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by abakker 8y ago
Maybe in your experience. personally, I've not found it to be too frustrating to maintain a side hobby/business doing and selling woodworking items. Potentially, if you view "full time" as being 10+ hours/day, then
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by abakker 8y ago
I have one of the Visio ones. Yes, good screen, but never let one of those things on your WiFi. Jeez.
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by abakker 8y ago
A critical part of composite materials is that they are dimensionally stable. They don’t warp, elongate, or shrink, which is better than true wood. The glue and different grain orientations counteract the normal movement. The grain patterns
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by abakker 8y ago
Engineered wood and chipboard/ Oriented strand board (OSB) are a very different animal that particleboard or MDF. Each has their purpose. True particleboard is a very crappy material, best used for ballast and being cheap. MDF is smoot
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by abakker 8y ago
imagine adding this to your resume: 2018: I protest quit my job at facebook because of a comment on hacker news about a news story about a new story. The advice to think important personal decisions through is good.
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by abakker 8y ago
There are other jobs that are not software development. I don't think a fed chairman has "no data". Many companies are not trying to hire software developers at $150k. They're trying to hire truck drivers, warehouse work
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by abakker 8y ago
It's funny, but who isn't interested, right? lots of wealth and comfort in just 3 short years? sure, sign me up!
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by abakker 8y ago
When you compare the rear suspension of modern mountain bikes to Harleys, it gets even worse. You get the overall impression that it is all about what is mechanically easy, not comfortable or performant.
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by abakker 8y ago
That second point is very important. I know a dozen motorcycle riders (only 1 harley owner), but all the bikes are used. With fewer parts, fewer features, and no phone/stereo/ac/heated seats/navigation/adaptive crus
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by abakker 8y ago
I think that is a pretty grim outlook on Qualtrics. They are definitively a tech company, as they provide a technology which is not only useful, but differentiated. If you believe that survey==web form, then yeah, it doesn't seem like
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by abakker 8y ago
Yeah, I mean, in CT ours grew whether we wanted it or not. the choice was grass or trees, and its not great when trees grow literally right up to your house. if you wanted a buffer it either had to paved, gravel, or grass.
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by abakker 8y ago
They make SO much money, though, and get access to the special employees-only fund, so I assume that employees that join are interested in staying.
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by abakker 8y ago
I suppose it is possible that many people find a system with some inefficiency to be practically nicer, easier, and more functional than one with absolutely perfect utilization, allocation, and efficiency. efficiency in a systems problem is
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by abakker 8y ago
your website appears to be down?
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by abakker 8y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-08-12/the-10... Law number 5. not a hit on the CEO, but close. Those trades are hard to pull off. the SEC is looking for successful out of the money options tra
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by abakker 8y ago
It does have the pleasing effect that if the VR is convincing enough for us, that it would alleviate all material scarcity, which would arguably allow many people to reach greater potential. I.e. sculptors can learn to sculpt without wastin
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by abakker 8y ago
start a company that makes paper ballot machines, generate some lucrative government contracts, and partnerships with many high profile paper mills. then, hire lobbyists to discuss the evils of electronic ballots with officials while golfin
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by abakker 8y ago
So, if everyone gets that, and dies happy, and we leave the earth to the stewardship of the AI and robots...is that the worse possibility? I mean, it sounds dystopian for humans, but it isn't the worst dystopia for humans. I sure prefe
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by abakker 8y ago
2015 mbp for sale. I gotta say, 2018 is not error free, but it is fast, and it works, and it supports 2 4K monitors without an eGPU. I can charge, run external hard drive, and 2 external monitors, and 3 usb devices and and speakers and an S
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by abakker 8y ago
being dismissive of basic research is counter-productive. Would you like to suggest that their methodology or that their conclusions are suspect? Would you prefer a large-n tracking study of experiments on humans over many years? Yeah, so w
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by abakker 8y ago
the mismanagement of the craftsman brand will one day be a case study in all business schools. It is incredible how much I spent on tools with them over the years, and incredible how I'm not even sure where to buy them anymore. IMO, th
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by abakker 8y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mattress-firm-files-for-chapter... Short answer: fewer.
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by abakker 8y ago
Not quite, but it does mean that there is now "board level" justification for investing in these technologies. If Gartner says it, then it is important to not be "left behind".
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by abakker 8y ago
This seems like it works worse than photoshop’s content aware fill, which tries to do the same thing with a little more user guidance.
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by abakker 8y ago
Do your side projects have customers? I’ve found that there is no motivator like someone else’s support tickets or deadlines. Put another way, it is easier to find motivation when the needs of your project are immediately helpful to someone
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by abakker 8y ago
the FAA has been intensely interested and collaborative with the drone industry for YEARS. since 2015 at least when I saw people from the FAA at commercial drone conferences talking about the importance of how drones would be operated safel
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by abakker 8y ago
There IS private airspace indoors (it is why drone races typically happen in warehouses or stadiums). Outdoors, there is no private airspace so much as there is Class G airspace which is all airspace under 1200ft as long as you are out of
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by abakker 8y ago
I think the Parent is right, though. Bullshit Jobs was about jobs that were pointless, but, it's central thesis had to do with the efficiencies of automation and increases in productivity. This is an interesting inversion of that thesi
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by abakker 8y ago
This is startlingly real. Or, from my own day today, 8 people that earn 100K plus/year on a call where half of them never speak. How much did that call cost?
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by abakker 8y ago
Risk aversion is why commercial flight is so safe, though.

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