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by gamble 16y ago
Hardly anyone pays out-of-pocket for first-class tickets. I suspect 90% of premium cabin passengers are flying on their company's dime, have been upgraded, are using awards, or are non-revenue passengers. The few who pay their own way skew
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by gamble 16y ago
> We are veterinary technicians not veterinarians, dental assistants not dentists, medical assistants not doctors. Women are now a slight majority of medical students and ~95% of nurses. Women make up >75% of the students in veterin
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by gamble 16y ago
> it seems equally hard for a day-labourer as a top-notch scientist to get in A day laborer would probably have the easier time, if he has family in the US. The US system is a relic of a past era when the goal was quickly integrating ho
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by gamble 16y ago
Assuming it's as valid contract, can the fact that it was apparently unknown until now count against it? It seems fairly obvious that subsequent investors would have bought out this guy at a much earlier stage if they'd known that there was
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by gamble 16y ago
Is that true? The troll in this article seemed to be going up against some major companies. I'm no lawyer, but it seems like if you're looking for 8-figure payoffs it would be better to hit up companies for whom that's a minor expense, not
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by gamble 16y ago
They call it patent trolling; I call it poetic justice. The companies that are extorted by patent trolls are the same group that agitated for today's over-broad patent system in the hope that they could wall out smaller competitors with thi
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by gamble 16y ago
The statistics might be rather different if the Kindle edition wasn't 1/3 the price of a hardcover.
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by gamble 16y ago
So... the story is basically that a local reporter was unable to set up an interview with an Apple exec who happened to be in the neighborhood? Shocking. Has the Pulitzer committee seen this yet? What is the deal with HN and Apple/iPhone st
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by gamble 16y ago
The term itself is inherently confusing. If only the best products are 'recommended', are the rest 'not recommended'? That's how it was interpreted, by the mainstream media and blogs alike. They could just as easily label them as 'Outstandi
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by gamble 16y ago
The drives Apple sells aren't, but my X25 definitely is. An SSD is one of those rare upgrades that gives you an immediate and dramatic improvement in performance. The only drawback is the cost, and the way it will ruin you for any computer
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by gamble 16y ago
I was a zip.ca subscriber for a couple of years. The service itself was okay, but I eventually cancelled when half of my returns started going 'lost' in the mail. There are some postmen with suspiciously great DVD collections out there.
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by gamble 16y ago
The best thing going for the N1 was the expectation that you'd be able to run the latest Android release. With other handsets you're lucky to get one upgrade before they EOL your phone. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect at least two
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by gamble 16y ago
I respect (and pay for) Consumer Reports, but their scoring system is unnecessarily confusing. CR only 'Recommends' products they consider to be exceptionally good. It's like receiving an A+, not a C-. Unfortunately, no one who isn't a subs
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by gamble 16y ago
You're in a pretty sweet position if you can go to an investor and say: 1) I'm an expert in my target market. 2) I have a functional product deployed in a real environment. 3) I have five other customers lined up already. You'd be sitting b
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by gamble 16y ago
It's an interesting commentary on how little interest or emotional attachment there is in WP7 that such an inflammatory article could be on HN for this long without attracting any real reaction. If it had been about the iPhone or Android -
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by gamble 16y ago
Before becoming a Dropbox user I was aware there were other cloud-storage services available, but it was the good word-of-mouth that prompted me to try Dropbox. They're a great example of how to win in a crowded market through sheer awesome
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by gamble 16y ago
If I understood correctly, they will offer a selection of 3rd-party cases, due to their inability to keep up with the demand for bumpers.
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by gamble 16y ago
I doubt a thin film would eliminate the attenuation. If the problem occurs because the two antennas are electrically coupled, separating two conductive surfaces by a thin film simply forms a capacitor that will still couple the RF signals i
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by gamble 16y ago
Absolutely. This is a human psychology problem, not an engineering problem. They designed the phone knowing that it suffered more attenuation than other phones, but it also dealt with highly-attenuated signals better than previous iPhones.
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by gamble 16y ago
The 3G was barely usable with OS3. OS4 is embarrassingly slow. Don't upgrade unless you can deal with 30+ second waits to launch apps and continual hitching.
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by gamble 16y ago
To keep the trolls out ?
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by gamble 16y ago
As an alternative, try cold-brewed (aka 'Toddy') coffee. Cold-brewing circumvents the freshness problem by brewing large batches of concentrate that can be stored in the fridge. Then simply mix the concentrate with boiling water for standar
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by gamble 16y ago
There are always at least a half-dozen anti-Apple posts on HN at any given time. I see one post about this, which is already falling off the radar. If this had been about an Apple product, people would be working themselves into a frothy ge
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by gamble 16y ago
I can just imagine the reaction if it had been Apple releasing a phone that self-destructed when you modded it. Since this is Android - and Android is 'open' - expect the story to fall into news-cycle oblivion by next week. Where's the ou
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by gamble 16y ago
Apple is like Toyota in the sense that the media and public hold them to higher standards than other companies. Dell was hit with a class-action for selling millions known-defective computers - how long did that stay in the news? Ditto for
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by gamble 16y ago
Any money you don't lose gambling will just go toward the downpayment on a $100k pickup truck anyway, if the parking lots of Grande Prairie on a weekend are any indication. =)
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by gamble 16y ago
Way, way too much competition. Besides being the one gov't occupation the public has unalloyed respect for, firefighters get great pay and benefits and a lot of free time. Plus there aren't that many positions available, and many of the one
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by gamble 16y ago
These jobs are extremely hard to land. My brother spent about ten years trying to become a firefighter. He went to firefighting school, got his B.Sc., and worked as a private firefighter on a military base - didn't help. I don't think a s
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by gamble 16y ago
I've never worked on the rigs, but I know many people who did. (Or equivalent jobs in the mining industry) It isn't completely unskilled labor, but the pay is very good for the skill required. The reason everyone doesn't roughneck is that i
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by gamble 16y ago
Oilfield roughneck. Work the rigs for a few years, then go back home and write software for the oil & gas industry.

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