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by spinlock 13y ago
Start finishing things. It sounds trite but it's true. Some of the best advice I've ever been given is: the way you do anything is the way you do everything. So, finish the smallest tasks consistently and that will carry over to t
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by spinlock 13y ago
Radar guns are terribly inaccurate. In about 1 in 100 readings they are wildly off. Even when calibrated. I know this because my dad - who has an IEEE medal for his work on the laser, has testified as an expert witness on lasers and drives
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by spinlock 13y ago
The thing I hate most about stack overflow is that you can't say please or thanks. You didn't solve the moderator problem with that one.
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by spinlock 13y ago
My problem with whiteboarding anything other than pseudo code is that I'm pretty dyslexic and I've spent years learning syntax at the keyboard. That learning does not translate to the whiteboard. To give an example of how much the
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by spinlock 13y ago
I've had to deal with addresses too and I think this would drive me crazy. You can't make any assumptions about addresses because they'll all be wrong eventually. Even your assumption that an address _has_ a zip code is prett
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by spinlock 13y ago
I think that's the author's perspective on it (which I don't think is wrong). The way I see this is that lots of geeks are absolute slobs and they leave dirty dishes, food, etc.. on their desks (and their neighbors desks). I
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by spinlock 13y ago
The link scott_karana provided said that a group calling themselves the Avengers started rating the acid on SilkRoad because so much of it was not pure LSD.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I think it's more fun that they model SFers standing in line for brunch.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Almost makes me want to fly United again ... almost.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I have no idea what was going on inside his head but he just couldn't figure out things like making change for a dollar. He and my roommate were doing their calculus homework shortly before he left and he just couldn't do simple p
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by spinlock 13y ago
I had a friend in college -- really smart physics major -- drop acid one summer and lose the ability to do math. He needed to take a year off and finally finished his degree but was never on top of his game again. I'm not saying that a
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by spinlock 13y ago
I really don't see this being used in rural areas with septic systems. It seems like this problem only really exists in cities where everyone is on the sewer line. That being said, people get pissed when neighbors airbnb their apartmen
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by spinlock 13y ago
Being a man, I don't need to use their restroom to pee. I can do it standing up right in the middle of their restaurant.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Why are "journalists" saying that uber is part of the "sharing economy"?
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by spinlock 13y ago
Psst. Leave it to the Germans to do things right. /s
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by spinlock 13y ago
Just seems like a bad product. Most people trail the market because they trade too often. If you want your investments to make money, you don't want a product like this in your pocket all the time.
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by spinlock 13y ago
So, she got mugged and the robbers dropped the glass because its worthless?
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by spinlock 13y ago
I think its worth posting. It's the first piece of code I've seen on hacker news in a while. It also makes a great point about good variable names making code clear.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I agree. 'power_of_three' isn't really that much of a hardship to type and it obviates the need for a comment.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I'm not into seo at all so I'm exactly the kind of person who could get blindsided by backlinks. It sucks you bought a bad domain but sharing the experience with hn is a good public se
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by spinlock 13y ago
Am I the only one who thinks hn is fine on mobile? It's not perfect but the contents the same.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Fraud is a leading indicator of a bubble popping. Everyone with a vested interest in a strong startup economy should want to see this behavior punished harshly. It won't stop the air from going out of the balloon but we'll have a
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by spinlock 13y ago
So that your passing isn't a financial burden on your family. Also, he doesn't look like he was in any worse shape than Winston Churchill. And, Jim Fix was in _much_ better shape. Life is uncertain.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I got one of those calls and went in for a day of interviews. Half of the interviewers were incapable of making eye contact and the others half were only interested in Fermie problems. I suggested that Glass was a terrible product and they
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by spinlock 13y ago
did DPR do well in the long run?
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by spinlock 13y ago
I love the idea of a coordiated switch day. That makes management take notice.
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by spinlock 13y ago
This is why I think streaming is a broken model: it spikes usage at the same time every day. BitTorrent (or just off-line downloading) is so much better because you can amortize the download over the whole day and take advantage of off-peak
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by spinlock 13y ago
Thank you. I'm glad to see that hn still knows what exponential growth is. It really bugs me when people abuse the term.
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by spinlock 13y ago
NDA's are fine but they just don't apply to the ideation stage of a project. I've consulted for companies where an NDA was appropriate and necessary but that was so I could look at their contracts and advise them on how to cu
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by spinlock 13y ago
Companies may not care as much about the derivatives. This doesn't add shareholders so it wouldn't trigger a reporting requirement. It does change the employee's incentives but so does a restrictive contract.

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