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Companies like Apple, Netflix, Google, and Dell are 40% more productive than the average company, according to research from the leadership consulting firm Bain & Company. Fewer meetings?
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The main reason is they can afford to hire enough people for the job at hand.
That way their employees aren't exhausted from working two people's worth jobs each.
Either that or the rest of us are morons who take ages to get things done.
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Their point about Apple OSX misses the gargantuan point that they started with BSD and were willing to render everything before it incompatible (even while accepting that Microsoft is bloated) and even then, I think OSX sucks.
And where is Apple's brilliance when it comes to an IDE and dev environment that doesn't suck? As a native C++ guy, I find VS 2017 a disappointment, but it's worlds better than ANYTHING Apple has come up with.
So, I'm not convinced.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apple, Netflix, Google, and Dell
Google and Dell really stand out among the four, though.
Google produces bugs much faster than any of the others, and Dell produces bloatware far more bloated than the rest.
Now let's include adobe, ms, and big blue in the mix...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Scientists have built tiny logic machines out of single atoms that operate completely differently than conventional logic devices do. Scanning tunneling spectroscope available separately
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Good news, they have created a memory chip with a density of 20 godzilla bits on a substrate the size of a pin head.
Bad news, the sensor to read/write the thing is the size of a nuclear reactor.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Its unmanned Pouncer prototype that’s currently in the works will have a wingspan of nine feet and be constructed of various “foodstuff” to drop supplies and then itself into territories in need of aid. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's lunch!
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From the lady gaga school of design, no doubt.
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A Microsoft Research team has created a competition using Project Malmo, a platform that uses Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research. Building a mind: one block at a time
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It likely is possible (all sorts of decision circuits have been created using Redstone), but it will probably be very slow.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The open source compiler framework can now produce optimized code for languages that have this threadlike feature, but Swift and Rust are still lagging If you can think of something funny/insightful about coroutines, you're better than I
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yielding many threads...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Coroutines are Ok as long as they're not codependent!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Sorry. I got too many ideas at once; I can't choose.
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Company announces new privacy policy following revelations that police gained special access to the social networks to track protesters That's their job
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Only we may be evil (or just creepy) - you are not allowed to use us to be evil/creepy.
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They might be evil/creepy as well... but not for free 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Their ban is to change their service agreement. It's like Ford announcing they are banning drivers from speeding by putting "Don't Speed" in their manual.
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I'm tempted to get a job at fb, just so I can be the one to press the button to delete the NSA's account.
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The last I heard, protesting was a legal activity -- except in police states.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Called the Sideways Dictionary, the focus is on analogies rather than traditional definitions — for example, BitCoin is “like digital gold,” while a zero-day vulnerability is “like medics discovering a new virus.” It's like a dictionary, but like not
And very blank in my browser, but maybe I made the mistake of viewing it in Chrome
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And very blank in my browser, but maybe I made the mistake of viewing it in Chrome
Apparently Firefox is a mistake as well. All I see is a blank page with a title and login at the bottom  It's definitely sideways in that it's either the only dictionary with no content, or the only dictionary that requires a login.
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A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher has developed a new technique that could provide virtually 100 percent protection against cyberattacks launched through internet videos or images, which are a growing threat. You mean my extensive collection of cat videos could be a problem?
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