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by captain_perl 8y ago
"The author" is a millionaire early web pioneer whose opinion is at least as valuable as anybody else's, if not more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Office liquidators typically offer 2% to 5% of retail on office furniture, although an office manager can try to direct sell the Aerons or new modular units.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> I just haven't seen actual up to date reasons Nobody owes you data. If you need that data, get out your checkbook and pay for it - $50,000 will fund most studies.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> the only people who did it were highly trained, had balls of pure cast iron Astronauts are highly-trained, but I haven't seen any evidence they were necessary - they don't do the orbital calculations, and if there was an emer
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The industry term is "dickbar", coined by John Gruber about persistent toolbars: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/06/dickbar
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> because they do not have the size of the apartment. I think it really matters, because apartments in Tokyo could be much smaller than those in NYC. No, it doesn't matter to most people. A country with smaller apartments will have
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by captain_perl 8y ago
What I've read is that whereas Western academics and scientists are paid by salary or grant, Chinese scientists are paid substantially by number of papers published. So $500 for a paper in a top-tier journal, etc. Thus scientific paper
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> I started to see a huge improvement I'd appreciate if you can expand on that a little more. How do co-workers know? How is it acknowledged?
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Most women in a relationship will emphatically tell you when they want to get engaged, married or have kids. They also have a biological clock to have kids before they're 35, and most listen to that clock. Men don't have that cloc
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by captain_perl 8y ago
FYI: Ships have always had accurate azimuth targeting, but not range (distance.) Stationary radar (ships, submarines, planes) in WW2 greatly helped the USA and Britain, but there's some twists most people don't know about. The shi
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by captain_perl 8y ago
According to Prof. Philip Greenspun, his smartest female CS graduates went into health sciences because it paid more and had other improved lifestyle benefits. So check out his blog if you want to read more.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
+1
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I'll second the comments about pricing. I attempted to negotiate with PagerDuty (after the sticker shock wore off), and their sales team said, "We're Number 1, so we don't really negotiate. Just pick a plan with less fea
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Just to correct the record, several nations have used poison gas both in combat and against civilians. The USA used 2 atomic bombs on dual civilian/military targets in WW2 after Japan refused to surrender, but there were also firestor
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Ever notice the similarity between Bitcoin and VR blogs and comments? Always, "it's early days," even after years of waiting for something useful.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
On the other hand, his work on the MacArthur Maze (mentioned in the article) saved the Bay Area transportation grid. That one project makes up for every alleged wrong he did in his entire lifetime: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by captain_perl 8y ago
First comment on HN that literally made my jaw drop. Kudos! :)
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by captain_perl 8y ago
In the first part of my career, I was usually told I was their second choice. But their number one pick chose another offer and I got that Fortune 500 job. So perseverance works. Now a couple decades later, I have the problem that nobody be
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Put your email in your profile and I'll contact you.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Great article - I highly recommend reading it. The most powerful force in our lives isn't gravity, it's manufactured consent.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Whoosh. By electricity, he meant automation with computers.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Highly recommended: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
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by captain_perl 8y ago
I think they were asking $2 Trillion, and deals with developing countries always involve a "no-layoffs clause", which is mostly nepotism. See Air India's "proposed sale" for an example. Additionally, the recent roya
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by captain_perl 8y ago
1) You need to decide whether you're building a laptop to play with or to sell. Consumers in the main don't care about FOSS, RISC, ARM, blobs, etc. Most of the netbooks were returns. 2) I get the impression from your lack of focus
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by captain_perl 8y ago
WebHosting Talk (that's a blast from the past) is still around: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ Creation Date: 2000-03-23T16:45:52Z
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The news article only got half of the story. The other half is that when they don't get an arrest, they break into your phone or car looking for evidence since they have the contents of your pockets or purse. And sometimes planting it.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
If you love clouds, then you'll love New Zealand. I did some flying down there, and not only do you see every type of cloud in a day, they change from one minute to the next. IFR (I Follow Roads) navigation is still acceptable in NZ wh
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by captain_perl 8y ago
> So it was basically a slavery contract for n% of your life This is not an exaggeration, as it would clutter future cap tables and cause your co-founders to reconsider working with you.
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by captain_perl 8y ago
Today? No. Likely the so-called "junk DNA" was skipped over and we are still learning what the impact of environment and hormones is on gene expression. What we can do today is to manipulate DNA and re-inject into an egg. Although
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by captain_perl 8y ago
The above is pretty good advice (except for DoorDash) and is what VCs are doing these days - piling on after a company is a runaway success. In other words, if it's a small startup, do it as a founder. Otherwise, stick to BigCo and Uni

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