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by marcus 19y ago
It doesn't really matter what the purpose of the meeting is, it costs the organization money in lost time & productivity, so someone needs to be billed for it. You want a display of power, great - float the damn bill for your show.
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by marcus 19y ago
Here is my solution for boring meetings, charge money for them. It usually won't be money that gets funneled into your private pocket, it will be added to a team war-chest for fun-days, extra training and offsite activities. The reason that
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by marcus 19y ago
The analogy was meant to illustrate that the mere fact of using an automated tool to perform an action, doesn't change the legal liability of the person performing the action. Using a SlutBut with the intent (intent is a critical element of
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by marcus 19y ago
Thanks
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by marcus 19y ago
Did any one try programming on Modafinil?
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by marcus 19y ago
Please don't do that, while a few rare articles might be a good fit for all 3 sites, most aren't. Lets keep the sites separate otherwise we'll have to start looking for a new hangout.
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by marcus 19y ago
The fact that the chat is automated has nothing to do with it, of course it is still entrapment, just like you can't shoot somebody and claim the gun did it. However if two separate entities were involved you can get around it, for example
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by marcus 19y ago
An awesome idea, haven't encountered any businesses that use this approach but it would definitely have quite a few advantages. Most projects should probably avoid VMware as otherwise the cost of at least the most basic VMware license gets
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by marcus 19y ago
One of the main difficulties in building a successful startup is intimately understanding the needs of your clients, suppliers etc. Once you have clients of your own you obviously should interact with them continuously to get the data, but
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by marcus 19y ago
Don't agree with you about #2, if you really are intelligent, control the conversation and information flow. You should be able to gather more information about the business from your competitors than vice versa. Especially when you are sti
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by marcus 19y ago
I can't, it is considered bad form to write up a god object.
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by marcus 19y ago
No it doesn't mean that, blackjack too has an even smaller number of knowledge state (based on cards already dealt/hand/dealers card). There is a finite and small number of cards dealt and in a shoe and simple probabilistic calculation can
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by marcus 19y ago
Chess doesn't even need processing power in theory, only a very large database with state lookup in the big book of chess. There is a nice proof in game theory that any turn based game with 2 players, limited number of board positions, and
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by marcus 19y ago
Any decent programmer can also build a webserver, that doesn't mean each and everyone of us builds a new webserver implementation, we just use existing technologies like apache. The idea is to leverage your tech skills by using a community,
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by marcus 19y ago
Skype uses tcp-ip hole punching, basically trying to initiate a connection on both ends. guessing exit ports and trying to convince the firewall that this it received a response from the other side so it should start routing traffic to that
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by marcus 19y ago
Just like great art or hot women. You'll know it when you see it.
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by marcus 19y ago
To complete the procedure I'd add just one thing: incremental upgrades Sending all your client the entire software package again just because your graphic designer moved something two pixels to the left is not advised. Build the mechanism t
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by marcus 19y ago
Why stop with tv shows? How about sports betting on unreal tournament matches?
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by marcus 19y ago
I don't know about you but I like the minimalistic look. And then again I thought that ncurses is a great UI :)
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by marcus 19y ago
The problem I have with IRC is that there is no decent search/logging option (and please don't mention bots). And I hate having to nag everybody with a question that was asked a few days ago or answering a question that was already asked un
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by marcus 19y ago
If you have any question then asking it here is usually good enough, I asked a question a few days ago and got some great ideas. The only feature here that is sorely missing for this to be a kick-ass forum is that it doesn't accumulate know
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by marcus 19y ago
OK so it is not a perfect solution but it is still a whole of a lot better than tailoring and adapting your application for every phone out there.
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by marcus 19y ago
I think that this is/will be the direction of every industry which hires people to do creative work, whether writing/hacking/design. And the only way big companies will be able to persist is to create a mechanism for launching offshoots of
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by marcus 19y ago
When large companies say something like "I'm hiring them for their wide-ranging intelligence.." they are usually lying their ass off but in startups that usually is true. From my experience in startups, most of them care just as much about
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by marcus 19y ago
But what is the point in getting more karma? Can you hire engineers and pay them with YC.news karma? When you try to secure VC funding, do the general partners check what is your karma on YC.news before they decide whether or not to fund yo
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by marcus 19y ago
I know it wasn't posted by pg, I was referring to the cult of pg in here. If the same question was asked about any other early web property, no one would have given it a second look.
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by marcus 19y ago
Exactly... no offense pg but who the hell cares. Is this about bragging rights?
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by marcus 19y ago
Instead of a minimum karma, how about a karma cost. If you contribute to the community you can expect the community to give back.
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by marcus 19y ago
I love python and use it for many of my prototyping needs but if you really need that extra juice from your extra processors you are probably using the wrong language for the problem. From my experience average increase in speed gained from
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by marcus 19y ago
I know most solutions that try to do it are pretty horrible. I didn't say it was trivial but there is a very lucrative market here for someone who successfully balances all these pressures, history over time, current session, N closest peer

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