few minutes for me. Maybe ~5 seconds. Site probably getting a lot of traffic, I got some errors at first but it works fine now. Cool site.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Notice how TechCrunch (and every other publication that picked up this story) worded it: http://i.imgur.com/C5how.png Australian Police is infinitely less misleading and more accurate than simply saying 'police'. I have to assume all of t
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by wilfra 14y ago
Ok well as an American when I think of 'police' I do not think of Australian police - State or otherwise.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Fair enough, so it can be changed to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' or similar.
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by wilfra 14y ago
There is no problem with the credibility of the article - the problem is with the sensationalist/linkbaiting headline. Most people are going to assume upon reading the title that 'Police' refers to something a bit more substantial than the
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by wilfra 14y ago
Change title from 'Police' to 'State Police in Victoria, Australia' please. Title is misleading/linkbaity.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Right. I can understand wanting to get away from poker. What I meant was, I'm surprised your whole focus is on getting a job - as opposed to remaining self-employed. Surely you enjoyed setting your own schedule and not having a boss. It's c
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by wilfra 14y ago
Surprising that after being a pro poker player for so long (I was too) you're so anxious to go work for the man!
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by wilfra 14y ago
This is a really old post that has already been on HN.
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Lei Jun, Founder Of Xiaomi, Might Just Be 'China's Steve Jobs'(huffingtonpost.com)
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by wilfra 14y ago
stackoverflow or lobste.rs
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by wilfra 14y ago
The villains appear to be Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling - perhaps Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson as well.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Probably very similar to why Universities want Nobel Laureates on the faculty. Sure, they want their brainpower, but it's also huge for prestige and a symbol to the World of what a great University they are. This will probably help greatly
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by wilfra 14y ago
Yes.
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Dutch artist creates indoor clouds(washingtonpost.com)
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by wilfra 14y ago
That's actually not what he was referring to. I'd be interested to see him post one example, though, of the federal government making any enforcement on users for any reason at any time. You want to ignore that? And still claim it might hap
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by wilfra 14y ago
If you +1 things and use hangouts, 'using Google+' is exactly what you are doing... You might only be at the bottom rung of MAU's with a tiny level of engagement, which if common would be easily identifiable by looking at other metrics. So
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by wilfra 14y ago
Never thought I'd see the day when Google forced me into Microsofts' arms. Wow. http://domains.live.com was actually far simpler and faster to setup than a free Google Apps account - which I've done probably 20 times and still struggle to
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by wilfra 14y ago
None of those guys are American citizens and they are all wanted for breaking US laws - very different than a US citizen being wanted in Belize. The US loves to have foreign nationals who have violated US laws extradited to the United State
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by wilfra 14y ago
Except in very rare circumstances, the United States does not extradite its citizens to face criminal charges in other countries. @learc83: exactly. if he wasn't having a psychotic episode, he'd realize that. unfortunately his mind is proba
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's unfortunate he's batshit crazy right now or he could probably get the US Embassy involved and fight his extradition and asked that he be deported back to the US, instead of Belize.
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by wilfra 14y ago
No, it's not because of using social media too much. I have the exact same feeling. Most of my Facebook friends are people I met in grad school in Thailand. I dropped out and moved back to the USA. Thai people are about 20x more active on F
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by wilfra 14y ago
Shareholders are the primary target of this announcement, not users. Judging by the 14%+ pop their stock had today, I'd say it was effective.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Failure as part of the hustle is not a learning process in the same way as a failed startup is. Sure, you can learn something, but if you aren't getting rejected often in sales, you're simply not trying hard enough.
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by wilfra 14y ago
hag·i·og·ra·phy/ˌhagēˈägrəfē/ Noun: The writing of the lives of saints. :)
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by wilfra 14y ago
Most people would agree you with you. But that doesn't make you, or them, correct. You should learn to embrace failure as a completely normal and natural part of success, instead of fearing it. This story, and the fact that he is proud of i

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