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by aj7 5y ago
Hacker News crashed the website.
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by aj7 5y ago
The issue is to make the team. Forget about being the star. Take pride in a support role.
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by aj7 5y ago
I saw elements of my own experience everywhere here. But: “4] This is a weird but recurring behavior of mine. When sitting with a (professional) group for the first time, I will always put myself at the edge. It's not because I'm
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by aj7 5y ago
And you paid for it, too.
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What Software Does This?(twitter.com)
1 points by aj7 5y ago|1 comments
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by aj7 5y ago
Glass bottles are heavy. QED.
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by aj7 5y ago
Try buying the syrup. Report back.
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by aj7 5y ago
Having someone, or a program, show you where you went wrong is a good way to learn nothing. All the learning comes with struggling when you almost have the answer.
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by aj7 5y ago
My wife has made it to five years after simultaneous breast and ovarian cancer, non-related. After a slow start, we were relentless. While this may not apply to your mother, other people will read this. --> 90% of Stage 1 cance
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by aj7 5y ago
Always go with the science. It is basically an optimization problem. Provide human comfort.
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by aj7 5y ago
Amazing. Brings me back to the Mac 1984 days, Gonna have to pay these guys.
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by aj7 5y ago
A 1/200 chance of death is gigantic.
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by aj7 5y ago
This was super valuable as it showed me conclusively why Emacs is dead, except for a relatively small group of persons who were exposed to it very early in their careers.
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by aj7 5y ago
Talk to customers. Talk to customers. To talk to customers. A 2 minute talk with the right customer is worth a day (or a week’s) work in a vacuum. You have to talk to a lot of customers to talk to the right customer.
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by aj7 5y ago
It’s a cube truncated to preserve three adjacent faces. Both the solid prism and hollow (just mirror surfaces) work as practical retroreflectors. You can’t build machine tools, semiconductor processing tools, or accurately tighten the bolt
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by aj7 5y ago
Bad idea. Wouldn’t want to be flying over water in Asia when China decides to invade Taiwan with just GPS.
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by aj7 5y ago
Unless someone can show me how to generate a corner cube prism (one of the most technologically important prisms, and quite simple), this is coloring. I tried for a while.
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by aj7 5y ago
My friend, the late Michael Polatnick, coined a word to describe your friend. “Stupido.” Festo got big making pneumatic devices and grippers, parts that are used in almost every automated factory. And almost every mechanical engineer invo
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by aj7 5y ago
I’ve often wondered the exact opposite. Could thrust turbines evolve naturally?
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Rolls-Royce to Re-Engine US B-52 Bomber Fleet(newatlas.com)
6 points by aj7 5y ago|3 comments
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by aj7 5y ago
https://books.google.com/books?id=vAsAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=P...
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by aj7 5y ago
A Stanford grad enters Harvard Business School after a year of “working” in Silicon Valley. After HBS, she joins an SV VC firm, never makes partner or does her own deals, but hangs on long enough to credibly assert a career in “venture cap
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by aj7 5y ago
These things are basements compared to some mosques I’ve seen.
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A dead giveaway for throwaway board seats: Nobel Prize winners, generals, politicians. Another: “professional board members” who sit on multiple boards but have never had senior executive roles involving profit and loss. These people may b
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by aj7 5y ago
The famous picture of her taking reporters into the machine shop is one example. “Touring the machine shop” is an old trick when you want to waste time and not show anyone anything. Technically naive people don’t realize that modern machine
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by aj7 5y ago
Who gives a hoot about Dropbox’s constant product extensions? Remember IBM’s copier?
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by aj7 5y ago
Are clothes next?
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by aj7 5y ago
If it can carry armaments, who will tolerate it as an intelligence gathering plane? And how can one know what its mission is in real time?
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by aj7 5y ago
Here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351357682_ABENICS_A...
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by aj7 5y ago
Yes that’s where to start.

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