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by mchannon 14y ago
eBay doesn't let sellers give buyers negative feedback anymore (they did for a time). It's the philosophical equivalent of "everybody gets a gold star". The 80 characters can come in useful if you're on the fence about an auction- if the ne
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by mchannon 14y ago
While I see some good points, if the US was such an inferior place to start software companies, I think we'd see more US-originated entrepreneurs setting up shop in Canada, Europe, or other places. I don't hear of that too often, but I do
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Right you are! Thanks for correcting that.
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I could see people taking advantage if the stakes were high enough- buying two meals, taking pictures of the healthier one, eating the unhealthy one, and throwing the healthy one away off-camera. It does kinda seem like a solution looking f
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by mchannon 14y ago
There was a pretty good reddit IAMA (edit: not at all) on the subject. Umm... here- http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11cd1v/updated_hello_e...
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Ask HN: Demand for revenue-shared US business presence?
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by mchannon 14y ago
There are three kinds of people in this world- those who can count, and those who can't. I may trust a retailer with my money to make a purchase, but I won't trust that retailer with my e-mail address to get the receipt. Customers are more
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Actually I've done the hash on this approach and this still results in a losing game for C. Instead of HH and TT being winners with this approach, HT and TH become winners with this approach. Any combination of opposite or agreement will r
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Recruiting is a lot like advertising- there's no proven formula, and results are delayed and difficult to separate signal from noise. Some people use these tools to significant advantage, and others just throw their money away without real
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As with all court actions, it's not what you did that matters, but rather what they want the court to think you did. Engaged in fraudulent business practices? Commingled funds? Used the corporate entity to further these goals? Sure you didn
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by mchannon 14y ago
If you're going to do business with, and particularly solicit investment from, the public, you want a good level of protection from the inevitable lawsuit. Single-member entities do little to shield you if you get sued and they want to pier
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by mchannon 14y ago
I think in this case it's like driving a car, flying a plane, speaking Mandarin, or performing surgery- at which point is someone proficient enough to call themselves a developer? Knowing only about 1% of the commands, code, and frameworks
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by mchannon 14y ago
Many people don't like to talk about uncomfortable subjects, and the reason is simple: they have a pretty good idea what the result will be (not pretty). The other partner has leverage, be it legal, financial, or emotional, and when you're
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by mchannon 14y ago
Options: 1. Offer a buyout (perhaps a buyout of your stake). 2. Resign and start your own company. 3. Document failure to perform. Consult an attorney. 4. Grin and bear it. 5. (not listed here)
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by mchannon 14y ago
CF is wonderful in compression but leaves a bit to be desired in tension- an ideal composite in your situation will need to support both (and hence their inbred children, shear, torsion, and bending). Kevlar-49 (aramid) and Spectra (UHMW po
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by mchannon 14y ago
Fair point. Still, what programming actually looks like for those environments (black monospaced text in large windows) is little changed. 2020 will see some new devices, but we won't be using our voices, LabVIEW-style icons, or a foreign
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by mchannon 14y ago
I think programming in 2020 (a mere 7 years hence) will look jaw-droppingly similar to what it looks like now. It doesn't even look all that different (to me) from what it looked like in the 90's (20 years ago). 7 years ago (2006), what wa
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by mchannon 14y ago
What's the most funny about QR codes is how high everyone's expectations seem to be of them. When "fizzbuzz.com" will do, then a QR code is pointless. I think what most people fail to realize is that "fizzbuzz33.tk/AEC330912/m3/video/webpa
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by mchannon 14y ago
Have read that every community, be it foodies, or science fiction fans, or horror film buffs, has two components- the casual, who tend to have a very low depth of awareness about the content of the field and make up the majority of the peop
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by mchannon 14y ago
As with all things, it depends. If your $1000 included a pretty competent set of drawings, claims, and background, then it was not wasted money. If your $1000 included something quick and dirty and just a piece of paper with things written
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by mchannon 14y ago
Aside from the "I need to see you working" aspect, which reflects not only on bosses but also investors (have to justify that schweet loft in SOMA that's costing an arm and a leg), there's also the concern of IP leakage- code can be copied
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by mchannon 14y ago
The NEC has a nice big book I can consult when in doubt. While one may or may not plug in a smoke detector, the point I was making was that the wiring and junction box were not in a convenient location for the typical homeowner. The NEC als
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by mchannon 14y ago
Thanks (?) for the vocabulary lesson on hard wiring, but I never used the phrase. A 9V battery can't be readily deenergized during daylight hours either. At a storage capacity of 5 kWh and a lifespan in service of approx. 360 days, we can
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by mchannon 14y ago
While I can agree that a convoluted system has more points of failure, it would only add one more component to the system, could still chirp when its battery was low, and would eliminate some situations where no one heard it chirp and it wa
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by mchannon 14y ago
Makes you wonder- there isn't that much juice in a 9V battery- why not replace the battery with a NiCad and a solar panel? As long as your unit isn't in complete darkness it seems like it'd get enough light to run the logic if the panel wa
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My way: 5 minutes, $0. Other way: >5 minutes, >$0.
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Seems to me if I was in their boat, I'd change the server API to require some sort of passive token in order to get a response, push an update at the App Store(1), and force all legitimate users to upgrade. Maximum downtime, one week. The
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by mchannon 14y ago
Notice the preponderance of "seeking remote" posts, coupled with (mostly) far-flung locations, and I think that's the biggest clue. The type of developers in shortage are the ones that are onsite.
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by mchannon 14y ago
How passive-aggressive! I love it! (I think it'll bite you though). You want to optimize for highest finger replacement, ensuring that hands must change positions as many times as possible. Requiring shift-number row and then alternating
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by mchannon 14y ago
Elance does divulge where these people live- you can restrict your hiring/contracting patterns accordingly. Similarly, if you are up for reloing candidates, you're not restricted to a local hiring area. Also, you can make your wants and nee

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