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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what would you do with the data? Please do not read this the wrong way. I am not questioning what you're doing as improper. I am just curious. Isn't most of the data in PACER just procedural (cf. substantive)? If y
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
I agree with you entertainment is a cash cow. But FB is _free_ entertainment. As is your photo-album and the discussions you have with your friends. You appear to be referring to future success. It's like Microsoft talking up "vaporware"
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
What is the product? Is it the hardware? Or the software? Are you saying they are one product, not two? We've been through this countless times. Microsoft and the OEM's. Apple and their locked down hardware. Consumers are not fools.
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
It's sort of like Facebook having a "Like" button but no button to signal caution. It's a distortion of reality. If everything we ate smelled and tasted "good", we'd die. Because we would eat poisonous things. There is a reason why some
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Maybe the ecosystem just isn't big enough yet. Too much of the market is still not yet using Apple's products. Maybe when Apple reaches Microsoft-level penetration, and of course that is their goal (Exhbit A: Apple pricing trends), you mig
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Simons' supervisor commented that he was a model employee for AOL's Palo Alto Office. "Eric was always on time, never late for work."
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Maybe he should have brought the security guard on as a co-founder?
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
"you go to the fridge to get food" Hungry. Get food. How much thinking is involved in that? Do you know what has a very high clickthrough rate on FB, probably their highest CTR ever (but which is no longer allowed)? Pop-up styled ads for
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
OK, so if your wife says to you, e.g., "Swannie, we need [description of rarely purchased, high priced product]. The old one has stopped working." Do you check the front of the fridge, your kitchem notice board, the shoebox and then your
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
"everyone is a rational actor" And that's why the message to Harvard graduates[1] (purportedly America's brightest rational minds) makes deliberate reference to a man[2] who has consistently proven this to be false. The message also is cen
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
This is the trap. This is what FB employees keep telling themselves everyday. This has to work. It just makes sense. You can keep saying the data is valuable. No one is going to question that it is. We all have imaginations. And adver
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Can you give an example of some sample input and how you want the output to look? I'm stupid and this is the only way I can be sure I know what you're trying to do.
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Imagine an apartment. Google is like the copy of the yellow pages by the telephone. FB is like the photo-album in the closet. People generally do not open these two books for similar reasons. They have very different usage. One is recr
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
I don't think the issue is his personal financial planning.
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
I too write mostly throwaway stuff. Obviously, terse languages are better suited for that than others. Java makes me cringe. But my understanding is Java programmers use IDE's with autocomplete. They don't do much typing. As for your pip
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
One might argue the eight years of waiting was simply to get to this point, when income had reached its peak ($1BB), and where FB could IPO and certain parties could extract maximum profit. The "rush" is cashing out just as the company ope
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
FB has bought itself some more time with this IPO. How much time does $15BB buy? Even if advertising executives and industry analysts give up on FB, FB stil has the cash to sit and wait for their muse to appear (like Google's discovery of
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Original source: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/40437/
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
I was tempted to say something similar. But this is a thread about Linus. As for your use of find, I rarely ever use find for anything more than printing a recursive dir listing. I always gravitate toward different approaches for doing th
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
I find it best to just stick to reading people's code and their documentation (if any) as opposed to reading what comments they make about computers, software, or any other subject. This is because the more I learn about them as people the
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
The T&C bit made me laugh. I wonder if they'll fix it in the next 24hrs. Poor Yahoo.
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
In effect, Zuckerberg just took an enormous salary in the form of exercising options. He has to pay tax on that income. Let's say he exercised options that earned him $5BB. (I don't know what the exact amount was. It was in the billions,
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Version? Not sure what you mean. Some other way to interact with the kernel, besides a "shell"? Quicker, shorter, terser sounds good to me, whatever it is. Or maybe you mean if he wrote his own shell?
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Well, something like "privileges" seems like a design that is a holdover from a time of shared computing. We've adpated it for other uses, and for some people it's become some sort of security religion. If we assume it exists for the purp
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
And I will take that, if coupled with demonstrated competence and a solid, sensible vision, over being "nice", "accomodating" and "willing to answer questions", every time. This attitude is not true of all OS developers, though. There are
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
But why do you think that? Is it because it will deter future litigation? If yes, does that imply that there is a business advantage to avoiding litigation? What would Alsup say about this case? As a programmer who is also a judge did he t
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
This seems like (yet another) suit that never should have been filed to begin with. Everyone lost time, and everyone except the lawyers and the court (court fees) lost money.
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
setuidgid is written in C. No bugs yet reported. Plan 9 doesn't have the concept of superuser. "sudo" is moot. Plan 9 is written in C. Just two examples that come to mind. Maybe it's not the language. Maybe it's the person using it. The
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Selling off significant amounts of stock, for tax purposes, in the company you work for is not something one typically does _before the company has even gone public_. Insiders were dumping their stock in the days leading up to the IPO. What
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by a3d6g2f7 14y ago
Right on, Elise. What users demand is what programmers will deliver. This is why it is so important for users to become educated about computers and networking. You cannot ask for what you do not know exists. There are other ways to achiev

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