waivej

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by waivej 16y ago
I have been burning birthday candles in little wooden heart shaped blocks. (drill 1/4" hole) They take about 20 minutes, and provide just enough structure and "accomplishment" to keep up the practice. I usually do this in the morning bef
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by waivej 16y ago
How quickly can an issue be resolved if you are at home and something breaks? Is there a neighbor with free wifi? Do you have monitoring software that notifies you somehow? Is anyone else "on call"? If all is going well at work and you a
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by waivej 16y ago
Don't make something people want. Instead take away a problem that people don't want to deal with. The uglier and stinkier the problem, the better. Then price very high and look for markets where people have more money.
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by waivej 16y ago
That's a great idea! They should do the same thing to all of our utilities like water, sewer, electricity, etc. For what it's worth: A friend used to host his website. The night before an election, they had two expensive dedicated servers
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by waivej 16y ago
I was at a distance learning software company that had AT&T as a client. I always wondered if there was a connection to the commercial. We were connecting classrooms with video and shared multimedia content. I even made a "Jazz" cour
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by waivej 16y ago
AWS is a bit more expensive but can be cheaper if you use the right size or number of machines. For example, run 25 machines during the day and less at night rather than buying enough hardware to meet peak demand. Though there are some coo
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by waivej 16y ago
For what it is worth, I found the Rackspace Windows Cloudservers (Beta - various sizes) to have amazingly fast IO (500+mbs). They were 4-7x as fast as the EC2 instances I tried. (70-120mbs) I was just using ATTO. Is this a valid test? I
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by waivej 16y ago
Just curious, how different is IE in Windows versus Safari on OSX? (or iPhone)
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by waivej 16y ago
Initially I moved savings into the business and started taking a draw. It might make sense to do this as payroll. I think regularity is important so you can ignore home issues and focus on the business. For several years, I've given mysel
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by waivej 16y ago
Maybe someone should build a site to anonymously post photos on.
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by waivej 16y ago
Astronomy Cast had a nice show about space elevators. It seems that there are some serious problems. I think this is the right link: http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-144-space-eleva... Click here for the mp3: http://media.l
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by waivej 16y ago
PS: Maybe buy "What is a Microcontroller" about the Basic Stamp. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=211799... It's really simple and a nice way to get perspective on programming hardware. As a next step, build someth
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by waivej 16y ago
You have really specific ideas which makes me think you can self study. Institutional learning can be wider focussed and might not be as useful. 1) I would suggest starting the business right now. You have a day job and can bank roll it t
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by waivej 16y ago
I didn't realize 2b metric tons is the total of all that carriers move in a year. Eek, off by 1000. (I should get some sleep.) BTW: I think it's curious to compare the 19,000 bpd with the 645,113 bpd that the Alaskan pipeline moved in Apr
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by waivej 16y ago
I would think that some sort of suction could draw up enough mixture to minimize the problem. For example, 5,000 barrels a day is 145 gallons per minute. ($3500 = 10hp 145gpm pump) I would think that they could hook a giant pump onto one
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by waivej 16y ago
Sometimes it's a good idea to own a "desirable" item rather than go with the masses with a commodity. When it's time to sell your old convertible, you'll find a buyer. The old sedan is basically scrap metal.
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by waivej 16y ago
Check out http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/best_canon_eos_... I have the tokina 12-24 which is a wonderful lens. Any others with similar ratings would be a joy to own. For cheap next step lenses, perhaps a 28-105 for it's si
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by waivej 16y ago
That's really cool! This is the car that I did it in too: http://www.photography.edu/Photographers/john/portfolio/port...
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by waivej 16y ago
Like adding mirrors to reflect more light at a regular solar panel?
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by waivej 16y ago
I was hoping someone would mention the NUMMI story! I think it points out how important it is to create the right "culture" for a business.
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by waivej 16y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the estimating thing. Though I've only met one developer/manager that is good at estimating. He works at a steady pace and doesn't cave when people want things faster. It's tough at first but once you deliver on
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by waivej 16y ago
When I was made a manager, I had the company buy cases of that book: one for each person in the department.
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by waivej 16y ago
I've been using Parallels on a Macbook for a year or so. Though I have been thinking of switching to a Windows machine. The guest OS is Win2003 server which runs great. Though I get spinning beach ball problems and need to reboot the hos
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by waivej 16y ago
How about two desks, monitors, and a wireless keyboard/mouse? Just today I was thinking of setting this up for my office.
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by waivej 17y ago
I like making pots of rice and beans. It's really cheap and you can add just about anything. A pot should last a few days and supply good nutrition. I like to start with a good rice, add some veggies, a fat source, and a salt source. Fi
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by waivej 17y ago
I know a small data center (tiny) that might be interested for monitoring the air conditioners. Though that's a bit of a stretch and they probably wouldn't want to spend the $. But, it makes me wonder if that might be good for other things
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by waivej 17y ago
Cost for me... I really enjoy our TED ( http://www.theenergydetective.com ) which aims more at a residential market. ($150 US) The instant feedback has been great for learning. The web interface isn't a big draw. I imagine that commercia
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by waivej 17y ago
It's not a HN company...but what about http://unfuddle.com ?
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by waivej 17y ago
I bet there is a mechanical/electrical issue that is blown way out of proportion, and human error in some of these issues. Once I accidentally slammed on the gas thinking it was the brake. (I got confused switching from a manual transmissi
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by waivej 17y ago
I've heard of machine shop operators that built their own machines. "All you need is a Bridgeport and a Lathe and can build the rest". Also, I recently shopped for a year for a good time tracking/billing system. I tried many products but

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