TimGebhardt

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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
There's evidence that bigger and bigger banks don't achieve more efficiency: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/big-banks-are-not-mor...
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Except that Tim Cook has said on shareholder calls that they have more cash than they know what to do with. At that point they should distribute more to shareholders.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Seconded. My wife takes our twin two year olds to the library twice a week for library story time and to play with the gigantic Thomas the Tank Engine. Both my wife and my kids like seeing their friends (and nobody has to get snacks or cl
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
For the newest versions of Windows (Server 2012, Windows 8) .NET comes installed -- I forget if it's installed by default or installs as a Windows component. If it's the latter you install it from the same screens you install IIS or the SM
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Funny coming from the guy who said he'd shut down Apple and return all the money to shareholders: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html How's that Apple company doing anyway? :)
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
That's all fine and well for people like us that don't necessarily do hard labor for 30-40 years. But those that have to do physical labor aren't actually living longer. The rise in life expectancy is due to a fall in infant death rates a
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
According to my recruiter's stats he told me that 93% of those that accepted counter-offers from their original company were looking for a job again within 6 months. The two scenarios were a) The company extended the counter offer to keep
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Moore's law was simply an observation or a prediction about the computing market at that time: That the number of transistors on a chip would need to double every 18 months if the chip manufacturers hoped to get people to buy the next gen.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
He's with another woman that he met online and married six weeks after his divorce was final. Now he's not paying any child support. http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war...
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
We do know what happened to the father according to previous blog posts: http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war... tl;dr; he left her for some woman he met online and married her six weeks after his divorce was compl
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Then down the line the smart people from those firms can disrupt the existing players at their own game or a new game when the current-elite get lazy or can't innovate. That's how the market's supposed to work.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Summary: Author hopes we don't find life on Mars because if it's dead that provides an ill omen for the human race. He thinks if life on Mars wasn't sustainable then he repeats the whole argument that there must be some reason why advanced
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Just replace it with Smarch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RCs2RKiLlA http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Smarch "Smarch is the thirteenth month of the year, according to Springfield Elementary School calendars. It has 28 days."
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I think OOP really took off in industry because it was easy to sell third-party modules. You could "plug in" this module that you purchased and it was easy to hook up. Markets have a way of doing that: the solution that wins isn't necessa
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
The classic name for the "Keep moving the extremes so people's opinion converge on the gradually moving middle" is called the Overton window and politicians try to employ it all the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Well don't forget that they were doing tablets all the way back in 2002. They just didn't have the foresight or guts to revamp the ecosystem around it. So the tablets didn't work because they needed to take advantage of the existing mouse
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
For a while it was because they had pre-purchased all of their fuel at 2000ish oil prices using long-term futures contracts. The bet turned out to be extremely lucrative for them. However, most of their contracts are either expired or set
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
So... the takeaway is to stop adding bugs to programs you write? Heh, I've been trying to do that since day 1. Seriously, now, it appears that experts are more akin to taking the scientific method approach to debugging: isolate and bisect
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Because other companies don't announce news on Friday at 4:00pm... Or because the White House doesn't make important news announcements on Christmas Eve when nobody's paying attention... I don't think this is a Zynga dick-move. I think thi
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Hmm, my comments don't really reflect this, but I agree with you. I think the end result of a system like this would be that software patents would be next-to-nothing worthless and people just wouldn't bother, except perhaps in the cases o
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
- Chicago: 12:00 PM (Noon)
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Maybe they were all AS400 admins that really have nowhere else to go?
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
@andrewcooke: There is an analogous situation to property taxes though -- Rezoning a property. If you can acquire land zoned for something cheaper like residential or agriculture and get the city to re-zone it to commercial it's almost alw
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I would also love to have 1 sq mile of land in downtown Manhattan on which to develop a high-rise. But I'm just a little guy. The darn property tax system is set out to screw me. This is really the whole reason that corporations were inven
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
From high horse: Well one more reason Android is better than iOS. Coming down from high horse: Oh crap, my phone's software is programmed by an advertising company... Conclusion: My life is being bought and sold out of my control.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Maybe because he played a US president in a movie about a meteor hitting the Earth?
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Great, now I've got the Mythbusters intro running in my head like an earworm... I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
You're talking about Dunbar's Number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number "Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Or if you're really brave you could just replace the 72-pin reader: http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-NES-Cartridge-Slot-Replacemen... https://nuxx.net/wiki/NES_72-Pin_Edge_Connector_Replacement I did it on mine in college -- and then I di
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
How am I missing the point? You make it sound like the marketing was really innovative, whether or not the product was (it was a great product that could speak for itself, you're absolutely right). It (the marketing) was different and fre

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