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by phlux 15y ago
No $Billion company, or its investors will apologize for such actions. Further, I agree with the above post - While it seems bad on the surface - there is really nothing wrong with this, they are not misleading the owners to using a shady s
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by phlux 15y ago
Personally, for me, Digg tried to emulate the UI of /. a little too much. What I have always loved about Reddit (thank you Raldi) and hate about sites like Digg, /. and Quora - is that Reddit's UI doesn't get in the way of reading massive a
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by phlux 15y ago
Yeah that changes the dynamic back to what I stated. If you cant commit for 80 hours, thus 62.5 per hour, then how may I trust that I get '2 weeks' of work-effort/unit on my prototype?
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by phlux 15y ago
I have been wanting this for eons. I cant wait to get hold of this. I also think that laptops should be configured to be able to access and play media from an SD slot without the full machine powered on. E.g. play MP3 files from the SD slot
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by phlux 15y ago
I am in a similar situation, and while this is not a pay cut - it is lower than I wanted (I took a 30K pay cut for my current position, which I am leaving). I will be working from home, and the pay will be roughly the same - but I wanted to
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by phlux 15y ago
I am an idiot! I meant to divide by 80 - but did 40 instead. Point taken, that is a reasonable amount. :) Still - I'd like to get a feasibility study done as I mentioned.
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Ask HN: How much is working from home worth?
8 points by phlux 15y ago|15 comments
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by phlux 15y ago
Ok, not sure if you'll see this - but here is my feedback as one who desperately needs your services: I fully agree with all the comments TheSkeptic has made here. First, your commitment to a prototype in 2 weeks for 5K == $125 per hour, an
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by phlux 15y ago
It was confirmed recently that apple bought 12 petabytes of isilon storage. Assuming the offering of ~3GB per cloud user, that is enough for up to 4 million accounts. Given that their DC is 400,000 SF -- and the aerial view suggests at leas
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by phlux 15y ago
Look at it this way; they are thrashing and see photos as a natural extension of the tweet format as the photos are singular pieces of content, but they are far far larger than a tweet. If there is anything we know from twitters past; uptim
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by phlux 15y ago
Heh - a few years ago the net eng on my team, who was a rabid apple fanboi, and I got into an arguement about the future of MACs I said i was inevitable that apple would start putting Intel chips in their machines and he was adamant that it
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by phlux 15y ago
The thing about stuff like this is that people think that Zuckerberg is somehow unique. He is not - the only thing unique about him is how much money he has. Most people, given the amount of seemingly limitless funds would surely be doing s
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by phlux 15y ago
I was wondering what happened to this...
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by phlux 15y ago
This is legit advice. I'd like to offer some names for your project: ConnectBook.com or conbook.com maybe even facecon.com
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by phlux 15y ago
Is this Rock Health? They stated in the original application, that the 20K was a grant and not for equity... if this is Rock Health, then it looks like they changed that term.
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by phlux 15y ago
I interviewed there recently and went through a few rounds - it was very clear to me in the interview process that the internals of twitter were chaotic. Much like Google is today as well.
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by phlux 15y ago
How do you license a photo of osama bin laden? Is he licensed from his employer, the CIA?
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by phlux 15y ago
I have never, nor will ever lie on a resume or an interview. I just cant do it. If you lie about a skill, likely that will be the one skill they hire you for having. I have lost opportunities where i could have easily lied or bullshitted my
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by phlux 15y ago
I'm too old for this. Looks like a good site - but something I would never ever use or want to see. My 6 YO might like it though. Maybe you could have faces kids really would recognize - like cartoon characters and what not - as opposed to
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by phlux 15y ago
One thing that would be interesting with NFC & mobile payments, is that as there will no longer be any privacy surrounding payment activity -- a meta payment system would be interesting. Like a swiss bank account. Here is how it works:
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by phlux 15y ago
I totally agree with you, and while I am not a fan of anything Ashton has ever acted in or done with that career -- I can say I think he is doing a fantastic job with his investment choices. Now, that appears to largely be attributed to the
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by phlux 15y ago
This was great. One funny quote from PG "Who would have thought that one could use recruiting as a way to make money" PG: Isn't that exactly what the YC program does!!! Recruit startups to find the best investment opportunities!
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by phlux 15y ago
> as long as there is no decision made by politicians which will affect ordinary internet users, entrepreneurs and investors nobody cares. The ironic thing is that, if they think nobody is paying attention/cares -- that is precisely wh
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by phlux 15y ago
Place holder as its blocked from work. Can you provide more details about TinyFund? Thanks
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by phlux 15y ago
Build a small sensor array with OTS parts arduino etc and attach to balloon that the Arch can use in the field to look around his position in real time with such techniques. And mount to DIYDrones for added awesome.
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by phlux 15y ago
INDY! NOOOOO
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Ask HN: What do you want out of a datacenter?
7 points by phlux 15y ago|1 comments
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by phlux 15y ago
> It doesn't matter how smart you are: you don't work in a university lab at age 11 without someone pulling strings for you. BUT BUT ... meritocracy
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by phlux 15y ago
Money. As a technical designer - where I do datacenter design - we have been talking about this for years. The problem is cost. Google has a trifecta perfecta with this facility's location. Google specifically picked this site for this reas
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by phlux 15y ago
They are using LASERS on fiber now? Sheesh - what will they think of next! Soon you'll tell me that RADIO WAVES can be used to transmit information!

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