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by gxs 12y ago
Thanks.
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by gxs 12y ago
Hm, I will have to break one of my rules regarding leaving personal matters outside of HN, but I absolutely loathe Quicken Loans. I recently wanted to refinance one of my properties. I work in tech but have a degree in applied mathematics,
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by gxs 12y ago
>> Investigations into his behaviour started after emails were found in which he agreed to hand over inside information in return for payment. I'd be curious to see how exactly this occurred. The above blurb is the only mention o
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by gxs 12y ago
The apple tidbit is interesting, but it also sheds some light on how/why to appreciate Picasso.
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Why Apple Employees Learn Design from Pablo Picasso(businessinsider.com)
2 points by gxs 12y ago|1 comments
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by gxs 12y ago
I actually did read the article and saw that. That tidbit was interesting. I understand your view and hence why I called myself cynical.
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by gxs 12y ago
Perhaps I've grown too cynical in my old age, but I always figured this was just the grocery lobbies' doing. We could outright ban the bags (which we have for plastic, not paper). Instead, they literally nickel and dime you every
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by gxs 12y ago
When I graduated from colllege I started working at a top tech company on a contract to hire. The company was paid 50/hr fore and I was paid 20 an hour. When I asked for more, the indian-born Indian CEO of the company went apeshit on m
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by gxs 12y ago
Every two weeks when you receive your paycheck, apple receives one as well. Only difference is that at $8Bn/quarter, their biweekly paychecks are for $1Bn. Not too shabby.
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by gxs 12y ago
Product Manager at a Fortune 500 technology company here. Definitely agree that this is the right answer. In particular step 3. You will get all of this, some of this, and none of this, is an especially good approach. Part of your Product M
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by gxs 12y ago
Correlated, sure. But you can easily argue that it's as simple as people with higher cognitive ability can figure out ways to increase their income level better than others. Or you could argue, education is correlated with higher incom
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by gxs 12y ago
You know, I hate to sound elitist or conceited or whatever word you may want to use to describe the following statement, but it's true: there is a huge element to these decisions that goes beyond education and background. At the end of
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by gxs 12y ago
Just another data point for this request. I've frequently started to-do lists and have tried a million different apps for them. I have a watch with all sorts of fancy timers etc. In the end, I come back to realizing all I want is what
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by gxs 12y ago
It's often companies with retail outlets that are willing to provide this data - I suspect a lot of the diversity comes from the people that work at retail Apple stores. In a way, it is similar to how the government operates - the dive
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by gxs 12y ago
Yeah, this explanation is so obvious to me, I just don't understand how they can try to spin it any other way. There are MILLLIONS of drivers in LA, I doubt we could build enough roads to make it so that there is never any traffic. I w
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by gxs 12y ago
I came here to comment the same thing. This really sounds like an over engineered explanation and usually the simpler explanations turnS out to be more accurate. To use the author's own analogy, it's more like a pipe that is being
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Ask HN: Resources for requirements elicitation
1 points by gxs 13y ago|0 comments
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by gxs 13y ago
I'm getting used to this circus show. I watch the xfinity comcast app on my Galaxy S3 - unfortunately I'm not allowed to "tether" the phone via HDMI and watch the app on my TV (it's actually disabled and you get an
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by gxs 13y ago
Thank you for clarifying this, it was a source of confusion for me as well. Not to sound elitist, but what is $5k to a software engineer making 120k/year regardless of the cost of living in Seattle. This makes more sense.
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by gxs 13y ago
One of the great things that has come of this entire ordeal is simply education. I usually take pride in doing my research well before buying something, but it had never really occurred to me that the dealers are forced middlemen. It had ne
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by gxs 13y ago
As a business systems analyst (Product Owner in agile terms) for a fotune 500 company, thank you for this comment. You uplifted my spirits. Also, I agree with most of it, but I would argue that the best teams I've been on have at least
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by gxs 13y ago
What's especially interesting is how reviled the software engineer is on HN. Maybe always doing the next logical thing to improve the bottom line rubs people the wrong way - even those same types of logical people.
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by gxs 13y ago
Money laundering is a fascinating topic for me. My dad worked for a really wealthy guy in LA that was great at it. Would love to share some stories. Do you have any resources? Good books (fiction, but accurate or non fiction) that you could
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by gxs 13y ago
As a math major that now works in IT, this is the simplest and most accurate answer here. That said, I would say the "ways of thinking" are very similar more than anything. It is similar to things like real/complex analysis i
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by gxs 13y ago
Business Idea: Make it easy for Joe Schmoe's like myself to take action against issues like this. I hate the monopoly the cable company has in my area. I hate that my parents were paying AT&T $50/mo. for a 1Mbps connection bec
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by gxs 13y ago
Especially when a wide spread service like coinbase keeps crashing at peak times and locking people out of their accounts because it counts failed log in attempts as legitimate attempts.
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by gxs 13y ago
I'm no MD, but I did see a Stanford sleep psychologist for a long period to deal with my sleeping issues. As usual, the answer to whether polyphasic sleep works isn't very attractive. In a nutshell, it will work for some people, b
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by gxs 13y ago
This is exactly right. Why do people corner themselves into mutually exclusive, absolute truths, with absolutely no room for compromise? It just doesn't make any sense. When I was in 4th grade I wrote a country report on the US. When I
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by gxs 13y ago
I agree. Regardless of what they've done, they largely accomplished their vision. Their vision was to put a PC in every home. They started with such a lofty goal and delivered. The first thing I ever learned on a pc was typing a: <r
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by gxs 13y ago
I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's amazing how many of our american "traditions" are a result of marketing. While there is nothing inherently bad about this, it definitely gives me a sense that something i

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