ConradHex

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by ConradHex 18y ago
And who buys Sun boxes still, exactly? I mean I know there's a market, but isn't Linux (on Intel) eating their lunch?
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by ConradHex 18y ago
It was great, the McCain campaign had set up a little voting station for Obama supporters. It only took a minute. They had me fill in a bubble sheet with the right pen, and I was out the door. Also, they said I should tell my friends if the
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by ConradHex 18y ago
I didn't vote in 2000, because it was too much trouble. I spent the next four years regretting it, and 2004 rolled around and I had another chance. Somehow I wasn't able to register in time, and missed it, and spent another 4 years feeling
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by ConradHex 18y ago
I don't think it ignores usability at all; it seems very focused on it.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Does a "VW short squeeze" have anything to do with clowns?
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by ConradHex 18y ago
That's always been true before, but I think if you look closely you'll realize that this time it's all different.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
When people complain that work-life balance is out of whack, I don't think that means you need to go to the other extreme, and let everyone leave work at two in the afternoon to go to the movies.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Also, the "private domains" feature is reasonably priced on namecheap. On godaddy, it just isn't.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
I'm not sure that "across-the-board" means the same percentage for everyone. It could just mean everyone's pay gets cut. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that in a company where the CEO is overpaid, he's not going to take a
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by ConradHex 18y ago
(#1) I'm not sure age discrimination works that way, does it? It's discrimination to not hire someone you think is too old, but what about too young?
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by ConradHex 18y ago
While it looks silly now to buy a house with no equity (nothing down), it didn't seem so silly a few years ago. If you bought during the boom there was a good chance you would have a lot of equity in a couple years...
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by ConradHex 18y ago
And a mortgage broker taking a hefty fee.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
It depends on where you live, among other things. In some states creditors can garnish your wages. Other places they can't, but they can come after your bank accounts. I'm not sure about coming after your startup. It seems unlikely to me, b
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by ConradHex 18y ago
There are plenty of people who can give harsh criticism, but can't take it. In fact, probably the majority of people are like that.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Sorry, what's the D in DLOC?
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Doesn't this belong on the bacon subreddit? (Looks around.) Oh, wait...
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by ConradHex 18y ago
From what I've observed, part of being a founder and CEO is having a huge amount of confidence in yourself. I think erring on the side of overconfidence is much better than the other direction. People who are really successful in these role
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by ConradHex 18y ago
What kind of ring did you give? :)
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by ConradHex 18y ago
How big a sacrifice is this? In order for capital gains to get taxed there have to be capital gains in the first place. That look like a long shot in the short to medium term.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Yeah, totally. I hate to be cynical, but #6 seems bogus.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
>We just need to buckle down, be cheap, creative and survive. Get to revenues quickly. I think that's what the article is saying.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
It can be intentional if the right side is a function call. But something like: if (errno = 0) { blah(); } is almost certainly a bug.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Is anyone getting depressed by all this? I'm starting to feel physically sick whenever I read about the economy. I think maybe I need to stop reading the news for a while. I felt the same way after 9/11.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
How about just getting them to buy you out for cash? I can't help but think if they are this flaky, the chance of success is minimal.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Wow. Party like it's 1999.
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by ConradHex 18y ago
I take it you aren't a homeowner, then?
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by ConradHex 18y ago
File under "what could go wrong?"
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Very interesting, but the timing is a little awkward. The current disaster in the banking sector doesn't really speak to the brilliance of an unregulated free market, does it? (Or at least, there wasn't much regulation when the banks took g
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by ConradHex 18y ago
The "..." above had some important bits in it. My point was, how much of the speedup came from switching to C, and how much came from all the other stuff he did (much of which could also be done in Python). Switching from a scripting langua
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by ConradHex 18y ago
Congrats on your big speedup; successful optimization like that is always a rush. I wonder what the result would be if you did everything you describe, but wrote the code that's now in C, in Python instead. I suspect the speed would be very

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