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by gbacon 9y ago
Any technical people you were able to have discussions with in preparing your bid would be good places to start with follow-on conversations. An acquaintance with a setup similar to yours does well with a virtuous cycle of rolling SBIR and
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by gbacon 9y ago
"Who are the Biggest Procrastinators?"[0] by David Allen [0]: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2016/06/who-are-the-biggest-pr...
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by gbacon 9y ago
Two minutes or less, but that's the basic idea. GTD also recommends sorting next actions into contexts where, for example, you don't even think about computer tasks when a computer is not around. By the time an action hits a list,
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by gbacon 9y ago
That's opposed to the view often put forward by FP advocates. Tell us more.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Probably. Maybe he should pick up a phone and bounce his simile off the programmers he contacted while preparing the piece.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Who says the place of performance has to be DC?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Government employees tend to be highly risk averse. This was the insight behind the founding of GEICO, the Government Employees Insurance Company, which used to write policies for public employees only.
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by gbacon 9y ago
A portion of the risk. PBGC pays out at a significant discount.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Compensation is a vector, not a scalar. GS employees almost cannot be fired, government-employee unions protect their members from not the private sector but from the government, they get better than ACA health care, and their retirement is
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by gbacon 9y ago
Almost no one wins submitting proposals out of the blue, certainly the case with unsolicited proposals but also with responses to formal RFPs. Firing in a proposal with no agency contact, no familiarity ("customer intimacy"), no s
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by gbacon 9y ago
Was your bid on the recent SBIR/STTR solicitation by chance?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Sometimes from debriefs, it is clear that they at best skimmed. Therefore the job of the proposal writer is to make the evaluator's job easy and to make the reader eager to turn the page, e.g. , no walls of text just like on reddit or
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by gbacon 9y ago
Nation-states still maintain gold reserves and transact in bars of the barbarous relic stored in the basement[0] of the New York Fed. An unwashed layperson might see this and suspect that they know better than to trust each other’s digits i
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by gbacon 9y ago
The notion that savers hoard their money in mattresses is a caricature, not serious economics.
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by gbacon 9y ago
The question is to what degree fickle investors will return without the perceived Buffett magic.
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by gbacon 9y ago
As a BRK.B owner, the elephant in the room is the advanced age of Warren Buffett. No matter how much he and Munger talk soothingly about continuity and succession plans, the unknown is how the company’s stock will fare after Mr. Buffett h
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by gbacon 9y ago
Nonsense, but you may have been brainwashed into believing it. An enormous disservice to American school kids for the past forty years has been the ad nauseum repetition that you either graduate college or you’re a failure who’s a complete
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Feb 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Say a German user’s chosen name is spaß (“fun”). In all uppercase, that name is equivalent to SPASS or perhaps SPASZ and as of last year[0] SPAẞ. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ
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by gbacon 9y ago
Hence the additional suggestion to 4. Allow multiple identities to link to a single user account
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Life lessons from the Taylor series(johndcook.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
We all seem to agree that regulatory capture[0] exists too. A properly trained crew sounds great, but then comes the question of definitions. Less than five years ago[1], it was legal for a first officer in an FAA Part 121 operation to hold
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by gbacon 9y ago
According to the FAA[0], the top ten leading causes of fatal general-aviation accidents between 2001 and 2016 were 1. Loss of Control Inflight 2. Controlled Flight Into Terrain 3. System Component Failure – Powerplant 4. Fuel Related 5. Unk
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by gbacon 9y ago
Obsessing over ideas is a workerbee mindset. Spouting lots of ideas gets someone labeled as The Good Idea Fairy. Execution is the hard part. Demonstrating a knack for it is a good path to leadership.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Consumers’ votes with our dollars is what drives it all and certainly what attracts (5). Consider the effect of (2), (3), and (4) upon the worker at the margin: they will all constrict the number of jobs relative to what it is today. Great
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by gbacon 9y ago
The beauty of the market is a legitimate complaint can be rephrased as a business plan. Think: Target versus Walmart.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Fair question. Is that person slacking, projecting, coping, or percolating?
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by gbacon 9y ago
There are different kinds of tired — physically exhausted, brain-fried, and emotionally spent — but I’m not making any sort of comparison between them.
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by gbacon 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np2G0yr5xI0 Breakdown of a quick solve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2FmT_6pGc History of records from 1982 to 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_5
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by gbacon 9y ago
It sounds like the original build script was poorly written. Bad (or hurried) programmers write bad code no matter the language. Are you claiming that its size was because Perl forced it to be long winded?

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