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by mchahn 11y ago
My wife was the head of recruitment at a high-tech company in SV. I started a new company and she quit and stole about a dozen or so of the best from her old company. Is that poaching? She wasn't allowed near the old company again.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I liked the good 'ole 1970's in Silicon Valley. The saying was that if you didn't like your job then just turn into a different parking lot on your commute and get a new one for more money. It was pretty much true.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The team in Israel that is doing it is a gun-for-hire. "Cellebrite, considered one of the leading companies in the world in the field of digital forensics, has been working with the world's biggest intelligence, defense and law en
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by mchahn 11y ago
My understanding of "life" has changed since I learned how biology at a low enough level is mechanical. A virus is a mechanical structure with nothing that we normally consider "alive". It arrives at a cell by accident
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by mchahn 11y ago
I first discovered him on a PBS Nova episode many many years ago. I did not know of him. Nova just showed a one-hour lecture of his without any commentary. I was blown away.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Then post your definition and its source. I just googled six of them and they all matched mine.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> A socialists pipe dream, you might say. A common misunderstanding. BI is not socialism. Socialism: A political theory advocating state ownership of industry.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> restricts a significant number of readers from being able to understand Can you seriously say you can't read it? It seemed easy to me.
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by mchahn 11y ago
And the second picture includes plug for the ass. (gross)
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by mchahn 11y ago
I assume self-driving cars will evolve features at a moderate pace. Many cars are already adding some form of self-driving features. There will not be a specific day it has arrived.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Why would GoDaddy be any better? Probably not be any better, but they have a big marketing advantage. Many people use GoDaddy for everything because they started with them.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Aarrggh. Will this never end? Hopefully the recent backing off by the FBI will quell the problem for a while.
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by mchahn 11y ago
How is Python running on the web?
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by mchahn 11y ago
> there is even a button to uninstall the app directly from the details page, which is a scary feature for developers and PMs. You never want your users to consider deleting your app to improve their battery life. Awesome. Pressure on d
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by mchahn 11y ago
> the Chrome/Firefox model of endless updates. When I first heard about Chrome's secret updates I freaked out. Now I have used the chrome stable channel for years and have yet to see anything serious magically appear. It is k
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by mchahn 11y ago
> no longer activates the calling tab Not much of an alert, is it.
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It would be nice if the title included the word osX.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Who uses github without being logged in? Why would you use it without being logged in? When I saw the front-page in the wayback machine I realized I hadn't seen the front-page in years. It certainly wasn't that fancy when I sig
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by mchahn 11y ago
> forcibly keep an animal awake for long enough and you will kill it. The same almost certainly applies to humans. There was a PBS Nova episode on sleep many years ago. It showed people who never sleep. They are rare but they exist and
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Others order 5 cameras and lenses, select one, and send 4 back to Amazon. I have been tempted to do this. It makes deciding on a purchase very easy. Now that I've read this I will not do it. Maybe this is Amazon PR to discourage
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by mchahn 11y ago
In the 70's a friend of a friend of mine developed Adventure which I'm sure you all know as the original text adventure game. It was a giant step in computer games. I worked at HP and someone ported it to the HP minicomputer. I
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by mchahn 11y ago
The strange p.txt name clearly indicates this was not designed for use as a public API. Whether they care if you use it is a different issue. My last project is still paying Amazon for each image conversion (Please don't say I should
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by mchahn 11y ago
Most evolutionary experts, like the late Stephen Gould, espouse Punctuated Equilibrium. Basically the theory says that environments are stable for long periods of time and then there are bursts of changes in small periods of time. The Camb
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by mchahn 11y ago
In the 1950's many people thought women only went to college to find men. I mean, what else would it be good for? This sexist feeling was common. My three sisters all said as much before heading off to college. BTW, they weren'
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by mchahn 11y ago
"This is why Hillary Clinton cannot win the US election" I quit reading here. Not because I'm a Hillary fan but because it is a ridiculous statement. If his thesis comes to this conclusion then his thesis is wrong or he&#x2
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by mchahn 11y ago
This is yet one more predictor of a collapsing economy. If it did collapse it would be a disaster for the world economy including ours. Hopefully it will be a "soft-landing".
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by mchahn 11y ago
I had to uninstall it. Even though there was an extension icon on each individual window using it in one acted on all windows. Not cool.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I did it the worst way possible and didn't use either of your suggestions. I just used turn-by-turn voice and didn't look at any map.
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Do any customer support packages already do this? Of course they cost a fortune.
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Predictions seem to be consistently wrong, or at least random. We don't have flying cars. My mother was told in the 30's that there would be movies in the home in 80's. She really hoped her eyesight would be good enough to

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