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by gesman 8y ago
That's how Costco survives and prospers in Amazon era. By not exposing customers to shady vendors, misleading metrics and questionable product rankings based on fake reviews.
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by gesman 8y ago
Ask large cash bonus upfront. Large salary. Large bonus. No sacrifice for future a-la-startup sh.. promises. Request "research-style" environment meaning no pushy bosses, no cr.. deadlines, relaxed, freedom workstyle. You are an A
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by gesman 8y ago
In this context it is stealing children's personal information - and doing so against their will and/or permission. Not a physical abuse but comes as close second.
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by gesman 8y ago
"...You're much better off being a founder." Or VC investor with preferred shares that will guarantee you get paid first N-times your original investment (before unaware engineers will see a penny).
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by gesman 8y ago
Follow your excitement and feelings. I'd take offer with more cash in the pockets vs. promise of bright future for current sacrifice. %% of startup shares is what they want you to believe in. What you haven't been told is that you
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by gesman 8y ago
We need GDPR in USA. Without this - nothing will change. Benefits of abusing children and stealing user's private information to resell to advertisers far outweigh the penalties.
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by gesman 8y ago
In my young and reckless years i loved to [ab]use INT 13 to literally mechanically destroy hard drives with 12 bytes programs.
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by gesman 8y ago
Because it's expensive and has low PR value.
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by gesman 8y ago
I agree with Windows - it's screwy. Closing lid and putting it in backpack - 50% of that simple action resulted in laptop being hot like a frying pan when i take it out few hours after. I traced it down to wireless mouse - it apparentl
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by gesman 8y ago
Laura Day: Practical Intuition (Inadvertently predicted Sep 11 attack while doing exercises in this book)
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by gesman 8y ago
Lol It was cold! And it’s Gore jacket :)
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by gesman 8y ago
Possibly for a micro, campus-based local community that has something in common and temporarily are located in proximity to each other. No necessarily "dating" or "by interest" groups - but it could be a great idea for s
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by gesman 8y ago
I was just flying over LA on sunday and had to take a picture of this "single house ocean": https://imgur.com/a/iMWExcv Very unusual view.
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by gesman 8y ago
Problem with that approach - it absolutely does not change anything and does not protect you from having that happening again and again.
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by gesman 8y ago
"...And if a takedown notice is wrong, a counter-notice can be sent by someone explaining that they own the work or that it’s not infringement..." I think "if a takedown notice is wrong" - counternotice need to be sent b
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by gesman 8y ago
As a shareholder (disclaimer: i am not) I'd rather have stock rising with bad numbers than stock stalled with good numbers. Having said that, my hands are itching to (disclaimer: i am not financial adviser) buy leap puts on TSLA.
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by gesman 8y ago
This is BS. Ballmer was a worst thing that could happen to any company of a Microsoft scale. Under his guidance Microsoft stock stalled in a trading range for more than a decade, he was always late to any big game and had that "me too!
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by gesman 8y ago
"... as evaluated on backtesting scenarios. We are in the process of deploying it live to validate that our hypotheses hold true". It's easy to create an algo (AI or not) that performs well on historical data. Until "hy
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by gesman 8y ago
+100! It will inspire kids / young people to learn and create things beyond what's possible today.
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by gesman 8y ago
Launch your own company and hire PM's that does things the right way. (Then watch for anon HN posts complaining about you and your PM's styles :) )
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by gesman 8y ago
I like the search capability of inbox - it always was better than gmail. It had it quirks due to "designed to focus on what really matters." - actually meaning: "we'll ignore what you want and need and do it the way we t
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by gesman 8y ago
I prefer winter-on-demand - (Tahoe!) vs. 4-5 months of misery in the air and on the roads enforced upon you - like it or not. Add to that quick car depreciation due to salty roads. I am happy to pay for air tickets and buy a dinner for my
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by gesman 8y ago
This specific business model is proven to be worth-the-wait until proven innocent vs. early investing for a hope of windfall that highly likely will never materialize. There is an excess of VC that reduces quality of due diligence.
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by gesman 8y ago
They didn't charge you, so it's non-event for you. Besides the fact to note that this registrar is not someone you want to rely on for any future business.
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by gesman 8y ago
I lived in Ottawa and then worked in Montreal few years ago. Compare to silicon valley - the difference is between 2x - 4x. Canada always been a joke is high tech pays. Add miserable weather to that and that completes the package.
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by gesman 8y ago
Well, if customer prone to lose anyways - "brokerage" is in good shape to collect commissions. They'd be in trouble if customer suddenly strikes high margin gold and want to withdraw.
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by gesman 8y ago
Trading is essentially an activity of showing numbers on a screen between funds deposits and funds withdrawal. Traders are playing with numbers. No one actually expects the paper shares to be mailed after stock purchase. Brokerage guarantee
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by gesman 8y ago
Use stainless steel cable instead? It cost ~4-5x times more than regular (today, not sure decades ago) but total cost of bridge build for it's majority was probably (overpriced) labor anyways.
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by gesman 8y ago
Virginia Lottery director Ken Thorson pled to the press. “It is an opportunity for the common man to spend a small sum for the possibility of a higher prize… We never anticipated a group trying to make such a large purchase.” Neither corpo
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by gesman 8y ago
Take time to think about the way/pattern you will use to name identifiers across the whole project. Camel-cased? Lowercased with underscores? 2-4 words in each? After that things will be easier and faster.

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