wildwood

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by wildwood 14y ago
Artifacts from mankind's first expedition to the moon are "junk"? Isn't recovering them meaningful, to help us understand what happened more fully, and by extension to help support interest in space exploration? I suspect that there are a
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by wildwood 14y ago
And, even without plot holes, a lot of the strategies that he uses work for him because he's a huge guy, with years of hard experiences in the military police. For example, he may have problems getting people to pick him up when he hitch-h
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by wildwood 14y ago
That's why it's so important to track the natural search traffic you're getting by search query, and line it up against the paid search traffic. If you have strong natural search traffic on the term, then you should be able to scale back yo
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by wildwood 14y ago
The PPC model is essentially the same model as Direct Response Marketing, just more fine-grained. Both of these, if used properly, can make insane amounts of money for a company. And, if used improperly, they are little more than a money s
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by wildwood 14y ago
The second one is a pet peeve of mine. For anybody who's familiar with the traditional meaning, the newer meaning is actively confusing, since both mean destruction, but only differ by degree. Are there really not enough words for destroy/
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by wildwood 14y ago
Until you can't make payroll because the deals that you booked as profit two months ago haven't paid you any money yet. Then cash flow suddenly becomes essential.
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by wildwood 14y ago
You mean Wyoming, right? Yellowstone is closer to Idaho and Montana than it is Colorado.
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by wildwood 14y ago
My Key Recruiter Indicators, based on my experiences in the US: Good: Working with a founder of a company that's more than a few years old. Bad: Talking to someone different each time a company contacts you. Toxic: Talking to someone new ea
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by wildwood 14y ago
That's cool, I hadn't heard of that before. Here's a link with some possible explanations: http://www.strat-talk.com/forum/sidewinders-bar-grille/24512... The explanation that E-flat works better with tunings for brass and horns was inte
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by wildwood 14y ago
Why would the II chord follow iii? Can you cite some examples of that? The only pop/rock use of II that I can think of is as a turn to drive II7 -> V7 -> I.
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by wildwood 14y ago
Keep in mind that, with a capo, any key becomes trivial for a guitar.
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by wildwood 14y ago
Well, like the article went into briefly, the I, IV and V chords are going to be the main ones used in a song, especially one from a rock/blues tradition. (a minor, d minor and e minor are the 1, 4, and 5 for a song in a minor key.) C and
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by wildwood 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that, in order to get severance, you will often need to sign a release form of some kind. But withholding any pay for work done or unpaid vacation is illegal.
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by wildwood 14y ago
Actually, "the exception that proves the rule" means that a recorded exception to a rule can be used as proof of the existence of an otherwise undocumented rule. It dates back to medieval legal terminology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex
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by wildwood 15y ago
Well, keep in mind that, with a significance threshold of 5%, one in twenty null-result tests will appear to have significance. So just continuing to test until you get a result is not necessarily going to net you anything.
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by wildwood 15y ago
Actually, I wonder if a simple email referral template might help with nicely measurable word-of-mouth. Plenty of parents will have their kids' teachers' email address, and could shoot them a targetted recommendation with a little help.
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by wildwood 15y ago
One potential upside is that, as far as the numbers are concerned, the client is free to use whichever version they want.
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by wildwood 15y ago
Thanks for writing this, these are some cool numbers to poke at. You mention in the write-up that you've already done a lot of work to get your User Success percentage high. Is this the first time that you've seen a disconnect between User
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by wildwood 15y ago
Audacity plus Soundflower will do the trick. http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
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by wildwood 15y ago
Agreed, sharding takes "throwing hardware at the problem" to a whole new level.
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by wildwood 15y ago
Well, the Fire has no camera, as far as I can tell, which is a requirement for Flow to work.
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by wildwood 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats There was a time when the Republicans were at least as liberal as the Democrats.
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by wildwood 15y ago
Running through the Clojure Koans (on Github) is another great way to get some basic familiarity with the language.
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by wildwood 15y ago
Peak Facebook for Turkey, maybe. The US-only link at http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook&ctab=0&geo=u... still seems like it's growing. Actually, looking at the top five countries in the geo breakdown, Facebook is dropping in
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by wildwood 15y ago
Google AdWords reps are far from authoritative.
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by wildwood 16y ago
True, in American real estate, Tudor is about as meaningful a word for a time period as Pleistocene. You probably should have tagged it as Brit pedantry, we're used to not getting those jokes. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6hijsqO8H0
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by wildwood 16y ago
Are you aware that 'Tudor' is an architectural style? A house can be brand new, and still be accurately called a Tudor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_architecture#Typical_feat...
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by wildwood 16y ago
Also, in Deepness in the Sky , it goes into the Qeng Ho's practice of broadcasting an encyclopedia of general technology throughout known space, to accelerate planets' development until they were advanced enough to trade with. It's sub-li
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by wildwood 16y ago
I agree, the 'golden age' narration was a great inversion, where the spiders seemed more human than the humans did.
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by wildwood 16y ago
The Emergents were socialists? I've always seen them much more as fascists. For me, the sensor network plus 'focused' monitoring was a pretty terrifying exploration of a technologicially perfect fascist state.

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