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by wooster 16y ago
Yes, really. At that point the NY tech scene still considered iPhones to be toys.
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by wooster 16y ago
Not every time, but much of the time, I try to talk about what I do with a New Yorker (most East Coasters, actually), they start by bringing a lot of stop energy[0]. They'll say something like "Why are you doing that when there's already X?
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by wooster 16y ago
Treason charges are nothing to sneeze at. Someone like Lamo (with his history/record) has a huge incentive to stay squeaky clean during something like this.
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by wooster 16y ago
Meanwhile, it's possible to go to a liberal arts college which has a teaching focus and offers engineering and/or science degrees. For example: Pomona College or Harvey Mudd College (I went to Pomona).
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by wooster 16y ago
Chiropractic?
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by wooster 16y ago
A fair question. There are duplicates (Witten and Frank's "Data Mining", which is excellent), and some of the books he lists as favorites I would say are utter garbage. Some of them are so bad, I don't see how anybody smart could have read
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by wooster 16y ago
ridiculousfish is the smartest programmer I've ever met. I hired him at Apple years ago, and while I could regale you with tales of how awesome he is, Apple would probably sue me. That said, if you've ever played World of Warcraft on the Ma
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by wooster 16y ago
Except that's not true. Phil Schiller (Senior Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing) has no MBA. So that's 7 out of 12 of the top execs who have no MBA or JD. (Also, most of my friends in management at Apple don't have MBAs. If they
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by wooster 16y ago
There are three bus stops within a 1 block radius.
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by wooster 16y ago
Seconded. The docents are, IMO, the most amazing thing about the museum. Incredibly knowledgeable, many of them were involved in making the machines on display. It's a truly wonderful place made more wonderful by the people who are involved
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by wooster 16y ago
I compete with http://favstar.fm I think Tim is a pretty nice guy. I'd buy him a beer.
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by wooster 16y ago
So, uh, a bunch of my friends are working on this: http://www.jobyenergy.com/ Which is pretty awesome.
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by wooster 16y ago
http://status.squareup.com/iphone-4-square-card-reader-inter...
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by wooster 16y ago
If you really like theater, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre is just across the bay. There are a wide variety of other theater venues around the Bay Area. Santa Cruz for small stuff, San Francisco for a huge mix of productions from Broadway s
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by wooster 16y ago
The entire time I've spent in Italy -- not one espresso with any trace of bitterness. Every cup of coffee was excellent to my taste." Italian espresso is good because of consistent dosing. If you go in a coffee bar in Italy, chan
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by wooster 16y ago
- They charge for bank integration. - The only good version is on Windows. It's the only app I run on Windows. - The data entry is slow and error prone. Unbelievably so, for an app centered around data entry.
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by wooster 16y ago
Which means next to nothing if the page with the login form isn't encrypted. A man in the middle attack would just replace the Facebook login page, and the user would likely never notice.
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by wooster 16y ago
Thanks, this is good information to have.
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by wooster 16y ago
Mac is losing because QQ (IM client) works better on Windows, and Xunlei (torrent client) is Windows-only. Those are two pieces of software which would be trivially easy to port to OS X. I doubt they're the primary reason the Mac
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by wooster 16y ago
Well, there's Tangier, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E Which has an accent thought to have remained unchanged since Colonial times.
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by wooster 16y ago
The CAPTCHA's they use have been put through the ringer and are proven to work against spammers who are focused and resourceful. Not really: - http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/2919.aspx - http://www.cs.sfu.ca/
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by wooster 16y ago
I hate to break it to you, but I don't know of any image-based CAPTCHAs which haven't been broken/automated.
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by wooster 16y ago
From Andrew's post: But I have some beef here Preposterous staff, you call all your competitors, who are all building products to serve similar communities, dying? Incorrect. This is a deliberate misreading of the original post
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by wooster 16y ago
Spammers are lazy. They like to target lots of sites at once. A post of mine from a few years ago explains the rationale behind one off schemes such as this: http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/07/16/a-few-upgrades My own has worked fa
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by wooster 16y ago
I, for one, flagged the article because I felt: - the author was trolling - the post was misleading
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by wooster 16y ago
From my perspective: QuickBooks is easy to learn and as a founder you should have some basic grasp on bookkeeping and taxes or it will cost you later.
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by wooster 16y ago
Farming is pretty much the opposite of a zero sum game.
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by wooster 16y ago
I hear Boulder, CO is nice. It certainly ticks a number of your checkboxes: rural, cheap, and next to a lot of beautiful parks and forests. I've never been, but it's on my short list.
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by wooster 16y ago
Here's a summary article of a large epidemiological study: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20150.aspx Doing the math (450,000 cases out of 36,000,000 million Medicare recipients in the US), the adult incidence rate of Parkinson's is 0.01
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by wooster 16y ago
I'm telling them to get rid of their biggest cost: printing and distribution. Also, I'm not saying they should get rid of the classifieds section, which is a big chunk (about half? hard to find any data on it) of their advertising income. A

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