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by calabin 7y ago
Also in IL, my favorite one thus far has been during the holiday season, "Cousin Eddie Says Twitter's Full: Put The Phone Down."
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by calabin 7y ago
Do you have any evidence of this? I work in algorithmic trading/finance and I'm relatively certain that this isn't true.
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by calabin 7y ago
I run a small consulting firm in the United States - you can definitely goose dollars-in-pocket based on your type of consulting and other arrangements. Imagine that I run two firms - one that provides primary top-level advice, guidance, et
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by calabin 7y ago
I can second this piece of advice. When I first started our small consulting firm we didn't know how to scope explicitly enough and didn't charge enough even if the projects did stay within the scope of work. Don't be embarra
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by calabin 7y ago
I think that this is a good question that I would also like to know the answer to. Additionally, are there other benchmarks or tests where this issue (possibly) presents itself?
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by calabin 7y ago
It becomes a sort of data monopoly - already, consolidation of exchanges has limited the number of financial data offerings directly from exchanges, and driven prices up substantially. Further, licenses have become much much more restrictiv
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by calabin 7y ago
The Better Business Bureau has a history of using extortion-like tactics, pressuring businesses into paying for memberships to extract higher ratings. The show 20/20 from ABC did a segment on them in which they were able to procure an
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by calabin 7y ago
If I remember correctly, my team of four was quoted at $13k/yr for the StackOverflow job posting / recruiting solution. It's probably worth it for companies with greater hiring needs than ours, but LinkedIn (begrudgingly), an
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by calabin 7y ago
Tried to read your article, but the way the email prompt loaded made it impossible to dismiss so I entered a false address. I'm running the latest version of Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04 - hope that helps you diagnose this issue. Here's
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by calabin 7y ago
Same - we used Teams for 2-3 weeks before switching back. The syncing was horrendous, the mobile apps were terrible, and a litany of other things I've forgotten.
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by calabin 7y ago
I can't tell if this is an endorsement of or warning against using coffee to mitigate a lack of sleep, so I will take it as reinforcement of the former which I am currently (and unfortunately) a practitioner of.
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by calabin 7y ago
I don't think that it was a joke or made in bad faith - rather to demonstrate the logical extreme. Essentially that the logical extreme of dropping computer-destroying USBs to demonstrate that one shouldn't plug strange USBs in th
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by calabin 8y ago
In my experience, their documentation of the AdWords API has been consistently bad.
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by calabin 8y ago
Wolverine is in there somewhere as well
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by calabin 8y ago
I'm kicking myself that I never thought to use GitHub to put together a reading list. Great idea.
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by calabin 8y ago
If you read the Evan Ratliff's full book, you'll hear how Paul Le Roux was able to avoid having his domains seized by becoming a registrar himself. I know that it's not really relevant to the narrative, but I'm curious a
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by calabin 8y ago
I can't remember the exact details of the story I read here on HN, but there was a case of some SaaS company that had this exact issue. Fortunately they were able to spread the word to temporarily use a backup domain on a different reg
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by calabin 8y ago
Could you share your block list?
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by calabin 8y ago
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately as well. I run a software consulting firm (business automation, process improvement, etc.) and have been looking for ways for our company to utilize our skills for good. We could contrib
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by calabin 8y ago
I applied as an intern to a prop trading firm during my junior year of college. After the phone interview, I was invited in for an on-site. I get there and it's your standard electronic trading firm setup. Open office, desks grouped so
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by calabin 8y ago
Maybe I've just met an abnormal amount of lucky people, but in my role as one of the more mechanically inclined among my friends and family, I've seen three people completely locked out of their cars when under-door or other conce
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by calabin 8y ago
That's pretty good. With the device is there some sort of emergency way to split the lock in case of emergency? It would be unfortunate to be unable to make outgoing calls if you needed to call 911.
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by calabin 8y ago
After going back and forth between the article and the comments, I just realized that you're the author / Chief Evangelist at AWS. So on a sort of meta-note, I think it's pretty cool that AWS is still interacting with develop
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by calabin 8y ago
1) I agree that there are certain instances, especially in startup-land, where we have to bet the company. Lord knows I've had to do it with the company I'm a part of. That said, I don't think that this was one of those momen
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by calabin 8y ago
haha I know what I'm doing this weekend.
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by calabin 8y ago
There were plenty of reasonably thought-out cases to short Tesla, and there may still be. The company has had numerous recent instances where they've failed to pay vendors and their runway was shortening at a concerning pace. These are
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by calabin 8y ago
1) I agree that it can cost a material amount to raise money in any manner, be it debt or equity. That said, Tesla was in an okay place to raise money after the success of Models S and X, and had all of the information to reasonably project
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by calabin 8y ago
Responsible cash management and investor relations are not mutually exclusive with innovation. There is absolutely no reason that TSLA shouldn't have raised cash with a relatively inexpensive bond issuance or moderate share issuance in
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Ask HN: Where should startups list themselves?
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by calabin 8y ago
How did you like Measure What Matters?

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