bconway

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by bconway 13y ago
Mixing ammonia and bleach is actually quite dangerous, and regularly warned against in most chemistry classes. Calling this an "experiment" is generous at best.
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by bconway 13y ago
Excellent post. One of the top reasons I don't let employees work more than 40 hours a week, and start kicking people out of the office at 5:30 (if they're still there).
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by bconway 13y ago
Average life expectancy was 45 years old at the turn of the century. You didn’t have 85-year-olds with chronic diseases. Yes you did. That's like saying there weren't old people a hundred years ago. The reason the average was 45 years is
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Body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi found in waters off Providence(boston.com)
2 points by bconway 13y ago|0 comments
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by bconway 13y ago
Don't accept ridiculous paycaps. They're stupid. A couple very well known startups cap their employee pay at $120k. One I know of hasn't paid raises for years. That is startling. Is this a popular thing in the Valley?
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by bconway 13y ago
you can't pay a reasonable amount of money and get the final product. Isn't that the intent, that it's a funding platform and not a retail purchase system? I remember Kickstarter making a very big deal about this a while ago.
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by bconway 13y ago
Really? Most people in the US only have access to one, the same as cable providers. Government-granted monopoly, etc...
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Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' Creep Into Nation's Food Supply(cnbc.com)
37 points by bconway 13y ago|53 comments
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by bconway 13y ago
My judgement was based on the dozen or so news agencies reporting "killed early Friday in a violent standoff with the police." But you're right, maybe they're all incorrect.
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by bconway 13y ago
Have you sought out a mental health professional? In my experience, most incidents like the one linked have little to do with the amount of work or the politics involved, and everything to do with an untreated emotional condition. A lot of
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by bconway 13y ago
Say what you want about the "enlightened liberal sensibilities" of the northeast, the Massachusetts death penalty sure is swift and efficient.
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Fergulator - NES emulator, written in Go(plus.google.com)
85 points by bconway 13y ago|31 comments
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by bconway 13y ago
Exactly this. Holding your head high is not a response to terrorism.
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by bconway 13y ago
Note: It took place on Patriot's Day, a Massachusetts and Maine holiday.
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Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men(penny-arcade.com)
365 points by bconway 13y ago|170 comments
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Foursquare’s Latest Funding Raises Valuation Questions(wired.com)
1 points by bconway 14y ago|0 comments
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by bconway 14y ago
Maybe you're referring to Internet access only, but the over-compressed picture quality on Uverse is horrible, especially compared to easily-obtained OTA in the Austin area.
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by bconway 14y ago
Some drugs do have different impacts on different races. Science is rarely politically correct (probably a good thing).
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The "No Fire" Policy(michelemmartin.com)
10 points by bconway 14y ago|9 comments
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by bconway 14y ago
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. Maybe not, but...
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by bconway 14y ago
I heartily recommend http://theoldreader.com/ - lean and mean.
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by bconway 14y ago
Gmail for Apps still can't auto-add people to your chat list, even though the option is there.
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by bconway 14y ago
Yet somehow the Loud Commercials Lobby lost to the Reasonable Volume Commercials masses. Too bad that couldn't have been something important.
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by bconway 14y ago
Except we're not talking about policy, we're talking about this generation's Vietnam. The average American knows about Vietnam. The average American knows about 9/11. The average American does not know about Manning, nor is likely to in a
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by bconway 14y ago
Ten time employee who quit every company because someone got promoted over me even though I did 3X the work. ... When friends & family saw how much money I made, they all wanted in on it until they saw the sacrifice I expected from the
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Is OOP dead?(plus.google.com)
12 points by bconway 14y ago|8 comments
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by bconway 14y ago
Ever played an MMORPG?
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Canonical Loses Work From Top Compiz Contributor(phoronix.com)
2 points by bconway 14y ago|0 comments
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Big Telco Lobbyists Produce CNN OpEd Arguing That CISPA Is Good For Privacy(techdirt.com)
1 points by bconway 14y ago|0 comments
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For First Time, Baby Is Cured of H.I.V., Doctors Say(nytimes.com)
2 points by bconway 14y ago|0 comments

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