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by phlux 16y ago
My ex is from the Philippines, she used to say "Why do you always say America is the land of the free? If you have a party that's too loud the cops come, you get tickets for parking anywhere, you get in trouble for crossing the street, you
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by phlux 16y ago
should redirect to TC
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by phlux 16y ago
The difference here was that the guy liked to try to be specifically obtuse and difficult. It wasn't a matter of thinking through a problem before hand - it was an exercise in proving/looking smart. Spending 5+ minutes consternating over th
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by phlux 16y ago
Heh. I know that type well. A guy that I had hired as an intern many years ago was that type - to such a degree that once when asked to erect a shelf that we got for the IT lab was asking why it was using the type of screws that it came wit
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by phlux 16y ago
WHAT! this isnt about Bush!??? but but but.... everyone knows he was harmful!
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by phlux 16y ago
Sounds like an Onion article.
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by phlux 16y ago
I don't recall where I heard it, but there was an interesting statement that was made, I think in some movie, about all of us (currently living humans) being the off-spring of the victors of violence/battles past. That only those who are li
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by phlux 16y ago
android+GPS autopilot for boats, plus remote security. Got it. Well, What I would focus on if I were you would be the app - and talk to shock/case/mount people first. There are so many people right now building tablets that you should surel
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by phlux 16y ago
Apple
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by phlux 16y ago
Microsoft
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by phlux 16y ago
No disrespect, but (not knowing how long you have been at MS) dont you think that thought-flow between companies is good for overall technological progression? Whilst your reasoning for staying put are surely sound for you, is your comment
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by phlux 16y ago
I depends on how hot they are.
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Poll: Which company would you rather work at?
4 points by phlux 16y ago|10 comments
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by phlux 16y ago
AirBNB
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by phlux 16y ago
Twitter
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by phlux 16y ago
Facebook
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Google
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Groupon
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HipMunk
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Asana
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Quora
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by phlux 16y ago
My Own Startup
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by phlux 16y ago
Are you building a military app? If so, why not look at getting money from either Darpa grants, others in the defense industry or just selling/licensing the app to a defense contractor, such as Lockheed. Otherwise - why be so concerned with
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by phlux 16y ago
That is exactly what I thought.
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by phlux 16y ago
haha, When I was new to IT in Silicon Valley in 1997, we bought a bunch of clone servers from Colfax International - dual pentium II something-or-others, based on Super Micro mobos. We were running Windows NT with SQL Server as well as Linu
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by phlux 16y ago
Well, I would have started at CES - there a re a ton of ODM tablet guys from China at CES. Look at this post, and get in touch with this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896 I would take his recommendations regarding any of th
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Ask HN: How do I create a poll on HN?
1 points by phlux 16y ago|2 comments
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by phlux 16y ago
It is also indicative of how uncreative the founders were. To me, I intuit this as clear confirmation that it was a company founded with no strategy other than to suckle from the teat of defense spending. How much you want to bet that the H
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by phlux 16y ago
I have the same problem with any company that has the word "solutions" in their name. My problem with it is that by having the term "solutions" in your name, you have a clearly defined problem for which your company is the only answer. Inva
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by phlux 16y ago
Right, I do know that -- What Iam saying is that a system that uses both GPUs and the fusion IO cards would seem to provide a kickass platform for mass computation on lots of data in a small form factor.

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