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by egiva 15y ago
I hope more people do follow those signals and get into the field! The challenged faced in other countries (such as Spain where I live) is that it's easier than ever to pump highly qualified programmers and engineers out of state-sponsored
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by egiva 15y ago
Great App! I thought the lessons were well commented and laid out. One trick, instead of bulking up with more features, it to lay out more lessons and publish a system for letting us know when they're available. For me it would be more usef
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by egiva 15y ago
Now Sony is copying Tesla's fabled "Tower of Power": http://www.damninteresting.com/teslas-tower-of-power/
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by egiva 15y ago
Don't forget Job's presentation of the building to city officials (good video to watch): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2632158
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by egiva 15y ago
Definitely a brave man. It's a bittersweet award for me (Medal of Honor) because most of the recipients died in the line of duty. I'm really glad that this corporal did his duty and made it home to receive the honor in person.
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by egiva 15y ago
Let's not overgeneralize by lumping everyone into a single "financial industry" - really some sectors like banking are highly regulated while others (like hedge funds) much less so. Despite high bureaucracy, the financial industry as a whol
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by egiva 15y ago
I saw this a while back - REALLY interesting! I definitely give this a +1 to anyone who has time to read it.
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by egiva 15y ago
Yes, greatly slowed and that's troubling considering all the cash that American corporations are sitting on right now. That said, the indicators are still vastly different from what we saw in the last 20-30 years even of the Soviet economy,
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by egiva 15y ago
Well, if it's a definition it's a crappy 2-second one so I apologize for that. I hear what you're saying here and I agree. In any effect, we can probably all agree that the end result of all this is overwhelmingly negative for the long-run
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by egiva 15y ago
I really hope that 10% unemployment IS NOT an equilibrium for the US, but I agree that all the major increases in US productivity lately are not being shared evenly among the working class. Capital (held ever-increasingly by the wealthy) is
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by egiva 15y ago
Well, nobody is talking about "business versus government", so please don't just cherry-pick or take parts of these comments out of context. We're talking about key concepts in Political Economy (PE) and I'm clearing saying that I disagree
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by egiva 15y ago
How many articles can people write as spin-offs of this same theme? I'm just getting a little tired of the countless "Android vs iOS", "Android vs iOS" market share articles out there. Maybe it's just a slow news day and they have to find 1
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by egiva 15y ago
again, usually cell towers are lease-based and not rented, and the company is in charge of their own electrical power for the tower. The power comes from the street and they have a meter. That being said, maybe BART is different.
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by egiva 15y ago
That would make more sense - I know from renting commercial space (with cell towers on the roof) that the power and service can be independent of the building (i.e. power comes from the street). Maybe that's not true in BART. I'd agree that
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by egiva 15y ago
true that
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by egiva 15y ago
Good arguments but limited interpretation in this article - namely the fact that growth in Soviet bureaucracy correlated strongly with a decline in overall (real) productivity, while growth in US bureaucracy comes during a time in continued
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by egiva 15y ago
The justification being that the area isn't "public" so the right to public assembly doesn't apply? I find it really interesting that they have that sort of macro-control on the cell broadcast antennas in the BART stations in order to turn
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by egiva 15y ago
Actually, there's a great reason why large, resource-constrained countries like China have declared that they will begin developing thorium-based nuclear energy - the technology has the potential to be clean and safe. Thorium is great becau
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by egiva 15y ago
It's an interesting sensor, but the article didn't explain any technical details on how the thing is produced. Here's another article: http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/pb/22316 Technical Excerpt (for anyone interested): "The E
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by egiva 15y ago
I definitely like grouping rides by the date that the driver is starting his/her trip - maybe make that a tad more obvious? A small aside like a jQuery calendar or simple title like "Find a Ride by Date..." would get that message across. Ra
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by egiva 15y ago
The most difficult challenge is what the author describes as: "When you find your product getting too monolithic, break it up". It's easy to pile on features when you develop a product, but doubly difficult to derive it down to the most ess
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by egiva 15y ago
Well, the post wasn't very well written probably, but you can argue that they are talking about two concepts: Axioms and Notation. If you used base 2, or base 3 (or base -2, -3) math, then that particular notation would work out differently
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by egiva 15y ago
If you were taking a simplistic view of a small company working on their first few products, I might agree with the poster. Usually you wear a lot of hats when you start. However, I've worked as a project manager and later, as a CEO. I can
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by egiva 15y ago
If you're like me you bought 1-2 daily deals early on, and then never went back to using Groupon or daily deal sites. Do they publish any financial information on repeat purchases? I haven't been able to find it...
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by egiva 15y ago
It's funny that if you agree that many programming languages suffer from a paradoxical "shield of complexity" like the author describes, than the obvious solution is better technology like natural language parsers, etc. (Ways to translate m
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by egiva 15y ago
This is a really helpful comment. Just want to give another vote for brevity and focusing on product and user details in the PD.
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by egiva 15y ago
Colbert made a great speech. Maybe you've already seen it, but I really recommend a past commencement speech by J.K. Rowling in 2008: http://vimeo.com/1711302
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by egiva 15y ago
Well, I've telecommuted myself, and I've managed employees who telecommuted. From a manager's point of view, I would say that telecommuting arguably works in very limited circumstances, but I don't think that small start-up businesses meet
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by egiva 15y ago
For people who want more substantive ideas about the topic: they talk about "positive leverage" and compare the situation to what you encounter in a hostage crisis. In economics, this is actually called the "Patient Seller" model, or the "
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by egiva 15y ago
For whatever reason I'm fascinated by industrial robots - it would be great to have a couple of those enormous robotic arms for simulated wii hacked sword fights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEotHQgUsg check out minute 0:58...

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