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by brd 12y ago
1) I think its smart to cool down prior to having a conversation about the bonus. Approaching this tactfully will be important. 2) I'd absolutely call them out on this embarrassingly small bonus if only to establish that you're no
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by brd 12y ago
This argument always comes up and its an argument I hate. If for no other reason, I dislike it because from what I've seen rates of depression are dramatically higher when you introduce these sorts of jobs vs. letting people scrape by
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by brd 12y ago
I'm inclined to believe that Foxconn and its ilk exist because there is an insatiable need for the latest and greatest gadgets. I absolutely agree that greed will always be a major factor in the equation but I can't help but think
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by brd 12y ago
This is one of those moments where I'm utterly distressed by the lack of a solution to curb all the frivolous consumerism of the world. It's scary to consider how many others are just like Xu and how many more, us included, are on
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by brd 12y ago
Visually the blue buttons on the teal gradient doesn't go well, and your top menu links blend into the background image too much, also the gradient on your image "All those files" makes it unreadable. Concept wise, I like the
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by brd 12y ago
It sounds like are questioning the value of loose work associates, I'm here defending the value of friends. Friends rarely ask me about doing work and I don't qualify my friends by their ability to do "useful" things for
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by brd 12y ago
New relationships are a combination of luck and hard work, regardless of your current state. I think having additional friendships just increases the luck side of the equation slightly. If you want to develop new friendships I'd say fi
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by brd 12y ago
Reading the comments, I'd say many members of HN should probably invest more time fostering friendships. Its not that difficult to maintain relationships but it is shockingly easy to let them dissipate. Every so often I set out to &quo
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by brd 12y ago
Wow, I cannot believe I've never been corrected on this until now. Thank you. P.S. I liked the imagery of my version better.
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by brd 12y ago
From personal experience, the biggest downside to this advice is that it builds a culture of being in or out. You either tow the company line or you're not part of the team, it leaves little room for challenging the status quo when you
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by brd 12y ago
I had written something similar but you put it much more succinctly. The only things I'd add to this explanation 1) Democracy is the US rallying cry, our allies are more defensible when we do so in the name of democracy. 2) The powers
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by brd 12y ago
"Website is under heavy load" so can't look at specifics. But judging by another NYT article[1], it sounds like there isn't as much cause for suspicion as I would have originally thought. This article singles out the Chi
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by brd 12y ago
Freelance. I recently took a month off and traveled around Asia. I regularly take 3 and 4 day weekends. I fully intend to take 3-6 months off sometime in the next 6 months. If you're half as good as you say, freelancing should be a ver
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by brd 12y ago
I've handled my fair share of large scale functional specs (not as a freelancer though) and I've gone through the process of drafting a 6 figure SOW before. I don't have any examples to give you but if you'd like some fe
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by brd 12y ago
I'm an SAP guy. I've been a developer, architect, and now a manager of sorts. I'm not necessarily a fan of SAP but SAP has certainly earned my respect. ERP provides stability through support. ERP provides common ground so you
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by brd 12y ago
Perhaps you should try viewing comments in light of how it impacts the community at large? I think its good practice to avoid adding noise to a HN discussion. This leads me to comment very infrequently. If my thoughts were already stated, I
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by brd 12y ago
Nice, I've been considering building something similar. The "meet new people" problem deserves some better solutions. Did you originally launch in the Netherlands? I'd be interested in hearing how you rolled this out. Do
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by brd 12y ago
I hate that I am only learning of this now. Contracting in Indiana and just this week I made plans to be in NY this weekend and stay in this region the next... Are there any other Python events coming up?
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by brd 12y ago
I agree with this. When someone posts something blatantly false in a matter of fact way I feel downvoting is a public service in the sense you are averting eyeballs from it. I'd also say that if at that point no one else has corrected
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NASA Resurrected an 'Impossible' Microwave Thruster Technology(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by brd 12y ago|0 comments
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by brd 12y ago
So you are offering to be a subcontractor but don't providing any information on the technologies you specialize in? I'm a little confused about the value proposition here. Its a cute marketing angle but your pitch is incredibly l
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by brd 12y ago
Yeah, the overwhelming number of warrantied products was one of the reasons we backed off. If we had tried it, we had decided that focusing on home appliances would be a good start since those are higher value with longer, easier to forget
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by brd 12y ago
Discussed and researched this idea in depth with a friend a few years back. I think its an excellent idea, sounds like you've executed well, and I love the claims assistance piece. Best of luck!
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by brd 12y ago
I second this. I knew facebook filtered the feed pretty heavily but I had no idea how bad it was until recently. A few weeks ago I met up with some old friends and learned that a mutual friend was getting married. We're friends on face
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by brd 12y ago
The other responses are discussing remote work but it sounds like you want to do short time contracts involving on-site work. If thats the case, yes its possible and yes its what I currently do. I think the most important thing is to have a
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by brd 13y ago
So just to give some quick answers to points you've brought up: Pricing for Enterprise is tricky, mostly because there are magic numbers where you go from 1 channel of approval to another. The goal is to price yourself high enough that
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by brd 13y ago
I think the lack of enterprise startups boils down to one simple issue, most people interested in startups have no understanding of enterprise. As an enterprise guy, I read HN discussions on subjects and there is just a lack of understandin
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Traveling through JP, SK, HK; any HNers want to meet?
5 points by brd 13y ago|2 comments
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by brd 13y ago
Because its a fact that we cannot, with current technology, support 7 billion people living a modern lifestyle. We simply can't produce enough energy in a clean enough fashion to attempt anything of the sort. Because technology is a fo
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by brd 13y ago
"Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?" I think this test is fascinating when applied to the Musk vs. Gates debate from yesterday. How taboo is it to say forget charity?

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