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14y ago
Thanks for the anecdote, and for comparing a 5-hr night of sleep to a 24-hour work shift.
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14y ago
That's effectively a 1 year freeze.
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14y ago
> It's easier to make your first million working for a hedge fund than it is in a startup. In fact, this is what Mr. Summly did, by way have being born to a banker.
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14y ago
And this is what happens when an expert in one field things he can solve a problem in another field with blind data analysis without any higher-level though, and makes theory-destroying incorrect assumptions along the way.
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14y ago
That's incredibly inflammatory, because homeowners hire well-spoken American contracters, who buy cheap materials and hire underpaid illegal immigratnts to do the labor.
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14y ago
Budget cuts. You can't write a standardized test for woodworking, so schools stopped teaching it.
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14y ago
Consider adding a "New" section, or sorting the New books to the end of the list, so Knights of New can flag bad submissions, while casual browsers can avoid the bad experience. At the submissions levels you (usually) get, you could even re
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14y ago
They do, parent was just wrong, and ignoring the fact that people use "language" colloquially to include the operational semantics, and pretending that only denotational semantics exist. Dynamically typed languages have a typed runtime, do
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14y ago
I heard a different version: Young farmer: I got some pigs, but I don't know what to feed them. What do you feed your pigs? Old farmer: I had some pigs once, I fed them one of my cows that had died of consumption. Young farmer: Really? Old
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14y ago
Why did it make sense then?
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14y ago
But the jackpot is the work. His professionally managed "career", designed to make him look like the leader of a project, is the only reason his product became notable.
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14y ago
Is it cool to have the exact same "indie" ad that every other tech company has? ( http://sandwichvideo.com/ )
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14y ago
I think you'll find that a major part of South Park's popularity is not its satire, but its juvenile humor.
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14y ago
It's a bit surprising that someone who behaves as screencapped here is capable of getting through an interview and N weeks on the job as a professional PR person. There must be some awkward conversations over at SendGrid HQ about how she go
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14y ago
A bit weaselly to say "she can no longer be effective in her role at SendGrid" without saying what it implies, whether her employment at SendGrid is ending.
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14y ago
If you stop thinking of the world as a giant game of Boys vs Girls, it might start making more sense to you.
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14y ago
Labelling one "Women's" and the other "Men's" is incredibly sexist, stereotypic, demeaning, and body-dismorphic.
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14y ago
Proof by contradiction is almost never necessary. Proof that if a number has a rational number square root, it must be a square: Let's suppose that sqrt(p) = a/b That means that p = (a^2)/(b^2) That means that p * b^2 = a^2
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14y ago
Why did you just mock someone for asking an honest question, tell them that you knew the answer, and then refuse to share it?
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14y ago
YouTube has evolved its UI for this, in response to user outrage. It has had more than 2 buttons at some point.
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14y ago
G+ official tagline is "Google+ makes connecting on the web more like connecting in the real world." Google has not required Real (legal) Names for quite a while now. Google requires your "Common Name", which is the name you use with your f
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14y ago
Interesting: CURE International, a major Watsi Medical Partner, is an evangelical missionary organization, delivering sermons alongside care: http://cure.org/
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14y ago
Why split among two campaigns?
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14y ago
Does Watsi do analysis/testing of the blurbs on each patient's solicitations. I notice two distinct themes in the front-page text (before the jump): * X is sweet, smart, precious, etc * X has Y condition, that means Z IMO, stuff like this i
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14y ago
The IMF just announced that they have concluded that decidedly anti-Keynesian austerity policies in Europe of the past 5 years were a mistake: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-04/imf-officials-we-we... The IMF isn't a pack of sociali
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14y ago
Any plans to support EBT, to avoid exorbitant credit card fees?
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How does Watsi prevent fraud on the part of Medical Partners (misdiagnosis, not providing treatment, etc), and how can donors feel confident that Watsi's controls are effective?
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14y ago
It still makes dollars for its compensated staff and founder/managers (unless the founders are working on a strictly volunteer basis). (PG will not make direct dollars off it, though.)
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14y ago
Everyone pictured on the website is guaranteed funding. https://watsi.org/faq#how-do-the-donation-logistics-work
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14y ago
You seriously quoted a word three times, spelling it differently each time?
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