OllieJones

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by OllieJones 14y ago
It's been a while since Albert Einstein worked in the patent office, eh?
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The slow-motion music CD implosion continues(nytimes.com)
1 points by OllieJones 14y ago|0 comments
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by OllieJones 14y ago
The issue in IT doesn't arise around the Coke formula on Dropbox, unless Coke could somehow sue Dropbox for damages. The issue arises around large quantities of sensitive information. What if those Red Box video rental machines could be st
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Wow! A great hack on hacker news! Thanks Erik. Don't let the griping grind you down.
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Cool! The wall around another walled garden starts to crumble! How many years before the carriers themselves start using open source code in their infrastructure because it's more reliable and robust?
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by OllieJones 14y ago
No, sir, it's not inappropriate. The cost of health care is a major cost to most businesses. Startups are lucky that the investors bear the cost; but it shows up as a major line item, second only to salaries, in the typical startup's pro fo
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Here's a contrarian piece on the Chinese personal savings rate: no organized retirement benefits means all kinds of hiding of assets. http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2012/06/macroeconomics-of-...
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by OllieJones 14y ago
When I was a college student, I had my bikes stolen so often that I did two things: First, I started buying hot bikes cheap because, hey, legal bikes were expensive. Second, I wrapped the frame of one bike in masking tape and smeared grease
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Investors annoyed that Zuckerberg's management beat them at their own game! Film at 10! Bankers didn't have to go out at $38. Investors didn't have to buy at $38. I should think the VCs who sold into the IPO would be happy they got such a
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by OllieJones 14y ago
So, HN, here's a question about electro-ethics: Would this business of guessing whether a prospective customer will spend big money be more ethical if it were transparent -- that is, if these escores were visible to the persons being scored
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Good on ya for putting yourself out there. Your blog could be interesting, especially if you can talk about programming projects that worked and didn't work for you. (Your hosting service doesn't have the mojo to appear on the front door of
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Atul Gawande (surgeon and writer for The New Yorker) has done some of what you mention. Read this. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_...
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Great article, thank you. Librarians aren't as dumb as you make them out to be. Several times I've asked a librarian to locate a mis-shelved book I really needed, and they've always succeeded. I gather it's a pain, but it's considered a bi
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Who's the most important person in your software development shop on any given day? The one you're interviewing. This person is, hopefully, your future. What's the most important part of your job if you're a software developer in a pre-rev
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by OllieJones 14y ago
> Part of me wishes MS forced updates like these. > Sure it would probably break a few ancient > mission critical ActiveX apps, and > my god the outcry would be immense and furious, > but it would be better for every
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by OllieJones 14y ago
There's lots of enterprisey stuff out there that only "supports" various versions of IE, and bounces out other makes and models of browser. HN folks may or may not see much of that, because that stuff is typically in various corporate por
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by OllieJones 14y ago
Tobias wrapped up this fine post writing, the "gap [between developed and underdeveloped counties] will be, if it continues, a major fissure in a future America." WILL be? It already is. It's pretty much in line with the so-called red / b
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by OllieJones 15y ago
What about the page charge? Some of these journals charge the author (or her institution) by the page for papers they accept. They get ya coming and going. Nice racket. Check it out. http://support.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/252
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NYPD systematically games CompStat, their defect tracking system(nytimes.com)
8 points by OllieJones 15y ago|3 comments
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Careful, folks, it takes a while to transfer domains. The ones I transferred are still with Go Daddy. It's probably the same deal for wikipedia and stackoverflow.
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Can we take action against MPAA like we are against GoDaddy?
5 points by OllieJones 15y ago|3 comments
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Maybe they just priced their IPO shares correctly for a change. When the share price doubles on the first day, it means the offering price was too low. That means Wall Street gets the money, not the company and not the pre-IPO investors. Th
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Gave it a try on W7/64 Chrome. I happen to live outside hipster nation, so it took a while to load stuff. It did OK at letting me know this was in progress, but it could have been better. Had I not been reviewing it, I might have abandone
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by OllieJones 15y ago
> those Farmville character cutouts in the photo are possibly the creepiest thing in the universe. Second creepiest. How about the grinning ghoul standing next to them?
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Nassim Taleb is making an argument about the structure of the banking system's risk management schemes. This is an attractive article for us to comment on because, doh, we'd like to punish somebody for the 2005-2008 Collateralized-debt-obl
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by OllieJones 15y ago
For the most part the banks didn't find loopholes in the regs, they bribed the legislature to repeal them and to cut the budgets of the regulatory agencies.
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Health care, too. There's an Active X Control, made by GE, used for displaying X-ray imagery, that's bug for bug compatible with IE6. It's expensive and risky for hospital IT departments to upgrade all that stuff. An open source HTML5 rep
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Is this the successor to BerkeleyDB? Sure sounds like it.
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by OllieJones 15y ago
Perfect. Obama and Boehner are doing an excellent job of what they are paid to do: transferring the wealth of the USA to Wall Street plutocrats. They've given the sleazeball so-called "rating" agencies the cover they need to demand higher
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by OllieJones 15y ago
I understand Pixar (in the East Bay area near SF) has openings for skilled pythonistas. They can't be alone. But they are in the bay area, not Grand Rapids. If you're going to stick around the upper midwest and feed your family, you need t

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