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by mchannon 12y ago
Most recruiting companies do the best they can with the job requirements they're given. If you're trying to get junior people for $75k and senior people for $125k, no recruiter's going to fill those positions. Try upping your
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by mchannon 12y ago
Inventory numbers are also an irrelevant metric when it comes to how long an item is going to stay in stock. New items come in all the time, so what might be 3 in stock this minute may be 103 the next. Also, depending on the item, 12000 in
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by mchannon 12y ago
Depends on where you signed the papers. In practice, the state of California makes it next to impossible to enforce non-competition agreements. You are legally allowed to earn a living without indenturing yourself to one employer. Put this
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In the US, illegal actions by policemen (alleged or not) result in suppression of that evidence less than 10 percent of the time (in actual courts). Judges just don't like to suppress evidence, even in the face of what you and I would
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by mchannon 12y ago
Orrick has a good set at: http://www.orrick.com/Practices/Emerging-Companies/Pages/Sta... What's great about these (other than they're free) is that they are geared toward serious startups who want
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by mchannon 12y ago
I think a lot of the remarks here are missing the sheer genius of the move. I've worked with some truly zany people in this space who were as close to living cartoons as anyone else I've met. Not that I'd ever hire any of th
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by mchannon 12y ago
Not sure why everyone is trying to couple this to solar panels. The TL;DR for the article is a material that is 97% reflective to incoming light and also a heckuva radiative source. As such, it bounces away all the sunlight and radiates a
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by mchannon 12y ago
Often I've lost code not permanently but came across it months or years later after I thought I'd lost it. More often than not, it turned out that the code wasn't clever so much as I had remembered it being clever. The code
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by mchannon 12y ago
Airbnb isn't bad; I've stayed at one in Cupertino before and it was fine. Hotels tend to be either run down and expensive or newly renovated and extremely expensive by non-California standards.
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CleanWafer. Making silicon wafers out of industrial waste products, with zero pollutants (every byproduct is sold), far less energy usage, 20% of the cost, and a tiny factory footprint. The chip powering the browser you're using to rea
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Even though to the uninitiated it sounds like a no-brainer to cover windows with solar panels, it turns out that what makes a solar panel effective is that it converts the light to electricity and only lets through what it can't conver
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by mchannon 12y ago
Although they still can give skin cancer, there aren't enough UV photons in sunlight to produce a worthwhile amount of power. Highly doubtful anyone serious would try to make this work with UV. Infrared, on the other hand, has some po
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by mchannon 12y ago
As it turns out, they took the bait, clicking on the link and revealing a ClearWire IP address, which is probably neither static nor traceable. Anyone got any ideas? (Getting them to click another link would probably be possible, but to wh
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Catching an iPhone mugger without iCloud
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by mchannon 13y ago
Tesla really doesn't need the money that Apple would have to pay, either on a company function or executive compensation level. What Apple could do (and with this much slush in their fund should do), is greenlight a division to go head
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by mchannon 13y ago
This is a rather pointless bill. A significant portion of all phones that are stolen (or maybe accidentally left on a subway train seat and finders keepers) are broken down for their valuable replacement parts. When your iPhone 5S gets a c
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by mchannon 13y ago
I've found the best approach is to make it task-oriented. Download xCode. Come up with a simple concept app (stopwatch or alarm clock, for instance), and search out on google examples and tutorials that already do these apps. Figure o
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by mchannon 13y ago
Traction (customers, preferably paying) are the primary thing investors look for with existing businesses. The less you have need for that series A, the easier it will be to obtain. Beyond that, spend the next few months focusing on your pr
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by mchannon 13y ago
If you set things up properly, you could be granted 20 public keys and one single boilerplate e-mail containing everybody's grades, with each one encoded in their appropriate key. Everybody would then attempt to decode each cipher, wit
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by mchannon 13y ago
Reasons I would: I might live in an area where furniture galleries are few and far between, and maybe I don't have a vehicle able to move anything larger than a small end table in the box. I might have a friend whose place is completel
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by mchannon 13y ago
Depends on the chemistry. Assuming you're describing recent lithium batteries, it's good to discharge as shallow as possible, and charge as full as possible (according to Peukert curve) to preserve lifespan. Most modern laptops a
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by mchannon 13y ago
It could work, though you would want to do some trial and error with different algorithms; in particular, you'd want to ensure that the compression doesn't screen out the quality of the call. It would not be a trivial problem to s
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by mchannon 13y ago
Why not just start off with Quebec? While it may not present every job opportunity available throughout the rest of North America, it certainly qualifies as North American, and should make a great jumping-off point as you practice your Eng
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by mchannon 13y ago
For quickie or throwaway projects, dot.tk is pretty useful. I use Namecheap for everything else, but when my budget is $0, dot.tk works just fine.
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They buried the lede pretty well on this one. The energy conversion efficiency of this device is ~12%, which is hardly high. Also, according to the article, apparently crystalline silicon is now expensive (it's not, particularly compa
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by mchannon 13y ago
Assuming this is "an employee" and not CEO or someone you report to, use your corporate structure in its intended fashion- draft a memorandum to the CEO, who is typically the sort of person who has to make these decisions, don&#x2
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by mchannon 13y ago
Depends on the circumstances. Many people, like me, are well aware of the cost of leasing space. I'm far more positively impressed by a company that compensates its staff well than one that rents top-end space; shows its owners are sa
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by mchannon 13y ago
Just as people say they want to reward creativity but subconsciously don't, you'll find that putting yourself out there as a master-of-all-trades will leave you with few callbacks. It is the nature of business that if they want to
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by mchannon 13y ago
eBay search for laser engraver and you'll find units in the $600 range. They use CO2 lasers and seem to do ok, though you'll typically find yourself laser etching a painted surface off stainless rather than engraving the stainles
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The economics of this do not work. A house typically gets residential electrical service, ranging from 10-18¢/kWh in most of the country. A server farm or datacenter typically gets general or industrial electrical service, at a savings

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