misterbee

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by misterbee 11y ago
Even worse, Apple etc do engineering work in EU, and then lie to regulators to say that "no innovation happens in Europe" to avoid local taxes.
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by misterbee 11y ago
thought experiment: What if Apple spun out Apple Design as a US company and paid it contract rates to invent, much like it outsources factories to Chinese companies? then how are the holding-companies profits taxes?
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by misterbee 11y ago
That's great, for each of you there are 10 people who look like you but who rip off their clients. So what's a client to do?
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by misterbee 11y ago
Google's original name was "BackRub". Facebook was "TheFaceBook". They changed the name when it mattered.
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by misterbee 11y ago
That's product quality, not market fit. Market fit is reaching the people who would buy your product, and meeting their needs, before you are famous enough for them to find you.
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by misterbee 11y ago
they are researchers, not employees. Employees are the people you need to do drudge work in a professional manner.
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by misterbee 11y ago
that's because the Garmin screen was resistive, not capacitive, and it was years before autocomplete tech.
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by misterbee 11y ago
the term "product-market (mis)fit" means that the product failed to find its market, not that the product has no market. The term for that is "shitty product".
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by misterbee 11y ago
> It's very hard to drop someone else into an unfamiliar codebase and have them pick up where the original person left off, Eh, this is what every new employee at an established company does. And when a startup has a "technical
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by misterbee 11y ago
That doesn't really hold up. Once we are well clear of the minimum wage, there is room to have an inversion where there are 1000 positions to fill and 500 qualified candidates who could auction-price themselves above the profit they ge
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by misterbee 11y ago
Your whole argument hinges on an assumption that national borders are somehow relevant in determining which workers are entitled to jobs. You could recast the same argument in terms of races, and it holds up equally well -- reserving jobs f
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by misterbee 11y ago
That doesn't make sense. The marginal rate for an H1-B employee should be approximately the same as the marginal rate for a local employee -- If talent is truly scarce, then your existing employees wages are bid up to the max already.
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by misterbee 11y ago
Well, "foreign" indicates that the operation was likely illegal. You might think that law unfairly discriminatory, but even so, if it is lowering wages, it is a net-loss overall, as more money its pocketed by wealthy owners instea
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by misterbee 11y ago
Are we overlooking the crime associated with corporate management, the featherbedding, and how non-union company employees abjectly failed to thrive in the -- what's a "post-post-WWII era" anyway?
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by misterbee 11y ago
This is not true. You pay supply/demand. Someone with less expenses, or visa constraints, or other geographic constraints, but equally talented, will accept a lower wage.
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by misterbee 11y ago
Stay at a fun retirement home!
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by misterbee 11y ago
Actually, forgetting is the way to feeling as happy again. If you can forget. Imagine standing at your child's wedding, or your grandchild's wedding, beaming, and then remembering that your spouse isn't next to you.
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by misterbee 11y ago
> trigger responses > game
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by misterbee 11y ago
Not close at all. --Wait, which one are you saying is higher? Because different people have different values; there's no need to shit on someone's life choices if they aren't hurting people.
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by misterbee 11y ago
There's nothing to "fix" about not being around for every single moment. "firsts" aren't really such a big deal. 1. There are many many "firsts". 2. Each one isn't really a "first", bec
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by misterbee 11y ago
Advertising will evolve slightly -- to manipulate your AI agent's decisions, sort of like SEO today.
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by misterbee 11y ago
Note: no need to click, that quote is the only interesting fact in an op-ed piece full of disjointed blather.
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by misterbee 11y ago
Full ACID reliability is not mission critical for them.
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by misterbee 11y ago
There are so many presentations of the form "We're using Erlang/Scala/whatever, it's so awesome!", but so few followups when they give up on the idea for production..
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by misterbee 11y ago
But who wants a phone that is going to junk out on every second OS version update?
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by misterbee 14y ago
You can't say they ran a bait-and-switch or anything; they laid out their plans right at the start. Viewers were confused about which character in the commercial represented Apple...
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by misterbee 14y ago
It's just grandstanding. You can't get your favorite TV shows or apps on Linux.
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by misterbee 14y ago
The payment for jury duty is "the rights and privileges of US citizenship". It's a civic duty, not a work-for-hire.
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by misterbee 14y ago
If it's compatible , it's open-and-shut for NON-infringement, since copying for compatibility purposes is protected by law.
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by misterbee 14y ago
Or they knew about him and made a bet that he would taint the decision and get the case dismissed on appeal in front of a judge, who understands and appplies law better than civilians.

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