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by blrgeek 15y ago
Faraday's cage needs to be made of highly conductive material, like sheet metal, or metal wire. Bone is quite resistive, and would be quite transparent to electricity. Second, blood (salts/water) makes for a nice conductor.
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Why Amazon will win in India(sushrutbidwai.com)
1 points by blrgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by blrgeek 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. Tiered support is a fact of enterprise support. The challenge is to provide a lower tier of support (email, business day, 24hr turnaround), vs SLAd instant response (within 1hr). In this case, DynDNS talks ab
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Re: phones - In 2005 my friend had a Japanese phone which had high speed Internet, video calling, and an ssh client among other things. The US had the Razr. Don't change history, smartphones were widely popular in Japan well before anywhere
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Yes, Yoga practiced incorrectly can screw your body. Even the breathing exercises if done incorrectly can screw your body. Tip: Do NOT practice Yoga from a book. A close friend of mine started breathing exercises & yoga from a book. He'
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by blrgeek 15y ago
They had to put in heaters for the high altitude model :) Commercial electronics have 0C as lower operating bound, although milspec is -40C.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
The owners can do what they want to do without a business. So why create a business? If the owners just want to have a place to park their money, they can have a trust. If they want to do good in the world they can make a non-profit, or a
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Warning - extremely disturbing read - and I've read a ton of crazy shit. As interesting as it was - I couldn't actually compel myself to complete reading this. Perhaps later.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
After reading that I'm afraid they're going to have downtime because of a 'shoddy backplane connection' sometime soon. Or that it's going to fall out of its 'delicate balance' or have a 'driver conflict' soon :( I wonder if they subconsciou
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by blrgeek 15y ago
tl;dr. Somebody please think of the children!
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by blrgeek 15y ago
It's not 'dumbing down' the process. It's making it clearer for the end user what exactly your site does. If someone on HN couldn't figure it out - you've got problems. For example, Change from "Enter a name for your drop" to "Enter a name
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by blrgeek 15y ago
That's a poor argument. All it needs is for someone to take liability. If you own the driverless car, then you buy the insurance. If it's leased from a pool, then they buy the insurance. The software vendor for their part take an over-arc
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First ICS Android table at 99$ (7", MIPS?)(9to5google.com)
1 points by blrgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Once I click 'next' focus is not on the console window. FF8/MacOS. Very distracting.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
It's a lot more fun that that, a single hop is barely 'routing' :) For bonus points Go back in history to when mail was literally routed hop by hop through SMTP? How'd that work? What is the sending SMTP client expected to do when the ser
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Guy from finance background who has no idea what 'product guys' do in non-consumer tech companies, talking about self-styled product guys. In a non-consumer company, where the engineers are not the end-users, there has to be someone who cre
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Google+'s secret weapon against Twitter & Facebook(thenextweb.com)
1 points by blrgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Please please do a detailed post on this, either on HN or elsewhere. Engineers who join in early NEED to know this.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
The fact that in this case the founder alone has 20% of the stock (after multiple investments & dilution), has 40% of the vote share, and is probably talking about < 5% given to early employees. And his investors are gaga about him,
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by blrgeek 15y ago
They were not convicted for giving a browser free with their OS. They forced their OEMs to supply with only IE, and not with Netscape. If the OEMs supplied with Netscape they would lose volume discounts & mktg money. Since no OEM could
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Of all the blogs, this one does a great job of explaining how they built up their wealth! Where's the magic? Save 80% of your net for 5 years. At a 3% return you will match what you spend now. That's EASIER than a spreadheet.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Some feedback 1. Talking a bit too fast. 2. Covering too many things in one shot - perhaps if you just focused on one or two benefits and show how a user achieves those benefits 3. You do somethings before you talk about them fully 4. There
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Right now assume a few of them have committed to buying and using this product. So one way or the other we need to integrate. Our product is not for US schools :) So our reqs are different - and I'm really looking for the right technical so
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Ask HN: Best practices in integrating with external data sources
1 points by blrgeek 15y ago|2 comments
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Although not officially supported - it works - I upgraded straight from 10.4 - 10.6 last month.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Looks like client is asking for off-site failover, not really 100% uptime and the OP doesn't know how to achieve it over a WAN. Esp if this is a real enterprise customer, they want Disaster Recovery (DR). This is a solved problem, albeit no
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by blrgeek 15y ago
Coincidentally, we're doing exactly this in my new company, since the last couple of months. Would love to get the pitfalls of doing this and what we need to be careful about.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
The learning is incredible - esp. if you've never been in a startup before and you don't have a business background. Just go in with your eyes wide open, and don't expect to make any money off the stock options. Figure out what you need to
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by blrgeek 15y ago
We plan to do consulting projects in the same market, adjacent to our product, hope to get more market insight and visibility. Will be like dools says - consult X days to increase runway by Y days on product. Ideally Y>X.
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by blrgeek 15y ago
blr doesn't mean I'm settled in blr just that I'm working here :) so wrong states... Although that means if I count my move to blr, that's 0 on this poll.

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