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by five18pm 13y ago
You are equating higher cost with better quality. There usually is a correlation, but with US healthcare's opaqueness with prices, I wouldn't make that correlation. Leaving aside that, people do in fact make medical decisions base
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The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography(businessinsider.com)
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by five18pm 13y ago
How does one go about eating the sun or the trillion trillion watts produced by sun? You need all that energy converted to something edible - that means there is at least one job, agriculture. If you can automate that, then there is the job
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by five18pm 13y ago
Dead cells, liver byproducts
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by five18pm 13y ago
Let me add couple more: (1) Asking for a feature and then never showing up once when it is being built. "Hey, we are adding this page here. Is it okay?" <No answer>. "Hey, is this workflow good?" <No answer>.
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by five18pm 13y ago
McAfee web gateway flags this site as 'Malicious site.' Something to check there.
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by five18pm 13y ago
Allowing foreign investment is a minor problem in ecommerce space. Flipkart has foreign investment via VCs for quite some time. There are a lot more fundamental issues in ecommerce space. (1) Low penetration of credit cards - Banks have slo
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by five18pm 13y ago
Derek Lowe has real high class humor. I always end up knowing new things while laughing like a maniac. It just makes things a little awkward at office though. I always had to keep watching over my shoulder just so that no one would notice t
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by five18pm 14y ago
Some one did both to our startup. It was one of the most productive meetings that I had. The conclusion that we needed to shut shop was pretty clear after that meeting. It was something that I guess we knew already, but needed validation (y
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by five18pm 14y ago
Its not a troll comment. I just spent 3 hours poring over how CUPS worked in 12.04 and trying to find out why my USB printer is not working. I just could not fix it and rebooted my laptop to Windows to print. And this after installing the o
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by five18pm 14y ago
Steven Pinker's book 'The Stuff of Thought' deals with this sort of phrasing. And he explains it quite better than what I can. So here is the relevant excerpt from the book: Why don't people just say what they mean? The reason is that conv
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by five18pm 14y ago
Happy Birthday Slashdot! It still has some of the best discussions in tech world.
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by five18pm 14y ago
Should we support NFC? Should we launch a digital wallet? Should we build a robotic Prius? Should we develop augmented reality glasses and launch those glasses by doing a live Google+ hangout with skydivers jumping out of a blimp over San
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by five18pm 14y ago
> And beating expectations buoys our mood. All else being equal, people who wait less than they anticipated leave happier than those who wait longer than expected. The same philosophy which underlies the familiar "under promise and over
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by five18pm 14y ago
That's the troubling part. Even when Ben came to know that Tim was not conducting 1:1s, his first instinct should be to know why 1:1s were not happening. He could've asked Steve or even Tim. Maybe Tim had a different way of knowing and talk
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by five18pm 14y ago
You took the words out of me. Even if there are no external customers waiting for the release, a business' other departments have to plan their activities. When will marketing start their pre-release activities without engineering's estimat
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by five18pm 14y ago
App discovery is a problem for consumers as well. My iPad does not show no more than ~40 games. I don't know if I am not looking hard enough or I just can't browse more than that what the app store app shows. I can search for an app, but I
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by five18pm 14y ago
Iron in the blood is paramagnetic. It is not affected by magnets.
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by five18pm 14y ago
Guns are not banned in India. It just takes more effort to get guns. You need a license to own a firearm. One of the high courts declared that unless there is something adverse against the candidate one cannot be denied license. This effect
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by five18pm 14y ago
This is more broken than email. 1. This solution eliminates the decentralized nature of email. 2. No solution for corporate customers who would want to keep their emails private. 3. How would new contacts form?
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by five18pm 14y ago
That Haskell is used extensively in trading is quite interesting to know. This distinction did not come out that well on the wiki link. This is probably the reorganization that the page needs. Split in to sections highlighting companies whi
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by five18pm 14y ago
I thought the link would be of companies that use Haskell as their primary language of development, but it is more of companies which use/had used Haskell in one of their projects. The former would be interesting to know, if indeed such com
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by five18pm 14y ago
Why didn't they think of using dedicated servers? Dedicated servers would have been more economical than using so many VPSes.
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by five18pm 14y ago
At my previous work we used docking stations for the laptops. So at desk I had my big 22" monitor, mouse and regular keyboard connected to my laptop and whenever I am away I still had everything that I worked on with me. Then again I was a
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by five18pm 15y ago
Also, I've not actually heard of Copycopter before, and I think it's a bit of a stretch to make the causative link between your announcement of shutting down, to also having AOL and Oink following suit. Correlation does not prove causation
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by five18pm 15y ago
This is what happens in front of every single Indian government office - state or central :(
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by five18pm 15y ago
Do you like your team members? If not, find out why and find a reason to like them. Once you develop that basis to like your team members, everything else will fall in to place. You will take interest in their activities, not just in terms
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by five18pm 15y ago
In a different location Mark does talk about the x-axis - the x-axis is "Time and Money" http://smartfaststartup.com/2011/06/08/real-secret-to-startu... Which make the loops palatable.
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by five18pm 15y ago
If he had been good, he wouldn't have linked to tvtropes in the first place ;).