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by kscaldef 16y ago
From the point of view of the company sending the email, this is why marketing and sales _shouldn't_ have separate channels.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I have to admit that I'm a little puzzled whenever this happens on a well-known site. Do not all registrars allow you to set up auto-renew on your domains? I have to explicitly choose not to renew a domain.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I know this is crazy talk; but maybe don't go into debt for Christmas? It happens every year, at the same time. You can plan for it. Open a holiday "club" account at your bank and put $50 or $100 in every month.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> I think everyone should be judged on the merits of their thinking, not on their status within academia. Which is what the preceding 3 paragraphs of my comment were about. And I said it was a red flag, not a reason to outright reject
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That's true, but that statement was in the context of the desire that some people (including, it would seem, the author of the article) have to get rid of the cosmological constant. The only reasons I am aware of that anyone dislikes the c
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> it looks like the writing is on the wall for the service What leads you to say that? The article doesn't mention Flickr at all.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I won't hold myself out as that much of an expert - cosmology was never my specialty and I haven't been a practicing physicist for a decade - but see my comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006334
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Based on little more than this summary of the article, it's not particularly clear to me how this solves the purported problems it's trying to address. First, it appears that this gets rid of the cosmological constant (which some people see
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Just wondering... Does anyone actually want to look like that guy on the HST page? I took one look at that and said "this is not the workout routine for me".
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Well, you can't actually do an engineering analysis of a rock face, so you're never going to achieve that level of rigor. Placing protections and building anchors is a combination of experience and intuition; observation and analysis techn
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The forces involved are considerably more than body weight in a lead fall (potentially tens of feet before you're caught; at one point in the article they mention the possibility of a 70 foot fall). 10 kN (roughly equivalent to 1000kg stat
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Well, it wasn't written for you... Probably a good example of how easy it is not to notice the use of jargon if you're familiar with it. I breezed right through the article and it didn't seem particularly technical at all.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> The death rate for car travel is around 1 per 100 million miles travelled. It's safer than just about anything besides riding in a commercial airliner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate Automobile travel is
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That may be what they say, however we contracted with Pivotal for several months and the results were not uniformly excellent. And the fact that the Pivotal contractors generally pair with themselves, and not with permanent members of the
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I always considered "refuctoring" to be refactoring, but without tests to ensure that the new version actually works.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Most girls aren't that interested in recording details of their dates, and definitely don't want other people knowing about their dating life Publicly, I assume you mean. As far as I can tell, women talk with their friends about thei
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Except that we already spend considerably more than other developed nations for no better care or outcomes.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The Higgs is irrelevant here. Photons do not couple to the Higgs but rays of light still follow geodesics in GR.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> the cost of medicare.. is basically a combination of demographics and the cost of medical care, with the cost of medical care being the driving factor. Doesn't that sound like an arena ripe for disruption by startups? Honestly, not pa
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> quantum theory tells us that gravity arises from the exchange of particles No, it doesn't. That statement is wrong on two levels: 1) We don't have a confirmed quantum theory of gravity 2) In quantum field theories in general it's not
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> With the same same hand-wavy argument, you could define the curvature of space based on electromagnetic field strength, for example, and argue that electromagnetism is not a force. Not really so much, since different objects couple to
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's the same way that there's not really such a thing as centrifugal force. It a fictitious force that you perceive as a result of being in an accelerating frame of reference.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
well, since you asked: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/airplane_terro...
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by kscaldef 16y ago
a) what raganwald said. b) Some people have more than 5 years of work experience. One day, you will too. c) 5 years is not hard and fast. Feel free to make it 3 years or whatever you think works for you.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Outright lying during the interview process is almost certainly grounds for a no-hire or dismissal if you get the job and they find out later. It's fine to refuse to give that information. It's fine to say "This is the salary I want". It
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> To live in a world in which everything is provided for me, with no work and no effort, is to live in a world with no purpose. Feeding and housing and clothing myself are not my "purpose", and many things which I find enjoyable would n
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It depends on when in the year the bonus is delivered. If it's early in the year, it doesn't matter if you're going to hit the Social Security ceiling eventually, they take it out of your bonus. I speak from personal experience both on th
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Closer to 8% for SS & Medicare. Also, you'll typically have deductions taken out of bonuses for your 401(k) and ESPP contributions (maybe another 20-25%). Technically, those are still your money; and ESPP will come back to you before
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> "This is where you're at today. To get to the next level, this is what you need to do. With your help we've put together this plan for your next 3-6 months. You'll finish up A, make sure B gets deployed. C gets checked-in with QA sign
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I've used XMLResume for years (using Emacs SGML mode to ensure validity when I edit it, and version control, of course). From the XML, I generate HTML, PDF, and plain text. I'm pretty sure you can even generate a Word doc if you wanted. h

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