mkramlich

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Tsunami-Proof Nuclear Power Plants(synisma.com)
1 points by mkramlich 16y ago|0 comments
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> Lean waterfall process I'm adding that to my collection of oxymorons. "lean waterfall" process. awesome!
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Yep. And there's that whole asymptotic cost/complexity curve where as you chase more 9's of perfection, your cost and complexity rises out of proportion to the value you're getting. At the end of the day, no matter how much we might like Re
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by mkramlich 16y ago
If I ran the tech at Amazon, I'd want to reuse as much otherwise internal tooling and software architecture and best practices between EC2 and core Amazon.com as possible. But, have physically separate machines and network zones. Maybe shar
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Good advice but I'd argue there's one tweak to make that even better: start outside the cloud (say, just some Linux VM's from Linode or whatever), then only if you get enough real customer/visitor demand to warrant easy/virtual scaling, the
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by mkramlich 16y ago
I interpreted that to mean something in the range $100-125k
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by mkramlich 16y ago
harsh. i thought i was giving wise advice.
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> -Layer upon layer of bureaucracy (states, counties, districts, individual school administrators) damage. route around it > -Teachers that are reluctant to adopt new technology damage. route around it > -Students that are
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Agreed. The fact that Page and Brin were both smart and made many good decisions early (well, decisions that later seemed to pay off from them, which is approximately equivalent, but not exactly the same) was a major contributor. But I find
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Great news! Sounds like a good model (essentially, YC's again) and a good team, and off to a lean/substantive approach. I happen to have 2 different education startup projects, one of which might be a good fit for Imagine K12. However, the
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Great article. I read that while imagining it in the voice of Morpheus. ;)
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Agreed. What you lose is about 99% ads or games or overly complicated restaurant websites UI's. For cases where its like a Flash video player, i just click on the NoFlash/ClickToFlash placeholder rectangle, that then allows the actual Flash
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by mkramlich 16y ago
So it's an HTTP-based API rather than true REST. Move on. shrug
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by mkramlich 16y ago
I think one aspect of an answer to that is that they are less likely to have product-building skills, and also they are more likely to create or contribute to what you might call the shyster/shenanigans part of the economy (see Wall Street,
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by mkramlich 16y ago
iPhone + Moleskine + pen = win
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> I lost 20 pounds on Seth Roberts's fixed-point diet (aka the "Shangri-La diet") and gained 10 of them back after the diet stopped working, but it's ridiculously easy and works better for some people than others. I've heard that said a
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Agreed. Plus it's better to have some sort of public "surface area", presence, reputation, whatever, thats out there, and let people come to you. I'm very close to living a 0% resume life right now (not perfect, got a recruiter demanding on
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by mkramlich 16y ago
1. don't spend money on things you don't need, otherwise you won't have it for things you do need (food, shelter, fuel, healthcare, tools, retirement, training and "down time", etc.) 2. avoid ever having to be in a queue (of people, cars, c
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by mkramlich 16y ago
The OA's theory does not surprise me. Food is just chemicals we put into our body. Alter the chemicals, alter the effects on behavior and health. And I wouldn't be surprised that, in addition to the cases where an allergy is involved, a lot
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by mkramlich 16y ago
To the extent that people use the word startup to mean, "Er, I made some web pages, maybe a little glue code in Ruby, etc., and it has a purty design and single toy barely-a-feature feature", yes, the word startup is being devalued. Wake me
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by mkramlich 16y ago
That comment is just begging for the C. K. Louis routine to be cited. ;)
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by mkramlich 16y ago
not cool to penalize my karma for a reasonable and honest comment trying to preserve site quality.
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by mkramlich 16y ago
There are actually whole websites and news channels dedicated to this sort of news. We don't need to turn HN into a sort of live streaming play-by-play about what's happening in Japan.
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> Is your name available somewhere that we could verify? Does it matter? Sheesh, it's a comment on a forum. He's probably legit. If he's not, who cares? Are you a government leader needing to make a decision that will effect millions an
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> Someone else should write the best possible port scanner Best Possible Port Scanner... BEST... sorry, it doesn't fit. We could give you say the Best Egregious Scanning Tool, would that work?
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> Anyone want to hack together a little API/framework for LFSR Generation? I'm kinda interested. But I'm opposed to blowing the balls off anything.
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by mkramlich 16y ago
> I believe there indeed is an unwritten rule on the Internet key element in your sentence is unwritten. yes, it's annoying. but no, you have no right when you're sharecropping. and no, and it's not really clear that the @girlgeeks gi
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Agreed. I've got a few little Python and shell scripts laying around that have talked to their API at one point. By a loose standard, each is a client. Perhaps there are 74,800 little shell scripts or integration adapters out there, but not
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by mkramlich 16y ago
Funny timing considering how there's been a noticeable degradation in the Twitter app quality since Atebits got Borg-ified by them. Their plan thus far seems to be: 1. identify best client out there 2. buy it 3. ruin it 4. outlaw all other
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by mkramlich 16y ago
The Apple docs already explain this pretty well. Not too hard. It's weird we live in a world of hand-holding comfort and plentiful documentation on almost everything and yet we still create more.

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