thomasthomas

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by thomasthomas 5y ago
Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
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by thomasthomas 6y ago
1. Come to an agreed upon format with clients 2. SSIS
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by thomasthomas 7y ago
Similar to the rule of thumb I use: if adding 1 to the number gives you anything meaningful its a number.
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by thomasthomas 8y ago
Needs an "Are you still watching?" prompt as well. It will play every episode of a series if you fall asleep while watching. Would cut costs for them too.
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by thomasthomas 8y ago
"Im yet to see one that works as expected" it might be wasabi wallet. not 100% though
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by thomasthomas 8y ago
it's not "seen as a problem," the company just gets valued differently if growth is expected to slow
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by thomasthomas 8y ago
communities are moats too
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by thomasthomas 8y ago
add up all their expenses on all their 10k's and you have a baseline starting point.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
Put it in and be proud. Its an achievement, that's what resumes are for.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
Same reason google doesn't offer this for gmail.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
bezos has the worlds information on a device in his pocket. he can go to the grocery store and buy 1000s of different affordable items. yeah, hes the richest.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
just curious, what are you doing with ETH contracts? working on a product or just hobby?
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
i think their past issue was having to hire more sales people to scale revenue in a manual fashion talking to companies rather than having a robust programmatic platform they can rely on to bring in revenue with fewer headcount. not sure if
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
these comparisons are fine and fun. but a single iphone isnt that valuable if youre the only person on all the different networks an iphone gives you access to
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
makes sense. as majority of the population moves away from desktops, windows and mac will lose market share. the hardcore Linux users that aren't going anywhere will gain market share.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
visa fees? way less. total fees to the merchant per swipe is way under 3% for any sizable businesses. something like 1.2% + $0.10 was average when I worked for a payment processor.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
what is defined as a search? searching within social networks is most definitely a 'search' but probably not counted. I would estimate almost half my daily searches are on a social network.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
No investor pushes for more money back when the company can get a better ROI than the investor. Apple buybacks are a result of not having any better ideas on what to do with their cash stockpile.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
I agree except when you watch a game on twitter they force the generic #[whatever game it is] feed down your throat instead of being able to see your curated feed you spent years putting together.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
win7 is totally fine if you're up to date on patches.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
I think the author means XP and not Win7?
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
they're called 10-k's. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&S...
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
stand outside the building. ask to borrow some shares.
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
ticketmaster is now really good at preventing and detecting bots. I think the guys in the article are clever by taking their customer's payment info and using that in the bot. that's another difficulty a bot runs into while auto p
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
By one consultant's estimate, moreover, carrying sailors accounts for 44 percent of a ship's costs. I find this hard to believe even if autonomous ships can be done without a bridge. The Emma Maersk has 15,000 TEU and a crew of
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by thomasthomas 9y ago
taleb says himself in antifragile the answer is antifragile
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
talk to a recruiter like teksystems. find out who works for the NY office and send them an introductory email. I had the exact same issue a while ago and this was the solution, I had a job < 2 weeks after first contact. take a short cont
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Funny how amazon gets thrown in with facebook under the 'consumer tech industry' moniker. facebook sells ads to make money. amazon sells physical stuff. how are they related besides both using technology? I think we should group b
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
false dichotomy. can be higher end and cheaper.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Some companies are really dumb and only consider candidates with specific job titles on their resume. I've had recruiters from contract companies say "your experience is great but can we change your previous job title to X."

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