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by spitfire 10y ago
No. Escalate. If your employer wants you to use some specific technical tools, they need to provide those tools. Be respectful, but firm. I would recommend simply leaving your laptop at home.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Patrick is such a tease. I want to know what that two week project at Stripe that /every/ company should have is now.
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by spitfire 10y ago
I had one of these back in the day and even attempted to write a Linux kernel driver for it. All I can say is bletch, I was glad to get rid of it. Very surprising that it works with a PCJr however. The PCJr was different from the PC in that
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by spitfire 10y ago
No Über/lyft (and airbnb, et al) are doing something different. Regulatory arbitrage - Purposely breaking the law in order to have a structural advantage over competitors. This guy didn't want others to play by one set of rules wh
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by spitfire 10y ago
Is this data available somewhere public? I'd like to do some of my own research and don't have access to a Bloomberg.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Yes, very often. Just like people go to Harvard or Yale for the name and the network - not the education. See Y Combinator now. Which people go to for the name and the network - not the money.
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by spitfire 10y ago
This would make two incredible movies. First a horror movie about false involuntary admittance. Second, a fantastic corporate drama ala michael clayton about the corporate hierarchy that built, runs and protects the machine. If anyone write
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by spitfire 10y ago
Success is a very cruel mistress. Without some sort of feed back cycle - usually given by the market, things grow in strange and perverse ways fast. The trick is to develop a feedback cycle that isn't as harsh as the open market (manag
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by spitfire 10y ago
It feels like this generation has never had to use Windows 3.1 Or maintain an event loop application long term. There are good reasons we went to thread based models - developer productivity and safety. Event loops are fine for toy demo&#x2
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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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by spitfire 10y ago
I wish they had a demo of Poly on the site. It's pretty bad to have page after page of text about a voice synthesis service and not have "Click here for demo" above the fold in the first page. I too, am very interested in a d
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by spitfire 10y ago
It's funny, IIRC the founder of braintree was quite active on HN as Braintree started to become successful.
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by spitfire 10y ago
So Cascadia is actually happening? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_%28independence_movem...
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by spitfire 10y ago
Why wouldn't you? You can fly IFR with a paper map and a few instruments.
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by spitfire 10y ago
> They are not DIY friendly people. Actually, yes they are. You just register your aircraft as an experimental aircraft and bingo you're free to do repairs, maintenance and modification to it as you like. However, as an experimental
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by spitfire 10y ago
I think that's mostly for tax avoidance purposes. So they can claim they were in Monaco for tax purposes - Avoiding taxes in their home country.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Well, except that NeXT bought apple. (Look at the board/exec composition pre/post acquisition)
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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
> The only way to last is to be ethical and respectful. Incorrect. That is ONE method. The method I would prefer more people took. Another (of possibly several) is to lock your customers in like the telco's did until they were broke
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by spitfire 10y ago
If you go look on your nearest bay of pirates you can find a 3 hour video covering an entire flight of Concorde from the cockpit. Details preflight, taxi takeoff, fuel management, flight stages and everything.
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by spitfire 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_Sonic_Boom_Demonstratio... Pretty cool looking actually. Though it does dull the "fighter-planes-fighter-plane" look of the F-5 a bit.
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by spitfire 10y ago
As Buffet puts it - Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.
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by spitfire 10y ago
I've written a Mathematica clone twice before. This guy got there much faster ( I was writing in C++). However both times I got the basic language going then realized it was the standard library that made Mathematica gold and abandoned
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by spitfire 10y ago
We'll probably start hearing it again as we slowly move to a demand delivery grocery model.
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by spitfire 10y ago
Is there any HIPAA story for Flynn? You can do HIPAA on AWS yourself or use (expensive vendors). However both of these routes lose you the management/deployment abilities of things like Heroku/Flynn.
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by spitfire 10y ago
and seems to be used for just about every alien home world in every sic-fi movie ever produced in Vancouver. See battlestar galactica as an example.
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by spitfire 10y ago
I'll post to this thread to simplify a lot of our discussion, tptacek also has good insight here. Listen to him as well. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you
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by spitfire 10y ago
Put plainly, the callout and yourself are wrong. To muddy the waters about this may put small companies at risk. I've spoken with an lawyer about this. There is case law directly concerning IQ tests. The bar for acceptance to prove the
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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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by spitfire 10y ago
Oh yes they can! I have met absolutely incompetent business owners who just happened to stumble into goldmines and through their own incompetence have locked in customers. Start looking at software for an unsavoury infrastructure industry a

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