cthulhuology

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by cthulhuology 8y ago
They do already and have been for a couple decades. Dell in particular has had a long history of doing so. Personally, I have worked for a couple companies that have done just that. Now when you look at certain classes of machines for sp
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by cthulhuology 9y ago
First company I sold... paid off student loans, traveled around for a year.... then started a consultancy.. Second company I sold... invested in a friend's business (she's now my wife), self funded another business (that one faile
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by cthulhuology 9y ago
I've had this situation happen a few times in my career, my advice is take the money and don't look back. Invest the money, burn it, buy rental properties with it,or go on a trip. It is always better to have a successful exit.
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
If everyone on this thread tweeted his story, he'll get his money back. In the age of social media, the only effective tool we have against corporations is public shaming.
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
Honestly, it is probably just you (and your peers). Quite frankly chances are the team you have sucks at operations, lacks the necessary experience to design complex systems, and probably doesn't do the fundamental engineering to make
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
I've been falling back in love with Forth, and specifically SwiftForth https://www.forth.com/swiftforth/ the full source code to everything comes with the paid version, and you can literally change everything. So
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
stop reading hacker news
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
Reading the article it hints at the reality that it doesn't actually work like passive glasses as it implies. the blueshift effect happens because they're using a laser to excite the crystal and it later emits the shifted light,
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
I this had happened at any of the companies I started, I would have fired several people in the aftermath. The problem is the policy is broken by design. Let's look at what is wrong here: 1.) priority is not just high, it is critical
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
In case you're wondering, most firms in this business won't even talk to you unless you're looking to hide at least $10MM. Below that amount, the costs of setting up the corporate structures and paying all the necessary parti
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by cthulhuology 10y ago
For many projects, Github is just a place to publish yet another public repo. Using github issues and pull requests is a sure fire way to feel ignored. If you want to contribute, e-mail the lead maintainer. Do not submit patches to the e
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by cthulhuology 12y ago
No age is too old. I co-founded a startup last year, successfully raised a 8 figure series A, and am the youngest of founders by more than a decade, and I'm over 35. The difference between now (startup #4 for me) and when I was in my 2
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by cthulhuology 12y ago
os:cmd is still available, and has access to things it should not.
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by cthulhuology 12y ago
Metro-North's signaling equipment is a nightmare. There was a scheduled upgrade that was supposed to have been in play by January 1st of this year, and the project is still not yet done. Proper monitoring of crossing combined with a
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by cthulhuology 12y ago
The cheapest way I've found to live was to buy a 4+ unit apartment building that when the 3+ other apartments are fully rented cover the cost of the mortgage, and utilities. As a result, net out of pocket each year for housing + utili
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by cthulhuology 12y ago
what are the units on the table? the top looks like number of workers, but large numbers are unitless.
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by cthulhuology 13y ago
This approach works really well with any number of tethered device scenario. You can use the same basic approach to debug distributed Erlang program, work with tethered mobile devices, or even work on many core machines. If you are trying t
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AMQP for LuaJIT(github.com)
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