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by muhamm 17y ago
This article says that since 1965 the return on assets for US corporations has dropped by 75% while the biggest additions to the asset base over the same period have been hardware and software. The first question this seems to raise is what
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Technology investments have not paid off in corporate profits(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by muhamm 17y ago|4 comments
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by muhamm 17y ago
Shirky is a ridiculously good speaker. Thanks for posting this.
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Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ as Well (nytimes.com)
14 points by muhamm 17y ago|20 comments
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by muhamm 17y ago
-> "A good developer would never put the end of the digestive system right next to the start of the reproduction system - not even if that would require fewer lines of code (which it undoubtedly did)." Whatever point he's trying to ma
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Want to Work for the City of Bozeman, MT? Hand Over Your Passwords(readwriteweb.com)
5 points by muhamm 17y ago|0 comments
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by muhamm 17y ago
I doubt whether there is any conclusive empirical data on this question. Feel free to guess.
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by muhamm 17y ago
Pogue says he uses "typing expansion software" -> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/typing-expansion-s... That must take some getting used to. I use a similar feature in Netbeans for Ruby programming but didn't know there was
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by muhamm 17y ago
Not sure what you mean.
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by muhamm 17y ago
I really like Derek Sivers' blog but I have an issue about affiliate linking. Maybe it's just my issue but when I see Amazon affiliate links for all of the books on this list, it makes me hesitant to click them. Call me crazy perhaps.
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by muhamm 17y ago
Doesn't the company have a contractual obligation to pay you your wages even if it has to go into debt to do so? I don't see how they could get away with that.
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Ask HN: What question would tell you where someone's heart is?
6 points by muhamm 17y ago|17 comments
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by muhamm 17y ago
"Redfin is trying to rewrite the rules of the real estate industry." It would be nice if TechCrunch didn't copy the press release verbatim.
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by muhamm 17y ago
I don't find it particularly uncool to convey your meaning as effectively as you can, especially when, in a corporate environment, there is so much other data competing for the attention of your reader. Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try
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Ask HN: Could you limit all or most emails to five sentences?
2 points by muhamm 17y ago|2 comments
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by muhamm 17y ago
If this is a duplicate, it's one that a lot of people could benefit from. Summary: 1. Delete redundancies. 2. Use numbers and specifics instead of adverbs and adjectives. 3. Add missing context. 4. Focus on the strongest argument. 5. Dele
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by muhamm 17y ago
But multiple authors can have a different take on the same event. I don't want a 10-page thread with multiple links spread throughout. It's nothing to do with karma, which I could give a rat's ass about. In this case, I ignored the first st
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by muhamm 17y ago
There are many issues that get articles from multiple sources. You want us to start categorizing everything according to content instead of by url? I don't think HN is set up that way.
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by muhamm 17y ago
It's not a duplicate. This is a New York Times article. The other one is Sun's bullshit press release.
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by muhamm 17y ago
Sure. Sexual frustration is a given. Although not just among hackers. I'm just wondering why there's been a confluence of similar articles in such a short space of time. I'm not complaining about the articles. I think they're all interestin
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by muhamm 17y ago
What's up with all the "getting laid" threads on the front page the last couple of days? Spring is in the air?
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by muhamm 17y ago
To be honest, at first I also didn't like the lack of visual distinction between properties and methods but now I just like the fact that I don't have to type the extra characters. The implicit self is nice too.
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by muhamm 17y ago
Sure. But is that Python? You know in Ruby you wouldn't need the parens? It would work nicely for the sleep and dont_care methods since you're not passing any arguments.
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by muhamm 17y ago
I like monkeys too. Not enough stories about them on HN in my opinion.
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by muhamm 17y ago
I said the wrong thing again? There's a serious commitment to seriousness around here.
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by muhamm 17y ago
Of course we should be silly. As if the question even needs to be asked.
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by muhamm 17y ago
I can't believe you guys don't like the monkeys thing. Monkeys are always funny.
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by muhamm 17y ago
Title: Are monkeys taking over the job market? http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=programmer%2C+monkey&r...
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by muhamm 17y ago
Beggars can't be choosers. Sometimes you have to take what you can get to make the thing work.