johnobrien1010

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by johnobrien1010 11y ago
Other fun book facts: by looking at the length of the number that is the second to last digit in the ISBN, you can tell how many large an ISBN block the publisher bought, which often relates to the size of the publisher. If it's only t
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Solving the NPR Sunday Puzzle with Python(pyshortz.com)
2 points by johnobrien1010 11y ago|0 comments
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by johnobrien1010 12y ago
I wonder if I'm the only guy out there in his 30s who still plays straight pool?
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by johnobrien1010 12y ago
Reading the new list of Y-Combinator “Requests for Startups”, the Financial Services request really resonated with me. Probably the best investing advice for people is really straightforward; you need to start saving now in order to reap th
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by johnobrien1010 12y ago
From the website, it looks like it costs $266. I think you'd have to being chopping a lot of wood for it to be worth it to get that expensive of an ax, even if it is better.
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by johnobrien1010 12y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Perhaps if we add things like support for version control systems, play well with releasing code to multiple environments, and add UI elements that enforce cloning chunks of code so that changes are isolated and
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
Is it typically a disaster because business users are given access to create their own rules and they don't know what they're doing, or because the complexity of the system grows to the point where that complexity is better manage
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
Crowded space... We're trying to go the same thing for business intelligence applications with a product we're launching called flowreports.co...
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Show HN: Composable Analytics(companalytics.ids.ll.mit.edu)
2 points by johnobrien1010 13y ago|1 comments
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
"Gould's railroads began to cut down Western Union connections and replace them with American Union's. (This was pure vandalism, and directly violated the 'no exclusivity' court decision Gould had celebrated.)"
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
For anyone interested in the average profit margins of books publishers and some what the percentage of the paper, print, and binding for a book is of the total cost, the Art & Science of Book Publishing by Herbert S. Jr Bailey ( http:&
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
The article is 4 years old... Not that the ranking has changed much in that time, but might be worth it to have a date originally published somewhere in the title, as I read it four years ago, and assumed that this was a different article.
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
I think there is a life cycle. A user starts fresh and new, and then tentatively puts forth a comment or submission. If the comment or submission isn't immediately lauded, I think the user my temporarily become snarky and/or bitte
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
I don't know about Google in particular but I've always been bothered by the market sizing question. In part, it's because it seems to have come out of consulting, where a common task seems to be to size a market for which th
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by johnobrien1010 13y ago
>) Managers are simply not used to negative feedback because they never get it. People will lie to them rather than risk their careers on delivery of bad news. This may be true for some managers, but I disagree that this is true general
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
I think that the examples the author highlights are not examples of that illusion. Instead, I think they are straightforward examples of how someone without the means to afford more expensive luxuries (such as a laptop with a working batter
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
Thanks for fixing it. Have you considered avoiding dipping into the repl to do these kind of fixes? You don't owe any of us any sort of uptime guarantee, and you're a much better programmer than I, but it strikes me as odd that you would ha
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
I thought it was pretty self explanatory, actually... What did you want to know?
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
I mean, I started job-buddy.com to help the unemployed. That's something...
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
In addition, WireframeSketcher supports version control systems pretty well. It's the best tool I've seen for wireframing.
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
No, Harvard should not.
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
I agree about module dependency tooltips. I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one.
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
Am I the only one who uses PyDev?
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
I wonder if I'm the only one who wished someone would start a company to sell soccers balls at a low price point to poor people instead of donating them, as it seems a better solution then making uber expensive balls that are then sold on a
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by johnobrien1010 14y ago
Good stuff. Another article on the same topic: http://www.job-buddy.com/advice/view/ahBzfmpvYi1idWRkeTItaHJ...