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Comment #9129533
The thing I like about CSM is if you hover over (or click on, I can't recall exactly) the ratings for each category they outline why which helps you make your own mind up how flexi…
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Comment #8984053
everybody* * not everybody
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Comment #8898693
You might want to have a think about what the drug trade does and has done to some South American and East Asia counties before you cry victimless. A legalised drug trade could be …
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Comment #8850506
A bit more on this: Android licencing means that no company is allowed to ship both Google Android and non-Google Android. This means that to ship Google Android on the phone they …
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Comment #8844829
Two KSP mentions: Q: In order to use the full MCT design (100 passengers), will BFR be one core or 3 cores? EM: At first, I was thinking we would just scale up Falcon Heavy, but it…
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Comment #8704493
Australia also has crocodiles, box jelly fish, sharks, lethal spiders... I don't think that I'm imagining that Australia has more species of lethal animals than any other country. …
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Comment #8703785
Interestingly if you put in the cliche American free market priorities (jobs, income high, safety, work life balance, environment low, everything else in the middle) the US does co…
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Comment #8681312
Worth pointing out now that Ember Data is still in Beta. It's a late Beta so you're probably safe but it's not impossible that it will change.
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Comment #8681303
We're using Ember and have been for a couple of years now and it's come a long way in that time. 12 months ago I'd have struggled to recommend it but it's improved significantly. W…
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Comment #8670563
Plus you opt out of the recommendations. I'm not sure what that means for it actually scanning your device and passing it to Twitter.
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Comment #8667089
Switching costs are low but the barriers to entry into the market are massive - Larry and Sergi starting out today wouldn't be able to build a competitive search engine. The more i…
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Comment #8667014
That would be an oligopoly and illegal. They could no more do that than oil companies could (legally) conspire to fix prices.
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Comment #8629998
You don't have web browsers on Linux? ;-)
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Comment #8607374
Given how over subscribed the beta is I think they're getting feedback. Remember with this sort of product the questions they have are "is this interesting?", "is this useful?", "d…
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Comment #8607358
I might agree with some things but not with e-mail, it's too important to most people say "hey this is probably OK but who knows". And because of that there is the risk of reputati…
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Comment #8607042
I disagree. They're short cuts you might take to get a product out and get early feedback, the same sort of shortcuts most of us have taken when pushed to release something sooner.…
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Comment #8607014
The last paragraph: "However, we still haven't figured out exactly why Google is blocking Inbox on Firefox. That the application is not working, seems to not be fully true. With so…
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Comment #8606437
Yep. My personal view from my interactions with HR (as a manager looking at redundancy, poor performance, sickness) is that they're best viewed as the Employment Law team.
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Comment #8602271
> Even a basic knowledge of labour laws is not a pre-requisite for a career in HR. This might be a US-centric view. In the UK if you don't know employment law you're no use as an H…
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Comment #8602261
HR is there to protect the company from all staff - yes you but also your manager and his/her ignorance of employment law. Maybe it's just a European thing but I've seen more HR pr…
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Comment #8601183
Google+ not being actively maintained by someone? I'm shocked I tell you...
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Comment #8601006
I agree re Linux and OSX but I could see iOS and Android. The scale of mobile is such that if you want to be relevant in the way MS have historically, they're two platforms you can…