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by jkic47 5y ago
Not judging, but why wouldn't you leave and find another company that values your ideas? Staying sounds like a recipe for ulcers.
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by jkic47 5y ago
I agree - I am fortunate to be in a state of life where there is nothing I want that I can't afford (not because I am rich, but because I am satisfied with what we have). Another $xxx K is money that will go into a bank that I will pro
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by jkic47 5y ago
This is impressive. I wonder how quickly and how well this could be adapted to other domains in science and engineering. It could be a really useful tool for engineering teams
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by jkic47 5y ago
Every person they know must have a story on how they make a living - those would be the possibilities to investigate.
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by jkic47 9y ago
I agree. The computers that I learned on by taking them apart, reassembling and programming them were not school property. Tinkering with those computers, reinstalling the OS when I overreached and trashed the system, and troubleshooting un
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by jkic47 15y ago
This device will allow people to lower the information differential between city dwellers and villagers, allowing them to negotiate better prices for their goods/services. This prototype is a great first step - let's see how users value the
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by jkic47 15y ago
Having an academic and industrial background myself, I understand that researchers currently do academic work for conferences, journals and so on The point I was making was that employers could enforce the parts of the contract that allow t
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by jkic47 15y ago
Since most reviewers are probably from Universities or Companies, it is likely that their employment contract prohibits them from doing professional work not associated with their current job. It should be fairly simple for these Universiti
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by jkic47 15y ago
I suspect part of the problem is Americans gravitate towards "cool", when the innovation needed is often mundane. Case in point: the massively expensive, relatively unreliable (manned) space shuttle vs the low cost, highly reliable Soyuz ro
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by jkic47 15y ago
Government funded programs in the US and Russia took care of a lot of the basic science companies like SpaceX rely upon. It is unlikely that a commercial venture would have been able to attract or afford the depth of engineering talent that
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by jkic47 15y ago
According to Dr. Bernstein, the fingertips show an immediate response to changes in blood sugar. I lent the book out or I'd provide the full explanation he gave.
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by jkic47 15y ago
Great concept, though porting it to the Symbian or even Android platforms could make more sense given the high prevalence of diabetics in South Asia.
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by jkic47 15y ago
It would have been much a more useful find 20 years ago when the Indian Nuclear programme was under and embargo. BTW, 1 lakh is a hundred thousand.
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by jkic47 15y ago
To me the deeper point is that politicians are slowly waking up and responding to the will of the populace that votes them in. This may be a token gesture, but it is a huge step as a tacit admission that voter opinion matters to once-unacco
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by jkic47 15y ago
The article was unexpectedly heart wrenching to read. India takes its very name from the Indus valley that lies in Pakistan, while the most famous example of Islamic architecture is the Taj Mahal in India. It is sad watching the two countri
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by jkic47 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how effective this approach is. I was told by the HR firm helping us through our last layoff that most technical jobs (in the US at least) were won as a result of personal contacts or networking rather than a
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by jkic47 15y ago
And so it starts. A decade or two after opening up the economy, Indian companies have started moving up the value chain, creating solutions to local problems instead of mindlessly building things designed elsewhere. Great to see this happen
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by jkic47 15y ago
As resources get scarcer, societies that do not share are more likely to survive. Either it, or the competitor that overcomes it will survive to the exclusion of others. Either way, the victor will likely not share hard won spoils.
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by jkic47 16y ago
I disagree. The lectures are aimed at a demographic that probably does not have the background that hacker news readers likely have. He's given every child in the world with internet access an MIT-educated tutor who cares enough to make the
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by jkic47 16y ago
To add to your point, a typical imager pixel can only sense one color - red, green or blue (caveat: there are now some imagers that can simultaneously sense multiple colours). The green value of a non-green pixel is interpolated from the s
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by jkic47 16y ago
I am forced to give out $20 "lunch for success" coupons to "encourage excellence". What HR fails to understand is my employees are professional managers and this is uncomfortably similar to giving a dog a treat when it sits up and begs. Gi
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by jkic47 16y ago
While I agree his concerns may be a little overwrought, he does have a point. The ability to innovate, like most abilities, is probably a bell curve, and the fraction of people capable of coming up with valuable innovations is probably smal
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Deducing the y-axis for the Facebook Breakup graph(sites.google.com)
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