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by zach 16y ago
This is a well-made point, and one that doesn't get emphasized nearly enough, especially now that Kathy Sierra isn't publishing. Tech support (and other customer support) is, in a huge part, your customers educating you about how your servi
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Stock traders looking for poker talent(latimes.com)
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by zach 16y ago
Er, surely you meant: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%22slept%20with%22&t...
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by zach 16y ago
Or at least once you account for scholastic aptitude. If only there was a widely-used test that measured it... But seriously, there must be some studies that explain what happens after two students with equal SAT scores graduate with degre
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by zach 16y ago
To be fair, Foxconn employs over 300,000 workers in Shenzen. Yes, really -- they are the world's largest electronics manufacturer. To put that in perspective, that's more than two Shenzen Foxconn employees for every living MIT alumnus. T
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by zach 16y ago
I think we have a logic/emotion split about college, where logically we know college costs lots of actual money and should be regarded as an investment, but our emotions have been manipulated to think of college as a certain kind of life-va
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So it's not about the curriculum? How else would this gestalt effect occur? I can well understand how treatment effects happen at the Naval Academy or at prep schools, but it seems most colleges seem to define their experience primarily b
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by zach 16y ago
I actually bought a couple of Christmas gifts (a Slanket and a kitchen gadget) from QVC.com last year. If you can deal with their huge shipping and handling (most stuff is drop-shipped) and quirky product selection, it's actually kind of a
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by zach 16y ago
I'm entertaining myself with the notion that a great deal of this money is from Zuck himself, funneled in via small amounts in a fiendish Xanatos Gambit[1] to make the inevitable flameout more spectacular. 1 - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm
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by zach 16y ago
Apart from the reasons in the article, I'm going to go ahead and say that, if you're on Hacker News, you should be learning how to if you don't know already. If it gets you rooting around the balance sheets of publicly-traded companies, th
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by zach 16y ago
Yeah, that was a really curious choice considering that Odeo is now only notorious for being the startup that Ev Williams et al. abandoned (even refunding investors' money) to start Twitter. It's sort of like mentioning that Harrison Ford
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by zach 16y ago
And also, it's a "sneak peak" because it represents the highest point of mobile technology achievement. But I think that makes sense only if you start "loosing your mind."
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So I was in an App Engine workshop at PyCon and asked an engineer about running Clojure on App Engine, which resulted in a confusing exchange. Then I realized they thought I was talking about Google's Closure Library. Argh! I guess this
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, Conan's Twitter account is not only a test, he's got a user story (that just turned red): In order to provoke curiosity and amusement As a celebrity comedy writer and television host I want to only be shown as following one otherwise-u
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by zach 16y ago
Wonderful picture set, but by the the fourth slide, Heather Poole has become "Ms. Pools" and in the ninth photo drops to "Ms. Pool." Maybe the NYT needs instructions for how to proofread for 12 captions in a web browser.
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by zach 16y ago
After the impact, you can almost make out the year and model on the door. It does look a lot like it says "2001."
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In the very near future the "TV time" of many families like this will be all of them sitting around watching separate movies or shows on individual iPads or similar devices. The shared family dinner has already fallen victim to modern ways
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by zach 16y ago
This is great. I've had clients years ago want to offer video sharing on their site and I basically have to tell them it's a major project so they might as well have their users upload it to YouTube instead. This is exactly the kind of se
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by zach 16y ago
If you have a large student loan balance hanging over your head, you do tend to be less interested in creating wealth than getting money. Sallie Mae doesn't care how much wealth you've created for society. Med school students start their c
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by zach 17y ago
No problem. A little over a year ago, we had the Lumenos HSA $1500 individual deductible plan and it cost $300/month for an employee only and about $1000/month total when including a spouse and 2 or more children. It was about due for its
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by zach 17y ago
Stay in California and get group insurance through the company you're starting up. Here in California, a company of 2-50 employees is guaranteed to be issued a policy for no more than 110% of the premium rate charged to larger companies.
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Then you have another marketing problem.
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by zach 17y ago
Great, great point. The impact on the consumer is the bottom line for these laws. It's not the level of competition, how free the market should be, or how easy things are for developers.
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Taking a stance against marketing speak is just another form of marketing speak.
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Also, you can use it to determine the height of a skyscraper.
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In this kind of "tough cards" situation it seems that there are two overrepresented categories (here, doubles and ovals). So the cards that counter those attributes (e.g. half-shaded singles) would be able to make many sets. But since a ca
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by zach 17y ago
But a game that uses integer meters for coordinates has galaxy-scale problems of another kind.
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by zach 17y ago
No, it means that Google maintains a non-evil identity. As a corporation they may do evil things with good intentions, as you mentioned, or even unknowingly, accidentally, out of ignorance or within other human limitations. The point is th
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by zach 17y ago
I thought it involved Cucumber creator Aslak Hellesøy.
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Yeah, it seems funny, doesn't it? As a display technology E-ink is innovative, no doubt. But from the content perspective the E-ink paradigm has always been traditional. That is, E-ink is an innovation in the context of the display (in

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