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by jcnnghm 17y ago
Particularly interesting article in light of the recent attempts to ban salt in restaurants in NYC ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/new-york-restaur... ). The more government gets involved with health care, the more attempts w
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Of course a VC doesn't want you to monetize too quickly, they want the company to be huge, but only after the founders holdings are fully diluted. The average technical founder is taken advantage of in a major way by the average venture c
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If we want lower-cost health care, we should enact stricter intellectual property laws, and require other countries license and pay full fair for medical advancements made in the United States. 82% of global R&D spending in medicine co
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Using twitter for customer service is like using a scooter to tow a boat. You could probably do it, but that doesn't mean it makes sense.
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It's too bad the author is writing for a prominent website, instead of terrorizing a homeowners association somewhere. It should be abundantly clear to anyone that has ever dealt with the government in any capacity that the incompetence is
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The grandparent isn't exactly old, and he is right.
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If this is hurting you, you should contact your representatives and complain. They generally do listen to their constituents. On Thanksgiving day two years ago I got a call on my cell phone from my representative about the repeal effort fo
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He hasn't been at it long enough to really know. Live and work in the same place for long enough and it will feel like a cage.
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And what would preclude requiring that private enterprises that wish to compete in this sector with servicing remote areas?
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Perhaps private shipping companies should be allowed to compete in this sector.
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The problem with liberalism is that it's thoroughly impractical. Liberals largely have home-owners association syndrome, where they believe they can change the world by idly meddling in other people's lives. The problem is, their programs
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That quote is one of many: "I worry, frankly, that there's a tension here. The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury,
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Weight Lifting for Hackers(littlebitofcode.com)
69 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|68 comments
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Which is more difficult, working out and marrying a rich man, or software engineering?
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If you haven't, tune the garbage collector for rails. By tuning, I was able to improve the performance of my production application by about 60%.
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If you have to turn to social networking to figure out how to do your job, you're probably not very good at your job.
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There is more than one right way to start a business. The establishment doesn't need to change, nothing precludes women from figuring out their own way.
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That's certainly not true everywhere. Because it's that way in your experience in Canada, doesn't make it true anywhere else. My experience with the poor and homeless happened with actual ghetto dwellers in Baltimore, MD, not the sweet and
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
In 2002, she was charged with assault after punching a woman in the head at an International House of Pancakes in Peabody, Mass. The woman had taken the last booster seat, and, according to the police report, Dr. Bishop demanded it for one
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
Kids in 10 years are going to have awesome toys... I am jealous. I wonder if this can be scaled it, its performance is very impressive.
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Calibrate Your Monitor(littlebitofcode.com)
1 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|0 comments
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Getting Receipts and Mail Off My Desk(littlebitofcode.com)
3 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|0 comments
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Having read through some of that leaked code, I can safely say that if they are as bad at climate science as they are at programming, we have nothing to fear. In particular, the assertions that some have made that the "artificial correctio
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
"We need a way to make the fact that this bolt has been built public and accessible so if someone needs something similar they can contact the right folks and ask." Not really. If you need a bolt that absolutely needs to be able to withsta
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by jcnnghm 17y ago
I should elaborate a little more about the e-mail contract. The government put together a list of specifications. They wanted all of the equipment guaranteed, and they wanted to pay only a per-email fee. The specification was mainly to m
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We're talking about two different things. The government decides its requirements, not the contractor. Essentially, the government says what it wants, and how you are to deliver it. For the email example, they said how many servers, how m
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Sperm Wars(littlebitofcode.com)
13 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|11 comments
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On $400 Hammers, $100 Bolts, and Cost-Plus Contracting(littlebitofcode.com)
44 points by jcnnghm 17y ago|29 comments
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People like this shouldn't be writing technical articles. A 700ms ping would be indicative of severe network problems, especially at that distance. The author is probably experiencing packet loss. Realistic ping times across the country a
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Of course tech companies don't do this, it's all about risk. Tech startups are difficult, expensive, and high risk. It takes the right kind of people to start something successful, most people can't do it. Places like Bell Labs don't exi

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