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by plnewman 16y ago
We should turn those microbes loose on the deficit too then.
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by plnewman 16y ago
I'm a parent and I worry tons about drowning and car accidents. I also worry about kidnapping, though, just because it's such a horrible thing. I have never yet to lose a minute of sleep over terrorists or snipers though -- it sounds they s
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by plnewman 16y ago
Actually if you google "digg cassandra" you'll get a number of blog posts dating back to 2009, describing different things they use Cassandra for.
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by plnewman 16y ago
I didn't know that. Still kudos to them for keeping the product going, and keeping it good.
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by plnewman 16y ago
I did say "gross $60k", and I meant something more like "revenue" than "salary". Obviously there are expenses that come out of the basic fees, but when I was doing this, the people I talked to at the lower end of the cost spectrum seemed to
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by plnewman 16y ago
It's obviously demand-based, but when I went through this a few years ago, the least experienced people we talked to were asking in the $2k range (this is in SF). Book 30 of those a year and you're grossing $60k. You have to work weekends a
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by plnewman 16y ago
That makes sense. I got married a few years ago and was shocked at what some of vendors were asking for. With a rough economy I can see weddings being an area that gets scaled back for a lot of people.
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by plnewman 16y ago
She's in San Francisco. If she can get regular work at weddings she'll be able to pull down $2000-3000 per gig, and probably more over time. I talked to people who wanted $5-6k -- when I stopped laughing they told me that there are people w
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by plnewman 16y ago
I always bring up Flight Simulator whenever there's some MS bashing going on. I miss the Microsoft of my youth,
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by plnewman 16y ago
My experience has been that there's some of that. 'Engrish' is usually good for a cheap laugh among native English speakers, but Asians will laugh at the random Chinese/Japanese characters Americans tattoo on themselves. That said, there ar
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by plnewman 16y ago
I don't disagree with those examples, and I can't pretend to sympathize with a blind Japanese person reading Braille, for example. I do think that Japanese is an extremely complex language, and ability to recognize characters and vocabulary
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by plnewman 16y ago
Well, once upon a time I started noticing people speaking regional dialects 'translated' into standard Japanese. I think they do serve the utility of making things a little easier to understand, at least in some cases.
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by plnewman 16y ago
Actually I disagree with the news story notion. News programs in Japanese are always subtitled with text, quoting and sometimes paraphrasing what the reporter is talking about. There are ten tons of homonyms in Japanese, and inflected regio
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by plnewman 16y ago
It's an interesting concept but there's no context whatsoever in this; it's just a press release. I found zappos.com ceo Tony Hsieh's writing on the subject to be much more informative.
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by plnewman 16y ago
Yeah, the H1B definitely has a bunch of issues and there is that lock-in affect which is... unfortunate. I would say the employers are always aware of H1B requirements, just some choose to abuse them. You can transfer an H1B visa, but it is
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by plnewman 16y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I have a little experience. After completing college you should be eligible for an OPT (optional practical training) visa, which will let you work in the US for a year. You can use that time to catch on with a company
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by plnewman 16y ago
When I started to get good at my second language (Japanese), I found it easier to be outgoing than when I was using English. Now it's been several several years and I speak Japanese and English every day, though I use Japanese a lot less (m
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by plnewman 16y ago
Notice that I chose the phrase "reign in the debate". And I would say that the FCC has sufficient "skin in the game". Google/Verizon, to their credit, have put out at least some of their proposal for public consumption. I just don't see how
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by plnewman 16y ago
It doesn't sit well with me that this discussion is seemingly being led by corporate, rather than public, interests. I would like to see Julius Genachoski reign the debate in and push a policy through. It also should be pointed out that Goo
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Letters from Hiroshima(opendemocracy.net)
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by plnewman 16y ago
I put in a generic 'yo momma' joke and got this: It would take About 8 octillion years for a desktop PC to crack your password I think desktop PCs might get a little faster in the next 8 octillion years :)
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by plnewman 16y ago
I think this is a good test for a (future) prospective employer. If they can't look at the experience objectively would you be happy working for them?
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by plnewman 16y ago
Good luck. If there is an industry out there that deserves to be disrupted, it's the wedding industry.
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by plnewman 16y ago
Fred Wilson wrote on this a year and a half ago. I find his response a lot more realistic: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/avoiding-the-bi.html
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Looking for an open-source web design
1 points by plnewman 16y ago|0 comments