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by pnmahoney 9y ago
this shit happens - don't work with founders who show even the slightest sign that they are there to fuck you, because that means they are. not a lawyer/doctor/veterinarian etc - but if you have the discretionary cash get a c
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
ok!
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
you would think! but the first sale doctrine gets weird where the following are concerned: - copyright - a terms of service violation (here, as governs the licensure of the code and computer system accessed) (disclosure: not legal advice, t
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
Well what else would you expect than that it's a game? After all, you get a shiny metal trophy at the end if you keep winning, and you'll keep getting more and bigger trophies after that if you can keep it up. The idea of truth-se
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
Luckily, part of the value of the activity is being able to question this premise. E.g. where "well what they're saying is not in the box we've been thinking in!" is not treated prima facie as a reason why it can't
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
No worries, I didn't exactly take it that way; I too meant it as you do. I.e the most competitive high school speech competitors don't compete in high school worlds competitions! The most competitive ones, to start with, wouldn&#x
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
Submitting printed sheets of bullet-pointed arguments with footnoted references is almost exactly what college policy is right now. Except: it is the full text of the cited evidence, so as to prevent misrepresentation. Why? Because they alr
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
This is because American high school LDers are competing against each other, seeking out the most competitive circuit/format possible. Your reasoning goes a bit like this: > the American rugby national team is really bad, probably b
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
Debate is good at teaching you that truth-seeking is not exclusively or primarily the outcome of a speech act. Not even the ones which make truth some kind of goal (as a stellar example, you might consider that this is not even what publish
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
I may have some bad news for you the best at any highly competitive activity - when assembled together - will talk primarily about that thing.
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Why We Can’t Stop Hurricanes and All the Ways We’ve Tried(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by pnmahoney 9y ago|0 comments
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
I'll own that I could see why you might think that I think a certain way but consider that we do not disagree? I pointed out that - with a premium on billing efficiency - the linchpin the product's actually delivering value in suc
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
Ah just saw this! So You might be assuming something about what counts as valuable business from the perspective of the firm or practitioner (or partner) -- consider that 'we have an army of associates poring over every detail with a f
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
Really?? The move away from standard billing had always felt like it would "always be in the future"; but I take that back if that's now A Thing in lit heavy on case research. Still assuming that ^ research is better facilit
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by pnmahoney 9y ago
I can vouch for the fact that legal technology as a category does not address the needs of lawyers. And which is obvious to most practicing attorneys. As an example: > "spend less time [billing] on research" is not, and never w
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by pnmahoney 12y ago
My guess would be you would want Cassandra, specifically to incur less overhead for empty values. I haven't built finance backtesting/monitoring infrastructure - which sounds exactly like what you're building - but in this ca
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by pnmahoney 12y ago
was this other people's experience? e.g. getting a refund?
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by pnmahoney 12y ago
I think you've misunderstood my point, and in the process of doing that you've made one about which you are, in my experience, wrong. 1.) My point was to answer (here, I'm quoting) > And it doesn't seem clear that fin
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by pnmahoney 12y ago
The best in finance have most of their compensation on a perfomance-bonus basis. so for a highly sought after trading associate (real example, really high valued financial institution), get 100k base but also getting forward guidance for a
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Phinch: open-source framework for visualizing biological data(phinch.org)
2 points by pnmahoney 12y ago|0 comments
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
"Palo Alto . . . is very clearly a college town". I think it's worth noting that Palo Alto is not very much of a college town at all.
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
Just a thought - 'help[] the developer talk to the computer' is pretty much the goal of most abstractions I've seen (not just javascript abstractions, but, y'know, languages and such). :) The point in Jeremy's post may not seem absolutely c
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Red Hat Announces Pricing Model for OpenShift Hosting(openshift.redhat.com)
2 points by pnmahoney 14y ago|0 comments
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
You're really going all-in on this double standard thing, aren't you? 1. Credibility You're take as fact that the accusations are already false, and hence "grossly unprofessional". Which holds pretty much no water, since that this person is
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
Oh hey, I think you're missing a crucial part here (again :) "I'm having trouble reading this one . . . can someone else help me?" is NOT-equivalent to "I am so closed to this issue that I'd rather demean the point, let's make the industry
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
It's easy to miss the point with the bearkskin rug thing. It's worth spelling out: a workplace which tolerates sexual harassment (senior supervisor known to proposition all the women at the company), or forces its female employees to go t
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
I'm calling bull. Contributing to a company's success is NOT the exclusive purchase of programmers, nor (as some appear to conflate it) men who program . And, to be clear, there is something unambiguously wrong for a male supervisor to r
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
god. jesus. NO. you've already set the course for the "here comes another HN thread where people act/get pissy" thread, so we might as well. Here goes: You probably can't imagine what it's like - for a female employee to be aggressively pur
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by pnmahoney 14y ago
that's awesome. HNers: does anyone know when (if?) the sdk will be public? & free?
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Torquebox: JRuby + Java messages/injection, job scheduling, and caching(torquebox.org)
1 points by pnmahoney 15y ago|0 comments

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