erobbins

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by erobbins 11y ago
My take on this is that theranos started out with good intentions, and just hasn't been able to make it happen so they are trying to buy time. The early stage investments were probably sound, but later rounds are a little questionable.
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by erobbins 11y ago
"this graph looks like a hockey stick, how's $50 million?"
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by erobbins 11y ago
Between this and the "wireless energy over ultrasound" scam I'm starting to wonder if VCs actually do any due diligence at all.
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by erobbins 11y ago
I'm sure both of them would come over with a decent offer :)
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by erobbins 11y ago
This seems like an amazing job and I am a bit jealous. I often wish I'd chosen a different path in life.
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by erobbins 11y ago
for sure. A fleet of electric self driving cabs will be the tipping point for city and near-city residents to stop driving.
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by erobbins 11y ago
It's inconvenient. My car takes me from right where I am, to exactly where I want to go, exactly when I want it to, in a minimum of time. Public transportation takes me from sort of where I am, to the general area I want to go, slowly,
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by erobbins 11y ago
I turned off GPS on mine for that exact reason. If your speed is +- 10 mph the average speed of traffic, it's not a factor. Unless you're an insurance company, of course, and then it's a great excuse to deny a claim.
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by erobbins 11y ago
I got the transcend drivepro 200 with the suction mount. I picked it because the video quality day and night were rated near the top, and it has wifi so I can configure it/download videos easily from my phone. http://smile.a
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by erobbins 11y ago
I've been driving with a camera for over a year now. While I haven't needed it for evidence of any sort, I do enjoy being able to create movies of enjoyable drives and idiot drivers from time to time :) I worry less about people i
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by erobbins 11y ago
Why do you say the new CEO is a joke? Just curious.. he hasn't been around long enough to pass judgement on, I wouldn't think?
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by erobbins 11y ago
I always make sure I have LA or portland/seattle picked, that "cupertino" thing annoys me for some reason.
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by erobbins 11y ago
The problem is that all the employees are just playing minesweeper, a $3k macbook pro running windows in a VM is the wrong tool for the job. $200 notebooks are perfect.
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by erobbins 11y ago
Indeed. I don't think my $0.00 in college money would have gotten me very far.
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by erobbins 11y ago
I would not work somewhere that allows dogs, personally. Don't like them at all.
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by erobbins 11y ago
Nice. I was on a jury where we did something similar. Guy had been charged with having a concealed weapon. He and a couple of friends had been out shooting at some remote location where it was perfectly legal to shoot. They had a bunch of d
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by erobbins 11y ago
The only people this empty act will fool probably don't own twitter stock.
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by erobbins 11y ago
I submitted an application last month and heard nothing back.. not even a "no thanks"
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by erobbins 11y ago
The feather is always unlocked during ascent, in order to make sure the unlock mechanism works. If the unlock mechanism fails at apogee, the ship will not be able to decelerate appropriately and will overspeed and break up in reentry.
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by erobbins 11y ago
I'm surprised C/C++ was so high and ruby so low. I assume the C/C++ position is due to hardware hackathons mainly.
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by erobbins 11y ago
Interesting.. in the linux/unix world I've always intercepted functions with LD_PRELOAD. I'm guessing that's not an option on OS X?
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by erobbins 11y ago
The use of "females" as though women were biological specimens to be studied is a early indicator for certain behaviors...
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by erobbins 11y ago
Same.. I thought it would be a super cold version of mercury but it's a living changing world, amazing stuff.
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by erobbins 11y ago
It's very surprising to me how much (apparent) recent geologic activity there is on both pluto and charon. I had expected them to be much more mercury like. Pluto was my favorite planet growing up. I never dreamed I'd get to see i
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by erobbins 11y ago
A long time ago as a joke a few of us sketched out "netfs" that would use network switch forward buffers as a filesystem in a similar manner (constant resending), but never actually tried to make it. This is really neat.
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by erobbins 11y ago
Is it best to apply through the site? The ground station devops role seems like it was created for me :)
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by erobbins 11y ago
isn't this the original yahoo with new paint?
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by erobbins 11y ago
This is fantastic. Nuclear fission suffers from a hindenberg-type PR problem, where incidents from early design mistakes and poor choices color the opinions of people even though modern reactor designs are safe, efficient, and essentially c
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by erobbins 11y ago
> has profits a crazy concept in silicon valley
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by erobbins 11y ago
Slightly different requirements.. X-15 was single seat, no provision for sight seeing, trained test pilots that could handle high G forces, etc.. Also, X-15 had much more tolerance for failure, frankly. When you're doing something for

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