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by mchannon 11y ago
Here's a contrarian viewpoint- There's nothing wrong with you- your subconscious is doing its job. Procrastination is an unpopular but nonetheless effective method of time and task management. In fact, I'd argue it's t
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With this article, you'd think they'd just discovered GaN. It's been around for some time, about as long as there've been cheap blue and violet LED's and lasers (your Blu-ray player uses GaN). Si may be an inferior
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Ask HN: How to acquire a zombie domain?
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Water machine. Air + electricity -> freshwater. (No, it's not a refrigerated air unit; in fact, it works in the driest climates)
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by mchannon 11y ago
A few thoughts here: •Shading. Cars don't occupy 100% of a highway, even when it's stopped bumper-to-bumper. The faster cars go, the larger the gaps between them. For PV, the recovery is instantaneous, and for a large road surf
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by mchannon 11y ago
Yes, it actually does mean 10nm wide, though it can often refer to the minimum feature size (as in not every part of the chip is 10nm wide, just some of them). Since there's more than just silicon to a chip, those features can often be
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by mchannon 11y ago
This term means that your pre-seed-stage startup has a valuation of 138 000€. If the real number is lower than that, you should take the deal provided there are no further strings attached (voting rights, etc.). If the real number is highe
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by mchannon 11y ago
I am reluctant to give to many details "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken Email me. I've built a couple
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I never hear this question anymore- or at least, not where it hasn't been answered already. The trick? That's literally the first thing I bring up with a prospective employer, even before hello- "I'm making X right now.
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Assuming you're not building "this product" under the cover of a corporation (in which you really do need a lawyer), you could always proceed pro se, which involves representing yourself. Give caving to their demands a seriou
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Dirt cheap. I'd wager that land would ordinarily go for about $250 an acre if all purchased at once.
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This is called a clepsydra (water clock) tracker. A group at New Mexico Tech added water pumps to the technology to take out the need for manual refilling. What people tend to forget about trackers are they cost money and have to be massive
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A 40W CO2 laser will not cut metals, period. Save yourself the wait and spend $395 on eBay to get a much more sturdy version shipped to your door. It's not perfect but at that price, imperfection is forgivable.
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If you're going to make the space available, expect it to be filled to capacity during peak times. 500 sf is tiny and probably too small (your support staff onsite will take up a huge chunk of that, unless you're planning on havi
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Given the severity (significant), and speed (relatively slow), I'd get a second opinion from a (different?) top-tier medical facility. Sometimes doctors just don't know what they need to know in order to best treat a condition, an
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F&F money is the cheapest money you'll find. Unlike most angels, they don't negotiate hard to push down your valuation pre-investment, and they don't try to distract you or run an aspect of your business. Take all you c
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by mchannon 11y ago
Generally, yes, a failing transistor can be a fatal problem. This relates to "chip yield" on a waferfull of chips. Faults don't always manifest themselves as a binary pass/fail result; as chip temperatures increase, tra
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by mchannon 11y ago
Clean rooms that work with semiconductors use light-sensitive photoresists. I've always dealt with yellow windows and yellow covers over the lights, though in theory pink would accomplish the same thing: keeping blue light off the waf
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by mchannon 11y ago
A thought on piracy- don't worry about it. A user is a user and some users can easily afford $1k/yr for their software and others couldn't scrape together $9.99 (think international). You get to count pirates and nonpirates
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Generally the terms of a sale indemnify the seller against "cosmic rays" stuff like concealing the status of an active NSL. The civil exposure is light versus a heavy criminal exposure for leaking the information (which in any li
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by mchannon 11y ago
The biggest PITA associated with US government security clearances is their tendency to call your family and associates to make sure you're not a communist or terrorist. I suppose that's necessary, but it's embarrassing. Cal
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by mchannon 11y ago
Having used both MBP (15) and MBA (11) in parallel, can say that I haven't noticed a difference. Both suffer for lack of screen real estate, but the additional bulk associated with the MBP made it the worse option, despite the slightl
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by mchannon 11y ago
Strange how most of the comments don't address the actual question- what off the shelf PC makes a good hackintosh? The only off-the-shelf PC I've seen used recently is a Gigabyte Brix (Gigabyte does make motherboards too but this
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I'll answer the opposite question; follow none of this advice and you'll probably have a winner. How to make an awful hackathon: 1. Familiarize yourself with the "hacker league" but don't affiliate with them; better
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Have been in a similar situation, including filing an SS-8 (IRS took about 3 years to respond to it). Everyone's always paranoid about getting blackballed when an otherwise successful stint at a startup ends suddenly and badly; I don&#
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That's probably true for 95% of the world. The other 5%, on the other hand, is where most of the money and VC's happen to live.
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Not that they're identical, but some Sam's Clubs are now sporting self-checkout lanes.
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by mchannon 12y ago
Iceland has excellent Geothermal resources. Hawaii, if you actually sit down and look at where the geothermal resources are (big island and a tiny amount on Maui, not where 90+% of electricity is used on Oahu), will force you to conclude th
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by mchannon 12y ago
Not quite. Carter's White House solar panels were thermal. “a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most
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by mchannon 12y ago
I've worked with at least two people who commuted in from out past Sacramento (1 from Elk Grove and 1 from Lincoln). They tended to remote when they could, but also stayed with family or motels in the near east bay certain weeknights.

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