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by gervase 8y ago
The earliest point at which AAPL reached $14 (roughly $3.57 in post-split shares) was Nov. 1999. If they'd purchased 36 (500/14) shares, they would now have 1008 shares, worth roughly $200K. So, absolute best case and assuming the
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by gervase 8y ago
We had a lot of luck sourcing candidates at career fairs from local universities, actually. They usually will head to the campus career center prior to contacting recruiting companies, but you can get hundreds of candidates (including doubl
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by gervase 8y ago
Consider it from an engineering perspective: Problem: I write some code, but it doesn't work very well. Solution: Write a lot of code every day for a few years. The implication is that you learn what kinds of things are good and bad th
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by gervase 8y ago
It could be a book of short stories, perhaps. Plus, with self-publishing these days, the bar to publish is probably the lowest it's ever been.
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by gervase 8y ago
The IEEE recently revised their copyright assignment terms to explicitly permit authors to upload the POST-review publication to Arxiv, along with a few other outlets.[0] [0]: https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/publish-with-i
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by gervase 8y ago
> why shuffle play is the default I expect it's because A/B testing showed that most users preferred that behavior. This makes sense from their radio/playlist-centric model, which seems to de-emphasize single album listeni
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by gervase 8y ago
Should probably have a [2016] tag.
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by gervase 8y ago
> But also because it makes the PhD not much different than working in industry. I believe this is viewed as a feature, and not a bug. For the most part, academia serves as one of the few reliable ways to emigrate to the U.S., and exploi
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by gervase 8y ago
The first two examples you provided (Kleenex and Disney) have nothing to do with quality, and everything to do with trademarks. If they do not aggressively defend their trademark, even from tiny, rural daycares with 10 kids, then there is a
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by gervase 8y ago
I believe this is a case of a disparity between who they say their products are for (power users), and who they are actually for (people who want to think of themselves as power users). This would be similar to, for example, many sportswear
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by gervase 8y ago
I doubt the downvotes have anything to do with your product itself (which seems superficially similar to that in the linked article?), but more with the fact that self-promotion outside of a [ShowHN] is generally frowned upon.
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by gervase 8y ago
From the link, it claims that this "gives access to all the logins you've saved in Firefox", but I thought it was common knowledge that in-browser password storage is insecure? [0,1] If so, then this doesn't really promo
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by gervase 8y ago
I think the implication is that your card issuer won't fight you on the cancellation, whereas the service provider that is trying to make your life difficult has additional, phone-based hoops for you to jump through.
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by gervase 8y ago
I doubt we will see much research on the potentiation effects of tobacco on nicotine, since broadly it seems as if tobacco is "on the way out", so to speak. However, there is quite a bit of research available [0, 1] that suggests
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by gervase 8y ago
Given the existing socioeconomic patterns of smoking [0], I think this is the most likely scenario. Given a Venn diagram of people who smoke (low socioeconomic status) and people who "Juul" (high socioeconomic status [1]), the ove
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by gervase 8y ago
I'm happy to share my thoughts. I developed on Macs for 8 years, then switched to Windows 10 for 2 years (inclusive of Insider builds). In some ways, the transition was pretty painless. I mainly use JetBrains products, so there was ver
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by gervase 8y ago
I don't think it would be a huge issue for the most part, simply because the parallax from your head movement is minimal due to the relatively long distance involved from the plane to the ground. Most of the parallax you'd experie
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by gervase 8y ago
I ended up getting nearly twice as much from CarMax as I was offered from any dealers. However, I suspect this was because there was a serious problem with the steering column that CarMax missed in their inspection that the dealers did not.
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by gervase 8y ago
I applaud these steps, and I hope they include concrete plans for addressing the good-evil hiring gap in their next diversity report. Perhaps a community outreach program to get middle schoolers more interested in becoming evildoers? Not en
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by gervase 8y ago
Of course it's possible that there are competent data scientists without graduate degrees; the parent was simply suggesting possible reasons why you might have been passed over for those positions, such as positioning your previous p
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by gervase 8y ago
Another comment in this thread indicated that "large scale" was any business in which 5 employees or more had access to the data in the course of normal business operations. Not exactly an ironclad source, but better than nothing,
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by gervase 8y ago
Up to about a yard, divisibility for imperial distances is pretty good, but you're absolutely right that past yards, it doesn't make much sense. However, for most day-to-day, hands-on tasks (with the major exception of driving), t
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by gervase 8y ago
This article reads as more of a "My idealized view of how to constructively review a research paper", rather than a concrete foundation to evaluate papers. From the reviews my publications have received, it's quite clear that
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by gervase 8y ago
It seems to me (from a brief scan of the spec) that they actually are using 802.15.4 to establish the mesh at low-rate speeds, then switching to a different high-rate standard once the handshaking is complete. Given the rate limitations of
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by gervase 8y ago
Partially, this is based on a disconnect between engineering and hiring. For example, the people who are writing the job descriptions got a 1-line email, "We need to expand the engineering team; could you take care of it? Thanks!"
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by gervase 8y ago
Probably "Computer Science", I'm guessing? Most schools (as far as I'm aware) treat AI as a part of computer science.
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by gervase 8y ago
> you're being fairly pretentious as if you're too busy to pick up the phone I don't think this is a good argument. The same idea, applied to other domains, sounds outlandish: - you're too busy to drive to the store t
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by gervase 8y ago
It isn't clear to me from this press release what "leaning into GeForce" means. Will partners need to include the GeForce name as part of their product names, in addition to the product numbers? Anyway, I'm a little surp
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by gervase 8y ago
> Do you prefer not having it in a conversation view? I strongly prefer to disable conversation view, because the time (recency) and time interval (frequency) are obscured, at least from the inbox view of most readers. There is a big dif
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by gervase 8y ago
This isn't unique to technology, but can easily be seen in politics, sports, religion, etc. It's just not labelled fanboyism in other domains. My background is not in psychology, but I suspect is boils down to something like &quot

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