TWAndrews

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by TWAndrews 14y ago
Right, because no vendors in developing countries are aware that western visitors-including backpackers-are comparatively well off. I don't travel in Asia much, but if some European languages are added, this will go on my must have list of
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
Didn't the quotation from Kubrick in the original piece say exactly this? That it was nearly impossible to communicate what he (Kubrick) wanted to "even the most talented and sensitive camera man?
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
If you're explaining the value of your software to a prospect, why not also go off on a tangent at the behest of the prospect. The role whose function an interview most resembles is that of a sales person. Having been in hundreds of sales m
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
The whole interview process is an implicit negotiation over salary.
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
If you have to interact with customers at all, this is a very realistic situation. The candidate would get points for following up on the tangent question after demonstrating the ability to control the flow of the conversation. That may not
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
I think it accepts the fact that traditional engineering toys are boy oriented, and adds a girl oriented toy to the market. Seems less about changing prevailing attitudes and more about using presenting cool stuff about engineering to girls
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
I'm going to save this and show it to my daughter (2 1/2 now) when the time is right.
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
I hate, hate, hate games that use in-app purchases as a significant part of game play (and removing grinding qualifies, imo), to the point that I look to see what the top in-app purchase are and won't download games which let you buy in-gam
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
I'd like this very much, but I'd also like to have it made as easy as possible to spend the credit. I made some quick suggestions in another reply, but I'd like to get an email (or App notification, or something) that prompted me to select
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
This is really cool. I would love an option for a repeating monthly donation. Maybe send me an email with candidates either based on random draw, treatments which just need a bit more to get over the top, or something similar.
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
That's a very valid concern, even for smaller ERP implementations, I expect that it will be the case that there will be quite a bit of diversity in the schemas. It will certainly be true for larger ERP implementations.
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
I don't see how you can possibly target the second group of clients with a startup. Organizations in the second category will by-and-large have the following properties: A) Already have an ERP implementation of some sort. It may be awful,
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
So really, rather than providing useful anonymity to political dissidents, it's just providing anonymity to pedophiles?
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
I hope that law enforcement agencies at least use this as a window into how these people operate.
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
Why would you bring in someone like Mayer to do that? Any MBA type could do that.
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
One has to imagine that the actual phrase "correct battery horse staple" is a fairly poor choice of password, at this point though...
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by TWAndrews 14y ago
All your hashes are belong to us
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Why Google, and Simple, love TxVia(blogs.reuters.com)
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
As a system admin, what do you do when someone comes to you and says "how much hardware do I need to support my application?" Imagine trying to give them the correct answer without being able to talk to them.
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
It's still in practice because it's effective. People who frequent HN are not a representative sample of buyers of any product.
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
"North of $2k" is not a large number. The company that I work for routinely sells services for 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars (and software for 10x of that). No one purchases that via web form. We also offer a cheap, buy via credit
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
<i>OP is indicating there is an underserved marketplace that may be ready for disruption by a low cost no frills service.</i> There might be, but I wouldn't bet that way. There's a relatively small window of company size be
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
If you get an offer (at any level), there's no harm in trying to negotiate a bit. I've never heard of a situation where you say, "I'm really excited about this offer, but I was hoping for X salary-wise." and the company rescinds the offer.
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
But hasn't Larry Page's tenure at CEO been precisely one of reining in engineers who working on projects that may have been awesome, but not necessarily contributing to the core mission of the company. It seems like his principle effort has
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
Is it possible to be uncompromising without being a jerk? Apple's products are great because Jobs simply kept saying "not good enough" until he thought it was good enough. Even though there are nicer ways to convey the same message than "t
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
Given that they've removed all the data and updated the app, I'm not sure it's necessary that they give highly granular details as part of the apology.
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
If you've read Fenyman's appendix to the report on the accident and investigation ( http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.html ), I don't see how you can possibly believe that the decisions made around the Challenger launch were m
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
"an apology and pardon would slightly clear the name of the Crown." I think is is the same reason that they declined to issue the pardon. The ministers didn't feel it was appropriate to try and retroactively whitewash the actions of the cr
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
This seems totally ridiculous to me. Does anyone who comes to HN support SOPA? The advantage of companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon going black is that lots of people who have never heard of SOPA could be educated and asked to press
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by TWAndrews 15y ago
Being upset at the first is perfectly reasonable. The second is cartel behavior, and should be opposed. <i>If good photographers are constantly giving photos away and not charging, professional photography prices and value naturall

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