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by gav 14y ago
It was surprising to me too, I work as a consultant and am regularly billed out at up to $400/hr. I have a resume and a "consulting resume", which is a list of all the projects I've been staffed at for my current employer with the company n
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by gav 14y ago
It's about 40mins from Penn to JFK via the LIRR/Airtrain (to go maybe 20 miles). There's about 6 trains/hour. I really don't see how you'd get this journey down to 15 minutes without having to build a new tunnel all the way, it's never goin
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by gav 14y ago
> And, at Instacart we believe we can have the same efficiencies IF we model the stores in a city just like AMZN modeled warehouses across the world. My supply chain experience comes almost entirely from third-party shipping (somewhat)
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by gav 14y ago
It doesn't give any sort of time frame; it's not surprising that YC is top, they've been operating longer. Personally I'd like a count of [number of companies still in business]+[number of exits].
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by gav 14y ago
There's a cinema in Valley Stream, NY with metal detectors after a number of shootings in the 90s. I went there exactly once, it's off-putting enough to make me want to go elsewhere. http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/aurora-shooting-highl
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by gav 14y ago
The first example isn't a good one. You don't want to have the user class responsible for returning the welcome message.
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by gav 14y ago
In some vacation spots the law is even tougher. Long Beach, NY is worried about people renting a house and having all their friends stay: Not more than two (2) persons not related to each other by blood, adoption or marriage, living and co
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by gav 14y ago
Customers love to think that they've "beat" a merchant. They will then have a lot more positive feelings about the transaction, plus they'll often go round telling everyone about the "secret" they've discovered. I've used this to my client'
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by gav 14y ago
That's assuming you live in a place with good public transportation. A lot of people you wouldn't expect to be able to afford a taxi have to rely on them because they can't afford a car. It's one of the defining things about poverty, you en
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by gav 14y ago
If I was manager wanting to decide on a substantial technology change like Clojure with a presentation like that I'd have to answer "no". It doesn't answer some of the most important questions: 1) What level of support is there for the Cloj
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by gav 14y ago
There's also risks inherent in a more complicated system. You can engineer a more complicated system with the goal of avoiding downtime, but this added complexity may end up with unexpected corner-cases and cause a net decrease in uptime, a
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by gav 14y ago
I didn't want to go into programming after I got my CS degree mostly due to the terrible job market where I lived in 2000 after the dot-com crash. I had a year where I traveled and had jobs like handing out fliers, picking pears, and prunin
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by gav 14y ago
I can give many examples where I've handed code over and later there was problems due to less-skilled developers. One good example I have is being called by a client who had a bug they couldn't fix in some code I had written years before. A
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by gav 14y ago
There seems to be a inflection point where the company gets big enough where working with contractors becomes more beneficial again. Whether this is to be flexible around seasonal demand or scaling up for particular projects, this can avoid
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by gav 14y ago
If they are compliant with ESIGN then there is no reason it's not legally binding. http://www.echosign.com/public/static/faq.jsp#five http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esign
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by gav 14y ago
Or Adobe EchoSign. There's plenty of established competition in this space.
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by gav 14y ago
From their FAQ: Does Newegg.com pay the return shipping cost for defective merchandise? No, Newegg.com does not pay the return shipping cost for defective merchandise. We are not responsible for product defects, because we do not manu
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by gav 14y ago
I was interested to see "The Transamerica Pyramid Building is a registered service mark of Transamerica Corporation" at the bottom of the page. I can't see how using a photograph of SF requires this disclaimer.
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by gav 14y ago
I often wonder if Amazon's acquisitions of Zappos and Quidsi (Diapers.com, Soap.com, etc.) are simply to experiment with different "features" without risking changes to Amazon.com.
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by gav 14y ago
This isn't really true. All the retailers I've worked with (both brick & mortar and internet-only) see returns as a small cost of doing business. An easy returns process makes customers happy and keeps down credit card chargebacks. If y
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by gav 14y ago
Is the observable lag for a string comparison significant enough to be useful? We're talking about such small amounts of time compared to the overhead of the full web stack.
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by gav 14y ago
Every project should work on triage of both patches and bugs to make it as friendly as possible. It's the point where you can stop being simply a user and make a contribution, but it's also where you can have one bad experience and never tr
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by gav 14y ago
I'd like to risk being facetious and suggest that "being good with people" is a requirement for most good jobs, the ones where it's not are the first that get outsourced/replaced with robots/laid off.
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by gav 14y ago
When I see "brogrammer" used I have to fight to not flip the bozo bit for that person. It's a bizarre reversal of high school, where people want to be mad at "bros" for invading the sanctity of the programming world. It's now cool to be un-
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by gav 14y ago
I generally use nohup so I don't have to worry about killing the program when I log out. The man page has a handy bash script for "launch" that captures stdout and stderr to separate files. http://ss64.com/bash/nohup.html
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by gav 15y ago
Oracle knows that their full-text search is lacking and have made some recent acquisitions around search. It will be interesting to see how these play out.
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by gav 15y ago
You're right. I was thinking more about the benefits of hiring experienced people.
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by gav 15y ago
Experience is practicing making mistakes on somebody else's dime. It gives you the understanding that something is a good or a bad decision sooner than somebody who hasn't had this practice.
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by gav 15y ago
The main disadvantage of extending the TLD space is that it is a tax on existing domain owners. If you register a .com, you have to be safe and pick up the .net, .org, .info, .biz, etc.
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by gav 15y ago
I've had experiences dealing with fraud from both PayPal and Bank of America recently. BoA were easy to get on the phone and refunded my money instantly. PayPal won't let you speak to a human, and after a week or so of going back and forth

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