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by jonlucc 11y ago
There are already public versions such as glassdoor.com
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I was thinking the rotor wash from the much-larger-than-toy-drone helicopters would handle the drones just fine.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I work in pharmaceutical R&D and I am definitely for government oversight. Does the FDA screw up sometimes? Yes. Is it slow? Yes. Should it be scaled back? Not anytime soon.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I would wager that the answer is to provide some other value to the contractors, but I have no idea what that could be.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Yesterday, I received some HM-10 BLE boards I ordered a bit ago. I hope the firmware will be updated, but I'm not holding my breath.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Well the only explanation provided in the FPH round is that they were being shut down for "behavior not ideas". That's more of a "trust us, we did this for the right reasons" to me.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
This is very similar to one of the reports swirling before. If true, it is pretty awful for Alexis to keep letting Ellen Pao take the hit for it. There are other reasons that people dislike Mrs. Pao, but she doesn't need this final s
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by jonlucc 11y ago
It seems to me that HN is more like a single subreddit than Reddit as a whole. The admin action on HN feels more like mod action on Reddit, because there is no larger umbrella above HN.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Sure, but the premise of Reddit is that mods can moderate as they see fit. Admins hadn't really been involved in shaping the content as much as keeping things running and legal.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
OT, but is there somewhere I can read your story of having been told to to F$$k off by Royalty?
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Ok, but that doesn't answer all of the communication points. They had an email set up (despite being a communication platform, but if that's how they needed it, ok) and then they didn't tell the mods what that meant. Are they
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by jonlucc 11y ago
That's my point, though. It's very hard to compete year after year in the flagship space. One company that is doing arguably the second best job of making flagship Android phones is HTC, and even they can't make money at it.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Well, that's the point of a contingency plan. Where I work, we have an emergency evacuation plan. They don't only start coming up with that plan when the building needs to be evacuated. They have it in place in case they need it.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
The problem with shutting down the hateful subreddits is that they didn't communicate clearly. In that, they left a lot of room for rumors and speculation about why that sub was shut down for "harassment" when others that see
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Two things they should have done: 1) had a transition plan in place for key employees, especially the most prominent public-facing employees 2) communicate after the fact; basically get all hands on deck to find and handle each of the AMAs
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by jonlucc 11y ago
And HTC, which, despite making very good flagship-competitive phones, is losing money.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Often with devices of small market share, the people who purchase them are the people most likely to be happy with their purchase. That said, I think the WinPhone platform is very good, but suffers by not commanding the influence over app-m
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by jonlucc 11y ago
If you think Big Pharma isn't struggling, you haven't payed close enough attention. There is a bit of a crisis in innovation that is commonly blamed on the low-hanging fruit being gone. To cope, almost all of the big US companies
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I think you're correct. I can vividly remember a local news story from at least 15 years ago that talked about self-driving cars being just around the corner. All it would take is putting sensors in every roadway and having dedicated l
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Well I'd doubt it will ever be billboards. They're so clunky and impersonal. In my opinion, they'll get pushed to your most distracting or annoying device (watch, glasses, surgically implanted HUD, etc).
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Did flash need a final blow? I assumed it is still around in small pockets because of projects that are abandoned and casual developers who don't intend to learn a new set of tools.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
> Uber and Lyft are operating a model that clearly works for customers. And yet they rightly face legal issues. It isn't terribly surprising that they can offer cheaper service than incumbents by avoiding the costs of the incumbent.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
In fact, if Disney had control over hiring decisions by the contractor, they'd open themselves up to co-employment issues.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
Buttstitch?
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by jonlucc 11y ago
There was a lot of talk in the wake of the Obama/Romney election that Obama's digital efforts gave them a very important advantage, so I think it is likely that the main Republican campaigns will have changed to that approach this
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I wonder if that kind of thing could lead to the crowdfunding marketplace doing some basic due diligence, though I suspect they don't want the risk.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
In my company, my direct reports are spread out over several buildings, so we expect them to be in on time. We do very little checking in on them, and we rarely have issues. These are mostly students directly out of college, so it's no
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by jonlucc 11y ago
For that article, credit cards counted so long as they weren't paid at the end of the month.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I think if it becomes clear that nurses and other unionized jobs are indeed safe after IT gets hurt badly, there may be some backlash. There has been a very careful and successful demonization of unions in the US.
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by jonlucc 11y ago
I think this is why bookstores even still exist. I know they've reduced greatly in number, but every time I'm in one, I see people sitting with friends, drinking coffee, browsing books.

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