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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I find a similar trend with some websites where there's little dead-space for a mouse-click to switch the focus off of a control, hyperlink, or widget towards the document window itself. This is also particularly irksome on sites which impl
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Yes. It's actually rude to show up excessively early for ANY sort of social engagement and, despite the business context and objectives involved, an in-person interview IS a social engagement. Despite the professional context, you are still
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Tachikomas!
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
True 'dat.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Um, have you visited the U.K. recently?! Based on their ethanol consumption, I think embalmers have a pretty easy go of it.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
That is, perhaps, the best pre-plug for a book disguised as an article, I've ever read.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
That depends on the locality and given the spate of e-signature legislation in the early 2000s, I would say that's no longer true for the majority of U.S. states. I can't speak for Canada. I can say on good authority, as I paid lawyers goo
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Here. Here. I ALWAYS opt for the pat-down and, regretfully, can no longer fly into the UK. If the trends continue, I'll simply stop flying general aviation in the U.S. outside of exigent circumstances. Luckily, both the northeast and the
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Dude. You're NOT seriously going to TRY start a DC vs. Marvel comic character thrown-down on HN?! I pity 'da fool.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Exactly. Despite reliability and batch/lot issues with drives of vastly different SMART error rates and ages, the KEY Drobo feature appealing to the "lower end" of the RAID prosumer space WAS heterogeneous drives. In the current market, Dr
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Honestly, we don't have the full context. As I've stated previously here, I'm no fan of Mr. Calacanis, but there may be a whole host of legitimate business reasons why he wishes to no longer have this employee on-site. Whatever the full con
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
FWIW, the legal community has been dealing with citability for a few centuries. In criminal cases, people's lives are on the line. In class-action civil lawsuits, billions of dollars are at stake. This wheel most-definitely does not need re
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Meh. Who's going to pay the Drobo premium when equivalent or better performance can be had, with more a bog-standard (e.g. reliable) hardware and filesystems, for less? I guess those customers who care about the visual aesthetics of their N
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I think the main issues here are ones of capital scale and efficiency. I believe 37Signals' tenets work well for low headcount, extremely capital-efficient businesses such as software development, hedge fund management, or specialty insura
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Been there. Done that twice. Highly recommended. I've never regretted "firing a client". In fact, my only regret the first time around was not having done it 6 months earlier. Everyone has their moods and passions. Any non-trivial proj
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I have no idea. Microsoft lost this former "solutions provider" (used to get the monthly crate-o-CDs) in the mid-90s with the anti-developer trifecta of: - Executable registry entries - Baking-In IE into the O.S. w/o any native ability (pr
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Oh, Sneakers. Sleeper-hold issues aside (Busfield was so miss-cast as a heavy) that is one amazing movie.
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Kind'of old, but Start-Up.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com does capture the hubris of dot-com era nicely. Also good lessons on founder friendships and how NOT to sign a term sheet.
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Rounders.
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Touché. Your point is well-taken and was effortlessly re-enforced this afternoon as, for the first time, I noticed the non-logos of my favorite local dry-cleaners and diner. Having lived in the Schaumburg area for several months also doubly
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
For anyone interested in a real story about small-scale remote manufacturing (circa 2000) read "The Mouse Driver Chronicles" http://amzn.com/0738208019 . I suspect Joey Roth ( http://joeyroth.com ), as a one-person design shop, might al
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I recall a few studies from colleage and an old friend is currently studying non-human vergence tracking sexual dimorphism. I'll take a look, but here's a quick Google search on the relevant terms: http://tinyurl.com/yhbwjde One of the i
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
It's more of a natural diffusion of common sociological binding properties with increases in cohort size than ego. In small, cohesive groups communication IS simultaneously MORE efficient and MORE intimate. As the group size grows, the diff
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Pablum.
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Let me get this straight, I pay them $300 for the exclusive license for pre-made logo. Considering I can contract out multiple iterations of a bespoke, cross-media, hand-dithered (e.g. newsprint, 4-color, b&w, web, etc.) logo for $1-$2k
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
If your story post links directly to a PDF, please include a bit of meta-labeling (e.g. [pdf]) in the title. Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198116
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Thanks very much for the additional background material. I agree wholeheartedly that The Atlantic article fails utterly to capture the essence of her thesis, but I also think she's seeing a co-evolutionary causation where it's merely a str
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I haven't seen the data, but at first blush, I really question the strength of this hypothesis. Most (all?) animal senses have evolved firstly for finding and obtaining food. From antelopes to bees, the spectral and polarization sensitivity
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
That's an amazing demo. What's the price-per-pixel compared to E-Ink?
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say "friendly", but sed is considered an absolute system essential by most (all?) Linux distributions and, therefore, is found under /bin instead of /usr/bin. Just like 'ls'. It's hard NOT to like virtually guara

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