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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I was surprised to find that only one of the candidates had heard of FizzBuzz. If you were being handed a high fastball over the plate, would you let the interviewer know it was a high fastball over the plate?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
This is awesome. Anyone have a pointer to Win2003 Server (ie7)? We have a bunch of folks there with a hard-to-knockdown bug not showing up elsewhere. Our solution so far has been to say: Upgrade the OS.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
A better question might be: Why would you advertise how much money you have in the bank to your competitors? You're providing info so they know exactly how much to cut prices and strangle you.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
No one seems to have commented on one of the major protections of 401k money: 401k has special protection during bankruptcy.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
My thought exactly, and that was the crime I was hoping they'd nail him for.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Sounds like you missed the point of the article: Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, federal authorities need only a subpoena approved by a federal prosecutor - not a judge - to obtain electronic messages that are six mon
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The problem is ill-posed: What is the probability of choosing does not describe the choosing process. For example: It turns out that I always choose my 2 points so that the center-of-the-square is never inside the circle, so the pr
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The term Moral Hazard is relevant here.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The truth is that there is a lot of variability between PIs and their students. Some see them as lab techs/free labor, others see them as their family. Very true. I'd add: There is also a wide range of management styles of the profs
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Possibly relevant: http://www.isnatesilverawitch.com/
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> If you are a consumer hardware company, yes. No I was referring to enterprise, and when it comes down to it, pretty much all VC funded operations. The nuts and bolts of the way VC funds are structured make it necessary to pretty mu
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Good. Now go build some product and stop reading HN. :)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Congratulations. Was it led by outsiders?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Once you exit the software bubble, almost everything, especially new technology, becomes a lot "harder" and takes a lot longer. I've done hardware in spades, so I'm well aware of the differences. In hardware, Series D was either a
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Series D and they don't have a product? :eyeroll:
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I notice that "building consensus among people" is absent from your list. In fact, the word "people" is missing from your list.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> My personal reasoning is that carriers are pushing low end Android phones as the standard handset you get when you walk in the door Here's another way of looking at it: There is product competition, and Apple is losing.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Who's going to do that for a portable generator. People that worry about becoming the path of least resistance to ground when they touch the equipment.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Many thanks. My plural-of-generator comment meant only that I am investigating for parents and friends too. The smaller Honda 3000 (wheels are good) seems about right. 57 dB (A) is 1. advertised (hooray!) and 2. very acceptable. Orderin
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Would love to hear recommendations for easily purchasable generators that are reasonably quiet. I got one from HomeDepot that wakes the neighbors and causes babies to start screaming, all for want of a decent muffler. (Yes I could get one
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Simply: Buoyancy is the result of a difference in weight when one less dense material displaces another. What is the displacement of the aerographite samples? The article doesn't say, but the samples are small enough that I'd guess the fo
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Shouldn't the platform owner (e.g. Facebook) make sure that no intrusive apps can connect in the first place? When "intrusive" conflicts with "making money", guess which one wins? But seriously: Haven't found an app that was worth
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> If it's lighter than air, doesn't it float away? You are confusing density with buoyancy.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
And vice versa.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Hmmm. Seems like I'm an idiot: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/83835/how-... There's something I'm missing: Run query doesn't get me the result.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Rails?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
First IANAL. That said: In the US, invention-rights assignment assigns all of your inventions to the companies, whether it relates to your normal job activities or not. CA labor law is (as usual) a little different: If the invention is
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George Lucas Just Made $4 Billion Without Any VC Money(finance.yahoo.com)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I read it had to do with the corporate raider buyouts of the 80's. Companies discovered that they could shed liabilities to employees this way. I was around for the LBO bubble and the days of Michael Milken, and I'd probably argue e
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Read more at http://blog.serverfault.com Thank you for this discussion!

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