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by notauser 17y ago
For a brief period Asus offered better Linux models than Windows ones (for example a 20gb SSD instead of an 8gb SSD, for the same price). Now that seems to have changed, sadly.
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by notauser 17y ago
1 million numbers is not a great deal - Level 3 charges around 3 cents per month for a US number in volumes of 1000+. $30k a month should be noise for Google, compared to the cost of running out of numbers. I'm actually surprised they didn'
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by notauser 17y ago
Every time I apply for a job, my engineering degree cuts out two or three annoying questions (which they might not even bother to ask before throwing my CV away). I'm thinking about moving to Hong Kong. A masters degree makes immigration tr
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by notauser 18y ago
Laying off people in a large organization is often very expensive, especially if you only think you need to cover a temporary drop in demand. - Redundancy process fees including consultants. - Salaries for the length of the consultation per
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by notauser 18y ago
That's why I'd be in favor of wealth (rather than income) taxes. If I was to earn $100mm net this year I could sit on my ass for the rest of my life, effectively taking me out of the motivated labor pool. That much money would probably take
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by notauser 18y ago
Joel's definition of Programmer Manager is closer to what I know as a Product Manager (except for the co-ordinating teams bit). The APM definition of Program Manager (which covers a lot more than the software field) is someone who manages a
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by notauser 18y ago
My 3gb/mo data plan is $8/mo and includes unlimited access to Starbucks WiFi. No voice component required. No handset included, but no minimum subscription period either. $300 for a unlocked Nokia E71 from eBay still leaves you $1188 up on
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by notauser 18y ago
Output all the data as lists and wrap it in IUI: http://code.google.com/p/iui/
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by notauser 18y ago
When hiring a manager a lot of companies go wrong in thinking that that person needs to be _senior_ (hence bosses and TPS reports). You can hire someone junior to add 'professional management' - by which I mean reporting, analysis, forecast
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by notauser 18y ago
This is only sort of good news. On the one hand it provides Flash with a big advantage over silverlight, and Flash has _much_ better support for: - End users not on Windows. - Programmatic generation without a Windows back end. But it also
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by notauser 18y ago
In the wonderful future I live in, we have non-iron shirts that look fine (thank you M&S) and dry cleaning services pick up. 30 seconds a day to do up a tie is a pretty good investment when you consider how many people there are out the
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by notauser 18y ago
This is essentially how research universities work. The 'large cash prize' tends to be either tenure or a fat consulting job.
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by notauser 18y ago
Also "You don't give up on things you start" could be good or bad, depending on what it was you started!
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by notauser 18y ago
All my emails tend to be formal in style even to people I know well - so I would never consider it appropriate to write 'really, really sorry about that guys' to customers.
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by notauser 18y ago
Right now it is hovering around 0C here, and our heating is all electric, so there is no real downside to running extra electronics.
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by notauser 18y ago
Mouse tracking - no focus on mouse, and the default track pad speed/sensitivity options are way too low. Installing application - no app store, basically. Being able to get 99.9% of everything you need for free with a single click is very n
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by notauser 18y ago
Sharepoint is only really an option if all your users are on Windows.
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by notauser 18y ago
You can do a lot of stuff that overlaps with queries with just array formulas, and a lot of the rest with pivot tables. For example, getting the sum bill of every person who lives in England looks like this in one workbook I have: {SUM(IF($
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by notauser 18y ago
Linux doesn't run on Arm either. ...well, it does. The kernel does, and so do the desktop environments. And indeed so do most of the applications. But there is no Flash, no Skype, upgrading is a nightmare, support will probably end early an
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by notauser 18y ago
For normal people, diagrams help. A tree diagram of the file system, labeled with what goes where and why, seems to fix about 99.99% of problems new users have getting to grips with Linux. /bin/what ???
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by notauser 18y ago
Myth TV can run playback at faster (or slower) than real time, and does pitch correction. My sweet spot seems to be 1.5x-3x depending on content. Movies tend to lose nothing no matter how fast you watch them, while technical stuff gets hard
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by notauser 18y ago
Price vs demand relationships are complex and usually not liner. Over a small range you can work out a price elasticity of demand. For something like bread it might be near zero (as price goes up, demand stays nearly constant) while for som
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by notauser 18y ago
I have this set up as a bookmark to automatically load selected text into Spreeder (also from a HN thread): javascript:var%20sel%20=%20window.getSelection?%20window.getSelection()%20:%20document.getSelection?%20document.getSelection()%20:%2
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by notauser 18y ago
(Most) planes use the skin as a load bearing structure to reduce weight. Punching holes in it is therefore mostly avoided, and those holes that are required (windows, door) tend to be designed to minimize stress points. Your proposal would
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by notauser 18y ago
Timing _is_ important. For example, even with fast DSL, it takes an hour before you can watch a torrent while stuff on Hulu or iPlayer starts right away. The files are larger, but who cares? Most people are time limited, not transfer limite
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by notauser 18y ago
The only real issue with netbooks is the lack of ram. Who decided that 512mb was fine for most configurations? However the 1.6GHz Atom processor is fast enough to handle full screen flash video. Mine currently has 1Gb of ram and can run Ecl
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by notauser 18y ago
According to their on line processing times data they haven't reviewed _any_ petitions for family members over 21 in the last 11 months, making the queue now about 10 years long (including the 2 years it takes for an initial response to the
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by notauser 18y ago
If you buy a copy of OS X it's probably not copyright violation. At worst it is breach of contract (possibly attracting actual damages of as little as $0, as you bought the software), but that depends on your legal jurisdiction. Not that I
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by notauser 18y ago
A link to an analysis based on an actual study was modded down? Who are you people and what did you do to HN.
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by notauser 18y ago
Except that real data seems to disagree with you - the chance is about 50%. http://www.in-gender.com/xyu/Odds/Gender_Odds.aspx

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