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by spitfire 10y ago
Where are you finding the micro server's for $250? The lowest I can find them for is $379 at Amazon. Not exactly a deal. I'm deciding between drobo (plug'n'play) and a DIY freeNAS right now. If the price is right I'
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by spitfire 10y ago
Bang paths are still supported in email addresses too! Your email address might be george@cmu!vax!something!mitre!foo Which meant Route the email through foo->mitre->something->vax->cmu. Sysadmins would often keep tables of know
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by spitfire 10y ago
For genocide.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Money magnifies character faults. We saw this in the first dotcom bust. Completely clueless people given tons of money do stupid things. The worst past is many of these buffoons managed to make their bones during the first go around (or th
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by spitfire 10y ago
I've always thought - and described PC's as mini mainframes. Even the software we run on them is mainframe derived - Unix and VMS. The mobile/tablet is truly the first "personal computer", which we've barely ta
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by spitfire 10y ago
Here's an idea. Go talk to these guys when you're starting your company. These guys are seeing all the failures, so they should have a decent grasp of what NOT to do. Discounting for the fact that they're only seeing failures
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by spitfire 10y ago
Got a link to the munger speech?
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by spitfire 10y ago
This has been done before, though by who eludes me. I've seen it here on HN a few years ago. and it is absolutely a good idea, as long as you include validation and QA abilities right along side train/predict.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Oh please no. Leave the VC reality distortion field south of the border please. We don't need YC ruining Canada with hopped up "startup" bros. If we even need more VC firms (I don't think we do), let indie VC or somethin
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by spitfire 10y ago
Lets not forget that YC has endorsed Uber multiple times in public statements. When YC says "be naughty" this is what they mean. They'll try to distance themselves from this now, but their statements were "be naughty&quo
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by spitfire 10y ago
Yes, I ported Perl to the kernel for an April fools joke once.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Why? The company would be formally Estonian. You'd pay your 20% on any dividends to Estonia, then whatever tax your country of residence demands. I'm not advocating tax fraud in any way shape or form. I'm saying Estonia will
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by spitfire 10y ago
> No one is going to hire her for anything anywhere else; Yes they will. She'll pop back up in a few years. Maybe in a hedge fund, VC/PE firm or something, but she will. For an example of this see Kaavya Viswanathan. She's
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by spitfire 10y ago
The Swiss furniture company USM had the ultimate building system. It was essentially Mechano or Construx for building. Their furniture is similar, they have three basic pieces - girder (tube), joints (balls) and panel. Out of that you can m
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by spitfire 10y ago
Try Estonia. 0% corporate income tax, 20% on dividends, Something like 30% employment tax on employees within Estonia. So register your business in Estonia, operate outside where you can grow as much as you want without being taxed, then ta
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by spitfire 10y ago
Now I want to know what that 1930's airfield optimization book is.... I bet graycat knows, care to chime in? Anyone else have a guess?
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by spitfire 10y ago
If anyone has a copy of the main paper Cambridge Analytica were using please link here. I know that's vague, but to narrow it down on a previous article there was a picture of an individual reviewing said paper. Someone noted it and li
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by spitfire 10y ago
Single wipers leave a huge blindspot of dirty windshield by the top corners where many other wipers wouldn't. It was coo, but had drawbacks.
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by spitfire 10y ago
1986 XJ40 introduced it as far as I can tell. (Used to own an XJ40).
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by spitfire 10y ago
Because 1930's German census and current US politics is why,. Unfortunately you have to assume the worst will happen, and plan accordingly.
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by spitfire 10y ago
The one you really want to look at is Quantrix which was available for NeXTStep and is still available for OSX and Windows. The basic idea is to separate data from formulas. Like a database. In fact you can directly base your "spreadsh
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by spitfire 10y ago
I used Improv and Quantrix on NeXTStep. Absolutely loved it. I still use Quantrix on OSX to this day.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Would that be Lotus Improv? I used Improv and Quantrix on NeXTStep. Quantrix on OSX is still a secret weapon of mine.
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by spitfire 10y ago
When business guys start saying "you can be replaced" or that they'll "start a competing company" the correct answer is /always/ "Fantastic! Please do, you'll make me look good.". This guy w
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by spitfire 10y ago
You wouldn't mind telling that to the Societs, or the Chinese would you? I see your point and sympathize with you, but accurate metrics are a necessary but not sufficient to gain results.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Flashbacks to writing fake mode routines for mode-Q back in the DOS days. Good times. Please don't actually do this for real though. The tech will catch up so fast it isn't worth the effort.
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by spitfire 10y ago
That would put a ceiling but not a floor on what people can earn. Not saying it's unworkable, but just that it would have that effect.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Something is fishy. Make sure you both retain all physical control (you keep the source code and run the servers or heroky keys) and legal rights. He gets to earn way to equity, he doesn't get it by default.
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by spitfire 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Canada, Remote I'm a data scientist with more than 10 years experience in machine learning and analytics. I focus on thorny problems for business, the sort that IF they can be solved will move the needle in real ways. Some
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by spitfire 10y ago
I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performi

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