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by sgustard 12y ago
Translation. I have serious problems that need solving. You have the skills to do it. How much I value that is a TOTAL SECRET but almost certainly MUCH LESS THAN YOU DESERVE. Please beg for me to hire you now.
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by sgustard 12y ago
In the case of JustFab, they excel because they fixed the problems, and they are running a profitable service their customers want. That article is from two years ago, and they've clarified their checkout process since then. I just tr
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CMU: We’re Sorry, Applicants. We Accepted You in Error(nytimes.com)
4 points by sgustard 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 12y ago
Help out his family by buying his excellent memoir. http://www.amazon.com/Night-Gun-reporter-investigates-darkes...
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The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor(nytimes.com)
80 points by sgustard 12y ago|26 comments
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by sgustard 12y ago
Happens all the time, let's say as in this example: 1. initial stock agreement promises acceleration of vesting upon acquision. 2. later on, an acquirer comes along. They want the employees to stay. So, their merger agreement nullifies
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by sgustard 12y ago
Per capita car ownership: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_p... shows the US at 809 cars per 1000, vs Italy at 682, Germany 588, and so on. Which I would interpret as "Europe has slightl
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by sgustard 12y ago
Great point. I also assume that, like every website I visit or product I buy, the NFL could bind me to a twenty-paragraph terms of service agreement just for watching their content.
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Chickens Agree: Left Means Less; Right Means More(nytimes.com)
25 points by sgustard 12y ago|12 comments
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by sgustard 12y ago
TLDR: "Yes, DaringFireball worked for me."
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by sgustard 12y ago
I find the phrase "crowd sourced helicopter flights" strangely terrifying.
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by sgustard 12y ago
How about hot tub in the Vatican? Is that inappropriate? It's a fun exercise to list the worst places where you might unexpectedly encounter a tub full of nearly naked drunk Europeans.
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by sgustard 12y ago
It's staggering to think, if you are right, how much more profitable Facebook or Twitter or Dropbox would be if they had productive office space, don't you think?
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by sgustard 12y ago
I've been writing Angular on Rails for the last year. We took a bag of jQuery code which manipulated DOM for a complex single-page app. We threw that all away and replaced it with 90% less Angular code. It felt (not to trot out a stale
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by sgustard 12y ago
I believe one of your legal rights is you can't be compelled to sign away your legal rights in exchange for something like a chance at employment.
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by sgustard 12y ago
Car dealers make more money from servicing cars than selling new cars, though.
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by sgustard 12y ago
Agreed. SL was released under unique circumstances: most engineers were working on the first version of iOS, and the remaining core OS folks had free reign to improve the architecture without management pressure to add features.
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by sgustard 12y ago
That's a sad state of affairs for our industry, though. It's like every structural engineer being told to measure which is stronger, iron or steel. How about some basic shared knowledge we can all trust and build on?
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by sgustard 12y ago
So, don't give your employer your social security number or any other sensitive data? And still expect to have a job and get paid? That doesn't seem like a tenable plan.
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by sgustard 12y ago
If she got calls like "I'll pay someone $1000 for a ride to the airport right now", that might justify Uber hiring people to answer phones. But she doesn't, she gets calls from angry harassed customers and people who don
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by sgustard 12y ago
Why pay to ride on a large land mammal? Cars work just fine.
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by sgustard 12y ago
And there were people alive at the time who remembered the airplane being invented. Today, we can tell astounding stories to our snapchatting kids of the time when men walked on the moon.
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by sgustard 12y ago
Not a real Jefferson quote. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/spurious-quotations
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by sgustard 12y ago
Immediately followed by: "All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ... disability ..." I have concluded that much of the 500 million is going to employment lawyers.
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by sgustard 12y ago
In Safari, "Show Reader" corrects all styling sins.
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by sgustard 12y ago
All English pronouns are nonstandard, different from each other, and different from nouns. You can bother to learn it or not, you're choice. I mean your choice. Yer?
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by sgustard 12y ago
One should consider statements Paul Graham has publicly made as to where he places his bets. "This is one reason I'd bet on the 25 year old over the 32 year old." "By 38 you can't take so many risks-- especially if
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Tentpoles: the Apple Watch(asymco.com)
2 points by sgustard 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 12y ago
Hm, this chart shows average weight dropping as people get older. http://www.halls.md/chart/men-weight-w.htm
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by sgustard 12y ago
My car has a "reverse" mode which tries to kill me every once in a while when I hit the gas. I think a separate reverse pedal to the left of the brake would do the trick instead, and be nicely symmetrical.

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