rjurney

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by rjurney 12y ago
If you want to be an entrepreneur, there's no choice at all. You have to move to the bay area.
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by rjurney 12y ago
How ironic, when California has the most pro-entrepreneur labor laws. Non-competes aren't enforceable and California 2870 has the entrepreneur's back. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&
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by rjurney 12y ago
There is such an advantage to being in a startup-dense area, why would you fund companies without this overwhelming advantage? You have a choice, and the valley startups come out on top.
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by rjurney 12y ago
I don't think so. There are so many early adopter, visionary customers here you can sign up on spec to pay you to develop your product.
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by rjurney 12y ago
I emailed asking for the slides. I got this reply: My husband’s book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease is widely available. ‘ On his web site, dresselstyn.com you will find his counseling DVD for purchase Or you may come to the Cleveland
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by rjurney 13y ago
Yeah, everyone is friends at the dog park.
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by rjurney 13y ago
The north bay is chattier.
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by rjurney 13y ago
I live in a small town in the Bay Area called Pacifica, and its pretty rude to not chat up the cashiers at the grocery store here. They get bored without human contact, their job is pretty repetitive. Over time you get to know them. Its kin
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by rjurney 13y ago
You really think SpaceX loads aren't insured? This seems impossible.
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by rjurney 13y ago
The mortar recommendation system is written in Pig, and can scale to any data size, even petabytes. The lenskit tool cannot.
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by rjurney 13y ago
You can run the code on your local machine, on Amazon ElasticMapReduce, or on your own Hadoop cluster. This really is a give-away of useful open source code.
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by rjurney 13y ago
The code does not depend on the infrastructure. You can execute the Pig code locally on your machine, or on your own hadoop cluster. This really is a 'free' give-away of code.
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by rjurney 13y ago
You can easily run the Pig code they released yourself.
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by rjurney 13y ago
Fraction of the cost long-term. Not short term, where they found themselves.
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by rjurney 13y ago
My precious comments...
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by rjurney 13y ago
Again, how is this relevant?
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by rjurney 13y ago
Maybe not so much if you count the still-existing North Korean slave camps in Russia. http://mondediplo.com/2006/04/08koreanworkers
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by rjurney 13y ago
Actually, you strongly implied that his father being a Nazi somehow influenced his own behavior. Why bring up his father at all otherwise?
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by rjurney 13y ago
Study of depressed people indicates depressed people give negative answers. Someone stop the presses. A single survey of depressed people taking pills doesn't prove anything. Note they did not do before/after. This is pseudo-scien
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by rjurney 13y ago
Before I got paid to compute, I drove a forklift and unloaded floor-loaded ocean containers in 150F heat. I'm acutely aware that I'm spoiled to all hell. Its too bad all students aren't required to perform 'real work&#x2
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Clustering Yelp Businesses Geographically with DBScan(datasyndrome.com)
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by rjurney 13y ago
If startups are luck, you should found as many as possible.
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by rjurney 13y ago
Anapana and Vipassana meditation during insomnia.
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by rjurney 13y ago
Change your life. Go work for a non-profit.
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Linear Regression in Python(datasyndrome.com)
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by rjurney 13y ago
However, the increasingly large-scale integrated circuits that led to microprocessors were largely defense driven: missiles, etc.
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by rjurney 13y ago
Just because the internet sector is temporarily insane where gimmick apps reject $3 billion acquisitions doesn't change that most money invested in the valley goes to serious businesses doing real research and development.
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by rjurney 13y ago
A driving commute makes you unhappy because it is exhausting, and you lose that time. It sounds like your commute is on transit, which isn't so bad... you can read, so that time is still yours. I'd love an hour transit commute. I
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by rjurney 13y ago
I got into evangelism at an open source company after an injury prevented me from hacking full time (less typing). I was already promoting open source projects for free, so I was a shoe in. This led to a full time FOSS gig with a company th
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by rjurney 13y ago
Just keep growing the traffic however you can while you break even and figure out how to turn it into something profitable long term.

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