earl

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by earl 16y ago
First, if you're paying in comparison to those charts, in the SF area you aren't paying anywhere near well enough. Good devs with 5+ years of solid experience go for $100K+. Second, this exact point has been discussed between you and patio
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by earl 16y ago
Come on, your post is stupid on it's face. If a high quality of living is enabled by technology and innovation, said technology and innovation is enabled by stuff the government does -- a huge quantity of technology has it's roots in US go
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by earl 16y ago
I don't know about the not getting prosecuted bit, but drug taxes are real -- see eg http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1578857,00.ht... http://marijuanastamps.com/state-stamps.htm Mostly, it's another way for pigs to steal
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by earl 16y ago
Also, maybe, Meg Whitman is a moron? Purchasing skype w/o also purchasing the backing tech has to be one of the dumbest acquisitions in a long time in the valley, rivaling the acquisitions of bebo and myspace.
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by earl 16y ago
Does anybody have any experience with sprint in SF / mission?
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by earl 16y ago
Name and shame is a perfectly reasonable response to such behavior, in addition to contacting a DA at her discretion.
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by earl 16y ago
I'm curious -- do you run around posting in every thread that concerns potentially criminal behavior that people shouldn't rush to judgement? And if not, what in particular makes this case prompt you to jump in with that story? And people
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by earl 16y ago
since I can't get the site to load http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
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by earl 16y ago
Ditto. I just ran that bit of flash and the whirring noise in the background is the fans in my laptop. Plus 60% cpu usage on each proc.
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by earl 16y ago
I've never seen one, and I use a mac.
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by earl 16y ago
For everyone wondering wtf chucK is and only able to find information about some tv show when you google: it's a synthesizer or some such. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
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by earl 16y ago
Yeah, but R is all caught up in a stats education -- and I think that's much harder to cover in a single book. Just my .02. If people are looking for a broad overview of statistical stuff -- what's a t test, a sampling distribution, a regr
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by earl 16y ago
If this were relevant to you, you'd know what most of that means, particularly stream processing. Why exactly is yahoo faulted for your lack of understanding of the technical vocabulary? I'm mostly annoyed that you think that using the us
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by earl 16y ago
This guy knows everything there is to know about sem. I also know Brook personally and he is a very decent human being. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brook-shepard/8/158/b17
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by earl 16y ago
quantcast (we) are free http://www.quantcast.com/info/measure
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by earl 16y ago
Also -- the exact numbers I've seen might be proprietary, but here's part of the value prop of online quantitative advertising: if you take ad spend and divide by minutes spent in a bunch of areas such as {TV, magazine, newspaper, online},
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by earl 16y ago
I hope that the CEO follows through with this -- if so, it's the best thing that can be done under the circumstances and a nice thing to do. "It’s been an incredibly tough decision. I wish it weren’t necessary. However, I know it’s the righ
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by earl 16y ago
That's awesome -- I want access to that tool.
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by earl 16y ago
For people in sfbay, you should really go to the Computer History Museum ( http://www.computerhistory.org/ ). They have a working model of Difference Engine No 2 -- one of only two in the world. The story goes that some museum in Londo
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by earl 16y ago
All serious athletes are used to withstanding high amounts of pain. When I was a serious runner, I think that was the thing the most people didn't understand -- as you get better at running, the pain doesn't stop. You just get better at p
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by earl 16y ago
As some hn reader pointed out -- and I wish I remembered his or her name -- if you aren't paying for it, you are the product. fb is going to continue to aggressively monetize the information people have given them. I'd wager Zuckerberg thi
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by earl 16y ago
Does anybody have any experience using an ipad? It has a full pdf reader so that at least should work well.
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by earl 16y ago
If you run whois and check linkedin, you can figure out where the author most likely works and what sort of things they do... No names since he probably doesn't want to be googleable.
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by earl 16y ago
Matt something-or-other gave a presentation at golden gate ruby conference titled something like making couch db perform like a porn star. He then filled the slides with gratuitous pictures of mostly-naked women. When told that women were
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by earl 16y ago
For the love of god, give chargify a rest. Decision process: does chargify work for you at a price that is better than the competitors? Then use them. If they don't? Use a competitor or roll your own. This online shitfest about their pri
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by earl 16y ago
If you read his columns, he's pretty explicit about what government should spend money on: (1) infrastructure projects, which will both increase employment now (particularly in the construction sector) as well as boost future productivity;
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by earl 16y ago
Sadly, no. His argument (very plainly written in the article): there was no stimulus. The exact quote is, "There never was a big expansion of government spending. In fact, that has been the key problem with economic policy in the Obama yea
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by earl 16y ago
Similar thoughts come to me from time to time, mostly when I realize I spend 50-60 hours a week making advertising more efficient. Still... there are upsides. I left a career as a scientific programmer creating medical research software b
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by earl 16y ago
Um, no. Not at all. The $26 per unit isn't the problem. It's paying for textbooks, housing, food, reliable transportation, medical insurance, and daycare while you're going to school and studying. Or trying to concentrate after a 50 hour
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by earl 16y ago
I worked in a wetlab or for a bioinformatics company writing software for 4 years. One of the things that completely shocked me when I started working there, and I think most people don't appreciate, is that taking a liquid and figuring ou

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