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by sgustard 11y ago
Quoting http://www.pixar.com/about/Our-Story >Steve Jobs purchases the Computer Graphics Division from George Lucas and establishes an independent company to be christened "Pixar."
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by sgustard 11y ago
US/Mexico: http://visiblesuns.blogspot.com/2014/07/us-mexico-border-at-...
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by sgustard 11y ago
Is there any source that identifies the supposed investors? The Washington Post article just includes the nonsensical sentence "As of Monday, the company’s shares put its value at $7.6 million." Like any HN reader, I want to belie
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by sgustard 11y ago
"The top 1% of Chinese families hold an average of $1.6 million in assets ... an annual income of $91,639 puts you in the top 1% in China" http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/09/23/what-perc
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by sgustard 11y ago
In fact I CAN recall a governor who is known for the opposite, which was Dukakis being labelled soft on crime for furloughing Willie Horton. American voters quite consistently indicate they want stricter punishments, and from a politician&#
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by sgustard 11y ago
The drone thing is a ways off; this is akin to Uber hiring drivers while working on driverless cars. The sad thing is the majority of jobs I hear about in the exciting new sharing economy are drivers and delivery people -- unskilled jobs th
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by sgustard 11y ago
The book's Amazon blurb defines elite jobs as "top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms" which are "the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs."
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by sgustard 11y ago
WSJ didn't drill into the financial side of the story. Remember five years ago? "Caltrain has gone broke and will likely need to wipe out half its service — including weekend, nighttime and midday trains." http://w
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by sgustard 11y ago
More on the rule history and this puzzle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_%28chess%29#1862_Bri... "The broad language of Law XIII also appears to allow promotion to any piece of either color. This led to t
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by sgustard 11y ago
This is the logical result of "if you see something, say something." And, I can assure you that almost any science fair project found in a bathroom or under a car would look suspicious. So would a backpack or cardboard box.
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by sgustard 11y ago
Re the US, the statistics don't call out suburbs; per http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-ame... "Nationally, 26 percent of Americans described where they live as urban, 53 percent said s
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DxO One Review: Finally, an iPhone Camera Good Enough for a Pro(wsj.com)
4 points by sgustard 11y ago|1 comments
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by sgustard 11y ago
Per http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-fr... "After November 1, mobile web pages that show an app install interstitial that hides a significant amount of content on the transition from
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by sgustard 11y ago
It's equivalent to this recursive function, just change x2(n) to x(n, 2) and so on. // e is a power of two int mult(x, e) return e==1 ? x : mult(x, e/2) + mult(x, e/2) end
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by sgustard 11y ago
They might think about future-proofing their rating system while they're tweaking it. By scoring it 100 they have calibrated the P85D as the new "perfect", even while admitting "it has imperfections." What will its
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by sgustard 11y ago
Is Kindle one of the "consumer devices" that's being curtailed? I thought it was doing well, but if I was thinking of buying one, I'd think twice after reading this article.
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by sgustard 11y ago
You can hire a part-time accountant. When big enough, you'll hire a full-time CFO, but that person will have an eye on a personal return via merger or IPO. As a small startup, it is absolutely the CEO's job to live and breathe fin
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by sgustard 11y ago
Don't bail out. Take the driver's seat and force them to meet your terms. Ask for a personal meeting with Jeff to pitch you and the company and respond personally to the article. Get multiple offers and see if they are really unab
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by sgustard 11y ago
Check the statistics which show reductions of 30-40% in many communities. These savings are achieved by people making dramatic changes. https://www.calwater.com/latest_news/july-conservation-progr...
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by sgustard 11y ago
Never before has an ALTER TABLE CHANGE COLUMN generated so much hysteria.
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by sgustard 11y ago
Not all, just the dumb ones! Also, two-thirds of native English speakers are in the US.
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by sgustard 11y ago
They don't have to crash; some 777s have been retired already (Google it). Debris could end up in the sea.
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by sgustard 11y ago
It's a good point. Kevin's mother asked for $1000, but she ended up with less. Feels like sloppy reporting.
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China's answer to the Tesla Model S: The Youxia X(mashable.com)
1 points by sgustard 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 11y ago
An excellent but longer and more detailed piece in the same vein is "How Tesla Will Change The World" at http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...
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by sgustard 11y ago
If he thought she did a phenomenal job, it wouldn't have been "a mutual agreement between her and Reddit's board" for her to leave. He would have fought to keep her.
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by sgustard 11y ago
Correct, and Java's String(char[]) makes a copy of the array for that reason. This article's benchmark gets a boost by avoiding that.
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by sgustard 11y ago
From Google I just learned that API stands for "American Petroleum Institute", so that has really cleared up a lot of confusion for me too.
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by sgustard 11y ago
Yes it is confusing when the HN title is "Atom 1.0". For further confusion possibilities, try any of these sentences. - "Hey, Atom 1.0 is out." - "For my next project I'm using Atom." - "I can
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by sgustard 11y ago
Here's one minute of methodology to throw at this question. Search LinkedIn for title keyword "founder", past company Apple. I get 7668 hits. Same search for Google, 7277 hits. For Yahoo, 4268.

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