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by gjmulhol 11y ago
MongoDB is web-scale.
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Maybe, but a lot of companies, even in YC, focus on a lot of things that are not related to revenue (unpaid user growth etc).
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Wow, I was under the impression that the Flint situation was primarily driven by bad policy put in place by people who didn't really know what they were doing, but it seems like there was a lot more nefarious action than that.
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
My friends, we are finally hitting the new economy where even startup are being asked to make money---maybe not to the point of profitability, but even a little revenue can make a big difference in a lean organization.
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
I really like this idea. We groom our Kanban board, which creates a similar effect, but not so explicitly. In your case or ours, one of the nice things about stepping back is reprioritization, which happens nicely in Scrum but not so much i
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
I love this. We briefly flirted with scrum but now just have a much more Kanban-like system now, too. The only issue I foresee long term is that the sprint mentality of Scrum might recharge people and get them to, well, sprint, at product g
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
One cool part about this is that once they prove that current engine designs can be replicated using additive manufacturing, then totally new engine designs, different from anything possible with traditional manufacturing techniques, can be
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Rule of thumb from someone who has been through it (not me): Employees 1-20: "never have to work again money" 20-200 (or so): "buy some nice stuff, live a great life, still have to work" >200: nice payday, buy a house
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Number 1 rule of working at a startup: really trust the founders and everyone you work with. Look out for yourself, but at the end of the day, if you are working with someone scummy, they can change the rules at basically any time. So work
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Here they are talking about surface quenching, where the amorphous carbon thin film is heated then rapidly cooled on the surface. Instead of forming smaller precipitates, like in an alloy, it just forms very small crystals that happen to be
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
The carbon is amorphous before it is heated, then it forms various crystalline structures it appears (you can see that in the Raman, EELS, and other measurements, though the quick way to identify that is all the discussion of various crysta
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
In case you want to see the original paper: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/118/21/10.1...
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
There won't be an independent take until someone can try to reproduce the results which, given how simple the experimental setup seems to be, might not take long but hasn't happened yet. I have read the paper, though, and it appea
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Set a performance goal. Don't focus on weight loss, focus on finishing a half marathon, swimming a mile, or something else you might like to do. Then set up a training plan 3-5 days a week and keep a calendar where you get to cross off
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Discovery of Pi in Quantum Mechanics a 'Cunning Piece of Magic'(science20.com)
2 points by gjmulhol 11y ago|0 comments
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
You are indeed correct. This article uses quartz and quartz glass interchangeably, so I assumed the author was making the sapphire/"sapphire glass" error (because sapphire is never a glass) but upon checking out the original
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Quartz is not glass. Quartz is a crystal.
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Alumina is Al2O3 generally, and usually it is polycrystalline. Sapphire is specifically Al2O3 in a certain (very hard) crystal structure.
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Hard work is important, but the implication here that pure meritocracy created highly homogenous companies is asinine. I am one of the privileged few that gets to live in this magical place, be told great all of us are, and how we worked ha
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
I will caveat this and say that I am speaking from an entrepreneur's perspective, and OP obviously has more experience investing than I do, but I am skeptical of taking this line of thinking too far. There is a problem with this model—
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President Obama’s Clean Power Plan Demands Materials Innovation(medium.com)
1 points by gjmulhol 11y ago|0 comments
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
This title is misleading and clickbaity. Takeaway: Both Samsung are choosing to bring chip design in house as a differentiator, Qualcomm is getting its margins crunched because both Apple and Samsung are only buying low cost modems from the
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
After an initial screen, we do a paid project for hires. 2-4 weeks (or longer or shorter as appropriate for us and the candidate) at a fair rate that we all agree on -- usually equal to or at a slight premium to what the FT salary of that p
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Shaping Tomorrow's Breakthrough Materials(gsb.stanford.edu)
1 points by gjmulhol 11y ago|0 comments
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Data Processing with Ruby, RabbitMQ, and Sneakers(citrine.io)
6 points by gjmulhol 11y ago|0 comments
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
Totally agree. Also, if someone asked me "What street did you grow up on?" or "What was your first pet's name?" I would probably just answer it. Neither of those are terribly threatening on the face of it.
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Getting started with the Jackson JSON processor(citrine.io)
1 points by gjmulhol 11y ago|0 comments
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Google: Security questions aren't secure(research.google.com)
3 points by gjmulhol 11y ago|2 comments
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by gjmulhol 11y ago
There is an argument to be made that it is better for a company to make a fair offer and not negotiate. There have been long patterns in many industries that people who negotiate harder get better results, leading to large wage gaps (partic
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by gjmulhol 12y ago
They way they survive anywhere...by seeing the future.

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