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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It's a longitudinal "wave" impulse, so matter is not moved much, but energy is transferred outward by compression and decompression. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal_wave
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Scaling to something ridiculous like 100x is obviously a nonstarter, but that'll never happen. 1-2 extra companies isn't spreading too thin. In fact, one of Sama's purported goals is to scale up YC several times while retai
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
A jumbo barrel/aileron roll needs to be practiced in a highly-accurate simulator many times for performing on actual hardware to a high degree of repeatable success with least airframe wear, and then signed off by company folks and reg
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
At Boeing, there's a fine line between selling jets and getting fired. The last order to Randall Lee Neville from CEO Conners was "no rolls."
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
De rigueur mention: recall Aaron Schwartz was charged by feds under CFAA for spidering journals via JSTOR. R.I.P. @aaronsw PS: I received a stern warning as an ugrad at a UC uni for `wget -m ...` Oracle DBMS documentation (ugh, closed paywa
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Large enterprise account engagement is trickier, than say a solo consultant contract with a startup, because there are way more expectations to manage and moving parts to coordinate. As a client-facing consultant, you're often having
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Dell's academic-facing sales force (sales and support are their core business value) seemed to start sucking around 2007+. For enterprise IT critical boxes, I would today probably shop around IBM, HP, Cisco, Dell but for web I would g
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
In case anyone were wondering: Postgres deliberately resembles Oracle. EnterpriseDB is one of the official Postgres commercial flavors which is an even closer "clone" of Oracle DBMS with support options to make migration from or
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
I see this repeated all the time and tend to label it "the investment-bias fallacy" but it's also called commitment bias. [0] Go into any casino where people are trying to win back their lost money is one classic cliché. 0.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
The dept I used to work at was mostly ex-B4 people and I later did enterprise consulting later: What happens is that sales people talk to people high enough up on the food chain that they get the run of the place, and so it's nearly im
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Stanford was taken to the cleaners to the tune of $1.5 x 10^8 USD in the deployment of Oracle Financials and related products via endless "consultant implementation" charges that didn't really deliver much value, were rarely
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Any U.S. pilot caught pulling such maneuvers would be pwned by the FAA. Any Boeing-employed pilot would be summarily fired as well.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Germany also has single-payer socialized healthcare IIRC. The US has Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare which isn't so great, and often doesn't include dental or vision care. For a long-term living situation, that's prob
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
To help make "ends meet," it's possible to get some food, healthcare and monetary assistance from federal, state, county and city programs, often managed by each county's social services agency. Firstly, there's the
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
For some reason, that brings back fond memories of Flight Simulator Aircraft and Scenery Designer... turning the jet aircraft into a "U-2" with a massive, thin wing w/ winglets and a ridiculously big vertical stabilizer. Oh
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
San Jose Sharks ink 'seven-figure' sponsorship deal with Fry's Electronics http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/09/17/national-... Both teams played (or play) at the SAP Cen
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Yup. Basically, apps that do MS-specific LDAP queries to AD or something emulating it (Samba). It's also often useful for apps to be allow admin users to tweak the actual LDAP queries in case they have a custom enterprise-wise schema
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Contrarian doubt, climate change denial-style. Do you work for the coal and tobacco industries? ;) Cutting off one or two stellar founder teams to meet some artificially-low quotas is a lose-lose proposition: awesome founders don't ge
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Fry's Electronics owns and operates a rare 747SP(planespotters.net)
75 points by bmir-alum-007 11y ago|111 comments
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Stanford BMIR takes 3% as students FYI. Filtering funnel is necessary, of course, but making something too exclusive just passes on solid people for nitpick bikeshedding on interview, often misleading, snap impressions and revs up artifici
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It would be interesting if a similar approach might be applied to flush out latent Chickenpox virus (VZV) from people whom experienced active disease because of the massive risk of Shingles' long-lasting, debilitating symptoms later in
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
OpenCV is an awesome Swiss-army steam-shovel (thank you Willow Garage!) In the 90's, there was Kai's Power Goo (now owned by Corel) and probably something similar used by Conan O'Brien's art dept. to produce the "If
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
If you're a startup founder with fiscal authority, do your darnedest not to sign long-term anything unless it reduces both long-term cost and risk more than it adds to liabilities. There are a bazillion dot-coms in the 1990's t
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Yes. It's more important how it's made (and how the people involved are treated) and what it's made from, in addition to quality for cost. Honestly, I'd like to see live webcams in contract mgfr factories where a particu
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
The value is a premium considering Atlassian was valued last year at $3.3B even though it has significantly more enterprisey features/ecosystem in the wiki/issue tracker/CI space, although it's not yet owned the social V
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Quite the opposite. It should be a badge of honor to do more with least funding, waste, capital, effort, etc. as possible. I'm convinced at this point that too much funding, especially to inexperienced ops scaling-hat wearing founde
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It's unfortunate but the reality is that manufacturers are too cheap/lazy to segregate devices on to separate L2 segments, deploy fw or keyed A3E until forced to by exposure of hack demos. In cars (and IoT), standards make everyt
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
What I find hilarious is that their products are just another unoriginal, knock-off "optimizer" apps that have marginal utility, and yet they complain about being scammed. That's some pretty hard-headed cognitive dissonance.
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How I went from 0 to 8-figure revenue in 18 months(thenextweb.com)
8 points by bmir-alum-007 11y ago|3 comments

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