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by rianjs 16y ago
When I installed Windows 7, I went from no OS to functioning desktop in 17 minutes. 2 of those minutes were spent crawling around on the floor to write down my license key. (Like an idiot, I stuck the sticker on my case before I installed t
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by rianjs 16y ago
The article doesn't talk about it, but I wonder about companies that do credit checks as a pre-req for employment. Being unemployed can lead to problems paying bills, especially over the long term. (For younger individuals, this might be pr
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by rianjs 16y ago
As a technical writer: Job listings that say "experience with FrameMaker/Madcap Flare/[whatever]". It's useless and arbitrary, and not unlike asking a programmer to have experience with Visual Studio or Eclipse. Technical writing--and writi
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by rianjs 16y ago
You didn't address the substance of the argument, therefore I can only conclude that you didn't read more than the first few paragraphs. The article is quite detailed, and plainly states that it's not a indictment of 37s the company, their
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by rianjs 16y ago
You need a certain ad-to-content ratio to qualify for bulk mail postage rates.
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by rianjs 16y ago
Microsoft is not a monolithic entity. Might one of their famous executives hate certain competitors? Yes. Do their employees, on the whole, hate the competitors that exist in their myriad markets? Probably not. So if Steve Ballmer = Microso
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by rianjs 16y ago
> Except that there was no investment to make Reddit more profitable. Arstechnica, Wired and Reddit are all owned by CN, not only does Ars and Wired have more employees Ars has 9 employees, and a number of contract/freelance workers, in
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by rianjs 16y ago
Makes sense to me. Don't really see why users expect Conde Nast to send money down the chain. CN/Wired Digital is in business to make money, and it's clear that reddit's model isn't working. If the site provides utility to its users, it mak
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by rianjs 16y ago
That's not correct... you can, in fact, polish a turd. http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd... :P
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Ask HN: open source projects looking for a technical writer?
3 points by rianjs 16y ago|0 comments
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by rianjs 16y ago
Web hosting is the closest thing to Perfect Competition, in the economic sense, that I've been able to find. I wouldn't go anywhere near the field. There may be some niches (cloud?) that haven't reached the level where there's no producer s
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by rianjs 16y ago
Dropbox?
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by rianjs 16y ago
Don't need engineering experts to run a cleanup, which is inherently a management/organizational undertaking, not directly an engineering problem. Familiarity with the subject material is really all that's needed. They need to be able to pu
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by rianjs 16y ago
The tl;dr version being: You can't have stable governments and institutions without having a viable economy underpinning the whole thing. In this respect, this find is very good, and will encourage outside investment. It's good that Afghani
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by rianjs 16y ago
Without a doubt. Best TV show I ever saw was HBO's "John Adams". If you haven't seen it, you should. It's based on the letters John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, before, during, and after the Revolution.
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by rianjs 16y ago
I debated it, but figured that most geeks are sci-fi types, and probably many HN readers had read ASOIAF. :) FWIW, I'm running Chrome (on Windows), and I had no problems.
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HBO miniseries: Game of Thrones(hbo.com)
6 points by rianjs 16y ago|7 comments
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by rianjs 16y ago
There's not as much reason to bet against student loans as there was securitized consumer debt and/or MBS. This is because student debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
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by rianjs 16y ago
Yeah, those people DOA are cheaper than surviving, if you ignore what kind of wealth a person is likely to create by being alive. AFAIK, the latest numbers on acute MI survival are ~30%, and getting better in recent years due to the widespr
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by rianjs 16y ago
Warning: meandering, incomplete response follows... Yeah, the HSA + high-deductible combination definitely has an effect on low-hanging fruit like primary care stuff. I don't know if it's been measured, but it intuitively makes sense. In te
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by rianjs 16y ago
Conceptually simple, but the licensing agreements with the labels would kill you, not to mention the problems with divvying the money amongst the artists that you decide to "keep." That brings me to another problem: you'd have to pay $25/mo
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by rianjs 16y ago
"Founded in 2008, nHealth was built around a high deductible insurance plan model that utilized health savings accounts and kept costs down making consumers more involved in their healthcare decisions." Demand-side reforms don't work partic
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by rianjs 16y ago
I'm inclined to think that having perfect information (or as close to it as possible) can lead to "analysis paralysis". Generally speaking, the more information you have, the more you can see all the possible upsides and downsides that migh
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by rianjs 16y ago
For me, information consumption is a substitute (in the economic sense) for television. It's a leisure activity. It fills the gap when I'm not doing Real Work. When I get bogged down, I just declare RSS bankruptcy and start over. shrug
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Sources of angel funding for industries other than software?
2 points by rianjs 16y ago|1 comments
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by rianjs 16y ago
I bought EditPlus (www.editplus.com) way back when I was in high school (NT4 days), and the license is still good for newer versions. I've lost the license twice, don't have the CC or email address it was registered to, and Sangil has bee
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by rianjs 16y ago
Time spent and value created are only barely correlated. Anyone who's worked for someone besides themselves is keenly aware of this. ;) This is true even in process-oriented jobs, though to a lesser degree than creative jobs.
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by rianjs 16y ago
"1. Down time is useful for, oh, things like co-ops.... It's also part of the research university way of doing things, which 7 wants to abolish." Most students have no interest in doing research. Most students have no interest in grad schoo
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College is broken(rianjs.net)
9 points by rianjs 16y ago|4 comments
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by rianjs 16y ago
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