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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
I once had an acquaintance who was a doctor on the psych ward at a public hospital. He got off on having power over patients and would talk about how he liked locking them up. He also had no respect at all for medical confidentiality and wo
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
A modest proposal: if you are a Googler, lobby to have the clocks on Android phones display local time with UTC in small print below (or wherever makes sense in the UI). A political solution is a non-starter, but if this change can be quiet
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
This times 100. A bad tenant can cost you tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention peace of mind. I once had one who lied about owning my property to have a 60 year old tree cut down. It was a nightmare (it turned out he had sued his pr
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Licensed pilot here (learned to fly in 1987). People need to look at self-driving cars in the way pilots use an auto-pilot. Auto-pilot is most useful in two situations. 1) long cross country legs where there is not much flying to do (just m
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
San Francisco, CA - Insightly - Senior QA Automation Engineer, UX Designer We designed Insightly as a simple to use yet powerful CRM system for small business. With integrations to Google Apps, Office 365, MailChimp, and major social media
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
She never has to work another day in her life. She'll do just fine. The older workers who are being shitcanned and forced into involuntary early retirement, however, do not have that luxury.
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
21 year SF resident here. I was here for the dot com bubble, and the smaller "multimedia" boom in the early/mid 90s. I think what is unfolding is a shift away from consumer businesses and back to boring business to business s
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Agree 100%. Avoid.
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Good/Visto alum here. I am just thankful that some omniscient hedge fund people offered to buy my shares at a little over a buck a share five years ago (hoping to cash in on their forthcoming IPO no doubt). This company was not a unico
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Cold Fusion is _real_. It powered my website back in the 1990s. Where have all of you been since then?
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
While we are exploring hypothetical scenarios, here's one. A schoolbus full of young children has lost its brakes and is careening down a hill toward an almost certainly lethal high speed impact with a building at the bottom of the hil
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
I am kind of surprised they are still in business, having missed the point that most people actually enjoy actual food and beverages, versus chugging a flavorless Ensure 2.0 slurry while staring at a monitor. It's called a lunch break
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Dealing with Unicode in Python 2.x is a _nightmare_. So if you need to go beyond ASCII, Python 3 is a huge improvement. On the downside, if you want to use tools like App Engine, you're still stuck with 2.7 for now, but hopefully that
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Whenever I hear the term "unicorn", I think of the Squatty Potty TV ads (they're funny!)
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Let's see how the employees feel about sacrificing all that time when the founder has a rich exit, and the employees get crap while he retires in luxury.
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
I had never heard of them until now. I don't think this is going to have a happy ending.
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Insightly * San Francisco * Full Time * Onsite Insightly is a leading CRM for small businesses (think Salesforce for small businesses). With over 800,000 customers from 100 countries using the service each day, Insightly is solid, fast grow
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
The biggest regrets I have in life stem from ignoring my "spider sense" about a situation. It's often difficult to articulate what's wrong, but if you have a vague feeling something's wrong, it most likely is.
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
I've had a rooftop solar system on my home for about ten years ago. I would have never considered an active tracking system, as the wind would have wrecked it long ago. The only maintenance I have to do is, at most, to hose the panels
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
I am with the commenters who have a problem with this being a weekend project. How about assigning the problem on a Monday, and reviewing the results toward the end of the week? If they are asking you to do your interview homework over the
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
What's driving a lot of the idiotic investment is FOMO (fear of missing out). It is a powerful thing and can override a rational assessment of a businesses chances for success. This combined with a lack of historical perspective is dan
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Very lazy, very poorly researched article with cherry picked sources. The simpler explanation is that the author isn't seeing many house parties because he isn't being invited to them. Dunno, but may be the host is worried he&#x27
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Next time he should build a cuckoo clock that shouts Allahu Akbar.
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Oooh, how I love it when out of shape tech industry people use professional sports metaphors without understanding the difference between 1) a professional sports tournament system and 2) employment in a growing industry. In 1) there is an
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
Asking HN here: how many companies have thought about localizing their service/app/etc for the Spanish speaking market within the United States? Localization is typically thought of in terms of international expansion, curious to
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Localization for Local Markets (Why Spanish Matters in the US)(medium.com)
1 points by brianmcconnell 11y ago|1 comments
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Traveling to Another Planet? Just Add Water(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by brianmcconnell 11y ago|0 comments
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
The important thing in analyzing a competitor's behavior is to understand the incentives motivating that behavior. A common example in startupland is a company whose senior management has short term incentives that reward a fast exit o
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Tech's Enduring Great Man Myth(technologyreview.com)
12 points by brianmcconnell 11y ago|2 comments
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by brianmcconnell 11y ago
I've never really understood the hype for Soylent. It does seem like a great idea for your earthquake kit, camping, etc, but as daily food? If I am rushed for time, I'll just grab an Odwalla smoothie or similar. Can someone educat

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