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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
I think the guy felt bad that there weren't any big cities in the northern half of the great plains, so he bent the border to get Minneapolis in there.
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
It's also true that the better less-selective (or non-selective) colleges provide more help than very selective colleges. I went to community college for a year and then went to a selective private college. The community college had
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
This doesn't sound like a great idea for the U.S. system. Students would have to pay tens of thousands of dollars and spend many precious months for an experience with a 90% failure rate. I have a hard time thinking that anyone with
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
When this happened at a company I worked at, the line from management was, "Stay for two months and train this person and your severance is 6 months' salary. Don't train them and you leave in five minutes with 6 weeks'
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
>> Work in a non-software company. A company whose business doesn't take its software seriously invariably treats its software and IT resources as cost centers meant to get maximum cost savings for as little money as possible via
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Engineers are suprisingly prone to violent extremism(washingtonpost.com)
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
I agree and disagree. On the one hand, General Mills, Wells Fargo, and Target are never going to be as cutting-edge as Google. On the other hand, most jobs at Google aren't cutting-edge, either. The two guys I know at Google are doi
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
Lots of ad agencies employ programmers--Olson, Periscope, Mirum, etc. There are several business-y software companies like Concur, Lawson Software, Code 42, Dell (their cloud manager software is developed here). (We're hiring software
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
Three things, I think: It's much easier to build hype with pretty renderings of miniatures rather than just with pictures of cards and dice. I think folks are more willing to lay out $50 or $100 for a game with miniatures because it se
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
The community and the meta-game quickly became the engrossing part of the game. If you like coordinating with other players and getting together to wander around and mash buttons on your phone, then it's great. You can still play by
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
120k is in the top 20% of wage earners in the U.S. That's quite a bit different than $35k which is in the bottom ~30% (in the U.S.)
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
My male Montana cousins always had cheaper car insurance than I did (also a male) so some companies must be using a different table. Everything else about us (age, grades, miles driven, etc.) was similar.
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
You'd enact redistributive tax and spending policies and high minimum wages. You'd reduce government spending for corporations. You'd make it difficult to fire workers. You'd make the U.S. more like Europe, basically.
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
>> Note that the decoupling correlates closely with the computerization of society/business around the mid-1980s. It also correlates closely with the decline of labor unions.
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
I had to go through FCPA training for my employer a while ago, so take all this with a grain of salt: As I understand it, the FCPA covers U.S. companies and their foreign affiliates and companies/organizations that trade securities in
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
I know a guy who rescued several people from slavery in Florida. Here's an article about it from the New Yorker from 2003: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/nobodies Since then, they&#x2
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
In the upper midwest, the Y2K testing/fixing jobs disappeared in Jan/Feb of 2000 and the internet/e-commerce shops started closing in the fall of that year. 2001 was a tough year to look for a programming job and then it got
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
I've been on projects where we used Rackspace cloud servers or Amazon EC2 for HIPAA-compliant insurance enrollment systems. There was extra paperwork and we did a bunch of security testing, but it wasn't too bad. In both cases th
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
>>corporate taxes should be zeroed out for everyone I'm probably stepping into a pre-existing argument, but forming a corporation allows me to gain benefits that would be difficult or impossible to obtain as an ordinary person.
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
I'm getting off the topic, but my friends that referee high-level children's sports were talking about how taunting rules and trash talk have changed over the years. In the past decade or two, they're really tried to stamp o
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
It seemed to me that the problem is an out-of-touch professor rather than the material. Who discusses Persephone and glosses over the rape part? Especially in an introductory course? At least half the class was probably wondering what th
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by jtbigwoo 11y ago
If the domain name is a common abbreviation, they might be able to generate royalties from domain name sales like Tuvalu (.tv) does. (Though, if I remember correctly, it hasn't been the windfall that Tuvalu hoped for.)
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
That's a good strategy. Anything you can do to reduce the willpower it takes to give is a good thing.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
> We all almost do through taxes. He goes further and donates 50% more from the remaining money. This is an odd argument. Are you saying that paying taxes is some form of altruism? The story is about a guy who donates money with no tan
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I talked about this on HN a few years ago, but my friends and I planned to be this guy. In college we talked about all the money we'd make and how much we'd be able to donate. We all had a job offers for $32 - 42k/year. Th
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
> Also that there's almost no reason to want to make truly anonymous purchases. Because it implies legality to the activity in question (otherwise why are you paying for it?) I think most people would welcome a shift to more anonymo
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I delivered papers once a week as a kid. I got paid 3 cents per copy by the company. I worked approximately 2 hours per week. I was officially an employee. It didn't break the company to classify me as an employee. It wouldn'
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
You're probably right, but the articles I've read suggests that Ford and Edison continued tinkering and working right up to the end. Edison was in his 30's when he invented the light bulb and the phonograph. He was in his 4
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> You absolutely can brute force with management. You can always pay people more, or give up some of your equity to someone who will work harder. Offering more money/equity will allow you to pick from a bigger pool of possible e
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
When I was in my 20s, I would have said the same thing. :) I agree that there are mature 18-year-olds and immature 40-year-olds. I think you're discounting the role of practice, though. Someone with 20 years of experience has spent

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