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by meiji 13y ago
How does watching movies on a laptop rather than a TV create "Time. I have time. Lots of it". I think he's missing the part in his life where you can own something without having to use it all the damn time.
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by meiji 14y ago
Slightly puzzled how this is a surprise. I've been amazed that they've managed to sell hardware without any of their own support for some time. Nobody else gets away with it unless it's rebadged for someone who does have a call centre
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by meiji 14y ago
Pretty sure Google have already announced they'll release an iOS version of maps. That said it can't come soon enough. I've no idea how they've defined POIs on Apple's maps but they need to go back to the drawing board. Where I live there's
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by meiji 14y ago
I'm not sure why this is any sort of surprise. Ever since Kickstarter began there have been lots of great ideas, lots of awful ideas. Some of the great ideas have been clearly way too ambitious for small teams but people happily donate mone
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by meiji 14y ago
He's not a UK citizen so that's not it. The Australians aren't calling for his extradition or arrest so that's not it either. It could just be that he had bail terms set and broke them and the Swedes want a chat about those pesky rape alleg
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by meiji 14y ago
It doesn't matter whether in other places it's not illegal; it isn't legal where he did it. Ignorance of the law is no excuse either so what you have is a rape suspect fleeing. It's not the same as the Polanski case admittedly but it's not
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by meiji 14y ago
It's also a different thing. He's also wanted in the UK for breaching his bail conditions. So he not only has the extradition hanging over him but he's broken the law in the UK now.
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by meiji 14y ago
Obviously he has every right to be paranoid about the US trying to extradite him but you have to wonder how far he's willing to go on this. I think the Assange story long ago eclipsed the Wikileaks story (look how little attention Bradley M
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by meiji 14y ago
Lots of sales organisations do this but clearly for them, the volume of sales and customer churn are quantifiable. Quite how you rank 10 engineers in a non-emotional way is a bit of a puzzle.
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by meiji 14y ago
Just wondering; how does this differ from products like StopTheHacker and SiteLock (amongst others)? I mean, the idea is a solid one, but there's a few players in this arena already.
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by meiji 14y ago
From the article - "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers." No it doesn't. It underscores the vulnerabilities of not understanding your hosting and accepting the "no o
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by meiji 14y ago
I think in half the places I've worked I'd be drunk all the time and the CEOs would be bankrupt. It would definitely focus the mind of people who book in meetings that they really know they won't make but throw in there to placate people an
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by meiji 14y ago
I have to agree and it happens in all areas but actually in a slightly different form usually. To take the analogy from the post, you start walking 20 miles a day and then someone says that it seems easy to do that so why not up it to 30 m
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by meiji 14y ago
The problem doesn't just exist with small companies and startups. I've worked with C-level people from established companies who are no more self-aware; they feel the job title makes them important rather than responsible. They feel the job
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by meiji 14y ago
It may be they had a legitimate reason to do this (perhaps some suspicious outgoing volume, reports of abuse etc) but whether they'll ever admit this is the case is unknown. I worked at a big email provider and we'd VERY rarely log into cus
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Ask HN: "Cloud" based phone system for call centre
1 points by meiji 14y ago|1 comments
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by meiji 14y ago
"Cool" is undefinable and you also need to consider one thing. Look a the number of cool people you've known who are unsuccessful because they view being cool as a priority rather than other things in their lives. A lot of people I went to
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by meiji 14y ago
If you use it they have the latest version but clearly aren't updating the homepage. Also, it's Windows browsers which is not quite as much use as it might be
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by meiji 14y ago
The issue with these postcode databases is that once they're released to a customer there's no real way of tracking if they get reused elsewhere. The contract I had with the Royal Mail in the UK mandated destruction of all media and backups
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by meiji 14y ago
Do we even have the names of companies that have done it or is it just one or two and the rest is just urban whispers making it sound like everyone does it? I have, and will continue, to check people out on social networks using publicly av
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by meiji 14y ago
I was told a long time ago that if the journalist/publication IS the story, something has gone wrong (excluding genuinely serious news like NewsCorp or the journos killed in Syria). Any time someone who runs a news website and spends almost
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by meiji 15y ago
Now if only they wouldn't call it the Pirate Party, it might actually attract more mainstream attention. Self-marginalising your political ethos because of the name seems remarkably short sighted. Sadly too many people won't get past the na
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Ask HN: simple internal purchase order web app
4 points by meiji 15y ago|0 comments
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by meiji 15y ago
Essentially, you can "sell" rights to negotiate with you exclusively. It's often used so that the seller can focus on a single party but gets a reasonable payoff if the sale doesn't go ahead for any reason. The other party therefore has to
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by meiji 15y ago
Well that's the problem everyone has with competitor acquisition; how much of it is a business info harvest and how much is real. How about sitting down with them to talk, getting a feel for what they're actually about (asking if they have
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by meiji 15y ago
Is it my imagination or is this a lot like the vision for Mozilla Raindrop. I was quite disappointed that they started talking about it and then stopped work on it almost at the same time. The ability to pump all of your messaging into a si
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by meiji 15y ago
I think there's a general myth that you can't have your cake and eat it. Startup - work 24/7 or it'll tank. Work for a corporate - work 24/7 or you won't get noticed and be in the typing pool your entire life. Work in finance - work 24/7 or
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by meiji 15y ago
People often assume that clearance is only given out in rare circumstances. It's surprising how easy it is to be told you need it and often when you're dealing with certain agencies it's easier for them to make sure you get it so that if th
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by meiji 15y ago
I touch type. It's the result of almost 30 years behind a keyboard but I don't think what I do is the "right" way
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by meiji 15y ago
I was expecting an interesting nugget of info. Too many companies employ someone to do something vague because they like the person. It rarely works out and then someone has to deal with the fallout. As loads of others have said, that was a

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