jgamman

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by jgamman 13y ago
both are needed for this kind of outcome. also, kudos it sounds to Mongolia education and development departments (?) - leapfrogging into the 21st century by investing in modern infrastructure - trust me, in many parts of rural NZ 3 MB dow
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by jgamman 13y ago
there's probably some 'thinking fast, thinking slow' decision substitutions going on in the industry ie, i don't want to acknowledge that i'm vastly overpaid for doing something that is likely to have net-zero value
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by jgamman 13y ago
there'll be $50 in your next paycheck - we'd like to see a stack of businees cards at our next monthly meeting. btw here's the design template...
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by jgamman 13y ago
hi, I've just sent you a couple of papers I've recently written about designing patent commons from scratch rather than retro-bashing them together (context: NZ's Christchurch rebuild as the world's test bed for sensors
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NZ's Fonterra recalls baby formula due to botulism risk(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by jgamman 13y ago|0 comments
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Google 'pressure cooker' - get a visit by the NSA(theguardian.com)
3 points by jgamman 13y ago|0 comments
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They're not flip-flops - they're jandals and we're OK with that(slate.com)
2 points by jgamman 13y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 13y ago
use of the word 'infrastructure' is telling. i've been doing a lot of thinking lately on that topic. really recommend the book Infrastructure: value of social resources by frischmann.
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by jgamman 13y ago
you post things because _you_ found them interesting, not so as to get upvotes. any upvotes gathered are purely incidental...
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by jgamman 13y ago
anyone else noted the connection between the UK's Guardian newspaper ("a charitable foundation existing between 1936 and 2008, which aimed to ensure the paper's editorial independence in perpetuity, maintaining its financial
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by jgamman 13y ago
if you were good at something and had to be creative around a whiteboard i'm sure you would use similar shorthand representations. just look at the slang coders on this site use when describing programming ie, 'to hook' onto an API connect
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by jgamman 13y ago
50% of the registration fee for teaching kids how to program games course run during school holidays
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by jgamman 13y ago
“If China customs found a syringe, even if it’s just one, in a bale of plastic, it’s considered medical waste and the whole shipment would get rejected,” and just how many used syringes does this guy think you need before you should refuse
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by jgamman 13y ago
or it will be superceded by the Trans Pacific Partnership. But I can't tell since the text hasn't been officially released. Leaked drafts don't look good though.
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by jgamman 13y ago
no-one has mentioned the obvious - tax. the UK gives cash to the BBC via a compulsory television licence fee. say what you will about the beeb, it comes up with some excellent stuff. someone more eloquent than me could surely make the ar
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by jgamman 14y ago
Xero is a big deal here in NZ, probably our leading on-line success story so far. happy to see it pop up in HN, even if it is the other half of a YC alumnus... ;-)
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Ornate rug made from computer parts(thisiscolossal.com)
2 points by jgamman 14y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
or sink the wellhead processing unit to the sea floor...
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by jgamman 14y ago
i have a thing about mis-spelt units - it's a kWh /nitpick also, did you mean 0.10 $/kWh ?
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by jgamman 14y ago
have you tried reverse engineering someone else's non-trivial spreadsheet? a programmer might build a good spreadsheet but the average person builds a nest of lookups and hacked up nested if/then statements. seriously, i think spreadsheets
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by jgamman 14y ago
you love it. you use it every day. $295 is too high?
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by jgamman 14y ago
post-it notes
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by jgamman 14y ago
ugh - permanently stuck in the bazaar, low signal to noise and no filter. i'd opt out before letting that become my default experience.
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by jgamman 14y ago
rubbish. their job is to allocate funds and if they aren't competent enough to do that themselves then they need to hire expertise. FFS, they are spending millions and can't afford to spend a few grand on hiring their own technically lite
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by jgamman 14y ago
i think the root cause has more to do with under-regulation, regulatory capture and proactive efforts to confuse and blur the boundaries. Bad Pharma is a good intro if you care to move past entry level comments.
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Request HN: Follow-user feature
8 points by jgamman 14y ago|2 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
at my old favorite Amstrad's game title star ;-)
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by jgamman 14y ago
i'm sorry but i don't see tenure as a root cause problem here (unless someone can find figures saying tenured positions are growing at a rate comparable to admin). tl;dr summary of academia: high failure rate, low salary (per unit brain pow
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by jgamman 14y ago
i stopped reading when they described a company bringing in some 'adult supervision'...
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by jgamman 14y ago
same here. so long as there are some easy entry price points $25k is a no-brainer for hassle-free 'makes me look good to my boss' software

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