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by yapcguy 13y ago
He says the Scala compiler will never be fast...
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It does look like he's about to have a breakdown. Hopefully giving the talk was cathartic and helped him relieve his frustrations.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Nothing.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Given the bizarre letter, the CEO must have known that many of his employees considered Monsanto the enemy. So it looks like the CEO was a sell-out and took the easy money. Data scientists, programmers and agricultural experts were hired t
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Why the Climate Corporation sold itself to Monsanto(newyorker.com)
47 points by yapcguy 13y ago|33 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It's nowhere near as bad or ridiculous as what David Friedberg, ex-Googler, and CEO of the Climate Corporation wrote when he revealed that he had sold the company to it's very own archenemy... Monsanto. http://www.newyo
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It's worse. Apparently you can take a random homeless person, give them a few lessons, and hey presto you have an app maker.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston doled out awards on Thursday night to online applications built by young immigrants during a 25-hour marathon coding session at LinkedIn’s headquarters. The “hackathon” event sp
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by yapcguy 13y ago
See post by wes-exp above.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Great post.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
In many countries, a professional is considered to be a banker, lawyer or a doctor. Programmers are not given the same respect. Now with the importance of technology in our day-to-day lives, there is a chance for programmers and those work
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I don't know but it looks like there are connections... http://jakartainformer.com/96869/ghost-of-suharto-gives-life... *Indonesia’s autocratic former President Suharto left office in disgrace, his political empir
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Why do (some) people still assume that anything coming out of China and Russia must be bad and viewed with suspicion? How about LIBOR rigging? Or traffic lane closures to spite political opponents? If anything you could argue manipulation
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Interesting, but this may be a spectacular own goal. Indonesians probably found Path interesting because it was foreign. They probably didn't care that a company in San Francisco was slurping up their address book. However, a local c
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by yapcguy 13y ago
If you believe that China, or Chinese corporations, play accounting tricks, would you accept that all countries and all corporations play tricks to boost their figures too? We know for a fact that Starbucks, Google, etc perform accounting t
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by yapcguy 13y ago
This has also been confirmed by the UK government. > "It has been accepted that, on the balance of probability, vaccination has contributed to… disablement" http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep
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Flu-jab narcolepsy due to brain damage: study of Pandemrix vaccine(thelocal.se)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|1 comments
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China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation(theguardian.com)
61 points by yapcguy 13y ago|62 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Pay back the original Path investors $25m. Pray that the money isn't connected to Suharto[1]'s old boys network and never take a holiday in Asia again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto
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by yapcguy 13y ago
How much are Path going to charge for their stickers? How many do they expect to sell? Average salary in Indonesia is $3420. http://data.worldbank.org/country/indonesia
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Google could open an office in Oakland given that there are enough employees there to merit arranging free transport by bus. Googlers could live closer to work. Why would you want to sit on a bus for two hours everyday when you could live
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I don't think it's preventing new housing. Take a look at all the new developments going up along Market St and in SOMA. They are very ugly. Absolutely no character whatsoever. Not sure what the legislation is regarding maintai
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Obama Announces ‘Promise Zones’ in 5 Stricken Areas(nytimes.com)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Naked short selling should be banned. It's not just a regulatory issue. When you short a stock, you have to borrow the stock first, and then sell it. Obviously at some point you will buy back the stock, hopefully at a lower price so
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by yapcguy 13y ago
After growing organically - and very successfully too - they accepted $60m from Acccel Partners, a private equity firm, in 2010. This move abroad has probably been driven by the money-men seeking their return, rather than any business imper
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by yapcguy 13y ago
1997 Cambridge and Oxford University: FREE 1998 University tuition fees: 1000 GBP/yr 2004 University tuition fees: 3000 GBP/yr 2012 University tuition fees: 9000 GBP/yr Thanks Tony Blair.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Exactly. Why hire someone into the company who might end up competing against you? The veto is a gift for Machiavellians lurking in the officefor
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I imagine people will be relieved to hear that Fukushima is not (yet) the cause, but will officials clean-up the beach? >“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be s
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San Francisco: Experts say beach radiation unrelated to Fukushima(hmbreview.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|1 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
This was done after the security hole was revealed. IMHO, it should not even be an option, it should be default, always.

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