GVIrish

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by GVIrish 12y ago
Population density is key to mass transit otherwise you have to spend a lot more money to provide frequent and convenient service. You can't get around the need for high enough ridership to make a transit system financially viable. S
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by GVIrish 12y ago
You don't need to make your developers work a 24 hour cycle to do off hours maintenance. You plan ahead, give the team doing the update the day off before and give them a reasonable window to work with. Maybe I'm wrong but if a d
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by GVIrish 12y ago
I think what Microberto is suggesting is to post a smaller unit of work and evaluate the results before committing to a freelancer for the long term. So maybe you put out a 15-30 hour job for $500-1000 to see if that person will work out.
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by GVIrish 12y ago
Yes if the F-35 does everything it was designed to do and performs as well as initially intended, it'll be a decent plane. Unfortunately that doesn't look like it will be the case. Some significant problems the project is experie
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by GVIrish 12y ago
I think a big challenge for companies making console games is that now when they're competing with the biggest franchises they're not just competing on graphics and gameplay, they're competing on time. The best selling tripl
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by GVIrish 12y ago
I don't think that's a good analogy, RIM was failing because they stayed the course for too long. As soon as the iPhone came along Blackberry should've jumped on the touchscreen bandwagon. Instead they clung to their keyboa
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I've run into this before and basically what it comes down to is that these are people coming in with a sales mindset and don't understand (or choose not to understand) that time = money for some people and they're not going
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by GVIrish 13y ago
This was absolutely my problem with this strategy as well. "Strip mining" someone's professional network doesn't give the impression that the employee's contacts will be treated with thought and care. The whole re
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Yes it's hard to feel sympathy for Airbnb when they openly flout the law then ridicule regulators whose job it is to uphold the law. These guys are ignoring the law because it is profitable to them, not because of a fundamental belief
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Not surprising at all. It seems like when we hear about a misconduct scandal in the military or intelligence apparatus the truth is often worse than initially thought. Abu Ghraib was worse than we thought, all of the dirty stuff the NSA i
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I think this is a case of Apple's stubborness giving them a little bite in the ass. It took them a long time to come out with the iPad mini because they didn't believe in the inbetween tablet size, and now it's taken them fa
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by GVIrish 13y ago
If you compare an inner city ghetto to a village in Bangladesh though, there are other key differences. Number one, there's no war on drugs in a Bangladeshi village to disrupt family units and create black market violence. That factor
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't know about Judaism, but homosexuality is not something that is explicity banned in Christianity. Yeah there are some bible passages against it, but there are also bible passages condoning slavery, polygamy, forced marriage etc
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Yeah I ended up getting a lot of additional screening when I was a contractor for the TSA, mostly because travel plans were often made at the last minute and I had a lot of one way tickets.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't think your wife was truly on the no-fly list. It sounds like your wife was flagged for additional screening due to her travel patterns. In the case of Ibrahim she flat out was not allowed to fly to the US.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I don't think it's necessarily that other SV executives were weaklings, it's that they thought the non-poaching agreement was in their interests too. Jobs was definitely cunning and ruthless but he wasn't all brute forc
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I think many peoples' issue with Facebook is that they have proven themselves to be untrustworthy on numerous occassions. They're constantly moving the goal post on user privacy with and without consent and they don't treat
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by GVIrish 13y ago
> Because I'm fairly certain this will drive users away, and not just the ones he wants to keep out. Absolutely. One of the benefits of the size and diversity of the HN community is that there are lots of subject matter experts in
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by GVIrish 13y ago
He didn't say you "can't" raise money elsewhere, just that it is more difficult. Are you arguing that it is just as easy to raise money elsewhere as it is in SV?
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Forgive me if I missed something but it sure sounds like banks are going to get their teeth knocked out if that's what they think constitutes 'hand-to-hand combat' for recruiting tech talent. It's good to focus more on
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by GVIrish 13y ago
There was a mall shooting in Portland where the shooter when confronted by an armed citizen, disengaged, then shot himself. http://www.kgw.com/news/Clackamas-man-armed-confronts-mall-s... It seems that these shooters s
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by GVIrish 13y ago
To be more accurate, CGI Federal won a contract vehicle that allowed task orders to be given to them under said vehicle without doing a full bidding process. It would be like having a services contract with a company and giving them multip
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Memories of ED-209 malfunctions abound. I'd hate to be the guy that has to do maintainenance on a drone ship filled with kill bots.
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Yes but do good values and work ethic come from genetics? I would argue no. That comes from the enviroment you grow up in, from your parents and siblings, to your peers, to your community. When we're talking school quality there are
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by GVIrish 13y ago
I'd have to view that with a large grain of salt. I'm sure there are a lot of innate components of personality that are genetic. And those components of personality do make a big difference in life outcomes. But at the same tim
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by GVIrish 13y ago
School quality absolutely has a big impact on how well you do in life, that's not even a question. If you go to a school where most of your classmates read 2 or 3 grades below grade level and your teachers struggle every day to mainta
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by GVIrish 13y ago
Yes if companies move off shore then the NSA doesn't even have to give a second thought to the legality of their actions(not that they're giving it much thought now). But if enough big US businesses move elsewhere and take their j
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by GVIrish 13y ago
The goal of a criminal justice system is to apply justice, not to exact revenge. Using torture as a punishment will result in making those convicted of crimes even more dehumanized and depraved. Furthermore, if torture is employed it is a
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by GVIrish 13y ago
To a certain extent yes, but it was designed to be operated by the Air Force and Marines. Had they maybe split the variants up they could have avoided some of the design compromises that created some of the problems they had. Still, the V-
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by GVIrish 13y ago
That's the rub though, 240k may be a lot to you, but what if that data scientist is delivering 100 times that value to the company? Who's to say that person shouldn't be paid $500k or $1 million a year. The Yahoo COO who jus

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