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by darksaga 14y ago
For once I'd really like to see Microsoft position its product as a high end product instead of always trying to undercut everybody on price. If they think their product is better, then sell it as such. Actually say your product is better a
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by darksaga 14y ago
I've always thought about the ravages of war nowadays and how many countries are constantly in conflict. As a great admirer of this period in American history, I have to conclude war and pestilence have always been around and are more sympt
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by darksaga 14y ago
My whole family have always been avid readers. Even the younger kids (13-18 years) still read and exchange books on a regular basis at our family gatherings. A while back I asked why none of them had started reading on their i-pads or gotte
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by darksaga 14y ago
Hardly the holy grail they're talking about. The fatal flaw is as soon as you close you one door, the pirates are already looking for 10 other ways to get around your technology. Case in point? Look at how many times they've tried to shut d
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by darksaga 14y ago
I found it interesting they made a point about rebooting. Considering if you had people turn off their PC's at night, you could save almost double that when you take into account the energy it takes to run a PC and a single monitor. Althoug
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by darksaga 14y ago
Sorry, should have been more clear. By "it" I meant the sites where bitcoins are being traded. And yes, seeing these sites getting hacked frequently makes mainstream acceptance a lot harder. Which in turn makes changing the paradigm take a
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by darksaga 14y ago
Also keep in mind this is in a country with around 5 million people and an area of around 330K sq miles. By contrast, Texas has 25 million people in roughly the same sq mile area. Making such promises shouldn't be hard considering the size
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by darksaga 14y ago
Agreed. I know a lot of people who start to flirt with the notion of using Bitcoin, only to have their dreams smashed when they learn how frequently these companies and their accounts are hacked. It may be anonymous, but its far from being
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by darksaga 14y ago
The thing that's scary is how easy it is for these people to get away with what they're doing. I wonder how much money is lost every year and how many hackers you never hear about going to jail for this stuff. I'm pretty sure this is the mo
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by darksaga 14y ago
I'm actually glad they are continuing on and fighting the stigma of the "best social network that never was". I have used Diaspora's site for a while and prefer it to Facebook and Google+. The problem is trying to maintain three separate so
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FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals(wired.com)
3 points by darksaga 14y ago|0 comments
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by darksaga 14y ago
Great point. I had a friend who worked as a salesmen at Thomson West when they still owned Thomson Learning which published all their academic materials. To say the industry is entrenched is an understatement. My friend told me once a publi
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by darksaga 14y ago
I agree with having someone who's already in the role interviewing you. Let the HR and managers interview the programmers last. This way you can filter out a ton of people before they waste everybody's time. One my last interviews the guy w
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by darksaga 14y ago
I had the same reaction when I saw the issue with the title, "How to Beat the CIA - Keep Everybody Out with our Ultimate Privacy Guide."
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by darksaga 14y ago
Real or not, it's still a very powerful piece of literature. I think there's an underlying theme to the story - a lot of our history is being lost or superseded by the internet. There's so many things we have left to learn from "The Greates
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by darksaga 14y ago
I had the same reaction. He would have kept his respect with me had he lobbed a few grenades in his resignation letter. However, kicking the devil in the nuts and then expecting something positive to happen was surprising.
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by darksaga 14y ago
Saying because you want to go public, your company is legit is a pretty weak argument to me. There have been plenty of "shady" companies who've gone public. The one that comes to mind most recently is Weedmaps: http://bit.ly/ILSmST
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by darksaga 14y ago
I've actually found most of the growth is in rural communities, not large urban areas. In the 2010 census, you saw low increases, or even decreases in these areas, while more rural areas gained large numbers. For instance, Cook County in Il
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by darksaga 14y ago
After seeing some early videos, I had mixed thoughts. I was impressed with the idea of the game, but thought for all the time he spent on it, it might be over the heads of 85% of the gamers out there. I'm still wondering if he's just puttin
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by darksaga 14y ago
I can back you up on this. I also worked at corporate as a contracter on the dotcom team and it was a total circus. After outsourcing the work for their website for so many years, the entire site was a disaster. Not to mention the "busines
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Brian Dunn resigns as Best Buy CEO(startribune.com)
3 points by darksaga 14y ago|0 comments
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by darksaga 14y ago
During the dot com boom days, I sustained an epic burnout. I quit playing hockey and soccer to concentrate on a buddies startup. It was the worst thing I could've done. Within months I was consumed by the work, when the crash came, I was to
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by darksaga 14y ago
Agreed. I've had several bad experiences with Google's AdSense and it was a real pain in the ass to deal with them. They suspected one of my accounts of click fraud and it took almost 2 years of back and forth to finally get my money back.
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by darksaga 14y ago
I think its important to note, even if this was some contracted company who put up the site, you would think designers would either know better, or at least have the skills to create something similar. I'm by no means a whiz with Illustrato
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by darksaga 14y ago
This is pretty typical. Slamming the standardised tests, without actually giving a better alternative. Maybe instead of complaining about this, these teachers should get together and figure out how to keep from letting so many kids fail out
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by darksaga 15y ago
I really feel like this is a ploy to get a chunk of Facebook, just like they did to Google ( http://cnet.co/w7IaUn ). $50B? That equates to "X" amount of shares, which Y! would snap up in an instant. For a company flailing in the water righ
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by darksaga 15y ago
As someone who just went through this, I had a similar experience. I was on contract through January. January comes around and I figure I'll have a gig no problem. As a front-end developer, I already had recruiters knocking down my door. A
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by darksaga 15y ago
Thanks for a great post Paul. I had a similar experience when I was in college. I was close to finishing school, partied a lot and generally went through life without a care. One night, we were at a bar, and the trains ran right through tow
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by darksaga 15y ago
This pretty much sums it up from the article: "While sup_g may indeed have been a "credible threat," he was in the end no match for the overwhelming federal resources of the FBI agents hunting him down. Over the last month, federal agents s
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by darksaga 15y ago
I actually used it when I was getting going with Rails. Trying to install rails on Windows was a nightmare. Your tutorial was so easy to follow and was invaluable right after I had switched over to Mint from Mandriva.

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