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by herdrick 14y ago
It's not red/blue. She's trying to build a political career in Massachusetts .
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by herdrick 14y ago
Nope. Craigslist means having sketchy people come over to your place and examine your unit of stuff while you talk about why you're selling it, when you got it, etc. Ebay and Amazon mean the work of putting the stuff online and then maili
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by herdrick 14y ago
Actually, withdrawal from heroin is a trivial matter. http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/3212846/withdrawal-from-... Unlike alcohol, for example.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Of course, if they are that badly out of it - I decided she wasn't. It sounds like I used the wrong term, thanks. Fixed.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Semi-conscious, if I recall correctly, covers a wide range of responsiveness. She was unable to stand and slow to respond to questions but was well-oriented w.r.t. person, place and time. Drinking water wasn't a problem. The possible dan
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by herdrick 14y ago
I'm a former ski patroller, which is a kind of outdoors EMT / paramedic. Once, on a flight from Seattle to Boston (for a YC interview!) I walked to the aft bathroom only to find a young woman who had collapsed there, still prone and lethar
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by herdrick 14y ago
Those aren't right. There should be an abs() around each trigonometric function.
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by herdrick 14y ago
You're thinking of someone else. Paul has corrected people here several times when they say something like, "I'd like to apply to YC but I'm X years old.". Usually his reply is approximately "We've funded several people ten years older th
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by herdrick 14y ago
Right, which is worrisome. The reddit trajectory was: "intellectual and polite" -> "smart and combative" -> "kinda dumb and hive-minded" -> "lolcats". Simultaneously its median opinion towards Ron Paul seemed to go: "interest
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by herdrick 14y ago
Sore about all that angry starving masses server downtime?
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FingerSense discriminates among finger, knuckle, and nail touches on Android(qeexo.com)
4 points by herdrick 14y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 14y ago
If the computer were fast enough, that'd be the easiest way to do it.
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by herdrick 14y ago
We used Pathjoy to clean our place up last week. Worked great; price was right. We'll do it again soon.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Yep. Surprisingly tacky given the appreciation of simplicity shown in Minecraft.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Wow! Congrats to the Workflowy people!
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by herdrick 14y ago
Why does this have the confident feel of a chain email, or spam? I'm suspicious.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Steve didn't have the degree, but he had the knowledge and could basically prove it. That's not really what happened. Steve had specific technical knowledge and experience that he wouldn't have gotten in school anyway. Also it sounded l
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by herdrick 14y ago
That 'relatively non-commercial' organization earned > $30 million for the founder so far. What proportion of wholeheartedly commercial firms have done that? You shouldn't take a company's PR at face value.
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by herdrick 14y ago
It sounds like you're talking more about things that could help middle class people. Very few poor people have issues that could be helped with "pay [themselves] a minimum wage and make up the rest as a dividend".
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by herdrick 14y ago
OK, what departments did she want to cut? Honestly, I've never hard a harder time trying to figure out what an HN story was all about.
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by herdrick 14y ago
It says nothing. How about some facts?
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by herdrick 14y ago
This is from nine years ago, and indeed the 'hour or two' he mentions as as a reasonable amount of time to finish the example task seems too slow today.
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by herdrick 14y ago
I find this pretty reasonable given what I've seen in my own career.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Actually there is a Moore's law equivalent for software: Yannis' law. http://people.cs.umass.edu/~yannis/law.html Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121404
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Programmer productivity doubles every 6 years(people.cs.umass.edu)
7 points by herdrick 14y ago|2 comments
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by herdrick 14y ago
Oops, I should have noticed that hash crap on the end. So you like the Cosh too?
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Artisan chocolate and social revolution(www2.macleans.ca)
5 points by herdrick 14y ago|3 comments
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by herdrick 14y ago
It doesn't directly. I was asking only because I think his facts were wrong.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Simply the fact that you can buy them in secondary markets.
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by herdrick 14y ago
I mean I think there's no such thing as a liquidity trap, so I believe we disagree on that at least. Regarding your point #2, yes I agree. But bailing banks out is exactly what Japan did. The certainty of regulatory capture by banks makes

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