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by rdouble 13y ago
"The revival of" private security companies? G4S is the third largest company in the world.
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by rdouble 13y ago
That's interesting but doesn't seem to be what she is responding to. She's overreacting to comments that are tongue in cheek "Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence." is her response t
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by rdouble 13y ago
They explain the rationale for selling in a couple blog posts. They were a really small company, only 3 or 4 guys. They didn't have any "PR bizspeak" people. They were profitable for 10 years but didn't have the resource
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by rdouble 13y ago
Actually, they were doing fine but they weren't able to grow.
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by rdouble 13y ago
That does seem like quite an overreaction to a mild suggestion from Linus.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Theo makes Linus seem like Mr. Rogers.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Casino games don't take credit cards, either.
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by rdouble 13y ago
She was never a "science news writer." Her column was about the intersection of internet and pop culture. The link title is incorrect in it's editorializing.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Criticisms of these games always include references to casino games, but aren't they more just like arcade games? Most arcade games you have to keep paying to stay alive, also. As a side note, I'm not sure how seriously one shoul
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by rdouble 13y ago
http://www.processing.org http://www.openframeworks.cc http://libcinder.org
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by rdouble 13y ago
You want to prototype with processing then use open frameworks or libcinder for the final project.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Cold and foggy. Sunset used to be called "fog bank" and was renamed The Sunset to get people to move out there. Also very inconvenient with regards to transportation. Our dev ops guy claimed it was faster to drive into SoMa from M
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by rdouble 13y ago
In California the police can pre-retire and collect their retirement while they are still working at their same job. So you have the San Luis Obispo sheriff making upwards of $600,000. If you're ever living in San Francisco making $130
224.
by rdouble 13y ago
SoMa, the Tenderloin and the Mission are ugly but the rest of the city is as good as it gets for urban scenery in North America.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Not that I think you need to worry about kidnapping, but in the city people are acclimated to ignoring their neighbors, whereas in small towns and exurbs there are a lot of nosey busybodies up in your business.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Nil is (void *)0.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The other thing Germany gets right with bedding is a smaller duvet for each person on the bed, instead of sleep-fighting over one bigger duvet.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Most startup jobs in SF have similar management styles and work demands. The main reason to change is to make more money and/or work on a cooler project. The weird managers, midnight IMs and weekend work requests never go away.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In Europe and Japan nobody uses a top sheet in the first place.
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by rdouble 13y ago
He could try contacting Specialisterne. I don't know if they are operating in the USA yet but if not, they could probably offer advice on where else to look. http://usa.specialisterne.com/contact-midwest/
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by rdouble 13y ago
He lives in LA instead of Silicon Valley.
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by rdouble 13y ago
San Mateo
233.
by rdouble 13y ago
It's a bit of a straw man. In NYC at least, many of the hedge funds have more "startup" like environments than the startups do.
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by rdouble 13y ago
He lives in the US so it's odd that you're surprised.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Maybe to apply social pressure to himself to get it done by that date.
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by rdouble 13y ago
My EU friends claim the pay is never enough at London startups to make moving worth their while. Then they say something about the weather.
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by rdouble 13y ago
"too much" being $80k The foreign tax exclusion for a single person is $97,600 in 2013.
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by rdouble 13y ago
There have barely been any IPOs compared to the 1990s.
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Disruptions: Hollywood, or Silicon Valley: Where’s the Money?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by rdouble 13y ago
Not to excuse that sort of behavior, but this is a pretty typical HR experience in the Bay Area. Late calls, no-shows, awkward questions, either too easy or too hard, abrupt endings, obviously haven't read the resume, etc. Happens all

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