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Please, since you are so familiar with the ins and outs of Yahoo, what would you have done differently?

Yes, you could spin up any number of AWS to throw ab / httperf traffic at it, but why? HN has demonstrated how inadequate their server solution is.

The 300 also has a voice system like a lot of vehicles these days, so that you can hit a button on the front of the steering wheel and give voice commands.

- for a bunch of employees to start filling up 55-gallon drums of easily-ignited fuel

- hustle the 55-gallon barrels over to somewhere else in a datacenter

- then hook it up to a generator and restart that.

- under an evacuation warning before any of this happened

Irrespective of the majority of cab money going to the corporate apparatus and not the drivers in plenty of cases, it still seems unfair to expect drivers not to raise their rates somehow just for the increased danger.

>"It does sound like the site has offers more than a lot of other Internet things these days."

Good god, this is the Atlantic. At least they could act like they're trying instead of just getting something out quickly for the pageviews.

Edit: a quick author search shows a ton of this half-assed blogging. Won't be going back to the Atlantic Wire any time soon. ( http://www.theatlanticwire.com/authors/rebecca-greenfield/ )

Curious to see how much pushback there is, or if 'Sponsored' posts are stigmatized or accepted.

No, it's very possible to never lose your accent. I have German/Swiss landlords who have lived in the US for decades, and they still struggle with English, as well as Southeast Asian and Mexican folks who do the same. I'm sure I'd be the same way if I up and moved to Russia, for example.

Or did you really think after Slide 2: "Colors: people love that shit" this was a real pitch deck?

All of these names sound like made-up people.

A marketing guy dumped a bunch of money at a conference, gave out a bunch of conference garbage, and paid some online businesses for rush delivery.

Oops I didn't credit the 15 emails and all the potential clients...try writing this post after you get some new work, not right after pulling some joker PR stunt.

>Our competitor was furious, but our potential clients loved the hustle. We got a bunch of agencies interested and I received around 15 e-mails following that panel requesting a meeting.

"People should stop writing articles about sexism in tech. It's not interesting and IMHO it's not the central problem for most women in tech."

Edit: Oops, left out the blog post: http://antirez.com/post/different-take-sexism-it.html

First, having vending machines for hardware doesn't mean that an IT department doesn't have any say on what gets ordered to go inside.

And really, is there any measurable amount of theft by employees who get a drop of coffee on their keyboard, and either just throw it away and get a new one, or go home and sell it? And would this in any way cost more than what the company saves by streamlining the basic IT hardware procurement that goes with any large company?

Quite far-fetched scenarios you're tossing out at this point.

In my experience, stable APC releases have been very stable, but beta APC can poop out pretty bad, even if the changelog doesn't indicate anything that might affect your application.

I've used stable APC + PHP + Apache releases to do some large things, so not sure why APC is an utter bomb in 2012.

I'll take a team player who has room for improvement almost every time over some rockstar who can't take constructive criticism.

Not that we only have these two choices, but the truly great AND nice are kind of rare compared to the wanna-bes who think being an amateur professor at work translates into business value.

The whole point of paying twice as much is that you spend a fraction of the time defining product specs, and don't have to wait.

If so many pass up a 50% discount to get immediate satisfaction, they aren't likely to change their preference for waiting once the product they already didn't buy becomes dramatically more expensive.

If you're young and don't know what you want to study, and change your major a few times, then yes, you should not be doing it while paying $56k a year. Leaving to go work for a while would be smarter until you lock it down a bit more.

But just drop the "i left BU to do awesome work" thing and how much academia held you back from doing that awesome work.

Gawker is also owned and/or staffed by douchebags like Nick Denton and Adrian Chen.

It's funny how much Gawker and Adrien in particular have slagged on 'content farms', when in fact they engage in the same SEO game they pretend to be offended by. Check out how many times the phrase 'Silicon Valley' is used in this journalistic gem.

http://gawker.com/5938904/notorious-silicon-valley-fraud-shi...

( my grep showed 6 counts of 'silicon valley' in the headline + article, with a bonus 'valley' mention. )

Alexia's comment is just a reminder about the article's high quality.