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by hack_edu 14y ago
Yes, though if the landlord had a hand in the operation I'd imagine it would have to be a legal business. This means taxes, insurance, wages, administration costs, permits that probably make it more trouble than its worth.
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Again and again, people who use Airbnb to 'hack' the rental market get little sympathy from me when the chickens come to roost. If your landlord was interested in running a tenement home/boarding house/hotel, they wouldn't sign you into a y
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Kids should be building rockets and robots, not making iPhone apps.
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Unfortunately tons of firms put a huge value in this. Try getting a high level rockstar-ninja-badass (lol) engineer job, especially at a bay area startup, without some sort of pedigree from a named institution. Its bullshit, but reality. Go
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Yeah, but I fired the last guy who billed me for that time he needed to re-discover the quadratic equation. An interview should evaluate the skills one needs for the job, not puzzles that make you feel smart. Were I interviewing someone, I
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by hack_edu 14y ago
NB to all interviewers: this girl has knows how to solve problems efficiently, effectively, and in a manner appropriate to their role. I would not be pleased if my employee always tried to re-write what has been solved and perfected decades
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Someone has to remove the husk, de-hair it first, and chop it to size, not to mention dress it with butter or etc. Each single one. Compare that to the amount of effort it takes to microwave a 20lb bag of creamed corn that is already dresse
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by hack_edu 14y ago
The cost of the materials is only a small part of it. Preparing and cooking fresh food requires much, much more effort than prepared packaged foods. Microwavable or similarly low/zero-prep food products require very little labor, require on
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by hack_edu 14y ago
FriendFeed -> Status Feed and Aggregation
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by hack_edu 14y ago
> one of the main draws to Node is the huge community and wealth of awesome modules. Socket.io, Now.js, cradle, redis Really? In my experience, all but the most mature modules are hardly beta-quality and in constant flux. Find a good mo
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Or someone should make a startup that helps startups sell shirts on Kickstartr, a startup!
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by hack_edu 14y ago
... because they have drastically limited its availability for direct downloads and pursue pirates like the coming winter.
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by hack_edu 14y ago
True, but its very rare that an institution subscribes on a journal-by-journal basis. The pricing structure makes this approach ridiculously expensive and impractical. The price of a dozen or two a la carte journals will usually cost as muc
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by hack_edu 14y ago
> The company is currently being boycotted by academics who object to its business model The only way to win the war is through convincing the librarians and administrators who cut the checks for an institution's subscription. They're w
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by hack_edu 14y ago
I'm unfamiliar, are they a business or just a platform? As much as I'd prefer it all be open, the only way to send a message is to work in their sphere. Contracts between publishers and libraries exist in the conference rooms, decided by co
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Its worth pointing out that Elsevier also controls the whole line of Lexis Nexis products. Academic publishing, especially journal subscriptions and research databases, is one of those most entrenched industries there can be. It might not b
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Apple and EA didn't need more PR drama. Welcome to the yet another battle in the war of (signed) 'Apps' vs our old notions of software. Plus, EA certainly doesn't need any more bad publicity after Mass Effect 3 and all their release day DLC
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Lately my problem has been convincing my boss NOT to use Node on every little project. Don't get me wrong, Node is versatile and fun, but not the most appropriate choice for systems work and your usual DevOps tools. To him, any little one o
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by hack_edu 14y ago
The iron grip that the publishing industry has upon anything library is absolutely stunning. There is so much potential for disruption, yet all the valuable IP (journals, indices, etc) is locked up by centuries-old monopolies. It makes Blac
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Undergrad: US History, BA (<5 years ago) Graduate: Library & Information Science, MA Guess I'm a lucky one. Currently employed as a developer outside of both fields. :D EDIT: any academic/education-focused startups interested in
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by hack_edu 14y ago
I really want to read. Topic is right down my alley. Unfortunately, the page is literally broken and unreadable on Android ICS with Chrome :(
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by hack_edu 14y ago
Were Van Gogh a programmer today he would have been late blooming second-career type rockstar cowboy coder that burned out in a half a dozen years before killing himself. He was an amazing artist (my favorite of his time) but is exactly the
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by hack_edu 14y ago
All these statements about human nature, the gender gap, and the motivation for 'tinkering late at night' are quite baseless. Go on, you have a lot of ground to cover before you're going to convince anyone that this is more than just anothe
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by hack_edu 15y ago
And how does it perform? Does it have all the same features?
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Summary: Guy complaining about his Nexus One being slow. It should be, that phone was designed to run up to Android 2.x and has long lost any support for system updates. It wasn't even originally designed to run Android 3.x. There's a whole
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by hack_edu 15y ago
They'll re-launch servers, returned or not. They don't need them though . All the data on those servers was uploaded by users, anyway. All the uploaded user content was put there because its replaceable and easy to re-upload. Confiscate the
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by hack_edu 15y ago
If they must have a bezel, it should at least disappear when the device is sleeping/powered-off. Why not extend the screen fully to the edge and instead illuminate a bezel with the screen itself. You could even allow users to customize it a
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Plenty of sketching and writing apps already have really good wrist-detection. It shouldn't take much effort to extend that to assume a pseudo-bezel if you enable it in Settings.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
For what its worth, my phone was stolen last month and had Lookout Mobile Security installed. It pinpointed the location down to a few meters. Still the cops more-or-less said, "Oh, that's nice but we can't use that." They said that civilia
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by hack_edu 15y ago
In the States, the act of copyrighting a book makes it eligible to be stored in the Library of Congress. This more-or-less guarantees its immortality.

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