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by wilfra 14y ago
He is a biased liberal and reading any of his commentary should be viewed through that lens. He doesn't even make much of an effort to hide it, in 2008 on 538 he was basically rooting for Obama. However that doesn't mean his models are wron
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by wilfra 14y ago
"10x engineers don't do it on short hours. They do it by working harder in an environment where everyone is smart. Cf Claude Shannon ("achievement is exponential, working 10% longer has a compounding effect, like interest in a bank account"
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by wilfra 14y ago
"I try to answer all of my emails and be responsive to any inquiry. This was a random one (of which I get between 25 and 100 each day)." Now I feel so much less special that he responded to my email :(
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by wilfra 14y ago
Was it like that for people who had been on the job for years, or just interns? If just interns, they probably had issues in the past with not doing it this way. You've got to earn trust etc.
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by wilfra 14y ago
"committed" "dedicated" "hard worker" None of these address intelligence nor even competence - and I think it is a mistake to assume a good manager wouldn't realize that. If a star performer showed up late, left early and never arrived to a
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by wilfra 14y ago
Not just on this list, in reality. The UK attracts the best and brightest (and richest) students from all over the World because of the quality of their Universities. The only country that attracts more is the US.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Thumbs up to any ranking that has my alma mater above NYU, Brown, Peking University, BU, USC, Purdue and Monash - but I don't know how much most employers would agree.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Online Poker Mafia blowin up huge. Strasser got his own hedge fund. Who's next? "I wonder why one of the first guys to be involved, Ariel Schneller...dropped out" He's been in Harvard Law School, before that working on DeucesCracked/crushin
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by wilfra 14y ago
Reverse lottery is a good way to look at it. And for the same reason I don't play the lottery I'm not worried about this. 1/infinity are odds I'm confident I will never hit.
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by wilfra 14y ago
You think they are gonna prosecute a few hundred thousand people? Seems unlikely...
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by wilfra 14y ago
So if I own ggoogle.com you think I should be able to keep that domain and serve ads on it and profit from all of that traffic that is trying to find Google? Google should not be able to take that domain away from me? That's an interesting
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by wilfra 14y ago
If you appeal a WIPO decision in front of some judge who doesn't know a thing about the internet and that judge rules in your favor, you have not just proven WIPO made a mistake - but that is how you are choosing to interpret his decision.
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by wilfra 14y ago
And persistence. You're absolutely right. For years I hired developers and told myself I was incapable of doing what they did, never tried to learn. After the job market got hot and I was having to pay good devs $100+/hour I decided I had t
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by wilfra 14y ago
usapple.org is obviously not infringing. Apple is a tricky word because it's also generic. It's easier to discuss this when we're talking about an obvious trademark. See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-disputes-21-squa... Tho
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by wilfra 14y ago
If it was necessary to file an appeal clearly there is some truth to what I said - or WIPO would never issue a decision that needed to be overturned. As for the appeals process itself, yet it is a loophole that you can file an appeal in fro
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by wilfra 14y ago
The Apple in this domain refers to the trademarked Apple. He doesn't even attempt to hide that on the page, referring directly to the company himself. That is where the proof for willful trademark infringement comes from. If he had owned th
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by wilfra 14y ago
Apple would have no problem taking this away if they filed a WIPO claim. He clearly registered it in 'bad faith' (a legal term) and is willfully and purposely violating their trademark. I suspect though all they would have to do is ask and
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by wilfra 14y ago
No, the domain wasn't registered until this came to light today.
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by wilfra 14y ago
I'll sell my account for $35.99.
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by wilfra 14y ago
This sounds awesome.
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by wilfra 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Sunnyvale, California. Remote is fine. Front-end web developer. Bootstrap specialist. Know enough Rails and Django to get the job done. If you're looking to build a sexy prototype or make your Bootstrap look less Bootstrappy,
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by wilfra 14y ago
You really shouldn't see any of that. I do lots of affiliate marketing and companies rarely give any more information than whether or not people met the requirements for me to get paid - and how much they are paying, if I'm on a revenue sha
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by wilfra 14y ago
Davis and Isla Vista (where UCSB is) are two cities in California where bicycling is great. The infrastructure is certainly nice but the main thing that makes it great is that there are so many bicycles that they run the streets. Cars are s
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by wilfra 14y ago
"once again..." Care to share the secret of getting on the front page often enough to make a statement such as this?
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by wilfra 14y ago
Fortune does this too and their articles are typically quite good, as was this one. People gotta monetize somehow.
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by wilfra 14y ago
"I think the kind of startups that we talk about here have a lot in common with the traditional Japanese corporate office culture." You think the startup founders working 18 hour days are dicking around for most of that time? I'd say you're
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by wilfra 14y ago
I think it's fucking gorgeous. On what could be improved: -Too much text in the lower left. You can use less characters and communicate the same thing better. Such as... -'Leave your email and we'll let you know when Shoutt arives' change t
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by wilfra 14y ago
Bootstrap badly needs a really good tutorial. I'm thinking of making one, if anybody wants to help out, my email address is in my profile. I was thinking I'd build a simple and attractive site from scratch and make the tutorial a step-by-st
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by wilfra 14y ago
Do any of those work with Siri? That's the big value for me. When the new Maps work it is pure magic (sorry for the iMeme but it really is). -Looking straight ahead, grab phone and hold down Home button. -Siri chirps -"I need directions to
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by wilfra 14y ago
Congrats Github!

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