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by zaidf 14y ago
I've suggested before that we should explore an independant organization that rates companies and their treatment of devs who use their API. If a company has a history of constantly trimming usage limits, it should be documented. At some th
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by zaidf 14y ago
It isn't universally accepted that regular unread emails provide no value to the company or user. There is a whole argument about how even if you don't open emails, just seeing the name of the company in your inbox increases recall value so
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by zaidf 14y ago
All this is good, but what happens to the next guy who gets arrested for this and has his life wrecked? Sometimes I think there should be a penalty against lawmakers for passing reckless laws which could be convincingly argued against in a
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by zaidf 14y ago
The preferred .gov page has thousands of google plus likes. This seems like a fascinating example of google plus' terrible impact on google search and perhaps google corp.
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by zaidf 14y ago
It seems insane that you still worked 3 days in a row after a gigantic mistake that can be attributed in good part to being overworked. Once the damage was done, I would have sent you home instead of overworking you further.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Got it, and I agree that insurance companies walk the line rather well in getting doctors to accept them. But at a macro level, don't you think the insurance companies have failed themselves given rise in private practices closing shop or
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by zaidf 14y ago
Why do you think insurance companies play this game if it is not in their interest? I would think they would want private practices to flourish so their patients reduce use of hospitals and in the end, save the insurance company money.
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by zaidf 14y ago
I have a question that I think about a lot and for most part, have not found an answer that makes logical sense. Why do insurance companies play such hardball with compensating private practices or medical groups? It would seem like it is i
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by zaidf 14y ago
The real problems here especially with emergency care are that hospitals are forced to eat the cost of treating non insured patients That problem is not unique to hospitals and emergency centers. My father runs a private practice and he c
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by zaidf 14y ago
We invited a dozen physicians for brunch this past weekend and they all had stories to share about how little they make per procedure compared to the amount the hospital makes. Example 1: A procedure costs $6,000 to be done at a hospital. I
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by zaidf 14y ago
"Oren Teich – Bamboo Routing Performance" What does that mean? Look, I love Rapgenius for the lyrics and I am as much a fan of eat your dog food as anyone else. But hopefully they are going to go full circle with the philosophy and also lis
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by zaidf 14y ago
Come on Rap Genius, please stop treating your blog posts like song lyrics.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Knowing Cook's general "Be Nice" attitude, it isn't hard to believe him as the Good Cop. Of course, you can argue this is why Apple PR would run with this story ...to which I'd say Apple PR would't risk the possibility of a leak showing th
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by zaidf 14y ago
So what do you suggest "113" should be interpreted as?
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by zaidf 14y ago
I guess I don't see your implied meaning of "relatively minor." If the market has had confidence in amazon for so many years, then wouldn't any event that causes them to lose confidence be considered the opposite of minor ?
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by zaidf 14y ago
All it takes is some relatively minor event (more focused competition, lower consumer spending, some kind of bad media attention) and their stock will tank, and the whole constellation could go down like a house of cards. So if all it wil
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by zaidf 14y ago
At $99/mo with unlimited minutes, this is pretty competitive in a market where it is typical to find: a. per minute pricing b. per hour pricing($2-$5/hr) c. crappy VOIP implementations I haven't tried close.io yet but I am extremely glad
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by zaidf 14y ago
Wrong - the user may collect them to try to find patterns. The user may do a lot of things. But that doesn't mean they do. You're bring up an edge use case at best in trying to disprove an idea for the mainstream.
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by zaidf 14y ago
This is hot! It is also how I have always organized my music, in iTunes and now in Spotify. At the beginning of each month I make a new playlist. Any songs discovered or listened to a lot for that month goes in that playlist. I get strongly
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by zaidf 14y ago
I think the general accepted idea that the victim of said offenses should remain anonymous while the accused is outed is very sad and makes little sense. It makes the whole "innocent until proven guilty" idea a joke given the ample data t
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by zaidf 14y ago
At least one guy knew these emails would be becoming public one day and his tone and message says so.
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by zaidf 14y ago
This is a tool that lets you search data, some of which was collected on a false(or dishonest) expectation set by facebook that the data will not be searchable in this manner. That is a violation of trust. I say this as a huge fan and u
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by zaidf 14y ago
So the cops are going to bust whoever did this. And MIT will scream "NO, let them go!" hoping to make up for what they didn't do with Swartz. Except they'll just be showing to the world that they still don't get it.
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by zaidf 14y ago
Can you clarify what you mean?
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by zaidf 14y ago
InstallMonetizer will tank if they relied on opt-in, but will make bank if they rely on opt-out. Just like the US Postal Service if direct mailing was opt-in instead of opt-out. What's your point?
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by zaidf 14y ago
I am not a huge fan of the term "bully" in this conversation because it keeps us from having a nuanced conversation. The easiest counterpoint is noting so-called "bully-like" behavior from prosecutors in cases that ended up putting someone
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by zaidf 14y ago
Google was worried, they moved fast. This is what I'm unsure about: how much of google's worries was a result of Lala being a worthwhile company and how much of it was a result of Bill's propping it up? Let's remove Bill for a minute. Let
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by zaidf 14y ago
creepiness is defined by the generation _after_ you Source:)? I get the "hook" to lure people onto facebook may change from generation to generation but I wouldn't necessarily say the hook for a newer generation supersedes the needs of th
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by zaidf 14y ago
I have a feeling this is more to announce facebook's intent to compete in search than a product they actually expect people to use. Really it sounds like a precursor to facebook's google competitor.
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by zaidf 14y ago
I consider the "meet new people" a downgrade for facebook than an upgrade. I hope that is not a direction they pursue aggressively because it risks making facebook less relevant. One of the things that made facebook different is the exp

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