IanDrake

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by IanDrake 10y ago
You assume the pie is static and that more mouths mean less pie for all. If there were twice the plumbers, the rate per hour would not be halved. There's demand that can't afford these services at the current rate.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I didn't vote for Trump, but what LGBTQ rights are you talking about? I don't recall any federal law that passed granting them rights. Also, what sort of income equality were you hoping a Democratic government would implement? Ho
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by IanDrake 10y ago
A first round google interview question I was asked: If you have a web page with two images on it, how many web request will need to be made to render the page? (Assume http 1.1) I had to ask if he wanted the technically correct answer or
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by IanDrake 10y ago
And WebVan needed a distribution network and warehouses. I'm not saying they're not making an awesome product. I'm saying it's possible not enough people will want to buy it in order to justify building a factory an
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by IanDrake 10y ago
These guys might just be the WebVan of AR. Building a campus before you've sold V1 of your product? That's idiotic. Don't get me wrong, this could be incredibly cool in a vacuum. But reality often has different needs. I ho
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by IanDrake 10y ago
When the new skylake hardware came out all the drivers where crap. People with new Surface Pro 4s, Surface Books, Dell XPS 13s, etc... where having all kinds of problems. All these machines work great now, but I wouldn't want to go th
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by IanDrake 10y ago
> That's a terribly faulty assumption. The average age of all cars on the road in the US is 11 years old. No, my assumption is fine. Oddly, yours is flawed. My assumption doesn't use national averages that include southern st
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I would have love to keep it. But the repair bill was 8k which still didn't fix some things like the rust in the truck bed. With unlimited resources you can keep anything on the road. But 8k is about 25% the cost of a new truck, so you
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by IanDrake 10y ago
There are a lot of factors at work here. How much do you drive? What kind of vehicle do you want? How long do you plan on keeping the car? Etc... Here's one case: I just bought a new Tundra a couple months ago (cash because I don&#x27
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by IanDrake 10y ago
At the end I really expected him to unlatch the screen from the base and walk away with it. I have no good reason to expect that and I can't imagine that feature would be very useful at this size, but I still expected it for some reaso
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I think you misunderstand inflation. Inflation is based on a the supply and demand for a currency - not goods that the currency can buy.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
The conclusion that building an iOS app second as an enhancement to a pre-existing offering matches my own. If you want your App to be more then just another lottery ticket, it needs to be additive . It needs to augment a pre-existing pro
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I LOL'd when I read this...sometimes HN takes itself too seriously.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
It's very hard to slice markets horizontally. A general purpose communication tool is a tough sell because the target market is "anyone who communicates". That's impossible to target, price, and sell effectively. It wo
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Sadly, if I were a Muslim (or just brown) I would be afraid to write code on my laptop while flying. I can hear it now... "He's trying to hack the plane!"
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by IanDrake 10y ago
>Having to reveal your salary history you may as well not even negotiate. Having to? It's not a requirement. I used to get asked this all the time. They want to know how much I made last gig? I tell them the rate I want, not the
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by IanDrake 10y ago
That's impressive. Nice job.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
No Mike, it doesn't contain that message. My message is that you , the reader, should consider that this "obvious problem" is a substantial one and that the entire premise of this measurement is based on a particular underst
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by IanDrake 10y ago
So we agree then? Models in natural since need to be cross verified by multiple findings using various methodologies. Each model and method adding to the evidence of our understanding and the probability that we got it right. In this case,
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by IanDrake 10y ago
> "We're using a direct measurement..." Wrong. See, this is the type of thing I'm talking about. There is only one way to make a direct measurement and it involves a time machine. I'm not saying that to be pe
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by IanDrake 10y ago
No, I'm right for the right reason. All extrapolations of this type are difficult to prove out. They are based on a lot of assumptions. Those assumptions may not all be right and some critical components might be missing. The model bei
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I'm surprised (but not really) at the amount of resistance to to questioning these results, when at the very least you have to agree with the following: This method AND the prior method can't BOTH be right. That means at least o
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Well if he knows what he's doing, who am I to question any unexplained assumptions made in the article.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Here's what worries me about this type of extrapolation: "The researchers also compared salt samples from other halite deposits of different ages — including the modern day — when oxygen concentrations were known and found their r
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I can't help feeling this is somewhat orchestrated. This author was an adviser to Clinton's campaign. Clinton has already said this is a problem, but the reality is that she will do nothing about it (for various reasons). So, it
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by IanDrake 10y ago
"Hillary Clinton, who was then secretary of state, checking her BlackBerry inside a military plane in 2011. Baby boomers often struggle with modern technology like email." Yes, Hillary is like my mom, totally incompetent with tech
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I thought hydrogen had been debunked by now. Tesla had a great 'well to wheel' efficiency analysis post on their blog a few years back that killed any notion of a hydrogen economy.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I wouldn't say she had no strategy, but that her strategy didn't work. But then I think any strategy that started with "This is how we're going to save Yahoo" was doomed to fail. The brand is synonymous with Web 1.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I'm thinking about cancelling because it's been a long time since I've been able to watch a movie that I haven't already seen on Amazon Instant and actually wanted to watch. I'm at the point where I just meander thr
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Is there a discount if someone steps on the poop before the scooper gets there?

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