starkfist

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   by starkfist 17y ago

   That seems way off. SBA says it's closer to 600,000.
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   I have a number of Dutch friends. They moved to California for the weather, job opportunities, and to escape the attitudes of their families and fellow countrymen. These are also the same reasons people move from other states within the USA
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   Still, I don't think cute and fun is such a bad combo for business. Hello Kitty, Harry Potter, Cabbage Patch Kids, the Olson Twins, etc. A bus full of nerds working on "stalkbox.com" in the desert seems like the opposite of cute and fun.
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   Isn't the lolcats guy rich?
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   If you're a straight male, college is the easiest place to meet women in America. For that reason alone, it's worth checking out for a couple semesters.
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   Giles is wrong. Learning a new language/toolkit is actually a "job getting skill." I got my last 3 jobs by learning Javascript, Ruby, and Objective-C. They would not have hired me if I hadn't taught myself how to do stuff in those languages
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   C
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   journalism and business school
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   by starkfist 17y ago

   You're missing a lot of stuff like gas, parking, car insurance, phone bills, internet connection, electricity, heat, water, diapers, kid insurance, kid clothes, kid medicine, kid entertainment (toys, books, etc), babysitter, day care, etc,
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    There's also a technical reason. They use their own audio toolkit which evolved out of Chuck, which Ge developed as his PhD thesis. This would be a bear to port to Android. It would either require a complete rewrite or they'd have to use on
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    No.
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    It tends towards mapped bike routes. I don't think it would send anyone on Page for any reason other than it has a bike lane. I now live in NYC and it has mapped a few convoluted routes along the FDR bike path, when it would be far faster t
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    I mapped a route from the Haight Street entrance of Golden Gate Park to the Castro Safeway. The route ends up being almost correct. The route going to the Safeway bombs down Page street to Laguna and then wraps around. Overshooting like thi
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Anti Intellectualism has never been "relegated to a small percentage of trouble makers." It's always been a popular ideology in American culture. http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Ric... If you went to a public scho
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Your second point is the wrong comparison. Searching for "San Francisco" is not equivalent to searching for "Tiananmen 1989." If you search for "San Francisco 1989" the Loma Prieta earthquake is indeed the dominant result.
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    This is the kind of person you pay $100k starting to though, to keep them around for a while. Why??? She's exactly like every other 20-something woman in Manhattan, only they all have better looking tumblr sites!
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Thousands? That's one for every working day ten years in a row. Or three days worth of email
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    She could get a writing job at a place like RWW easily. Unfortunately it's one of the only places she could get a job. It's also a boiler room. I don't know what the right phrase for a blogging boiler room is. I hope she truly loves SF beca
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    The professions, and everything about them, are designed for people who don't have to work to earn a living Which professions? Ambassador to France?
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Wayne's World was somewhere in Illinois. I would totally move to Minnesota if it was really like Purple Rain. (It's not - it's more like Mall Rats)
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    An answer that bizarre deserves a followup. It's not that bizarre. I moved to San Francisco because of all the skateboarding videos I watched when I was 13. I'd bet that 90% of the people who move to NYC move here because of an idea of th
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    I want to know how much money I can get paid by the government when I finish my PhD in statistics.
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    It also depends on where you are located. Silicon Valley is a special case and California has laws that are more favorable to employees and the individual. Places like New York Texas do not, and you have to be much more careful.
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Just wanted to chime in and say that I've seen behavior like this a few times. After submitting a comment, I've been redirected to someone else's threads?id page.
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    whoops. I should have just asked outright: how much will Tufte get paid?
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Do these people receive renumeration for the time they spend on the panel?
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    I lived in Japan in the early 2000s. I don't know anything about anime or videogames, but everything else in the article seemed accurate. Personally I loved it, but I left before things started to wear me down. Much of this is a critique of
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    It's hard/impossible to do this at NYU.
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    This can backfire. A good friend from high school went this route and he's still never published anything. He now has 15 years of no real job history. A bigger problem is that from an artistic viewpoint, his writing keeps getting worse. It'
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    by starkfist 17y ago

    Probably. Just like they did at Enron, LTCM, Lehman Brothers, etc...