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by earl 15y ago
Yeah, there's whiteboard apps. I want a shared whiteboard . Ideally at least 4 feet by 4 feet. The key feature is both parties can draw and erase and the marks appear on both boards. I'm pretty sure I could talk employers into buying o
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A trivial piece of code that a candidate should be able to write as quickly as they can type on a computer or write on the board designed to test that (1) they can write basic code and (2) they've written enough code that trivial problems a
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by earl 15y ago
Working as a data scientist with a remote boss: communication was much more difficult. No telephony or software solution came close to standing on front of a shared whiteboard. Which sucks, because I really wish it did. Maybe what we n
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by earl 15y ago
You could take a cab instead of uber and it would be 1/2 as much. Unfortunately, the cabs in sf are crap and the companies run by assholes. I broke an ankle, was on crutches for 6 months, and took cabs daily to get to and from work. Ever
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by earl 15y ago
Again, tempest in a teapot. Apparent bad behavior is uncovered, immediate denial is issued. Followup investigation reveals that a third party contractor acted out of line, has admitted guilt, and remedial action taken. que
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by earl 15y ago
This is well known to anyone who does scent work with their dog. I do a game called k9 nosework with my corgi. You take a qtip dipped in certain scents and hide it in boxes in the beginning then progressing to furniture and outside areas.
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by earl 15y ago
VRBO sucks as a rental seeking user. Two years ago I tried to organize a ski trip for my then employer (Scribd). VRBO stats: I contacted ~30 places. Only thirteen called back, not even 50%. Of the 13 that responded (over a period of 9 da
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by earl 15y ago
Except you're working for a corporation that is actively evil. Walmart has a long history of discriminating against women [1]; has an extremely high percentage of employees who are on welfare (it's at minimum unseemly for an employed perso
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by earl 15y ago
it's fun to imagine it is, and it's great advertising either way...
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by earl 15y ago
This video Alamo posted to youtube of an angry customer bitching about getting kicked out for texting is amazing . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs tl;dwatch: customer: I was texting and you kicked me out; whine whine whine ala
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by earl 15y ago
The sort of people who are motivated enough to buy a book or download a tutorial, read it, and build something aren't the audience for this class. These simply are two different groups of people. You see this in the gym: there are two grou
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by earl 15y ago
That would be Noirin Plunkett. Her account [1] and the discussion that went about the same way all posts on HN that touch on sexual assault or misogyny do... [2]. [1] http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/418/ [2] http://news.ycombinator.co
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by earl 15y ago
This is awesome . The way a typical IPO goes is asshole ibankers underprice the ipo then hand out blocks of shares to their preferred clients who pocket the pop. Every bit of price increase is money that should have gone into the pocket
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by earl 15y ago
I took a job at Scribd at least in part because their lead recruiter, Jack, was the only one of six recruiters / companies to whom I spoke who could be bothered to read my individualized cover letter before speaking to me on the phone. I p
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by earl 15y ago
David - That's the fully loaded cost of the employee, so the sum of salary, payroll taxes, health insurance, unemployment insurance, office rent, and whatever else I'm forgetting. Edit: also called the fully burdened cost
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by earl 15y ago
Of course, less the quite possibly considerable difference between market rate and the reduced rate the engineer is being paid. If you go by Fred Wilson's numbers [1]: $10k per month per engineer, the engineers are probably accepting a $60
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by earl 15y ago
From the article: if during the interview she asks how often you do performance reviews, that means she doesn’t understand the startup culture This is really stupid. All bosses, from a two person shop to a twenty thousand person
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by earl 15y ago
Not to mention doctors have a disturbing (and it honestly seems like this should lead to lawsuits and loss of license) habit of lying about the effects of prostate cancer treatment on men's sex lives [1]. Key quote: The findings, base
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by earl 15y ago
Kevin learned how to walk away with millions even if your startup is, on net, a failure. ^^ that's a key fucking learning edit: just to be clear, I don't begrudge him anything. Kevin negotiated the best deal for himself that he could and t
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by earl 15y ago
It feels like in the US that in many areas of the law, enforcement has been outsourced to private enterprise. See eg regulatory capture of the SEC by the banks, Bush appointees in the FDA (Daniel Troy was appointed to be chief counsel; he
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by earl 15y ago
I'm an american and for me, it's not an issue of cost. The issue is how do you want to end your life on this earth. My father died of lymphoma when I was 17; he got it twice. The survivorship rates if the first set of treatments didn't w
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by earl 15y ago
A somewhat heavier version of cygwin, in which everything will work the way it's supposed to: http://www.centos.org I kid, I kid...
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by earl 15y ago
This is stupid. If they don't want to be accused of being a keylogger and/or rootkit, they should (1) not allow keypress events to be sent to their software; (2) force carriers to not hide their executable and show users what information t
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by earl 15y ago
Quantcast uses MarkMonitor [1]. I bet it's expensive, and I have no idea how expensive, but you can configure your domain such that changing any registration information requires a phone call to a short list of people (ie CEO, CTO, or head
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by earl 15y ago
Coda was obviously not thrilled that @jodastephen apparently (from updates written at the top of his post) decided to (1) widely publish personal correspondence that wasn't meant to be sent to him, (2) mirrored it when Coda removed his copy
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by earl 15y ago
I think the term is an ablative and/or autologous bone marrow transplant. My father had this performed to treat type ii non hodgkins lymphoma. Essentially, if there is no donor, you can draw a patient's own bone marrow, attempt to treat i
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by earl 15y ago
After quitting work and tussling with the dog, I'd like to emphasize that I don't think grellas is stupid, but I do think that opinion is. : shrug : Hopefully he won't take take it as an insult. Also, some people -- and I don't know Arrin
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by earl 15y ago
I'd buy an argument like that for pandora, where you can't control play order or exactly what you listen to, but come on. Spotify is a total substitution for purchase: listen to pretty much whatever you want in the order you want as many t
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by earl 15y ago
1 - you'll note I didn't call grellas stupid, so watch your accusations 2 - some opinions are stupid 3 - This has nothing to do w/ standards or whose side I'm on, except that running around looking after 4 - grellas believes everyone should
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by earl 15y ago
Other known numbers, mostly sourced from wikipedia [1] "There are indie labels that, as opposed to the majors and Merlin members, receive no advance, receive no minimum per stream and only get a 50% share of ad revenue on a pro-rata basis (

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