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by danpat 15y ago
There's money to be made building stages and doing backstage work :-)
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by danpat 15y ago
Note that most ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection, not stress (read up on the 2005 Nobel prize for medicine: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/nobe-m06.shtml ) Edit: the point I was going for was not to blame stress on ever
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by danpat 15y ago
There is a theoretical maximum information density in the universe, so eventually, we'll run out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle#Limit_on_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
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Ask HN: Logos/licensing for gratis web app?
1 points by danpat 15y ago|0 comments
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by danpat 15y ago
So the question is, is that phenomenon of "perceived technical sophistication" and expectation something that has been studied. I'd be really interested to know how people generally behave here. Questions like, "use X for a while, then get
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by danpat 15y ago
Agreed. What I'm looking for is a study that quantifies some of what's going on here. How much actual performance is lost over time, how quickly does it happen, and how are both of those factors perceived? The case of your in-laws sounds
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Ask HN: Perceived vs actual computer slowdown, over time
5 points by danpat 15y ago|10 comments
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by danpat 15y ago
You'd like to be able to hire a new employee as quickly as possible, but you'd like departing employees to hang around as long as possible. That seems to me to be a fundamental conflict. New employees don't appear from a vacuum and old emp
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by danpat 15y ago
http://www.clipperz.com/
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by danpat 16y ago
We looked into this a while back, we're in a niche electronics market. Similar situation. Basically, if they're using a trademarked term in their ad, then you'll have grounds for protest. Using your company name in the ad that is displaye