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by pfarrell 15y ago
We can ignore 100/400 year problem, for now, because our sample population (working age) were born before 2000. Since you're looking for a specific birthday which occurs (assuming random distribution of birthdays), 1/1461 of the time. I thi
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Since human lifetimes are < 100 years, the 400 year problem doesn't apply to our population (yet). I'm going to presume you're unspecified company is not hiring children 12 and under. What do you think about my solution here, though?
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Well, it happened, so... 100%? Since you're looking for a specific birthday which occurs (assuming random distribution of birthdays), 1/1461 of the time. I think you've got n(1/(1461^y)) where n is number of employees and y is the number
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Thanks itsprofitbaron, those really help.
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Thanks staunch, I wasn't aware of the essay. Not sure sure how I missed it.
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List of Colors(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pfarrell 15y ago|0 comments
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by pfarrell 15y ago
I get that it's not really different than the rest of northern California. I suspect that it might be like, at their core, the Beatles were just a band. That's why I want to get out there myself. So start to separate the hype from the re
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Thanks andyl, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.
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Ask HN: Help plan my Silicon Valley trip
7 points by pfarrell 15y ago|10 comments
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by pfarrell 15y ago
The first domains I got were from register.com at over $30/year. I assumed I was getting great service or something. When I finally had an issue, I sat on hold for over an hour and then got disconnected. I decided to switch to godaddy, t
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by pfarrell 15y ago
That's the product, not the way it was sold. That product is still available. My nephews are guilty of the same build the set and chuck it type behaviors. I've got my own son and daughter interested in the building aspect. I remember loo
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Hasn't this always been the case... the marketing influence, I mean? I've gone to the Lego store in my town. You can still assemble a nice set outside of the movie tie-in stuff. Now, whether you can get you kids to think that's cooler or
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by pfarrell 15y ago
I've come to the realization that you're right, jen_h and mjs00. I'll likely be doing the cashless transaction (if offered). Basically, I didn't play this one as well as I could have and am trying to find a way to recoup now. I think it'
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by pfarrell 15y ago
I'll be ready for that next time. I never had access to the cheap options (since I came to the company after they'd had series C funding.
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by pfarrell 15y ago
My research is definitely spotty, so I totally appreciate the comments here!
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by pfarrell 15y ago
I am having to get ramped up on this right now as my company is filing. I'm not 100% positive, but, I believe if you exercise and sell in a single transaction, you're going to get hit with ~40% short term capital gains tax. Holding the ex
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by pfarrell 15y ago
My company has great spam filters. Our problem is the chatter, reply-to-all, and +{some list with 300 people} behaviors. Two months ago, I implemented the nuclear rule on my inbox. - if my email is not in to or cc - if the mail isn't sent
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Node has a mantra which addresses this whole thread, right back to the beginning. "Everything in node runs in parallel, except your code". Manuel Kiessling has a written a great tutorial ( http://nodebeginner.org ) that shows how node noo
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by pfarrell 15y ago
I haven't tried this, but plan to try to use Amazon's mechanical turk for usability feedback. Maybe even some A/B testing if I get crazy.
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Is it possible to draw a rocket that doesn't look like a penis?
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by pfarrell 15y ago
two words: your guy's as in, "see you at your guy's house". Or is that just an Indiana thing?
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by pfarrell 15y ago
Nice list. Along the lines of post yesterday, I'd encourage the developer to use an IDE and gems as little as possible in order to truly get what's going on under the covers. Also, the moving on is an excellent point. I've recently start
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by pfarrell 15y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/leechblock/ does windows of access, allows for x minutes, has grouping. Course, it's FF only where hosts file gets your whole connection.
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by pfarrell 16y ago
I don't want to "guess" that. I'd like it really spelled out. I tried "login" and got a 500 from a debian server. I wouldn't send my credentials through some random server just because it was on HN. --edit: I was wrong, it wasn't a 500 e
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by pfarrell 16y ago
WordPress 3.2 release: "Microsoft" just announced
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by pfarrell 16y ago
I work as an engineer for an email service provider. I can tell you that deliverability is one of the core things you bring to the table when you are doing sending for a lot of people. It's the sloppy, people oriented aspect that develope
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by pfarrell 16y ago
My hovercraft is full of eels. Sorry, couldn't resist. Natural language processing, could we really see major improvements in our lifetimes? My gut tells me there are so many nuances to the way we work that the best we can get to will ha
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by pfarrell 16y ago
Time magazine considered Bin Laden, but decided he was a minor leader who got incredibly lucky in his plot. Guiliani got it instead.
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by pfarrell 16y ago
Agreed on the importance of good management. Something I read recently, but resonated with me. People don't leave companies, they leave managers.
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by pfarrell 16y ago
Just because the measure can be gamed doesn't mean it's not worth fighting against.

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