jcnnghm

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by jcnnghm 14y ago
As long as America is paying for the vast majority of space exploration, the achievements belong to us. We spend almost 3 times the entire rest of the world combined, about $60 billion to $22 billion a year. Global achievement requires gl
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The US paid for the vast majority and are responsible for getting this to Mars. The crazy landing, and $2.5 billion at risk on a project with a 30% historic success rate, wase not shared. US total annual space spending is about $60 billio
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
In addition to what you are saying, "boss-less" organizational structures are not exactly new. This structure has been kicked around and implemented with various levels of success since at least the 80's. It is a safe bet that most people
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
Apple stores are the highest grossing retail stores in the world by a significant margin. Apple Stores produce over $5,600 per square foot. The next highest retailer is Tiffany, at a little under $3,000. The median for the top 20 retaile
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
I really hope this is not the case. The upgrades to the 15" and 17" Macbook Pro's were really incremental. I don't think it would be surprising to see an updated 17" at some point in the future.
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NASA has a fully functional copy of Hubble "sitting around" at Goddard Space Flight Center as well. If something goes wrong in space, fabrication of replacement components and the training of the astronauts that will fix it does not occur
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
This was exactly my point. I enjoy learning things too, and the first time I went to school I had a hard time doing the kind of coursework that you describe because I was not motivated at all. When I went back, I literally just forced mys
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Computer Science is not about learning to program C, or Java. If your college gave you that impression then it most certainly failed you. Where did I say that?
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
So: you went to college determined to find a path through it that would let you "get straight A's" and "graduate as quickly as possible", and then treated each course as a list of stuff to "check off"... and you're upset that you didn't ge
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
your fault for not prioritizing actual learning and understanding How do mandatory pre-reqs fit into this? When I went to school, I had about 10 years of programming experience already, but no java. That got me out of exactly zero class
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Or you could graduate, and do the same thing, except making $10k+ a month while you are doing it. The idea that college is now about romance and partying is part of what's skewing the prices.
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My major was computer science. It's still just a list of work. The math largely isn't as difficult as it is poorly explained and tedious. It's possible to obtain an intuitive understanding of most topics, and when you do, it's practicall
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
I went to school, then dropped out, and then went back. I finished my BS last week with a 4.0 GPA. I dropped out because I wasn't learning anything, and it was an incredibly time consuming grind that wasn't any fun. I dropped out to star
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
Unless you run out of liquidity before you are right once.
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I hope they don't do this, it's hard enough to work with a 17" screen. I usually run two windows side-by-side with BetterSnapTool. Carrying an external monitor everywhere I go is impractical.
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by jcnnghm 14y ago
You can put 16GB in the newest 17" Macbook Pro's. I have one, and that's what I did. I also swapped the optical drive for a second hard drive, and replaced the primary hard drive with an SSD.
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
This is an amazingly generous offer. Thank you!
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I buy crates of bottled water, and keep them in the back of my car so I always have some handy. For this I pay $5. I am not paying $5 for water, I am paying for convenience, the disposable bottles, somebody else to fill them and make it e
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
If Apple is not going to be distributing software updates because of their asinine policies, Apple should refund their 30% cut to their customers.
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
Except it doesn't work quite right. My friend and I both have iPhones and iPads. If I send her a "text" from my iPhone, sometimes it ends up on her iPad, if the last place she sent me a message was from her iPad, and vice versa. This res
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
The problem with the pointy part of spears, is that they are very small in relation to the whole. According to Google's 2011 10-K, 96% of their revenue is derived from Advertising income. So if you want to be in the pointy part of Google,
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
I just looked it up, and you are correct about the cost of living. Manhattan seems to be about 38% higher than San Francisco.
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I'll believe it when I see it. There is an uproar because the cash portion of bonuses are being capped at "just" $125,000 a year. Presumably, that is in addition to the regular salary, and excluding stock bonuses, which now make up abou
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
I visited my family over the holidays, and over dinner my sister told us about how "accurate" the psychic she occasionally sees is. At first, I thought she was trolling, since she went to college, and my family is educated. Her proof was t
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9 Reasons Your Current Resume Will Never Get You A Job At Apple Or Google(businessinsider.com)
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Engineering salaries are too low. There isn't enough money in it, and startups are too much of a gamble. For every guy that makes a million dollars a year doing startups, ten other people will make almost nothing. Want more developers and
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A Yelp impression is much more valuable than a newspaper impression. When people see an ad on Yelp, they are generally looking for a place to eat right now. They are trying to make a purchasing decision. When they see an ad in a newspape
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I'd like to see if the author is still happy about his decision after a couple of years. In particular, if he can't raise funds because he is unable to bootstrap for long enough, or get big enough from bootstrapping alone. The benefit of
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They didn't stick with the offer. I've been paying for unlimited data for years without throttling. They are changing the deal. They should be forced to give everyone that has been paying for unlimited substantial refunds for the last se
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There really needs to be a movement to address the collusion in the telecommunication industry. I priced out a business cell plan (with > 5 lines), and there was not even a single penny price difference between ATT and Verizon, and bot

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