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by ggg9990 8y ago
Elon Musk tweets: “Check out this guy’s video of a Tesla he saw at the racetrack.” GM pays the guy $100K to update the video to a GM ad.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I like my headphone jack but I’d rather have none than one of those janky condoms.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Your non-lousy product stewardship would let me replace the video file of a John Carmack tech talk with an Amway recruiting video?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Unsolicited tip: cultivate some misanthropy so that you can relish downvotes.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Just bought an iPhone 6S four days ago because of this and the physical home button. $140 brand new.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Then surely a generic CEO can be referred to as “him” since 29/30 of Fortune 500 CEOs are men.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s not surprising. The people most interested in encryption want to trust nobody. That’s the goal of strong encryption, but as Ken Thompson says it’s not possible. Between the US Government and Moxie I’d trust Moxie but I’d rather trust n
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yes but Upwork wants a metric that doesn’t need a software engineer to adjudicate. If you say “this XHMTL validator works as specified because RFC 1913 was never formally accepted” it takes someone with a clue to figure out what you mean. U
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Between those companies developers have checked in tens or hundreds of thousands of exploitable bugs. It's not far-fetched to think that at least one of them might have been intentional.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The fact that the article says that “oil and tobacco” are the Bad Industries (that CS shouldn’t become like) says everything you need to know. There is no CS without oil.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
But there are many absurdly wealthy Muslim countries.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Not necessarily. Zuckerberg is basically accountable to no one as CEO. He can’t be fired even by the board. So Facebook’s motivations are whatever his own personal motivations are.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Email is effectively closed these days. You can’t really send email from your own server and expect it to be read.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
How many elementary school children have perished in school fires in the last 25 years?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Why is it considered good to minimize walking time and hallway time in schools?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Twitter doesn’t understand what makes it successful so it is loath to change anything.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I find it hilarious to put on a cheesy American comedy that I’ve seen before on the TV in a foreign language. I wouldn’t watch it actively but it’s something nice to have on while I clean up or do dishes.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The answer is: make elite connections. It’s entirely possible for someone with something real to offer but no other connections. It’s a bit like saying, “How do I become a basketball player?” Answer: get a ball and start practicing. Sure, i
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The GGRA includes nearly every significant restaurant in the Bay Area. Hope you like cooking. Your position is something like, “Man this Donald Trump guy is f’in horrible. Give me a list of all Americans so I can remember to never talk to t
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That’s a great analogy. Almost all machines have consumable parts to save the rest of the parts from wear (in a car, it’s things like brake pads and motor oil). In companies, the workers are the consumable parts that are chewed up so that t
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The Fortune 500 makes up 73% of American GDP.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
No, it’s a hypothetical situation where a reporter can create the conditions for a money quote.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Teams is a shitty version of Slack but it’s bundled and included with Office 365 which almost every big business licenses. Free is a hard offer to refuse.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Could also be a reporter misquoting. Reporter says, “how do you respond to someone who says this creates fewer choices for people?” CEO: “There’s fewer choices for people, but they are better than choices.” Boom, first half is the money quo
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Not really, Teams is half as large and growing much faster because it’s glued to the side of Office 365.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Really surprised that a CEO would make a comment like that on the record.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I don’t know what you mean “blame...” Spotify licenses certain music in certain countries and not in others. That’s not some kind of crime against the user, so I blame no one.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Nothing in the constitution says that a jurisdiction can’t ban free food.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Everything in Spotify is extremely region specific. I’ve flown from the US to Asia and lost the ability to play some songs.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I'm not talking about the companies themselves... but media outlets who don't have a responsibility to market the companies they're covering.

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