thisisfmu

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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Why let the exception case (removing an external drive quickly) ruin the main use case? going forward it seems reasonable to assume ubiquitous network connectivity, so you can simply treat external drives as a cache and show a non-modal ale
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
It's basically search engine spam generated from SEC docs. Adds needless verbosity to when people want the info in a concise format. When looking for actionable financial info I hate having to read through sentences when a table or graph wi
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
i do not think it is as clear-cut that brand advertisers will pay higher rates or even accept the format as they may think. sure, conversion/recall etc might be higher but company X making me do some annoying work is not exactly endearing t
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
making me type advertiser-specified words on a mobile device to visit some site? terrible and easily worse than an interstitial.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Double Recall looks like one of the very few startups that would make the world a worse place if they succeed :(
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Congrats to all! Among the revealed ones I am most excited about (and would invest in) Parse -- solves a real problem, it is easy to see how it can be commercially viable, and there is very little technology risk. Kind of wish I had thought
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
this was also pg's argument when i asked him to remove some postings made with another account that accidentally revealed confidential info about a friend's company, so i considered this would be fair game. EDIT: post deleted -> put the
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
i did go to law school and am thus reasonably well aware of how laws work ;) having no specific knowledge about sweepstakes regulations, i does not appear completely unreasonable to me that a random drawing in each territory completely chan
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Good story. Wouldn't a better hack have been to draw input values in both countries, then communicate this input to the other location and XOR the results to determine the final outcome, so the drawing will actually have happened in both te
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
It works even with a US delivery address in your account that is separate from a possibly non-US billing address. You can simply switch back and forth the country in your profile to optimize for catalog availability and pricing.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Thank you for sharing your observations. Out of curiosity: might the fact that - as revealed in this story - there has been an outstanding warrant for the guest at the time of booking have any bearing on airbnb's liability? Can a host reaso
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Same here. Laid out the estimated added cost of enforcing payment via the court system besides interest to them, received payment soon after. Somehow the psychology of getting a "discount" from avoiding litigation seems to work.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
What explains the proliferation of UK incubators, given the rather modest success achieved here with similar programs?
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Is the consensus that charging equity for introductions is okay when you call yourself an incubator but abusive when an individual does it?
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
As a founder I disagree. The decision for or against a VC is not made by employees and if anything a16z protected the interests of major shareholders over job hopping opportunists and non-performing executives. I would expect savvy employee
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Not to draw this out further but I do think variations of these make for good interview questions for entry-level people. Here is why: First, it is trivial to communicate the problem and any moderately competent person will find a solution
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
I would not be surprised if the subset of allowed characters was motivated by ensuring easy input cross a variety of gaming devices and console UIs. Of course, I also would not be surprised if this was due to sheer stupidity.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
downvoter dumb. no hire.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
consider the following example where the condition "one ball is heavier than the others" holds true but your method yields the wrong solution: {1,10} vs {6,6} when it is further specified that all remaining balls are of equal weight then yo
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
this is incorrect. the sum of n>1 balls each of some non-maximum weight needs not be less than another set including the max-weight one.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
It does lower the bar for people afraid of torrents. Think analog loophole, playing back a music video on Youtube and recording speaker output into a file.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
It's good to have observed it in the wild, at some distance, but becoming part of such a tribe alters your perception of what is acceptable and qualifies as good enough. Like a reverse Heisenberg effect.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Could this be due to short demand from insiders to protect the IPO value of their stock until the lock-up period expires?
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
Legal agreements between companies for material contracts look nothing like an EULA.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
afaik the Rapportive back end is built in scala.
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
"upgraded for free" is the new "fixed the most egregious shortcomings"
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
returning from a recent trip to continental Europe I was shocked at how dilapidated most of the UK looks compared to Germany and Austria. I wonder to what extent this is a matter of cultural priorities and taste rather than an indicator of
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by thisisfmu 15y ago
"order of magnitude" usually refers to the base 10 exponent, e.g. two orders of magnitude more means approximately 100x
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by thisisfmu 16y ago
skype alternatives do have a (small) chance despite strong network effects. 1/ policy makers do not like running a third-party closed-source obfuscated binary with undefined behavior aggressively evading firewalls inside their business or c
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by thisisfmu 16y ago
what this could mean for Square is that since there is no security in practice one could argue they should pay the higher fees applicable to card-not-present transactions or where the number has been entered manually rather than the typical

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