joshuaellinger

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by joshuaellinger 10y ago
Taxis classify their drivers as independent contractors. They are required to do fingerprinting.
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by joshuaellinger 10y ago
Funny. I'm exactly the opposite. I use Lyft only because it is nicer. If I cared about the price, I wouldn't use either. I don't shop at Walmart for similar reasons. Ultimately, I think that payoff from being nicer is with
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HBR – Stop paying executives for performance(hbr.org)
2 points by joshuaellinger 11y ago|0 comments
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
"I was not directly involved with firing her" => "I have someone else to do my dirty work". I don't know why this one person's story bothers me so much personally. I think that it was her 50 lb bag of rice
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
I love C# and find the syntax of golang... primitive. However, the green-thread/channel combination is powerful. It is not just that it is performant (it is) but that it is x10 the code and mental overhead to use compared to something
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
If possible, find out who is going to be there and what their top three pain points are. Focus on showing the person(s) in the room that you are relevant to the problems they personally face -- IT has totally different concerns from Market
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
You could replace "Bernie Sanders" with "FDR" and it would sound like it was written almost 100 years ago.
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
That's a misleading article. For example, in Austin, Ann Kitchen's proposal passed 9-2 and fingerprints are required. Austin already had horse-and-buggy rides for the tourists so relabeling it was a funny tactic but not substanti
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
I use the Microsoft stack but run a lifestyle business, not a startup. It has a lot going for it and it is not costly. I spent years on Sun Solaris in the 80s -- I like Linux a lot as well. I think there are a couple of things: 1. Amaz
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
Rick Webb's comments on banner ads are a pretty good indirect rebuttal. https://medium.com/@RickWebb/banner-fraud-doesn-t-matter-fc8...
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
Interesting extensions. The nice part of the syntax is that: 1. it is clear when you are going external. 2. procedural code can be written in C# -- big win there. But it misses the two big issues in ETL that I always run into:
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
I am slightly surprised that it is legal to ask potential employees for W-2s. I guess it is not like health records but tax filings are in-general private. If I were asked for W-2s, I would respond by asking for the same information from t
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
Or he could just do what people do -- pay the taxes. Because corporations are people, my friend.
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by joshuaellinger 11y ago
I've been using Windows Phones for a while after using iPhones for a while. The (former) Nokia hardware are solid and the entry level devices are being given away. Check out Cricket -- they are on the AT&T network but can't
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
I went to one of their events. The new-tech/startup mentality thing is legit but... they really suffer from trying to pitch when they should be sharing information about what they are doing. SXSW sessions are always a little content-
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
Upvoted -- you got the tone of go exactly right. We're headed back to C#. Don't like religion in politics or programming languages.
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
China is a special case. For most of human history, it was a major power. In a sense, their recent growth is just catching up to the long-term historical norm. It is also different in that the US basically shipped them manufacturing capab
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
Ah. Venturebeat. Never shy about hyping the future. The power industry was saying that nuclear power would be 'too cheap to meter' in the 1970s. Ray Kurzweil does not make that mistake but is he right about the cost curve going
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The coming era of unlimited – and free – clean energy(venturebeat.com)
7 points by joshuaellinger 12y ago|7 comments
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
Yeah, I was overstating it when you look at the top line numbers. The real action is where and how the money was spent and I'm having trouble finding a good source that splits it out that way. You had a number of different things going
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
1. Big Build up in defense spending 2. Very High Interest Rates (Volcker in 80-81). 3. Collapse in Oil Prices Yes, ending the cold war was great. I even give Reagan some credit for it by pushing them over the edge. Seems like we could hav
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
Reagan (really more Phil Graham) killed a lot of the depression era regulation that made financial markets safe and boring. But the talent drain into Finance didn't really pickup until much later. Certainly a giant waste of smarts tod
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
You know what is damn funny about this.... In 1980, Reagan got elected and cut a ton of forward-thinking basic research. I won't go through it in detail but there was a giant shift from publicly-funded big ideas to privately-funded li
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
I was trying to figure out why I could write a ring buffer in Go and it would perform so much faster than the equivalent C# implementation. This is part of the answer. Despite an attempt to align a struct to leverage the cache, it was gett
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
I am a rare (for Hacker News) C# dev and I've just been toying around with Go. There is stuff to like but my feeling is that the biggest weakness of the language is that it is designed to solve the problems that Google has (surprise),
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
Don't worry about suitors - worry about hiring people. Team matters much more than Tech. But, as perspective, MS Dev tools cost about $10K per dev + $3K per year per dev after the first. Engineers costs $100K+ per year. +10% product
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
My wife is an ex-IBM and the cut-to-get-growth story rings true. But it overlooks a core problem that IBM faces. The cloud is a competitive platform for problems that previously required mainframes. They successfully defended (kinda) agai
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by joshuaellinger 12y ago
You'll want the 16GB ram on the bigger one if you are running any databases locally. Otherwise, 8GB will work. Did you consider the Yoga? It looks pretty competitive.
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Given that you seem to be viewing this as a first level screening, I think you need to make the 1000+ karma people review 10-20 pending comments before reading any article based on what's in the queue. This would insures that the queue
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by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Worst case is that we hit a feedback loop after at +5C and spike to +10C or more and we get a repeat of the Permian extinction. No responsible scientist can come out and predict this because it is unknown territory. But if you want to go t

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