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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Yup this, I havent ever had a fountain pen leak during air travel.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I would actively discourage you from even looking at Mont Blanc. They are the designer pens of the ... uh pen world. Personally I have enjoyed my Pelikan... german made, huge ink reservoir and as far as these things go not excessively expe
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Modern fountain pens don't leak anymore. Plus it adds a bit of fun and drama to writing. Personally I found that it encouraged me to write more.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I love paper writing, I think it represents one of the very best things of humanity - tool use, abstract thought. But I really cant disagree with the use of moleskine more. It's paper quality has really gone downhill lately. So I reco
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Interesting feature of the fingerprint lock... if you havent unlocked your phone in 48 hours, the fingerprint lock won't work anymore and you will need to use the PIN you had to set up. Basically this issue is totally sidelined by this
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Apple did a bang up job accelerating their deployment of ARMv8 and A7. The question is, what now Intel? On one hand Intel did a huge mis-step and is missing out, on the other hand at the time "low cost ARM cpus" probably didn&#x27
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
The real bottom line here is that the author doesn't really know why she left Google yet. She is still discovering this. I really strongly believe as a left-coast culture put a lot of emphasis on amazing out of the ordinary experience
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
That's part of the problem, living an authentic life is an entirely internal process. People end up paying attention to the external things of what this "seems" to mean, and how people got there. But an authentic life is doi
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Great write up, I really want to learn what the next chapter brings. Ultimately, living an authentic life is the only thing that ends up mattering. There are many ways to do this, and you don't have to make grand moves to get there, a
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I'm afraid I'd have to agree with the other person. Even IF Larry Page knew about the full extent of the NSA goings on inside Google (and he may very well not know), he is legally obliged to lie to us, and you, about them. So, Go
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I have always wanted card entry systems to know what kind of card it is - given that it's trivial to tell from the first few digits I never understood why not. This is a great step up from that. The one thing I felt was not perfect wa
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I'm so super frustrated and upset about this MIT thing. The hallowed halls that I always associated with all things hacker-ish and who invented many of the key things modern society has come to rely on has truly failed those it spawne
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I think as a species we have a fairly good understanding, but as they say, the future is here, but it just isn't uniformly here yet. Here's to the future! clink
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I love pretty much any time Kathy Sierra writes. So ditto here, I'm glad to read it. As for the willpower situation, on a tangent, I really believe that the notion of willpower as a useful ANYTHING is outdated and badly needs to be re
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
This is an interesting study of markets. I fear that those who propose that markets are the solution are ignoring these cases where a large enough mover can manipulate the entire market. After all, for commodities, it is in the best intere
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Facilitating take on the age old problem of management and leadership. The best managers I have known have always known when to fight and when not to fight. But I feel like there is a deeper trait that could be pulled out of this. Perhaps
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
A pretty awesome idea! I wonder how the competition with the wash and fold at the corner near me would work? Not having to walk it over seems pretty nice though...
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Another thing is don't forget that Amazon is a cult of personality. The cult of Bezos. Upper management needs to cater to that cult, and it creates a lot of noise that may or may not be making the product or the company better. Some
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
And don't forget corporate accounting is rarely done in a 'total cost accounting' manner. Estimations and fast heuristics are everywhere. For example, FTE cost more than contractors. This is a corporate "fact". T
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I know there is a lot of negativity around big companies like Google doing "free" things like this. There is even mis-trust over a sense of unease at the notion of "there is no such thing as a free lunch." These feeling
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
The problem boils down to that managers are rewarded by their upper-managers for doing things that make the upper-managers happy, and are rarely rewarded for doing things that make their TEAM BETTER. So as a result, most managers practice s
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
It's hard to say if specifically someone did a cost/benefit/value analysis. But when you work in a culture of doing things that are frugal, cheap, and those are rewarded, you will be rewarded for doing things that SEEM frugal
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I think my problem doesn't have to do with how hard the job is or not, but with the quality and honesty of the communications. A lot of the startup CEOs I have seen tend to have a "this is my company" sort of feeling. But by
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I used to work at Amazon, and this is disturbing, but not really surprising. A focus on cost instead of value is a core element at Amazon. I ultimately left because what could be described as a failure to recognize value over the actual co
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I can't get lost, too good sense of direction. So I carry a smart phone anyways.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Perfect counter examples, and I respect them all.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I find that CEOs are often the last to realize or admit the reality of suckitude a company is under. I mean if you did your job right as CEO, you are the dumbest person there. You spend all your time being upbeat and optimistic in public (
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Absolutely not. There are similarities, but also major differences. For example, Boeing vs Airbus do many things differently. And within a specific mfgr, there are differences in cockpit layout. Even within the same model but different re
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Congrats on the big move! Hopefully it works out well for you. I used to live in Seattle. And there was much griping about people from California (usually half-whispered) ruining everything. Between the influx of California-types running
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
How about org-mode: http://orgmode.org/ Emacs extension = is this hacker news or what?

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