carguy1983

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by carguy1983 15y ago
Anecdata: Walk down a main commercial street in any large metropolis and count the number of completely unviable businesses (these are the ones that turn over their real estate every few months). These are further polluting the statistics.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
HN readers should see this as an opportunity to hire experienced, qualified developers, systems engineers, and marketing people. Possibly for salaries lower than what otherwise would be the norm, especially in non-Bay Area markets.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
> why an HR manager would would choose to enact a policy that requires perspective employees Fear. Ignorance. Stupidity. Anachronism.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
There's a lot of reasons to move to LA / Santa Monica, but I'd say for the women isn't one of them. The girls in NY are much friendlier, probably due to the fact that they outnumber men and most of them aren't from NY. In LA the men still
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by carguy1983 15y ago
To be fair - most of the bay area is very similar to New England, just a lot more expensive, with better weather.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
> With a quarter of the young population out of work Yeah, well.. those are the untalented ones. Not everyone can do every job. Especially in technology. Sorry. It's hard to find good auto mechanics, too. And electricians, and true
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by carguy1983 15y ago
From the article: > It predicts a world population of 9.2 billion people, generating a global GDP four times the size of today's Global domestic product is currently $63T. 2050 GDP = 4 * $63 = $252T. Current per capita GDP = $63 trill
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Isn't stealing information and eavesdropping on communications exactly what the NSA does?
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by carguy1983 15y ago
I think what you mean is revenues. Profit and earnings and income are similar (but slightly different, depending on who you ask), but all 3 are on the other side of the fence from revenues.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Here's a tip for when you first get started: practice giving the throttle very small amounts of gas. In fact, when you first start out - don't even touch the gas. Idle the car on a flat parking lot in neutral and just let out the clutch v
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by carguy1983 15y ago
This isn't a PR move. They are protecting their market share. If employers accessing facebook accounts become common, the cool kids will simply switch to another site while leaving a decoy FB profile. And we all know what happens when all
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by carguy1983 15y ago
I've noticed this too - when speaking in front of my employees, they laugh at the strangest things - things that would not be funny if I said them at, for example, lunch.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
This is absolutely not true - I know because I'm looking at one right now. I would say Mac laptop keyboards are the best that exist. Thinkpads are the only thing that come close, and they only come close.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Anyone who's ever spent more than a couple days in China (or HK, or Singapore, or Taiwan, really) can tell you that very, very little of what you see published about China/Chinese people in the western media is accurate. Much of it is hype
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Grandparent post only mentioned 3 companies out of literally thousands in the valley, 1 of which only has a couple thousand employees and is privately held. "Not too many" companies operate at Yahoo scale is a true statement still. I would
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by carguy1983 15y ago
It's the only city where leaving your car windows down is safer than leaving them up. :)
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by carguy1983 15y ago
I agree - East LA, South LA, all are not nearly as safe as West LA. My main point is that West LA, as a whole (and by that, I mean you never have to leave it), is safer than SF, which is more akin to taking the different east/west/south LA
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by carguy1983 15y ago
West LA / Santa Monica, which is similar in size and population to SF, is significantly safer than San Francisco. I've lived for extended periods in both locations. For example, you don't have to take all the change out of your ashtrays an
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by carguy1983 15y ago
HN-related factoid: Jeremy Lin was born in southern CA, grew up in Palo Alto and both of his parents are immigrant engineers.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
I suspect it's referring to losing a job (a very big deal to most people) vs. losing a customer (not a very big deal to most well-run businesses). Same with losing any resource that is concentrated in one supplier as an individual but sprea
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Controversial topics like these usually have a core "assumption" that the discussions and arguments always circle around. The un-stated assumption in this case is that Asians, are for the most part, not well-rounded (and only focus on test
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by carguy1983 15y ago
"well-rounded students" You're begging the question of whether or not Asian students are well-rounded. You just assume that, for the most part, they are not, and that it makes perfect sense to throw most of them out because they're all the
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by carguy1983 15y ago
The public perception curve for developing Asian countries in America goes something like this: Ridicule -> Dismissal -> Contempt -> Acceptance -> Reverence Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, China, all fall on