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by philk 14y ago
I'm not really sure the direction they're taking the iMacs is optimal. Yes, they look lovely but ultimately they're a desktop and not portable in the first place. With a notebook I'll sacrifice upgrades for portability, with a desktop por
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by philk 14y ago
Because I'm functioning on little sleep and managed to miss that. If one of the mods could change the URL to point to the original I'd be grateful.
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Why Leo Traynor’s troll story may be a lie(resistradio.com)
56 points by philk 14y ago|61 comments
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by philk 14y ago
I agree, being a good salesman is fantastic. Good products don't go anywhere without good sales. Hell, bad products can go places with good sales. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Balance ) However, HN is fairly engineer heavy and sa
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by philk 14y ago
It seems to me he's doomed either way. If he comes on here and says I built this and you all need to buy it right now , well then he's obviously just a salesman. If he comes on here and says I built this, don't buy it if you don't meet th
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by philk 14y ago
I prefer reading too but most people will pay more for a video than they will for an ebook regardless of the value contained within because they've been trained repeatedly that books are cheap.
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by philk 14y ago
That is a really nice sales letter and I've bookmarked it to read through repeatedly when I need to write one. It nails the long form sales format and manages to do so without sounding sleazy[1]. I particularly like the Do not buy this
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Ex-FBI informant tells how the FBI manufactures terror plots then thwarts them(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by philk 14y ago|0 comments
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by philk 15y ago
If their security is as good as their blogging it's time to consider travelling by bus. Also their "20 layers of security" chart[1] is an unintentionally hilarious masterpiece. Note the arrow they've drawn circumventing every layer of sec
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Warren Buffett: Crony Capitalist(reason.com)
2 points by philk 15y ago|0 comments
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by philk 15y ago
This is why so many men find "getting laid" very important in their lives. I hate to be That Guy, but speaking as someone who's actually had sex I can attest that there are actually other reasons.[1] Enough so that in the middle east w
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Research Works Act Defeated(slate.com)
1 points by philk 15y ago|0 comments
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The Boy Who Played With Fusion(popsci.com.au)
2 points by philk 15y ago|0 comments
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by philk 15y ago
This would be fascinating. It would be great if you did this.
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by philk 15y ago
The worst thing about working yourself to death at Zynga would be knowing you were toiling to produce shoddy little pseudo-games. At least when, say, jwz was putting in insane hours at Netscape he was building Netscape Navigator. Also thos
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by philk 15y ago
If there's one thing that makes me want to pirate steam games it's being charged a large premium because I'm not in the US. The money is immaterial, it's the feeling that I'm being taken advantage of.
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by philk 15y ago
It's times like this that I wish there was more scrutiny of the media itself. We've got a reporter, Soledad O'Brien, who is cynically exploiting an issue so she can get a good story and she doesn't have to answer questions about her behavi
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by philk 15y ago
I agree that nobody owes the world comments but the point of a conciliatory blog post is to make people stop hating you. If they're still hating you to the point where you've had to turn off comments then your post isn't doing its job prop
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by philk 15y ago
I would like to remind people that contacting us with abusive e-mail messages is in fact illegal and we will be taking the appropriate steps to forward these messages and information gathered to both the relevant ISP’s and law enforcement
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by philk 15y ago
I know this is going to be unpopular and I know Sam has been remarkably tone deaf[1] when it comes to dealing with people but I'm disturbed by how much damage one stupid, somewhat douchey action is going to do his reputation. [1] Yes, and e
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by philk 15y ago
I think people can take what they want from Top Gear, it's entertainment, not factual TV. Part of the entertainment is that it's presented as though it is factual TV. Sure if you look at a lot of their antics you can tell they're staged
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Hands-Off Training: Google's Self-Driving Car(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by philk 15y ago|0 comments
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by philk 15y ago
That said, the real blow to the PR firm is not that it looks sleazy but that it looks incompetent . Being known as a sleazy but effective PR firm will get you plenty of customers. Being known as sleazy and incompetent will not.
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by philk 15y ago
What's missing in these cases is context: ie "Fail fast" vs "be persistent" "Be persistent" applies to your overall goal - business success - whereas "fail fast" applies to methods you use to achieve that goal.
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by philk 15y ago
I'd rather someone was deterring Telstra from levying such exorbitant charges in the first place than wasting my tax dollars locking someone up for such a minor crime.
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The Trial of Mary Bale (The woman who put a cat in bin)(ft.com)
2 points by philk 15y ago|0 comments
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Miss Grundy was Fired Today(nymag.com)
2 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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by philk 16y ago
Nowadays I have trouble looking at any mainstream news sites without being incredibly disappointed. I'd be willing to give actual money to an organization that a) actually understood what they were reporting and b) reported facts rather t
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North Korea's Digital Underground(theatlantic.com)
129 points by philk 16y ago|23 comments
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by philk 16y ago
It's not that TechCrunch comments were great, it's just the way that Facebook seems to produce really stilted and artificial interaction: a) Half the comments in my news feed are dull trivia. ("I just ate a ham sandwich"). b) The other half

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