phene

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by phene 14y ago
I think you get the award for dumbest idea of the day.
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by phene 14y ago
Summary of the article: Stephen Convey Taught Me Not to Be Like Him, but screw that, I still want to.
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by phene 14y ago
I'm not sure anyone laughed harder than me upon hearing the news.
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by phene 14y ago
"Just do it" is a pretty shitty lesson.
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by phene 14y ago
Like he has a choice or control in the matter...
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by phene 14y ago
Or: "How to appear strong when you are weak." There's a word for people who never admit to a mistake: liars.
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by phene 14y ago
What trite linkbait.
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by phene 14y ago
Don't do it! Go find a small start-up doing something that interests you.
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by phene 14y ago
Seriously, screw TechChrunch. They're just this side of blog-spam.
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by phene 14y ago
What's the numeric representation of the volume of <silence>? 0 dB
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by phene 14y ago
You had me until "YOLO."
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by phene 14y ago
Cool story, bro.
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by phene 14y ago
When was the last time Microsoft had control of the image of any of its products?
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by phene 14y ago
The unfortunate thing with mime-types, is that even though you get text/* or image/*, they are not reliable. For example, how do you ask "is this an image I can reliably put into an <img/> tag and have it successfully render?" Fro
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by phene 14y ago
P2P? Oh, you must be depressed. Use the internet more often or leave your computer on? Depressed! Tend to surf the web and a variety of sites? How haven't you killed yourself by now?
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by phene 14y ago
I suspect the author hasn't read http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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by phene 14y ago
Counterpoint: Matz has no beard.
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by phene 14y ago
The biggest issue is that people still think of reddit as a single community. It's not, and you can't stereotype all of reddit by looking at /r/pics and /r/politics. You have control over your home page and can remove noisy subreddits fro
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by phene 14y ago
That is definitely a good idea, but what about the patents that are so blatantly vague or obvious, that many people are unknowingly violating them. It seems it's easier to prove non-infringement rather than prior art with most software pat
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by phene 14y ago
Because you lose the intimacy of start-up culture at scale.
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by phene 14y ago
I don't think I would ever work at Microsoft, but I feel especially that way because of leadership like Steve Balmer.
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by phene 14y ago
I find the abundance of "See? Smart people are actually dumber than I am!" posts amusing.
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by phene 14y ago
He's always a little over the top.
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by phene 14y ago
And yet there is no formal set of rules for names that can be enforced. Without it, we are forced to pick and choose assumptions.
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by phene 14y ago
Suddenly it feels like BusinessInsider is full of shit. Nope, that's always been the case.
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by phene 14y ago
No, Twitter shut down your spam engine.
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by phene 14y ago
Lack of choice and collusion by the major telecoms.
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by phene 14y ago
If it's open source, why would the agents be asking what algorithms it uses? I'm calling bullshit on this article and the tweets.
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by phene 14y ago
I certainly do, since I will never purchase a cable subscription and it costs me internet access and HBO nothing for me to pirate their shows.
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by phene 14y ago
Probably linkbait.

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