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by nandemo 14y ago
Well, you also have an extra risk, namely that they decide not to hire you after those 2 weeks. So it depends on how much they pay for that period. They should be paying freelancer rates, to account for the overhead (taxes, health insurance
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by nandemo 14y ago
Did you read the article? > Can every startup skyrocket like Facebook or Square or Google? It’s downright impossible. The solution: understand your startup’s “honest trajectory” and align objectives of the founding team and—importantl
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by nandemo 14y ago
No, it's not cowardice. It's about being discreet. Though I agree with another poster in this subthread: just ask everyone's phone numbers (if the group is small enough).
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by nandemo 14y ago
This post also appears at the top of the classic view, so I don't think "late comers" are to blame. http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
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by nandemo 14y ago
A fatwa by Iran's religious leader doesn't mean anything? Several people involved in the publishing the Satanic Verses were attacked, and one was killed. If I were involved in the production of that movie (even unintentionally, like that
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by nandemo 14y ago
I understand that sentiment is popular on HN, but not listing prices is pretty standard for B2B. At least in Japan (where Patlite is based), most businesses will not discard a potential vendor just because they don't list prices on their we
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by nandemo 14y ago
My previous company used to use this: http://www.patlite.com/product/category0002_000000.html For instance, you can use yellow for "warning/important" level and red for "critical" level, and lights-only for staging environment and light &
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by nandemo 14y ago
Ah, $600 is not too bad! Thanks for the info.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> While New York can be a very expensive city, it can also be reasonable if you plan correctly. You can certainly find a room for under $1,000/month. I wonder how hard is to find such a room for someone who's not an US citizen and doesn
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by nandemo 14y ago
Can you provide some citations (studies) for that? I suppose there's some threshold below which it's healthy to eat whole grains.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> (50 USD is not low-end if minimum wage in Brazil is 322 USD /mth) That's not true. First of all, low-end refers to the range of the product. A 50-USD cell phone is low-end because there aren't many models that cost less than that (mo
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by nandemo 14y ago
Look, I don't have to "justify" anything. My initial comment was intended to add to yours, not to argue about a minor point or quibble about the meaning of simple natural language sentences such as "they have to work". I didn't assert or tr
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by nandemo 14y ago
The meetup doesn't happen every month on a set date, so you should ask one of the organizers directly: Jason Winder or Paul Oswald from Makeleaps. I won't write their contact details here but you can probably find them.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> The sentence "They have to work" could only be justified if the participation rate was 100% Seriously? It could mean "many of those 76% have to work so that they won't starve" since, as I said, a lot of them are working on subsistence
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by nandemo 14y ago
The technical term for the baby boom thing is demographic window . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_window E.g., Brazil is in the demographic window now, and labour participation has recently peaked. Most Western European countri
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by nandemo 14y ago
I don't think linguistic features are very relevant. Historically, languages have become lingua franca primarily due to political and economical factors, and secondarily cultural factors. E.g. people living in the Soviet republics and commu
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by nandemo 14y ago
For what is worth, Galician is essentially a variant of Portuguese, in the sense that it's mutually intelligible with European and Brazilian Portuguese. There are differences in pronunciation but not significantly more than between European
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by nandemo 14y ago
Your editor can display comments in whatever way you want. The flipside is that it's an individual setting (as opposed to, say, source control settings). AFAIK the way to fix bad or stale comments is do it during code review.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Why is that bad? People who do art auctions, sell luxury cars or apparel make good money using artificial scarcity.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Why do you need software? My suggestion is to pick a book with word problems appropriate for her level. Take a look at this article by Prof. Toom on "Russian-style" word problems. http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.p
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Try to attend a management meeting in Europe, China, Japan without a suit. You don't even have to go as far as management meeting. In Japan, if you have any sort of white-collar job (with few exceptions in tech companies and research
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by nandemo 14y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. The article starts with this quote: We Sleep Peaceably In Our Beds At Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready To Do Violence On Our Behalf so it's really odd to find that a Vietnam War story fol
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by nandemo 14y ago
Of course you can work around it if you know how to google, but Java and Python are much easier to search. If you look up "java books" or "python books" you get links about programming language books, not about coffee/Indonesia/serpents.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I find it amusing that people working at Google came up with an ungoogleable name for their programming language.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Market cap means nothing though. Well, it does. If it didn't, then the stock market would mean nothing. Market cap reflects the present value of future cashflows (basically future profits). Supermarkets tend to have very low profit
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by nandemo 14y ago
> All of Apple's products from now through the next year or two was designed and developed when Steve Jobs was alive as was revealed in his biography. I'm not sure why you think this statement essentially disagrees with grandparent co
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by nandemo 14y ago
> "Japan? There's no startup scene in Japan. Hell, that's a 12 hour flight. You think VCs are going to fly 12 hours for a board meeting?" Who said there's no startup scene in Japan? On the other hand, it's indeed much harder to get fu
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Tech jobs in San Francisco have nearly tripled since the start of 2012 — from 13,000 to 44,000 This doesn't sound right.
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by nandemo 14y ago
You're totally right (I had a thinko and managed to miss the D in the DAG). My apologies for the misinformation.
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by nandemo 14y ago
A tree is a DAG that is connected: if a and b are nodes of a tree, there is a path between a and b . But in general a DAG doesn't have to be connected. So all trees are DAGs but not all DAGs are trees: some are forests i.e. unions of

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