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by nhebb 14y ago
Agreed. I used to run a test lab for a company that made electrical cables and interconnects. We'd create fixtures all the time for specialized mate / demate tests. Most of the fixtures were created by technicians who had built up experienc
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by nhebb 14y ago
I was given some advice 10 years into my career that I wish I'd heard fresh out of college. When you are interviewing with a company, learn as much as you can about the career backgrounds of the executives. It often dictates how much influe
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by nhebb 14y ago
That's a terrible law. It would be useful to look up patent issues not with the goal of willful infringement, but with the goal of avoiding infringement. There's an old quip about a former president of the American Trial Lawyers Association
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by nhebb 14y ago
Is there a common repository of patent troll claims? It would be nice to have a list of things to avoid, with workarounds where possible.
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by nhebb 14y ago
People have been kind of abusing Excel since at least the mid-90's, using it for all sorts of things that weren't its primary intended use. I know there are several sites dedicated to games that run in Excel. Despite the slow decline of the
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by nhebb 14y ago
Your response seems credible, and I'm glad you brought this to everyone's attention. It's just one more reason I think we should get the hell out of Afghanistan. But please don't submit misleading titles.
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by nhebb 14y ago
The submitter didn't even need to read the entire article. That information was available in the first sentence: "More than 80 percent of the Defense Department’s Afghanistan reconstruction contracts are vulnerable to putting U.S. taxpaye
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by nhebb 14y ago
I didn't have any trouble reading it, but here is a link to the report the article is based on [PDF]: http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/audits/2013-04-10audit-13-6.pdf
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by nhebb 14y ago
How is the typical person supposed to know that there are thousands of spammy backlinks to a site? As far as I know, Google doesn't provide any tools to discover this information. There is, of course, Google Webmasters Tools, but that would
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by nhebb 14y ago
Reading the comments here, I think there is some confusion over which channel(s) this is referring to. News Corp owns Fox Entertainment Group, which in turn has a number of divisions. The Fox Broadcasting Company is just one of many TV divi
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by nhebb 14y ago
Could an enterprising lawyer file a class action suit against the printer manufacturers on behalf of the letter recipients? They have mass marketed items that violate patents to unwitting consumers. I don't think this is any less unethical
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by nhebb 14y ago
My son is almost 17, and I could have made the same list of games I'm nostalgic for. I could be wrong here - I'm not a huge gamer, but I just don't see those types of games available for the Xbox. PS3 and Wii strike me as the platform for w
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by nhebb 14y ago
I know - I had to search for it. This piece includes a bit of video as well: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/news/archaeologists-...
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by nhebb 14y ago
The point the article misses is that Chinese companies often make sub-components, or they manufacture goods that are sold under US and European brands. They also manufacture a lot of low end goods where the brand doesn't matter, e.g. the co
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by nhebb 14y ago
From a usability standpoint, I have trouble scanning blue text - especially the light blue used on nngroup.com. I've read elsewhere that this is a common problem, but i can't find a source.
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by nhebb 14y ago
From what I understand, this case wasn't just about evergreening. When Prilosec was evergreened, the old formulation became available as Prilosec OTC. I don't know all the details beyond this article, but apparently in this case, Novartis w
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by nhebb 14y ago
I read this article on the same day that the piece on Stanford acceptance rates hitting an all time low appeared on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464115 ). If tier 1 schools have a relatively stable student body size and an inc
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by nhebb 14y ago
> The problem is the statistics that are given contain ABA-approval Can you expand on that? Are they providing misleading data?
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by nhebb 14y ago
Should law schools be held to a different standard than undergraduate programs? Last I checked, colleges don't advertise the employment prospects for a typical bachelor's degree. If you are smart enough to get into law school, you should be
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by nhebb 14y ago
When I was a kid we were somewhere that was boring as hell, so I laid on a bench and stared up at the tiled ceiling. I noticed that for a square (n x n) block of tiles that n^2 = sum(1..n) + sum(1..n-1). From playing with the numbers in my
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by nhebb 14y ago
Let me give a little perspective on the issue. Linus lives in Dunthorpe, which is one of the Portland area's wealthiest neighborhoods. Back when I was in high school, of the Dunthorpe kids that went to public schools, half went to Wilson Hi
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by nhebb 14y ago
Original article - which is a much better read: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/...
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by nhebb 14y ago
I tried the Aristo showcase ( http://www.cappuccino-project.org/aristo/showcase/ ), and it took 20 seconds to load on high speed internet connection w/ Chrome browser. I can understand developers' reluctance to use such a framework. If you'
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by nhebb 14y ago
That's weird. I'm getting a page with animated gif's on the right side that make the page unreadable. If I had epilepsy, there's a good chance that I'd be walking down the street naked right now.
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Load images automatically > From the Content panel in our settings, try unchecking the box: > Here’s how Google’s front page looks like if you uncheck that box: > [shows image of Google home page w/o search textbox] I'm
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by nhebb 14y ago
The money grab happened in Obama's first term when they tried playing VC with clean energy concerns in the private sector. If this round goes toward academic research, then I think it will be more worthwhile. $2B pales in comparison to the
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by nhebb 14y ago
For me the big difference wasn't the browser itself; it has been excessive javascript that's slowing the browsers. Many media sites are loading 20-30 external scripts, and I found that switching back to Firefox with NoScript has made a huge
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by nhebb 14y ago
They are not "society's businesses" , so we don't have a say in how they spend their money. Not everything in this world has to be for some greater noble good. Sometimes we just want a burger and a beer.
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His greatest dream was "to have a prediction verified by experimentation." This, he explained, was how you win the Nobel as a theoretical particle physicist. "That would bring an enormous sense of fulfillment, quite apart from the Nobel Pr
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by nhebb 14y ago
Or, for consistency it could have the gray border and white fill like the unselected radio button. (Every designer's dream - unsolicited design by committee. Yay!)

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