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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I recall reading that such use of trademarks for internal code names led to legal issues for a company. Apple Macintosh, perhaps? https://www.macworld.com/article/669214/how-the-macintosh-go...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
A similar story: Admiral Hyman Rickover, the "father of the nuclear Navy," interviewed every single officer and candidate who wanted to become a nuke, because he'd promised Congress that he'd do so. Rickover-interview st
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Rackspace founder says it’s ‘on trajectory of death.’(expressnews.com)
208 points by dctoedt 4y ago|161 comments
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by dctoedt 4y ago
A few years ago the U.S. Navy reportedly was experimenting with producing jet fuel from air and seawater aboard aircraft carriers, using the electrical power from the carriers' nuclear reactors. I wasn't able to find anything rece
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Chemex pour-over turned out to be the sweet spot: Last summer we rented a house in England for a month but the French-press coffee maker in the house was too small for our family and a pain to clean. So we picked up a Chemex, used it happi
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Flowchart for wholly/partially automating processes – by Radiant Law co-founder(twitter.com)
1 points by dctoedt 4y ago|0 comments
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“First Contact: An Alien Encounter” Review(wsj.com)
3 points by dctoedt 4y ago|1 comments
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by dctoedt 4y ago
BindView Corporation* took its name from the Netware bindery. * the company for which I was general counsel; as outside counsel I helped the founder start the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BindView
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I thought it was more a send-up of mysteries, in roughly the same vein as 1980's Airplane! (including the celebrity cameos).
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Janelle Monae smashes open a mystery box with a hammer Reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Doctors say, you take your patient as you find him- or her. Same with teachers and students: as a teacher it’s my job to be the adult in the room, to try to figure out how to get the knowledge into the student’s brain, not the other way aro
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by dctoedt 4y ago
"All categorical statements are bad, including this one."
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> so students will just ask additional questions during the class LOL - if only students could be depended on to, you know, actually ask questions during class! The better approach: The professor poses (pre-written) questions to th
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I require laptop or tablet use in the contract-drafting course I teach. That's because a great deal of each class is spent in small-group problem solving of the "what would you do" type, based on the assigned reading and
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Building communities is a lot of work and takes time. Have to agree with Thomas here: When people are socialized to be neighborly, then communities tend to form in a short time. Everyone likes to be liked and accepted; signaling fr
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> So few days of good weather [in Texas]. That's why I tell disbelieving Californians that we have better weather in Texas than they do: When we have nice days, we appreciate it, whereas when they do, they don't even noti
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Update: NASA has declared the mission over because InSight didn't respond to two successive contact requests. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-retires-insight-mars... https://www.houstonchronicle
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Reputation takes a lifetime to build, but only seconds to destroy. There was a saying in the nuclear Navy: Ten thousand attaboys can get wiped out in a heartbeat by one awshit.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> You don't get rewarded for preventing bad things. Akin to not being rewarded for deleting lines of code.* * unless the deletion measurably improves performance and you get rewarded for the improvement
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by dctoedt 4y ago
So again: What would you have Biden and Schumer and Pelosi (soon, Jeffries) do ? Berating meteorologists because you don't like the weather in your locale is not exactly a hallmark of effective advocacy.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Ah, you’re right, I forgot that Biden would need his Harry Potter wand to get Manchin and Sinema to agree to ditch the filibuster.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Who can trust union leadership at this point? Leadership betrayed the rail workers. I can't find detailed statistics in a quick search (and am uninterested in spending more time), but it appears that overall the majority of rail
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Just one example: "President Biden adopts steps for promoting union membership" — https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/business/economy/biden-un... The AFL-CIO had a laudatory summary of Bid
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by dctoedt 4y ago
In the 1980s I spent several years defending Honeywell against some programmable thermostat patents filed in the late 1970s by one Burness C. Hall, who had aspirations to start a company. There was a ton of prior art out there. (The parties
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Rome wasn't built in a day.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Hard to believe this story has gotten as little attention on HN as it has. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Ah the casual 'my jet fighter has been hit by rather large calibre bullets' Fighter jocks invented the humblebrag. (Source: My dad was one, plus my own service aboard a Navy aircraft carrier.)
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by dctoedt 4y ago
And sadly, we know so ... freaking ... little about how the brain works.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Graham falls into the same trap said to have been experienced by Milton Friedman, who "celebrated drivers and took roads [and cars and gasoline and ...] for granted," according to NY Times economics correspondent Binyamin Appelb
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Does ChatGPT Mean Robots Are Coming for the Skilled Jobs? [Paul Krugman](nytimes.com)
4 points by dctoedt 4y ago|3 comments

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