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by pmichaud 17y ago
Sounds like a fairy tale? Any experts here want to chime in on whether airborne silicone dioxide is really as harmless and versatile as they claim?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
That sounds like a withdrawal, actually.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't know about that--I'm an Extrovert, and I like having private space.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
That one depends on the delivery.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This has been my approach--I'm not pinkus, but the individuals on the teams I've run have all had specific areas of responsibility over which they have absolute control. In that area, I was their assistant and nothing more.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
tl;dr Summary: High cost workers should force employers to seek less expensive cities. The explanation for this not happening is that workers signal their quality by being in high cost areas since living there implies they are high enough q
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Not surprising at all. I've worked with these kinds of vendors (campaign sites), and they are bottom barrel non technical people with a couple connections.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Actually, if you read his post, he's just asking if that happened or not.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Synopsis for those without an hour to burn?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's a solvable problem, and with the right targeting could actually be useful. How many people would discover Basalmiq for the first time via the placeholder image on their WIP site?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The article is pretty trite, but one gem that's worth repeating, is that if you want to be popular, then be "raw". Make yourself vulnerable. Share unpopular opinions.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't know if I buy the article as its written. It's too easy to make a racial issue out of normal high school group dynamics... I'm skeptical.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The next step is to generate these images as advertisements targeted at web developers.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Interesting. The summary is that this non profit prints and distributes these things that look like money that they call the "Zero Rupee Note" -- it's like bill with a zero on it. Poor people can give these to corrupt officials to protest t
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This theory is actually well documented in academic HR circles.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's worth mentioning that there are two classes of this game: 1) I get 47 of my closest friends to mindlessly vote it up in some kind of vote exchange black market. 2) I get one or perhaps two close friends who have read the submission and
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is actually pretty thoughtful: the thrust of the piece is about status signaling, and how easy mode diminishes the status of the people who beat the game when it was hard. He compares it to climbing Everest, which "hardcore" mountainee
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It really is a problem. Right now we're at a moment in HN history in which is possible to get a submission on the FP by dumb luck, but it's better to have a couple friends take a look and vote right away (not endorsing spamming--just saying
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by pmichaud 17y ago
One thing that's difficult to measure but probably not trivial is the overall cooling effect. What I mean is that the tangible cases in which patents really ran into conflict don't indicate the number of cases in which technologies were nev
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Fluffy -- if you know the story, there's nothing new here.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The link is dead for me.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
That means the MO just so happens to have roughly 1/50th of the US population.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I did the same, and got the same [non]response.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm jealous of these people. I hope to be that fearless some day.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The problem, of course, is that we who read this sort of thing via HN are the people who least need to read this sort of thing.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but what practical purpose does this serve? Is it just to be able to use a PS3 for something else like a render farm, or does it affect how games can be played?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
No, I'd think the guys into sex slavery and organ theft are probably more "evil". This guy is more like an opportunistic sociopath. That seems more like the norm with this war...
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Yes, apparently with wads of cash instead of something like, oh I don't know, rationale or expertise.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm considering New Zealand.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I posted a day or two ago that I'm leaving the US, and I'm not kidding.

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