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by rubidium 9y ago
The Trojans. They stole Menelaus's wife. They weren't the opposite, but were certainly (to any Greek hearing the tale) the bad guys. Certainly the Greeks wanted to paint them as strong warriors, just as any sports team when they
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by rubidium 9y ago
nextdoor
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by rubidium 9y ago
I don't think the article was trying to be objective.
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by rubidium 9y ago
Thank you for the reply. That's helpful.
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by rubidium 9y ago
I'm glad it works for you. I wish it did for me. Most of enterprise needs a bit more that Google sheets.
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by rubidium 9y ago
So you cut your staff by 90%? Or did you devote their time to other activities?
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by rubidium 9y ago
Seconding the outlook web interface. It's not perfect, but it's pretty dang good. That plus all else you get with office 365 and I don't think anyone is going to put a serious dent in Microsoft's enterprise office domina
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by rubidium 9y ago
Please guide me to the 4% bonds.
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by rubidium 9y ago
Adding value to our society may be the part the parent comment questions.
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by rubidium 9y ago
Relevant from 73 days ago: "Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637194 My answer is the same. The tools don't matter much at all when it comes to
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by rubidium 9y ago
It depends. It would be a beacon for all software developers from the midwest. Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana all have solid state schools with some of the better CS programs (top 25) in the nation. For all the home-grown develo
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by rubidium 9y ago
Dont try and replace it with an arduino unless you want many more similar mishaps. But yes-- never buy an appliance touted as "smart". Furnaces should always be wired.
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by rubidium 9y ago
What wasn't beautiful about that?
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by rubidium 9y ago
In the us right now small businesses can depreciate capex fully on year of purchase for up to 500k. About to become 1 mill. So for many small businesses there's strong appeal.
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by rubidium 9y ago
neither are houses or humans or science or forests or roads or hardware products or butterflies .... til they die at least.
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by rubidium 9y ago
Your right it's not some mysterious property of LA, but you're wrong about it being the curriculum. Linear algebra just works and is the best we've found.
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by rubidium 9y ago
Not disagreeing that the saying may be made up, but Scientist != engineer. This is Especially applicable here in photonics and sight. Most engineering works in approximations that get taught as rules. One needs to be very careful of the ass
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by rubidium 9y ago
Employment, entertainment, education and culture.
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by rubidium 9y ago
My bet is driverless cars, whenever they arrive, will actually increase the value of rural/small town land that's ~1 hour from a city center. Hypothesis is many people live close to the cities because they hate commuting. But if c
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by rubidium 9y ago
"universities collaborate" is likely the reason.
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by rubidium 9y ago
And here's the arxiv version (no paywall): https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03421
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by rubidium 9y ago
It's a phase change, so yes a "suddenly different state". In the lab the BEC part and the thermal part are pretty easy to tell apart when you let the distribution expand (by releasing it from the confining potential.
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by rubidium 9y ago
JAMA is a more recent one that's fairly modern feeling. I tried to get my company to get it but they didn't bit. (pricey)
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by rubidium 9y ago
HN really loves their housing problems of california (or new york) articles... I'm surprised everyone's not tired of the same news over and over again.
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by rubidium 9y ago
It was fine because there were adults around. 30 kids unsupervised would be chaos.
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by rubidium 9y ago
"Strong likelihood" only in cases of extreme dehydration. Many wrestlers/ boxers will drop >5 lbs in one day with no longer term impact. The majority of that being water weight they gain right back again.
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by rubidium 9y ago
I'm guessing at numbers from my limited experience, but a new robot development (let's say with some sophisticated features either hardware or software--not both) is probably a 20-50 person development. Salary (in normal land, not
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by rubidium 9y ago
The PR isn't your problem. There will be some other other problem you'll find with any new documentation system. The root cause is keeping documentation up to date is universally a pain. Unless you have it as (part of) someones jo
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by rubidium 9y ago
My read is that this isn't a productivity tool at all. It's a way to capture who to bill for your work (Billable vs. overhead time). "generate and send PDF invoices pre-filled with your coding activity." is in the future
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by rubidium 9y ago
"excessive" to you is "core user need" to a product manager

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