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by ronilan 9y ago
How bout landing a standing backflip. Isn't that impressive? I know robots can do it, but Max is just meat.
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But what about collective honor? Isn't a nation which can prefer disgrace to danger prepared for a master and deserves one ?
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> I see Kurzweil as a sadder figure But why? He is just 69. Gets up in the morning goes to work for Google. He's a director, got a team, plays with this reply thing on gmail. Couple of years down the road, maybe he gets board? He
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by ronilan 9y ago
Celebration, Florida? Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to "make history" and develop a town
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For life.
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I once sold a site with a similar setup. It was the kind of site that generated a lot of interest from a lot of people for a while. Some good interest, a fair amount of interest from certified crooks and every once in a while the type of in
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by ronilan 9y ago
Do you have a favorite job board? Obviously. For my job as a snowboard instructor: Burton Process 157 Off-Axis Purepop Camber. For my other jobs: Linkedin Easy Apply. It delivered.
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Well, not everybody is a genius years ahead of their time. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
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I know it is a little off topic, but it has to be said: Ronco's cameo in Katy Perry's "This is How We Do" was brilliant [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RMQksXpQSk
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by ronilan 9y ago
For anyone interested, and for the record, this is my 2016 summer of code project. Experimental obviously. There is some additional info in the about page: http://public.docs.xstatic.site/about.html And in this doc: http:&
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Show HN: Xstatic docs – like Google Docs inside an S3 bucket(public.docs.xstatic.site)
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Obviously not. But it is totally understood. You can't expect a leading tech startup like Thumbtack to lower the bar for a 40+ yo self taught programmer like myself. They only hire the best!
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Well, it has been a while since the last time, but a ritual is a ritual and it has to be followed. Whenever someone says "minesweeper", I have to post my implementation. Here goes: http://www.ronilan.com/bugsweeper
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by ronilan 9y ago
My kids are very aware that Halloween candy may be poisoned. Every year, after they finish trick-or-treating they will lay the buckets of candy on the table for inspection[1]. I will then taste several packs to make sure they are safe. If I
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by ronilan 9y ago
Yep. And the googlepleasehire.me[1][2] guy was their VP Marketing through this ordeal. So maybe google does make some good hiring decisions after all[3]. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/google-please-hir
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Near my house, 4 red octagons with a simple white drawing command humans to stop and cooperate.
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Google doesn't operate that way. Almost everything that comes out is a loss leader in one way or another (and more often than not, in one way and another). You can dig, but it will most likely be extremely hard to find a stand alone pr
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by ronilan 9y ago
Excellent example. Can a one-man-show benefit from the disposal of a Google owned asset? Most likely. Parent was talking "tech M&A", "corporate assets" and "the street". Not same.
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The vast majority of what google has grown in the "moat" and the "scorched land" that surrounds "the castle" of search and paid clicks is at best useless and often toxic. And then there is YouTube. Edit: when u
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I was rejected years ago and indeed nothing good ever came out of me. There is no hope. ;)
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It's hard to imagine, but it can still be concluded, with certainty, that if they start earlier they go deeper.
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I've taken economics in university. I understand this line of thinking. It's wrong. (twice, btw, once because the negative externalities of "the interview process" are not negligible, and second because the power dynamic
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Employers don't buy employees. That's already the law. So... No. It is toatally not like that and hopefully such a law will help clarify the point to any who miss it. Such a law will also provide balances in an unbalanced power si
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Next: Employers should compensate interviewd candidates for their time at a rate equivalent to the position for which they are interviewing.
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> "Man-oh-man did that take wix to load..." FTFY ;)
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Most likely. "Any civilization advanced enough to leave its own plant will be advanced enough to track accurately those leaving" -- Civilized Tracking Corollary (2017)
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I'll say. Y Combinator's principles remind me of this: "Ambition[1]. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness[2], courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but... there are many forms of courage. De
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Yay! That's the one that arrived in Germany a day early ( http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html ) P.S - I wonder is Sundar figured out how "shipping works at Google" yet.. ( https://
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A coincidence in a naming blitz
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A decade+ ago I won the lottery on my third year trying. I got the winning notice the same month I got the Canadian immigrant visa (obtained as Skilled Worker) stamped in my passport. We chose to go to Vancouver. I don't know about sur

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