YetAnotherAlias

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by YetAnotherAlias 14y ago
>India is what India is. Reminds me of Dev Dutt's TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/devdutt_pattanaik.html
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Forget $3B In Revenue: Things "Don't Look Good" For Facebook(readwriteweb.com)
105 points by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago|78 comments
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
My perspective is that we should be sharing this knowledge with people who cannot afford even that kind of money. $200/year is a lot for many people in many parts of the world. I do understand that there is some cost involved in maintaing s
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
You have a great domain name that can be used to highlight this issue in general. Elsevier is only one part of the problem and it might be better to expand the list to beyond Elsevier. To have a wider impact, consider publicizing this issue
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
Ignoring the backing-up data issue, this seizing of sites raises a couple of questions. I had never used Megaupload and I don't have a clue about what that site did. Assumming, I had stored a bunch of files on Megaupload: 1. Shouldn't the
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
I made an additional donation to Wikipedia because of their stand on this issue. Seth Godin was right when he said "If the user supports it, she owns it. If support comes from anonymous government money, or some corporate sponsorship, then
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Man sued for keeping company Twitter followers(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago|0 comments
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
What makes you think that the engineering teams in companies like Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Mitsubishi, GE etc. are "a long way behind in terms of 'software engineering'"? It is extremely misguided to think that all the thousands of eng
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
I guess it is not surprising anymore, but I couldn't help wondering about Microsoft being left out of consideration. Would love to here thoughts about how, and if, MS will compete among these companies.
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The Producing-Consumer Paradox(pulpertank.com)
5 points by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago|3 comments
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
I don't have much to add to the discussion. I just want to vent a bit of frustration. I came in this morning and found out that 7 of my co-workers were just laid off. We are a 30 people company so thats quite a big deal. And some of my good
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
Good tip.
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
Interesting links and comments. I did not want this discussion to morph too much in to an argument about economics and/or politics. That's why I glossed over them saying "I am aware of all the real world problems and constraints". patrickye
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
I have heard similar restaurant stories happen to some of my friends. Jonathan's card is also a good idea. However, I can't help wondering that with all this technology we are ending up in a situation where the Haves help the Haves and they
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How 38 Monks Took on the Funeral Cartel and Won(theatlantic.com)
127 points by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago|28 comments
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by YetAnotherAlias 15y ago
Another important 'hardware' that doesn't get enough attention is the chair & desk. I believe that having an ergonomically designed and adjustable chair and desk is as important as the PC specs to programmer productivity. In my current