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by rscale 13y ago
I'm an Evernote Premium user, but I convinced my wife not to start using it because of this apparent misallocation of resources. I've had data loss within the (slow) core app, and the editor frustrates me; thus I find it kind of
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by rscale 13y ago
I also find the sentence Aaron faced to be excessive. For additional context, David Headley received a 35 year sentence for his active participation in the Mumbai bombings which killed 160 people.[1] The median sentence for murder and non-
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by rscale 13y ago
The dedicated work-only office was my most important productivity enhancement. It helped me prevent burnout (where I'd just work every single hour), and it also helped my spouse understand when I was "at work" and should be
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by rscale 13y ago
This is the same reason we switched from darcs to git. The value of ubiquity exceeded the value of our previous preferences.
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An Entrepreneur Who Wouldn’t Be Stopped by Anything(nytimes.com)
11 points by rscale 13y ago|1 comments
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by rscale 13y ago
That's an interesting catch. I'm guessing the gap was because the attacker commissioned the software at low cost, and didn't spot the problem. That said, the attack would still work well because Jeans plays nosebleed stakes
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by rscale 13y ago
I also have a pair of the Bose QC15s. They're fantastic for my open-plan office. Even very quiet music, when combined with their noise cancellation, will silence nearly all background noise.
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by rscale 13y ago
An MBA in entrepreneurship has business classes adapted for an entrepreneurial audience. A typical MBA involves the study of topics such as marketing, finance, risk management, accounting, economics, statistics, operations, HR, organization
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by rscale 13y ago
The U.S. patents in question: 6,957,224: Efficient retrieval of uniform resource locators; https://www.google.com/patents/US6957224 7,072,849: Method for presenting advertising in an interactive service; https:/&
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by rscale 13y ago
Why T-Mobile made the change is unimportant to me. I care that they made the change, and that they committed to it via zero lock-in contracts. If I feel that I'm not getting sufficient value at some point in the future, I can simply w
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by rscale 13y ago
We're using StatusPage and we host on AWS. We decided this was acceptable because they're in multiple AZs in a datacenter that isn't our primary. The (minor) risk presented by that is softened further by the fact that it&#x2
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by rscale 13y ago
I agree with you. It's perfectly reasonable for a firm to pour money into its customer acquisition machine so long as the return is greater than the cost of capital plus a risk premium. Failure to reinvest every dollar under those cir
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by rscale 13y ago
I was just thinking that this article could serve as the opening shot in an effort to create venture vehicles for retail investors.
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by rscale 13y ago
Perhaps the "intense pace of work" is the organizational equivalent of the myriad situations where the marginal returns of an additional hour of work are negative, but it feels like they should be positive, so we work/hack&#x
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by rscale 13y ago
Given that description, I could see you working quite effectively in a technical sales role (e.g. sales engineer).
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by rscale 13y ago
err... "a small convenience to small teams."
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by rscale 13y ago
Companies routinely fail to disable access to users who no longer need it, creating security risks and increasing costs. This seems very valuable to large teams, and like a small convenience to large teams.
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by rscale 13y ago
And if you fire somebody because they make a mistake, the result is a culture of coverups and blame shifting.
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by rscale 13y ago
Exactly. Even at the lowest transaction volumes MtGox charges 0.6%, so the operator can capture 15bps in each direction. That said, customers still face risk that the operator could use the deposits for expenses, or for dividends. I'
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by rscale 13y ago
It's likely my own ignorance, but I don't understand the concern you're raising. What's the relationship between frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology and communication/antenna records?
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by rscale 13y ago
If anybody needs true, total anonymity it's worth reading this paper before buying any cell phone: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3607247/pdf/srep... The paper shows that 95% of cell ph
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by rscale 13y ago
The most recent Planet Money podcast is also about patent trolls, and goes into a bit more depth about the guy who declared himself a co-inventor of podcasting. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-... EFF's effort
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by rscale 13y ago
It's due to rarely occurring problems such as APIs down/unresponsive, insufficient/incorrect instances available, and a third major class of problem that's frustrating my memory at the moment. In addition to not scaling up and down (autom
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by rscale 13y ago
I was shocked when I learned that many EC2 users with highly variable traffic don't spin down during off-peak because sometimes Amazon has problems that prevent them from spinning their instances back up. I love the idea of their cloud serv
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by rscale 13y ago
Excel makes this easy as well: http://cl.ly/image/1X2S121l2C3O No nerd cred, but it crosses the finish line.
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by rscale 13y ago
Facebook's engineering director Jocelyn Goldfein spoke about open office plans during her recent talk at Stanford. She explicitly stated that it decreases her team's productivity, but that it was embraced because it promotes "openness" whi
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by rscale 13y ago
And if you're using a DNS service that doesn't support SSHFP records, you can generate and distribute a base known_hosts file with your favorite configuration management solution.
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by rscale 13y ago
That's aligned with what I've seen, too. For example, I saw a group of seed investors try to identify potential patents in their portfolio companies as a way to increase the scrap value of the firms in the worst-case scenario. But they wer
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by rscale 13y ago
a₂) Your investors believe in the value of patents.
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The Show(pandodaily.com)
2 points by rscale 13y ago|0 comments

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