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by frossie 16y ago
6) Housecleaning. Hire a service. You don't need anything like FU money to hire a cleaning service to come in every one or two weeks. Any normal salaried job puts you into range. I've seen house-sharing students pool their money together
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by frossie 16y ago
You had to jump through hoops to make your calendar public and searchable (it was not the default option), so I doubt it.
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by frossie 16y ago
This generally means enrolling full time ph.d. Not at all. I have hired software engineers for my organisation and can tell you that scientific background is not always required. Two of my hires had nothing more than school-level educatio
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by frossie 16y ago
Quote: Google's culture has no respect for successful social applications. YouTube's office is still far from the Google campus to avoid the toxic attitude described by a former Orkut employee, "[Google has] an environment that viewed soci
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't want to get shot but... Have you tried looking for jobs in the science/research/R&D sectors? The work isn't necessarily always the most challenging technically (compared to some of the HN fare) but it is exciting in other ways -
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by frossie 16y ago
Poorer countries won't be able to implement it I have yet to see a country so poor that it doesn't televise its major soccer matches. In fact there's more soccer on TV in poorer countries, as it is relatively cheap television and has a hu
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by frossie 16y ago
Also, one of our rituals that we start every executive staff meeting with is sharing one personal and one professional thing occupying our minds. Aaaaaaargh (runs away in horror). Is this an executive staff meeting or an AA meeting?
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by frossie 16y ago
groan We're going to see more and more of this. Many scientists are getting further and further away from the nitty gritty technicalities of their fields, and it's starting to bite them. Can't help feeling sorry for them though. It sucks
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by frossie 16y ago
Okay well, I bothered to ask google about the article mentioned, it's at: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-prof... if anyone cares. I don't know what the reason it gets deaded is, but it is really heavy with the onl
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by frossie 16y ago
I offer these as proof that I was a good contributor to Hacker News-- abrasive and controversial I have no opinion on the actual person (I did not click through the comments) but I just want to point out that I personally don't rate someo
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by frossie 16y ago
What does Posterous do that is absolutely unique and useful that wordpress or other blog platform doesn't do? That is exactly the point the OP was making wasn't it? It doesn't matter whether it does or not, that's not a "barrier to entry"
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by frossie 16y ago
I am not sure I understand the question. Do you mean you are just looking for a bug reporting system that handles binary attachments, or are you asking for the system to somehow grab the screenshot for them? If it's the former, bugzilla wil
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by frossie 16y ago
Otherwise known as "No kid has ever gone to their prom in diapers." It'll happen.
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by frossie 16y ago
Documentation. Probable reason: some people would rather perform their own appendectomy than read a manual. Seriously, I have often included features on strong user request (MUST! HAVE!) against my own better judgement, only to find that, s
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by frossie 16y ago
I use Toodledo for long term things. Toodledo has the most flexibility for complex tasks. They also are a very customer-friendly shop so I like to support them, but their iPhone interface is not great for quickies. I use them for stuff I wo
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by frossie 16y ago
I realise I wasn't meant to, and it doesn't say anything about my position on the issue, but from reading the exchange I formed an immediate liking for the girl. If every teenage girl was this expressive and self-assertive, I personally wou
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by frossie 16y ago
So, I'm confused. I can see that people clicking through AdWords allows you to gauge interest. But having failed to find what they were actually looking for, people actually stick around and fill surveys about it? Really? There must be a gi
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by frossie 16y ago
Well I upvoted it because it was a well-contructed earnest post, but I'm not sure I agreed with it. I really don't like the "if you don't have a solution don't complain" approach; that just stops bringing people to the table. Many people in
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by frossie 16y ago
I hate the title because it is linkbait for the obvious conclusion, which it does reach: Pre-school and school performance is so dominated by non-sheer-smarts characteristics (such as the ability to concentrate on a long test at an early ag
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by frossie 16y ago
If the job involves a lot of refactoring, or, if looking at legacy systems is how the job will derive its requirements, then it is a good test. I tend to object to "fun and interesting challenges" more - all they tell me is that somebody ha
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by frossie 16y ago
Submit your resume via git? What is there not to like here? It will weed out a lot of the nohopers, without making the decent people feel like they are jumping through unreasonable hoops. I like it.
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by frossie 16y ago
I was going to ask what the SafeSearch settings are. Kids, particularly younger kids, receive a lot of their information visually. If an older kid or adult wants to know what, say, an accordion is, they will ask Wikipedia. For a younger kid
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by frossie 16y ago
Interesting quote: One intriguing finding in the study was that gene variants that raise a person's risk of disease may matter less than genes that protect against disease. The scientists found that centenarians had roughly the same number
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New genetic test can predict your chances of living to 100(guardian.co.uk)
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by frossie 16y ago
I like it, good job. I love the slideshow-style in uniform sizes, and the keyboard shortcuts. Image search is used by (and for) kids a lot, and I think this kind of presentation is perfect for them. Do you intend to keep it around or is th
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by frossie 16y ago
I wish people would think outside themselves for a bit. Is every person who has self-diagnosed with Dr Google right? I am sure doctors have seen a bunch of people that are waving some printout that says "I have X, I need Y! Stat!" and are t
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by frossie 16y ago
Also, Amazon Prime is not available everywhere, for example it is not available to Hawaii. Edit: I have had 3 Amazon packages arrive in one day - one by USPS, one by FedEx and one by UPS. I get mine at work, so I'm not bothered, but I can i
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by frossie 16y ago
Ironically, I feel so bad when I order five things in one order (ship when everything is ready, free shipping) and them Amazon sends me five different packages at great expense, that I am almost relieved they are offering this.
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by frossie 16y ago
You may be overthinking this. Have you actually tried applying for other jobs? There are many places who will take a really good programmer with the "wrong" resume. If you have a strong resume and great references, why not get in the boat a
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by frossie 16y ago
What would you think if a prospective hire agreed to accept a position on the condition that he be allowed to make an angel investment in the company? This is SO not my world, but since comments so far have been on the negative side: I ca

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