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by dmh2000 17y ago
i imagine most serious runners spending big $ on shoes are concerned more with performance, less with safety. And since runners go faster now than they did in Bannister's time, something has changed.
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by dmh2000 18y ago
no kidding. when i read that statement it told me the article has no credibility.
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by dmh2000 18y ago
there are already lots of credit card processors that compete on service. they cost more to use (both in fees and your labor to setup). people buy on cost then wonder why their cheaper solution isn't as good as the pricier one. like people
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by dmh2000 18y ago
>after crashing his one week old Ducati Monster 696 motorbike. doh!
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by dmh2000 18y ago
ok, who's the oldest founder of a startup selected by YC?
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by dmh2000 18y ago
if you had a computer class in high school in 1968, you went to an awesome school!
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by dmh2000 18y ago
> Long Term Capital Management, a highly leveraged hedge fund whose directors included the two Nobelists, collapsed and had to be bailed out to the tune of $3.65 billion by a group of banks. $3.65 billion? that seems rather quaint these
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by dmh2000 18y ago
the reality is that aircraft wings are pretty well thought out by now and 'new' ideas such as this usually have significant drawbacks that are already known. usually that information is left out of the marketing hype of the 'new' concepts.
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by dmh2000 18y ago
>10. Avoid distractions. hacker news, reddit etc
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by dmh2000 18y ago
in my organization, anyone who advertises their own credentials, especially a PhD, had better be very very good or that person will be ridiculed mercilessly.
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by dmh2000 18y ago
>Well, what if there are no openings come this May--literally none. No job postings. No on campus interviews. No job fairs. This isn't a fantasy. It's happening right now. Been there when I was in school in the late 70's and early
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by dmh2000 18y ago
just what I was going to say. it his blog he mentioned they were faxing out some 'agreement' for him to sign. My immediate reaction was 'why the fuck would he sign anything?'.
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by dmh2000 18y ago
that advice could apply to big companies, say GM and Chrysler, who at first went before Congress with a plan to convince us (the taxpayers) that they made no mistakes and that we were wrong to think they did.
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by dmh2000 18y ago
how about 5 years? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/17.html
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by dmh2000 18y ago
"To have everyone in your world using your software, but not offering you any jobs greater than a system administrator position is tough." this kind of refutes the idea that you can make a good living by writing an open source package and s
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by dmh2000 18y ago
>the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, calculators, and spreadsheets are unlikely material for a captivating History Channel feature i disagree completely. double-entry and calculators fundamentally changed society.
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by dmh2000 19y ago
>You're looking at a picture of a single circuit the size of a large office building, built to a precision of 100 microns. I agree that this is impressive, but remember that you get to cheat: You build the thing, measure how far off you