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by earl 17y ago
Hmm. Let's see how this goes: Google acts like an asshole to somebody. Typically this is because they refuse to spend any money on customer service, while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge their verging on monopoly market share (thou
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by earl 17y ago
The dogs, from experience, are well fed enough to ignore the post-drinking blintz I tried to share. Several also keep a regular schedule on the metro, riding at the same times and getting on and off at the same stops. I brought enough food
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by earl 17y ago
Mexico did it.
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by earl 17y ago
Baumol's disease is a major component -- education is currently measured in hours, so professors tend not to become more productive over time while the rest of society tends to.
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by earl 17y ago
It's worth noting that CA is basically getting ripped off, as we receive only 0.79 for every $1 we pay in federal taxes. See: http://www.taxfoundation.org/UserFiles/Image/Blog/ftsbs-larg... Also, there are a variety of problems at work h
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by earl 17y ago
I have to second this recommendation. Everybody concerned about nutrition should read * Good Calorie, Bad Calorie; * The Omnivore's Dilemma * The End of Overeating. In order: the science of fat and weight, as best as can be explained today
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by earl 17y ago
I must say, congrats on outing yourself as an utter asshole. I do hope that you never require help from another person.
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by earl 17y ago
Muni is a piece of shit. The buses come at irregular intervals and are regularly clumped together in order to maximize the time between service. nextmuni is unreliable more than about 5 minutes in advance. A trip which takes 18 minutes i
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by earl 17y ago
I bailed on a company with a great product idea because of health insurance. Basically, I have a congenital defect in my eyes that will lead, with about 20% probability, to very expensive health bills. This ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by earl 17y ago
That might work for small things, but wait until you get really hurt or sick. Eg, the HIV positive friend? His meds w/o insurance are $1700/month. The price with insurance is $60. The manufacturer doesn't negotiate on price.
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by earl 17y ago
And I would contend (because I'm right) that you have no idea what you're talking about. The single most important feature of group health coverage, even more than the lower costs, is the fact that they generally don't (and in many places c
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by earl 17y ago
Um, they already have Google Analytics and their search toolbar. I rather doubt there is much they don't see.
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by earl 17y ago
I personally wouldn't live in NYC for less than $80K. Reasons: you'll pay ~$1.5K / mo to live in dumpy but reasonably safe housing with a roommate. That includes utilities which are fucking expensive in NYC. Also, it's humid as hell, so
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by earl 17y ago
1-2% is silly. You can get ~0.7% by coming in at the end of a round A right before around B. Do you seriously think that being the first employee, especially with nontechnical founders, is only 2 to 3 times as much risk? Personally, I'd
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by earl 17y ago
Craig has made it pretty clear in interviews that he likes the UI the way it is and wants it to stay that way. Reading interviews of Craig and Jim also make clear they attribute a lot of their success to intentionally not providing feature
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by earl 17y ago
I think part of the problem is MS encouraged people to write a bunch of ie6 specific sites. Thus, since ie doesn't AFAIK do side-by-side installs, the need to stay on ie6 for line of business apps.
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by earl 17y ago
Programmer. It doesn't excite me in the least because, since I can't afford to alienate big chunks of my audience, it might have enough penetration to use in, oh, 3-5 years? Meh.
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by earl 17y ago
prgmr.com is just like slicehost except with more RAM. I've been happy with them. Currently up 157 days.
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by earl 17y ago
Interesting list. I can certainly agree that Russian is a difficult language to acquire for native english speakers; far harder than Spanish. I am curious, however: has anyone found nonobvious ways to make money with language skills (obvio
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by earl 17y ago
jerf: try reading. I was replying to ionfish.
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by earl 17y ago
And who needs more than 4GB? I do, but I'm apparently the only one.
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by earl 17y ago
Yeah. Seriously weak. I was trying to sell someone at work on Haskell and was put in the (very embarrassing) position of having to say that Haskell is broken on snow leopard right now and ports won't even let you install it.
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by earl 17y ago
SAS is a couple things. The origin is a stats system. For a long time, they were the only stats package in town that was good at working on data that was larger than available memory. This is still mostly true, but people's definition of
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by earl 17y ago
To be fair, SAS for stats has been dead for a decade. Their "state of the art" lags R by at least that much...
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by earl 17y ago
Yeah. It used to be that SAS, like Oracle, was the only place to turn to when you had very large quantity of data. The internet has added multiple orders of magnitude to large, and people now use MR frameworks.
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by earl 17y ago
Yeah, but any sql query can go stale...
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by earl 17y ago
I can too. Once you have people acting in bad faith (see, climate change denial community), combined with the subtleties of statistics, I totally understand not wanting to release your data.
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by earl 17y ago
So Richard basically claims that one of the big problems with soft delete is that, from now on, all queries against the table have to add a where clause excluded soft deleted rows; he claims this is some sort of tax. Is he that ignorant of
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by earl 17y ago
You can get them by asking your account manager; it's not an automatic approval thing. If you don't have an AM, well, you're probably not big enough. Also, I believe (but am not 100% sure, and certainly don't want to be quoted on) that: 1
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by earl 17y ago
The domain tasting companies -- I read a profile of one, whose name I unfortunately have forgotten, but this company seemed to have a ~$17MM annual run rate by bulk purchasing domain names, running ads on them, and returning the ones that d

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