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I use :visible. The notes say it can increase speed 17x in certain cases.

Soon enough, I will know if it is a windy or sunny day by looking at the AWS EC2 spot price.

I am afraid it would cost $2M to try to pay back $1.7M... i think they should first spend their time and $$ in making sure they fix the issues going forward.

Yes, yes, and yes. In my case, i met someone with the idea i believed in. So talk to people, make it known you want to try something.

I had money in the bank to live 12 months without salary, because i always wanted to start my own business, and money helps.

When the opportunity arised, i was ready. It worked out, i got lucky. If it did not, my reasoning was that 12 months later, i would get a better job because of the experience and lessons learned.

Always wanted to be a business owner. Played with spreadsheets many times. Started a couple of ideas, never shared them with anyone, never launched. Started something with a friend, made $1,000, stopped there.

Took 10-15 years. Found the right business opportunity. The job itself did not look that interesting, but played on my strengths/skills, and looked like a serious business that could make money. Got it going. Liked being on my own. Liked growing the business, servicing my clients. Found the core part of the business annoying, the tech part interesting.

Still going at it, many years later. Very happy since, very happy now.

Don't abandon your direct efforts, let the wind blow where it may. Not incompatible.

You can laugh at everything but not with everyone. (Pierre Desproges)

Before you make an offensive joke, check who's around you.

People used to compete socially by having the biggest house, the biggest car.

Millenials do it with instagram pictures instead?

Fair to think it is wrong. But "hilariously"? When there are hundreds of thousands of jobs/livelihood that will disappear, with the sense of purpose they bring to people, i don't find it funny.

I now think the article has a point about arrogance.

SLC is 45 minutes away from some of the best ski resorts on the planet: Alta, Snowbird, Deer Valley, Park City... If you like skiing, it counts as outdoors!!

The argument was that in the US, they "only" collected metadata. No real phone calls. No big deal...

The power of their use of "only" metadata in Pakistan is frightening..

2008 is the keyword here. Lehman B going bankrupt. Fear.

Ditto. I cringed when i read this. It's like Boeing writing: "At Boeing we really care about building planes that can fly and be safe too." As a reader, I feel they think I am a little dumb.

From what i understand, to get on O visa, you are better off being one of the top 3 specialists worldwide in an obscure combination of OS language platform running on an old mainframe, instead of being in the top 1% of all Javascript/PHP developers.

A good immigration lawyer would help you figure your strategy here.

Be aware also that it does not not increase your probability to be a winner in the H1B lottery. You just know faster.

Economy is doing better than in 2013. So many more applicants. So lottery needed. In 2 days in April there are way more applicants than slots. If you apply 1 month later you're way behind, you're not even in the lottery.

"Apology is a sign of weakness"

I don't know if/when this culture will ever change.

One measuring stick will be when we see baseball pitchers apologizing to the batters they hit (intentionally or not).

Some people may have died, therefore have a hard time opt-out. Exposing them after their death is so wrong.

Most of the arguments I read here are: it's OK for Apple to do this because they're a closed app, and the same content is on Youtube anyway.

Tomorrow Google says: "We remove this content from Youtube, Apple did it anyway and many of you thought it was OK. We're a company making money too, we're not the Government".

Now what's the argument? The first one to censor is OK, the second one is not?

A few people will still say: they can still use their own player and servers!

Then the UK govt will block them, if one does not ask explicitely their ISP to have a access to it. Then Comcast will throttle them through bad peering.

Then nobody will care anymore if it gets blocked further or not, they're out of most people's reach already.

Welcome to the new 21st century.

Yes. The writer is definitely very smart. But on top of smart, he hustles. That's the part I admire most.

I have more respect for hustle than intelligence. Love this story.

Listen everyone! I have an excellent credit score, for 50cts I am your Facebook friend!

If that's the real value of college education, it's definitely not worth $40K a year x 4.

I see no chance in the world that a bleeding company busy laying off and restructuring will sue a laid off worker because he's trying to make 50-100K a year. Why would they pay more expensive lawyers to do that?

If the lay him off, it really meams they don't want that kind of business anyway. Companies are driven by business people, not lawyers.

Accomodation 4 nights: €42

Camping?

I find the quality of the writing quite impressive. Probably because it is vocabulary rich, with very well built sentences, while avoiding being pompous.

Why all this downvoting of this comment? You may disagree, he may be an outlier, but it's respectfully stated, and does not imply this is a universal truth. There is more information in a viewpoint out of the ordinary.

Will George Soros enter the fray and break the Bank of China? ;)

You cannot swear you will never be an Oracle customer. You buy a service from a third party, the company get bought by Oracle, you are a customer now. In many instances in B2B systems, it is a lot more pain to migrate away than sending a check...

The siphon

Slightly off-topic, but i find impressive that with the same 2,500 calories needed to power daily my moderately used smartphone, my body can walk, go up the stairs, lift heavy objects, do math, laugh and think.

Way to go to match the efficiency of the human body.