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by tarice 14y ago
I believe "hours clocked" was only one of the contributions included in the model. From the article: > "Basically, Moyer’s idea assigns monetary value to every tangible and intangible contribution individuals make to a startup, from in
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by tarice 14y ago
Yeah, that's the concern I have. Instead of complaining directly about equity, people will complain about the number of hours, or start rounding, or start talking about each others' efficiencies, etc. But I think it may be a step in the rig
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by tarice 14y ago
As jtchang says above, a significant benefit of this method would simply be the opening of communication channels for voicing equity concerns. Since the equity is dynamic in everyone's mind, it can be changed through discussion. If you thin
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by tarice 14y ago
Watching this, I'm reminded of the OUYA. Isn't this exactly what they were trying to accomplish? In fact, it seems to me that Valve's Big Picture, combined with the ability to "make your own Steambox", completely trumps the OUYA. Why would
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by tarice 14y ago
Since I've already heard about of lot of these through Hacker News, I can't really comment on how interesting this store would be to the average consumer. Apart from that, the website looks very nice. The "home" button (little house symbol)
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by tarice 14y ago
>So if you're a CS major and you want to start a startup, instead of taking a class on entrepreneurship you're better off taking a class on, say, genetics. Or better still, go work for a biotech company. CS majors normally get summer j
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by tarice 14y ago
So, if the article is correct that the explosion is ~20m in diameter, and the photo was taken 0.001 seconds after detonation... Then the explosion is expanding at an instantaneous rate of: (10 meters [radius] / 0.001 sec) = 10,000 meters pe
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by tarice 14y ago
I just saw one talking about the website itself. Both sides ticked up one. So yeah, it's not exactly accurate, but hey - it's fun to watch.
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by tarice 14y ago
I bet the people in charge of Steam for Linux are high-fiving whoever coordinated with the Humble Bundle team. At least half of the titles in that list appeared in Humble Bundles, and I'm guessing a lot of those games wouldn't have been lis
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by tarice 14y ago
Interesting note at the bottom for those who may have missed it (Donald Knuth on the organ is very distracting): >The only thing missing was electricity; the building lost all power just as the presentation was to begin. Thanks to the
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by tarice 14y ago
A orbit raising maneuver was always necessary to get the satellite to its target. Relevant sections: > "Orbcomm had planned on reaching an altitude of 466 miles above Earth..." > "Due to the engine shutdown, the Falcon 9 used sli
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by tarice 14y ago
If the mission had succeeded, they would've been able to test it a little longer and then received 0 money back. Early test termination yields $10 mil. Either way they're still paying the premiums. I have a feeling, though, that the premium
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by tarice 14y ago
From the article: > "Orbcomm understood from the beginning that the orbit-raising maneuver was tentative," Nelson wrote. "They accepted that there was a high risk of their satellite remaining at the Dragon insertion orbit. SpaceX would
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by tarice 14y ago
So, essentially, a company sends a satellite into space, tests it a lot, and then charges an insurance company $10 million because they expected it to fall into the atmosphere? What insurance company lets a company take out a plan with that
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by tarice 14y ago
I have actually used bubble sort once. I had a small data set, and, more importantly, I needed a customer who might be a less-than-saavy programmer (VBA) to understand what was going on. Bubble sort is, if nothing else, simple to understand
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by tarice 14y ago
As far as I can tell, they're just doing SVG manipulation with Javascript. I don't see any common libraries being used, though.
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by tarice 14y ago
I seriously doubt that even at higher prices it would not be commercially viable to extract Helium from Natural Gas reserves. The tiny amount of Helium contained in Natural Gas probably isn't worth the investment to separate out, especially
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by tarice 14y ago
Filling HDDs with Helium seems like a bad idea since the Earth is running out of Helium.[1] Increasing prices could very well make the technology infeasible before it even comes to market. [1] http://digitaljournal.com/article/321439
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by tarice 14y ago
Rule of thumb for human-perceived "instantaneous" interactivity: 100,000,000 ns (100 ms) [1] A good metric to compare those numbers against. [1] http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/LatencyQuest.html
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by tarice 14y ago
Question: Per this article, what iPhone version will be able to reach to the moon? Assuming: Increase in icons is quadratic over time. Each iPhone version requires an extra 8.6mm in height to hold the extra icons. The distance to the moon i
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by tarice 14y ago
> Not entirely clear what the "cmd-return" is supposed to do. Run a command? My thought exactly. The website tells me to try the combination, as if advertising a feature, but never ends up telling me what the feature actually is..
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by tarice 14y ago
"Fewer than three Development Team members decreases interaction and results in smaller productivity gains...Having more than nine members requires too much coordination." - Scrum Guide, page 6 Source: http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Docume
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by tarice 14y ago
Necessary quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
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by tarice 14y ago
I'm still disappointed that deploying to Windows XP isn't supported at launch. I'll be waiting until the patch this fall[1] before even considering upgrading. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320645.a...
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by tarice 14y ago
Actually, I would expect the latter to be easier. Teaching someone who is bad at coding means fixing 2-5 years of mistakes. Teaching someone who is poor at communication means fixing 20+ years of mistakes. Plus, it's easier to convey coding
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by tarice 14y ago
What I'm taking away from the comments below is: "Everything that could be done with this API has already been done using HTML parsing. This development will simply make those applications faster." Truth?
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by tarice 14y ago
We currently only have it on AntiSec's word that the information came from an FBI laptop, so technically their statement is true. According to this blog, several organizations aggregate said information[1] so it's possible that one of the
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by tarice 14y ago
There's just not enough information contained in the filename to be able to suggest anything. People have different naming conventions. Maybe Christopher likes his filenames to be precise. Who knows.
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by tarice 14y ago
I assumed that the microfluidic chip speed listed would include parallel processing. Even if it doesn't, you'd still need something like 5,000 experiments in parallel for it to take less than a month...
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by tarice 14y ago
I notice that the article fails to mention how long it would take to extract all 700 terabytes of data... Assuming 5.5 petabits stored with 1 base pair representing 1 bit, we can extrapolate the time required to extract the data based off t

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