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by abraae 9y ago
Ha ha, its very hard to argue with that. Very impressive.
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by abraae 9y ago
Really? I think the photo's OK. Tie unloosened, good mix of casual + business like. Can't detect any obvious lack of confidence. Making his head point towards the text seems like one of those cheesy commercials where a smiling per
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by abraae 9y ago
tldr; programmers are creatives, so don't treat them as just resources.
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by abraae 9y ago
Sounds good but then when that small tank ran out of hot water, I guess there would be a period of cold coming through until the main tank backed it up? Unless the small tank was big enough for most conceivable uses - in which case, e.g. in
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by abraae 9y ago
Things your Grandma said while knitting ... never: > The function is feasible for machine knitting if its Reeb graph has an upward planar embedding.
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by abraae 9y ago
We're on rain water so I always cringe when running perfectly good water down the drain while waiting for it to heat up. It would be great if there was some endpoint heater like you describe, that ran from e.g. ultracapacitors that cou
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by abraae 9y ago
We faced this at work recently (at our decidely sub-Google scale) when sales guy refused to bid for an opportunity at a weapons manufacturer so we had some interesting discussions around the issue. Its a little hard to make blanket statemen
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by abraae 9y ago
So wonderful - includes features that sound eminently sensible yet are not present (I imagine) in any modern tools: > A new sysadmin can be given less power by providing her with a smaller weapon. A rank beginner may not be given a weapo
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by abraae 9y ago
I don't live in the US or the EU, but the more you see situations like this (privacy legislation is a similar area), the more glad I am that the US does not dominate global commerce, and perhaps is even purposefully moving away from su
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by abraae 9y ago
We've taken that attitude to on some RFPs. Occasionally we have responded with a "We aren't able to respond because ...." letter. Basically tell them why its not worth your while to respond. I believe that in a couple of
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by abraae 9y ago
Yep, INCIS was a cockup of massive proportions. I remember interviewing a BA (business analyst) who had just come off of the INCIS project. She said their entity model was enormous, with tens of thousands of entities. I couldn't unders
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by abraae 9y ago
I'd say its the other way around. Its far easier to do online screening for software developers than it is for the softer skills - sales, marketing, etc.
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by abraae 9y ago
Good idea, except that wake-on-radio requires the radio to be powered on all the time. Whereas I need to sleep everything except the arduino watchdog.
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by abraae 9y ago
Yeah, it is some fun, wish I had more free time to devote to it. LORA doesn't handle any of the mesh behaviour, I'm doing all of that using LORA just at the send and receive level. The devices I am using are moteinos - a cool ard
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by abraae 9y ago
That would be trivial to circumvent (pick up your phone and browse their profile from that) and would have false negatives (large company with many users behind NAT).
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by abraae 9y ago
Put yourself in your bosses shoes. Think about what they need to succeed, and do what you can to help them. Once you have experience as a manager you'll appreciate how great it is having a"can do" person like this on your tea
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by abraae 9y ago
I am working on a lora/arduino mesh network for reporting back the state of a large number of traps for invasive predators (mustelids, possums, rats). The traps are spread around the countryside in dense bush/jungle. When one goes
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by abraae 9y ago
Because rebutting something that was subsequently upvoted would incur a downvote!
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by abraae 9y ago
Perhaps an additional feature to explicitly mark your post as "rebuttal"? Then only the non-rebuttals would inherit the downvote?
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by abraae 9y ago
The intestinal fortitude needed to prepare a proposal for these mega projects is enormous. I always end up with a gut churning feeling that no one is even going to read my work (which is interrupting any work on real projects), or that some
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by abraae 9y ago
Isn't that life anyway? We're only on earth for a short time. You can't take your music to the grave with you, so why not accept its never really yours anyway?
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by abraae 9y ago
Looks really interesting, and we're currently scouting for good table solutions, but this is a killer: > Onomics is currently free for beta users, though we’ll eventually start charging for some premium use cases (hosting high volum
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by abraae 9y ago
Exactly. I was living in the UK at the time and it remains the only time I've ever made any money playing forex. It was obvious to increasingly.. everyone .. that the Bank was playing chicken with the markets. Soros was on the winning
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by abraae 9y ago
> Usually agreeing with everyone else is good and disagreeing with the majority will get you downvoted or shadowbanned. Isn't this the inherent nature of a fact-based platform? And most HN posters are probably quite rational and fac
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by abraae 9y ago
Make it easy on yourself and don't overthink it - simply refrain from (as found on the internets): - Badger-baiting - Bear Baiting - Bull Fighting - Cock Fighting - Cock Throwing - a rooster is tied to a post and people too
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by abraae 9y ago
Fantastic as always Ken. I spent years of my life repairing IBM mainframes and I love these info drops. I guess its part of human nature to assume that our predecessors were dumb peasants (how did they build those pyramids?) but IBM had som
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by abraae 9y ago
I visualise $1b as about the cost of building a shiny new casino in Vegas, or a large cruise ship. I like these comparisons because I can see them, and marvel at the sheer bigness of them.
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by abraae 9y ago
E-health solutions are likely to be pretty US-centric, investment dollars might be better spent on global opportunities. And why try to create Apple seeds? Apple would be better off waiting until they emerged themselves and the acquire.
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by abraae 9y ago
The other solution, and a better one IMHO, is to extend the 80% product using their APIs. I'm not familiar with Asana but Trello has fantastic APIs including webhooks all that events in the tool can trigger activity in your integration
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by abraae 9y ago
I was astonished as the ease of building houses in Perth when I visited recently. Since its all sand, digging and compacting your foundations is ridiculously easy, and typically getting out of the ground is the riskiest part of building a n

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