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by pfarrell 14y ago
Perhaps you are unconsciously responding to the "power move"? I had a boss who would routinely show up late to sales calls _we_ were making. We were the salesmen; we'd show up 10 minutes late. He said it was classic power strategy. Make
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Our view from indianapolis was '94 Murat (2000 seats sold out) '95 1 night at Deer Creek (20k and not sold out) Jerry's death '96 3 sold out nights at Deer Creek They were on their way up, but the deadheads swamped the scene.
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Are you sure you are looking at the right companies? I recently moved to San Francisco to be part of the concentration of people and businesses who use technology to drive their products. It's not just marketing, but a very real thing. T
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by pfarrell 14y ago
1995: "How concerned should I be about information I put online?" 2013: "very concerned... In about 6 years." 1995: "...and this is usenet which is a collection of computer 'conferences'" 2013: "what? When I first logged on at Purdue, 1993
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by pfarrell 14y ago
That'a true, you didn't. And I do agree that they aren't doing anything more important than marketing.
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I know the guys that did the iPad work for the coatchex system. I questioned then along similar lines. I realized I wasn't thinking wide enough. I don't want to speak about something that might have been off the record... But let me pose
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I was surprised that I found every single one of the sixteen public demoes to be well thought out plans to infiltrate large markets. Not one of them made me think, "yeah, but how will you make a profit?" I especially liked flightcar! Wh
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by pfarrell 14y ago
When my last gig's industry came under attack from targeted hackers, our newly hired vp of security had a fake phishing email go out to our staff (which was about 1k). Even though we were an email marketing conpany doing SAAS, a shocking n
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by pfarrell 14y ago
We have a mantra in the engineering dept at my current gig. We should all have "strong opinions; loosely held".
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Nice. Exactly what I was looking for. The forum comments about how people weren't able to break the system by fast forwarding time were great. I love how Randall beat the internets :).
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I was a lead engineer at one of the larger email service providers when that attack started. I wasn't at Epsilon, but I did have all my projects put on the backburner and teplaced by two-factor auth, fraud detection etc. that incident hel
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by pfarrell 14y ago
When I read things like this, I assume the software has nothing to do with the hire. This guy has shown, at an early age, that he is a real player. He has the right[1] kind of people backing him which has caused his name to be talked about
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I only browse hn using ihackernews now. I feel like im cheating every time I do, but I have accepted this well executed solution to the problem of hn on mobile rather than waste my energy trying to convince strangers to alter their site.
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by pfarrell 14y ago
There will always be an incentive to commit fraud as long as there's money to be made. Why doesn't a robber of houses move to a new city each time they commit a crime? There are costs to all crime, especially in the setup. If you raise
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by pfarrell 14y ago
At Strata (O'Reilly's BigData conference), there was an entire session track dedicated to fraud prevention and legal movement on this type of stuff. Although, you will never be able to stop this (unless you stop people from being driven by
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Don't bet anything but your time and sweat on it until you have proved you can make money with it. Don't think you've come up with something so revolutionary that you can't possibly tell anyone. Build as much as you can before you show an
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Conrad24: this post made my day. I have dreamed of a script that would scour eBay and amazon finding products available via "buy now" that we're being resold on amazon for some configurable profit. Or vice versa. I figure with some initia
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by pfarrell 14y ago
There are no new problems, just new engineers.
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I cloned Zach Holman's (holman) dot files implementation[1]. Mine [2] is basically Ian's torn apart and put back together (so i could understand it). It consists of symlinked rc files, and env and private_env files which get run at login /
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And a
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by pfarrell 14y ago
Is there a public repo where I could follow your progress? My interest is piqued.
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by pfarrell 14y ago
What would you remove? How could it be simpler? I don't mean how could it be less verbose, but how could you describe those various project attributes in a way that wouldn't lead you to another markup language with the same data?
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by pfarrell 14y ago
There are no new problems, only new engineers. I have been puzzling over this API discovery issue on my current project (building out a reporting API). I'm starting with self documentation for developers built in, not this (admittedly admir
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by pfarrell 14y ago
O'Reilly has a deal on a data science starter kit. I don't receive any kind of commission here, but I can tell you, it's quality material. http://shop.oreilly.com/category/get/data-science-kit.do
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I've used http://afraid.org for my tiny sites for almost a decade. Josh runs a solid service and its uptime has been something I've been willing to pay for. That being said, I've never run a moneymaking site or anything with > 2500
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by pfarrell 14y ago
The best band that came from my college was probably one of the best regional acts as well. For 10 years, they were effectively on a non-stop, nation-wide tour. They were a ska act at a time when ska hit. So, they were right place, right
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I neglected to mention... Awesome idea!
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by pfarrell 14y ago
I would prefer if my previous search was populated in the search box after completing a search (since I might want to try the search with a different filter). It appears you have an "off by one issue" in the sidebar. There's always a blank
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by pfarrell 15y ago
I've used JPlayer for some personal projects (e.g. https://github.com/pfarrell/pshare3 ). It's very easy to setup and use. I haven't gone as far as creating my own skins, but since it's all jquery and css, modifying existing ones is a no
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Thanks codenerdz. I missed your reply. I guess, the purpose of the trip is to validate that this is something I am going to make happen. I had wanted to do some networking, but the few connections I'd come up with fell through the last s

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