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by bazillion 11y ago
There is so much truth to government being left in the dust technologically. When I was in the NSA, I built a bunch of programs that saved a dramatic amount of time by automating a lot of message passing, formatting, etc. When I made my f
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by bazillion 11y ago
I don't think that's quite applicable in this case, as getting a business funded is a far cry from winning the lottery -- plenty of people frequenting this site were able to obtain funding under similar circumstances (a lot of rej
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by bazillion 11y ago
I was curious to what he meant by the blowback effect, and so my googling eventually led me to The Backfire Effect[1] which is when "in the face of contradictory evidence, established beliefs do not change but actually get stronger&quo
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by bazillion 11y ago
As a plugin, it works on sites that don't have it installed natively (Facebook, Pinterest, etc.). PLEENQ is both -- we offer a plugin that lets regular users use it on any site, as well as an embeddable version for website owners who
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by bazillion 11y ago
If you're working on a reddit replacement, I have an answer to the question of how to monetize your site. See this video featuring Victoria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhpB6QDOxCI&feature=youtu.be The way it
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by bazillion 11y ago
Hi HN, Founder of PLEENQ here. I didn't want to complicate the video, but the quick explanation is this: 1. A user links an item in an image to what it is. That could be an IMDB page, a Wikipedia page, or where to buy the item. 2.
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Show HN: PLEENQ – Give context to images (using Reddit as an example)(youtube.com)
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by bazillion 11y ago
This is exactly the case. The reason there are almost no denials is that there would have been a great amount of due diligence performed to ensure that FISA collection was warranted. The fact that there are any denials after such analyt
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by bazillion 11y ago
I started on these books (we of course called them the NEETS modules) when I was 19 in electronic warfare school, and they are the exact same books that my dad used when he was an 18 year-old sonar technician in training. As others have po
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by bazillion 11y ago
I am firmly in the other camp when it comes to the common theme on here that anything above a 40 hour workweek is a sign of poor management of time and people. It's one thing to be forced to do those work hours against one's will
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by bazillion 11y ago
Posting using the client -- definitely the best client for iOS that I've seen so far. UI is very snappy and things are organized logically so I didn't have to "learn" the layout. Some thoughts: -I'd like to be able
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by bazillion 11y ago
Career: Programming/Creating a startup. I was an Arabic linguist at the NSA, and would input certain numbers I'd hear into a tool. Whenever I heard a specific one, I was supposed to add 9 to it and put that number into the tool.
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by bazillion 11y ago
I contracted out the website, and although it isn't to my liking (doesn't look at all good on mobile), it just needed to exist to facilitate user signups. Our actual work was done in person at the show, so the website wasn't
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by bazillion 11y ago
The EvoNexus incubator takes 0% equity and would give us free office space, $25K in yearly Amazon (AWS) credits, and exposure to VC's if we had gone the funding route. Our office is actually in the same building as EvoNexus (11th floo
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by bazillion 11y ago
As a sort of real-time answer, my startup[1][2] just had a booth at the NMX/NAB show in Las Vegas and completely blew up from a user acquisition perspective, and had applied to this upcoming round without getting an interview. We wan
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by bazillion 12y ago
Maybe have a special tag that you can add to the text for info that you only want karma users of a certain level or higher to be able to see -- ex. (karma>300)[Contact me at my@email.com], or instead of direct numbers, target people that
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by bazillion 12y ago
You hit on a great point. The possibility to be coerced is pretty much the single biggest part of the entire security investigation. It includes being coerced because: -Financial debt, so all of your finances are inspected -Family connect
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by bazillion 12y ago
> I don't know how you came to this conclusion, as the actual numbers and ratio of military vs. civilian personnel is still classified to the best of my knowledge. To the best of my (circumstantial) knowledge, the ratio for civilian
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by bazillion 12y ago
The pot question won't immediately disqualify you -- you'd just have to sign a waiver saying your employment means you're not allowed to use illegal substances. They'd also ask you and confirm this in the lifestyle poly
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by bazillion 12y ago
We used to help guys get contracting jobs in the 100k-120k range in D.C. (300k for afghanistan). Now the same contracts are hiring people on at 40-50k, and people are taking the jobs because they already gave up their government spot. The
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by bazillion 12y ago
It's....not. It's part of the Department of Defense. Although this department includes the military forces (minus the coast guard), the vast majority of its member agencies are all civilian agencies, and the person who heads it
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by bazillion 12y ago
The article doesn't truly address such a large claim -- it basically could be titled "After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge from 3 College Students". The NSA has nearly unlimited hiring potential with just the po
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by bazillion 12y ago
I think you can make up the difference when you are pitching to non-technologists by bridging your current gap in your pitch with research on the company you are pitching to. What I would do in that instance is get a feel for their product
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by bazillion 12y ago
I'd like to point out that if you want to head up the business development or increase your skillset enough to get the ball rolling for solidifying your team, you need to be more aggressive with your networking. davismwfl lists his ema
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by bazillion 12y ago
Homework single-handedly contributed to turning me off to any pursuit of college, because I grew to greatly resent any kind of busy work. It wasn't for lack of knowledge or understanding, as this was evidenced by my flawless test scor
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by bazillion 12y ago
I'm in the 2-person weeks-away-from-launch phase of a startup, and it can be fairly hectic. There are so many little things to do (make email templates, fix this bug, make that feature), that I use trello to keep track of a weekly pla
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by bazillion 12y ago
Try Jing: http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/ It has a screencast feature that lets you create a video (which you can crop to whatever part of the screen) and then uploads that video onto their server and giv
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by bazillion 12y ago
After giving notice back in September, I went full-time into my own startup on the 16th of January. While I absolutely loved my job at The Control Group (they're hiring btw!), I've made so much progress on what was my side projec
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by bazillion 12y ago
I'm glad someone took the time to read the document and understand that inclusion into the watchlist requires due diligence on the analyst's understanding of the derog (derogatory information), the fact checking about the person o
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by bazillion 12y ago
The Control Group, San Diego, CA - Full Time There are a ton of positions open including: Node/PHP Developer, Devops/Sysadmin, Front End Engineer, Graphic Designer, and other non-technical positions. Here is the link to the job l

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