michaelhalligan

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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I stand by this statement. There is one pocket of the Mission around 16th & Mission that's really diverse, and then say between Potrero and Bryant is mostly hisanic between 14th & Cesar Chavez The rest of the Mission is pretty freak
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
These guys spammed me (and another hundred or so HN members) this morning in a very annoying way.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
By diversity, do you mean "lots of people of different races and ethnic heritages live here in harmony" or do you mean "lots of ethnic food to eat"? Because I would call hijinx on the former, this city is pretty white, at least all of SOMA/
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I did, and yes I hate the climate. I've stayed for a decade, and threatened to move back to New York quite consistently. There's nowhere else in the country to live for tech though, everything else really feels like amateur hour.
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Ask HN: Underwater cell phones?
1 points by michaelhalligan 16y ago|1 comments
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Fully agreed. The only reason I would find that type of shut-off acceptable would be if Rackspace were getting DDOS'd to a point that was costing them significant expenses by way of bandwidth, manpower, or downtime credits to other customer
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
If you're like me and a fat sysadmin, I'd recommend moving somewhere with a pool, and forcing yourself to swim 2 hours every morning. It does wonders for your productivity, body, and personal life
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I agree with this one, but that's just because they're an overpriced, incompetent hosting company.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
For the most part, the reasons that hosts don't permit Porn is that pornographers are notoriously bad at paying their bills, and the amount of fraud and theft in the online porn industry is staggering. It's also why it's nearly impossible f
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
You have the right to get on a soap-box and say whatever you want. You just don't have the right to use my business's facilities to do so. All businesses should reserve the right to refuse service, and exercise that when they feel it's warr
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Might I recommend reading http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06... It's helped me immensely in getting over my geekdom, and learning how to relate to people easier. Your mileage may vary.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I'm really curious. Imagine you were at a party, and engrossed in a conversation about food. Honey comes up, so somebody asks a question about bee raising. Would you tell that person, "You're either trolling this party, or (may I politely p
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Your point of reference has changed. My father was the biggest man in the world when I was 5 years old, now I feel like I could hollow out a leg and hide him in it.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
SF
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I've known several DBAs on H-1B's who were paid severely under market rate for what they were doing. How is "market rate" defined?
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Personally I seem to be reasonably happy when I'm consulting 2 hours a day and working on my new startup 6-10 hours a day. However, I'm happiest when I'm spending 4 hours per day down at the swimming pool flirting with my cute neighbors. Th
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I was curious enough about this to ask a pothead friend about this, his statement is that buying in such small quantities he expects to pay $20-$25 per gram for "high grade" plant material at the pot stores^W^Wmedical marijuana dispensaries
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Perhaps, I haven't purchased one since I stopped doing packaged foods, but I no longer notice the standard sized candy bars, the liquor store counters and grocery store check-out aisles seem to be filled only with the "king size" versions.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I remember when a candy bar was 1/2 today's size. Everywhere you go it's "supersized this" and "supersized that". Even snickers bars are 2" longer, 1/2" thicker, and 1/2" wider than they used to be.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Personally, I just say "excuse me" and walk away from all uncomfortable or boring conversations.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
So they gouge on the RAM but they generally give everything else at a very respectable price? Sounds reasonable to me. It's not too shocking actually .. If you're renting a $99/month server with 512MB of memory and 80gb of disk space, you'r
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Agreed, with a 12 megapixel camera I never felt printing anything over 16 x 20 was acceptable, even with my 22 megapixel 5dmk2 I don't go much larger than 20 x 30.
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Good work Zed!
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I had a friend who was working for a small local SF consulting shop making $75/hour. The consulting shop was getting paid $150/hour. They got the job through a contract recruiting firm that got paid $200/hour, and EDS was getting paid somet
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Ross had already left EDS before I started there, and I started there a lifetime ago, though I've met both Ross Sr. & Jr. through my father's work at Perot Systems (now part of Dell). When I was a 14 year old kid interning there, I didn
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Just like Technorati, Digg's failure at coming up with a business model that doesn't annoy it's entire userbase has rapidly faded it into irrelevancy. Does Digg have a lot of hardware? I hope they use dovebid, so I won't have to register wi
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
It should make sense if you keep the word Bubble in the back of your head. Most acquisitions are ridiculous, $20m to hire a team of 10 people and throw the technology away has become commonplace. The math doesn't work out except for panic b
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
Huh? EDS still holds this contract? I remember EDS lost a large ($1bn+) contract 8 or 9 years ago when it botched up a PC refresh so badly that by the time they started installing new desktops, they were 6-7 years old. I don't fully blame E
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I'm very skeptical of virtual admins. Every time I consider it, I realize most everything I want them to do requires them to be in the city I'm in. I've seen a number of friends and colleagues e ruin relationships and look like jerks after
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by michaelhalligan 16y ago
I didn't watch the video, did he mention his Tesla?

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