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by russell 17y ago
I agree that that is the primary motivation. You will notice that these companies usually do not give enough technical information to do a preliminary evaluation. My experience has been that I have to sit through a presentation, before I
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by russell 17y ago
Part time works if your idea is realistic for part time. Is it easy to implement, easy to scale? Does it have a core of good functionality? I recommend reading 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris. You need a strong hype/BS filter, but he has
873.
by russell 17y ago
In the large he's pretty much wrong. In the small, like a startup, of course you have to focus, otherwise you are pretty much dead. However, if you invest in publicly traded mutual funds, the returns from an indexed fund beats nearly all
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by russell 17y ago
Powersat and a couple of other companies have some ingenious engineering that reduce the weight of a power sat to 10 tons, putting the satellite within the launch capabilities of SpaceX and the like. I have been skeptical because the cost
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by russell 17y ago
The real story: http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE56806T2009... . ShortFormBlog contributes nothing. The point of the story is that media moguls became moguls for the glamor. Bigness is not an asset anymore. The future mo
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by russell 17y ago
THEY ask a lawyer, because they are probably the ones violating securities law. IANAL. A possible framework is for them to grant you x,000 options that you accrue on some basis. You reduce your rate, because you are part of the team. I am
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by russell 17y ago
With Hadoop, HBase, and Hive, you can do BI just like with a data warehouse without all the big iron and expensive proprietary software. SQL to boot. It's a nice overview.
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by russell 17y ago
I did some probing and this appears to be purely a UK problem, although I sympathize. I know there were proposals to make mobile numbers public in the US, but I think they were shot down. I occasionally get spam text messages, but they wer
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by russell 17y ago
I saw the movie Waterworld and I dont think I want to live that way. I've become quite fond of trees, mountains, open spaces, and long hikes without a lot of people around. Anarchy sounds pretty silly to me. Friedman already says they wil
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by russell 17y ago
First you write a book about how these selected companies are really great. A few years later you write a book about how they took their eyes off the ball and now they are in the tank. Case in point the once wonderful Circuit City. Never
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Memristor Minds(newscientist.com)
65 points by russell 17y ago|13 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Schwarzenegger should follow Palin's lead. He's had any number of chances to fix this and has failed. He doesn't want to raise taxes, but the state is in such dire straits that we need revenue. I don't like higher auto registration fees,
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by russell 17y ago
I agree. Startups are very time consuming, but a good relationship is important for keeping your sanity. Throw away everything else not essential to your health. Give her more attention. IF that doesn't improve the relationship, then yo
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by russell 17y ago
I think consumers need the materials to make an informed decision. Television ads don't accomplish that. A beautiful woman dancing through a field of flowers doesn't tell me the benefits or side effects, so I agree with you there. Drug ad
885.
by russell 17y ago
"Sex between nonmarried straights was considered morally acceptable by 57 percent of those polled." Or 43% say it is immoral. Since other studies have shown that 95% of people have premarital sex [citation needed], I would say we have more
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by russell 17y ago
Yesterday, I had a discussion with my doctor on this very topic. Her office visits take an hour not fifteen minutes. If you need more time than that, she takes it. She does not participate in any insurance plans because they pay $75 or le
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by russell 17y ago
I have had to deal with third world programmers. I am not particularly interested in entrusting my life to the medical equivalent. US students are free to go to their med schools but prefer US schools because the quality of the education
888.
by russell 17y ago
What he said is, if you dont create tests first, refactoring is just changing shit. The behavior is supposed to be invariant across refactoring. The only way you can be sure is to test the before and after.
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by russell 17y ago
Another .01 baked suggestion to replace SQL. SQL hasn't been replaced because it is quite concise compared to the alternatives and very powerful. Most programmers dont like it because it is not easy to get your head around it, but it is wo
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by russell 17y ago
The article is right. The cover letter gives you a chance to jump out from the resume format and do some marketing for yourself. I accidentally did A/B testing on my cover letter a few years back. I wasnt getting much response with a dry
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by russell 17y ago
300 million in page views net $15K in revenue. Not a business I want to be in. Google makes a very nice living because people who are googling are looking for information and the ads provide links to information. People who are socializi
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Introducing the Computer of 2010 (2000)(forbes.com)
4 points by russell 17y ago|2 comments
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by russell 17y ago
Even the article says that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. (Quantum entanglement seems to transmit information instantaneously, but I make no claim to understand what is going on.)
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by russell 17y ago
I suspect the article is confusing cash and cash equivalents like savings accounts. It says that cash is 16% of the Japanese GDP. I have a hard time believing that. The Japanese have a high savings rate and the predominant means of savin
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by russell 17y ago
Amazon has it nailed for books, but I find that it is only middling for other products. More often I purchase elsewhere. Amazon Prime is great but it often doesn't apply to heavier products. Anything carried by a third-party Amazon store
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by russell 17y ago
The original story is here with a lot more detail: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitle... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49 goes into some of the performance and stability issues of the early flying wi
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Cracking the Autism Riddle: Toxic Chemicals,(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by russell 17y ago|0 comments
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by russell 17y ago
What kinds of customers are these (the individuals), tech, non-tech, whatever? I tend to skip sites that make it difficult to get information. OTOH my SO is an artist. She likes the phone because people like to talk to her. They jump th
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by russell 17y ago
Echo, the girl profiled in the post, sends and receives 14,000 messages a month. 29 messages per waking hour. My fingers would be worn down to nubbins.
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by russell 17y ago
What an amazing device. I can't see any practical justification for it, but it is a cool piece of art.

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