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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question. A skydiver is transitioning (abruptly) from unpowered free-fall into unpowered, albeit greatly slowed, descent. The jetpack user is transitioning from powered, controlled horizontal flight (with its
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I can only guess fuel-consumption-to-thrust efficiencies (longer flight times) or pure cost since a pure gas turbine will always beat out a mechanically linked fan-stroke in specific power (i.e. kW/kg), but will almost always be more costly
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Mainly due to the fact that a 'powered parachute' (e.g. an ultralite) undergoes essentially no mass modal volume delta in airflow when transitioning between powered and unpowered flight. The controls, and fundamental aeronautical responses
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Assuming the employer/employee relationship is healthy, I give the customary 2 weeks, but always allow for up to 4 additional weeks of off-site 1099 consulting and communication. This can be especially helpful when transitioning a large cod
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Exactly. It's the silver-spoon opportunity cost fallacy over which he has ZERO control. It's irrational and wrong, but sadly makes for more "press" and "drama". A prime example is the plethora of rich-kid "reality" t.v. shows which levera
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Despite the clever marketing (and it is quite clever), hand-formed room-set silicone has been used in the building trades for almost a decade--mostly for long-run ductwork dampening and high-service-interval electrical junction box seals. I
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
;-)
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Did you read the full post? This was not a "complaint". I was trying to sum up the 2 key points of the discussion and defend Ms. Culver's excess press via sociology in both the historic (e.g. Ms. Polese) and current context of the Silicon V
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I held my tongue on this earlier today thinking it would simply go away, but no more. Bottom line #1: The content of this article is not technically newsworthy by HN norms. Bottom line #2: If you're a photogenic & telegenic young woman
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Um, yeah. Technorati has been essentially an undead company for years. When your CTO resigns along with a good deal of the founding staff, that's never a good sign. Offhand, barring lack of infrastructure (e.g. money) to support a public
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
IMO, the bulk of the vitriol comes from two issues (not that I think much of it is sound): - Multiple claims of outright dishonest behavior and undue credit-taking entitlement from his co-founders (even prior to the lawsuits) - His extremel
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Correct. In "modern" laptops with Li or Li-Poly batteries, it's really more about the embedded intelligence, or lack there of, of the power regulator relative to the reactance headroom of the power source (relative to system demands) than t
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
While correct, I really view this as a non-issue. I suspect for most people, their in-memory data, time, and attention are far more valuable than not having power redundancy protection against an accidental cord disconnect or possible incre
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
You're absolutely correct regarding the trademark, but not infringement. In order for infringement to hold up, you'd have to get around the "fair use" defense. As this is 3rd party non-vested commentary on "news and current events" in a pu
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Guilty as charged and absolutely correct.
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Ahhh, I still have fond memories of the Sun Ultra Enterprise server we ran back in the late 90s. The computer so fast (for its day) that it came with it's own spoiler (e.g. a separate bit of snap-on plastic for its top fan ducting). It was
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Patently (heh) false. Given that the Tweet is already attached to an identity (individual or corporate account) and assuming one may claim even a reasonable semblance of creativity and originality on the content of said Tweet, it's technica
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
This sounds great. I'd recommend glancing over some of the earlier releases of the, sadly now defunct, Perl Journal. I thought they absolutely nailed their target demographic with a great balance of practical programming tips, history/cult
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
As my dad was fond of quoting: "A worker uses his tools. A journeyman knows his tools. A craftsman makes his own tools."
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Actually, they may not be making ANY money off of his friend. Most 'charter' deals and seasonal specials are loss-leaders for gyms. The former, as part of the initially pre-financed membership drive and the latter when they're already bel
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
This article smells more of self-aggrandizing attitude than sound business reasoning. I'm amazed that he would bother with the artifice of negotiating when he's essentially unwilling to budge from his friend's price tier. That's not negot
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
FFS This is "sales 101". Know your client before the "get to know you" meeting. Anticipate. Try to outline reasoned solutions to their problems from their perspective before the RFP request. Solution latency, or lack there of, even in
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Wow. Just...wow. Ugh. Given all the posts on this forum, and even his direct participation in the discussion, I honestly thought that he would've recognized both the technical problems in Mahalo's content & linking stratagems as well a
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
I fail to see how there's a "middle" here at all. We're both participants in a public online discussion regarding the behavior of the CEO of a company which, at least for me, I can say I have no legal vested interest or direct financial dea
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
With regards to personal attacks, see my reply below. No management directives were given in the original article, nor my comment. For all we know, this "business model" is being forced upon Mahalo given the present economic climate. Altho
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Unfortunately, as is the case with Mahalo, when one is both the CEO and "public face" of a corporation's brand, it is difficult partition the two relms outside of clearly personal matters (e.g. health, friends, family, etc.). A classic cas
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
There's smart, shrewd, duplicitous, deceptive, and finally downright dishonest. I don't know the man personally, but it's my opinion that Mr. Calacanis's business practices moved into that final category some time ago. It's actually really
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
1. Programmer has a domain problem ill-fitted to his current programming language of choice and knowledge is said language's libraries. 2. Programmer switches languages to one well-suited to the domain and his current knowledge. 3. Miraculo
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Kudos indeed. I'm glad Tptacek brought up the often-neglected 'flag' feature. Again, there's no accounting for taste, but offhand I'd say labeling curse words, and their creative use, as "childish" is quite overreaching. Have you read any
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by bonsaitree 17y ago
Even a casual search of ScribD content will reveal the motives for Mr. Mann's post. He has every right to be angry. The malice has been well-earned by ScribD's repeated actions with other creator's content for nearly its entire history. W

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