MichaelCrawford

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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
My advisor Clem Heusch once took me hiking from France to Switzerland, right by an unoccupied border post. Its construction suggested it was built either by Napoleon or by the Swiss to defend itself from him. It was just big enough that on
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I expect that's the specific reason "The Hot Zone" and "The Coming Plague" name the victims. That is, rather than "An African man had Ebola" they would say "Arthur Obama had Ebola". There's
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I never ever enable automatic updates however Firefox updated itself through my Earthlink dialup. So that's why The Tubes have been slow to drain lately. I did not realize until quite a long time after the invisible install, and only
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
It would be a valuable contribution to publish the difference between what your tool says JS should do, and what production interpreters really do with that same JS source. I expect there is an open source test suite available. While at App
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Actually, I dont have a problem with that. Otherwise that milk would go to waste. I have a cast iron stomach, the only time I have ever gotten really serious food poisoning was from the Apple Computer employee lunchroom.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Bubble Yum is made out of spider eggs.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I stand corrected. Than you for pointing out my error; sometimes, what one reads on Facebook may not really be true. However that does not imply that I should stop Boycotting Nestle products. There are many other good reasons that I will e
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
If it is not plainly apparent to you that my OP is on topic, I am sorry but there is not much I can say that will improve your reading comprension. I have Dyslexia myself si I know very well how hard it can be. In my case I am unable to re
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Did you read the parent post?
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
When I was with Sony Ericsson in 2010 our CEO broadcast an email to all hands to point out that he had just fired two employees over their conflicts of interest.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I commenced my boycott of Nestle products the very same day their head honcho asserted that water is not a human right. There are many other good reason not to purchase Nestle's wares it's just that that single statement drove ho
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I was a phone hotline volunteer for the Suicide Prevention Service of Santa Cruz County, California. Think about that the next time your code gets you down.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I remain puzzled that the Statute of Limitations for many civil offenses such as medical malpractice is four years, while offenses such as workplace discrimination for reasons of age or disability is just five months. The Equal Opportunity
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I understand jQuery exists in part to work around javascript flaws in older browsers. My first piece of advice is to not download jQuery to those browsers that do not have javascript flaws.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I once found a mask error - a design flaw - in an embedded chip, but I was unable to work around it. I had to tell my client, a primary defense contractor that they selected the wrong part and would have to redesign their boards then respi
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
All three of Octel's servers would become unresponsive for no apparent reason. Sometimes they crashed after a while but sometimes they would come back up after a while. Late one night when no one else was there I ran "top" o
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Mail me at mdcrawford@gmail.com if you'd like to be my very first early adopter.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Market Yourself: Tips for High-Tech Consultants http://www.warplife.com/tips/business/market-yourself.html
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Would you regard it as a wise investment to put your entire life savings on a single spin of the wheel at Vegas? While you may not lose actual money with a failed startup - that is, if you have the G-d Given Sense to save some of your salar
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
"I'm not really bad; I'm just drawn that way." -- Jessica Rabbit I see your point, but my concern that the coder who implements a security-critical script doesn't know he should use tools like this one.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Cancer runs in my family; quite likely it will get me in the end as well. My own experience with other life-threatening illnesses yields the insight that if you are to survive, it is your mind that will enable you to do so. If you cannot o
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I do have two specific ideas that would work well for the fellowship as well as for an actual startup. One, while quite valuable would be complex. I expect I could produce an appealing pitch demo in eight weeks. The other I expect I coul
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Ask HN: Should I Apply for the YC Fellowship?
2 points by MichaelCrawford 11y ago|1 comments
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
While Siddartha Gautama had funding, Jesus Christ did not.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
San Francisco, Portland and Seattle companies are advertising open positions all over the planet. While SFO may have a good talent base, those engineers already have jobs. Fewer and fewer people are willing to relocate not just because the
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
When you are offered options, inquire as to whether the shares you will obtain by exercising will enable you to vote for directors. The GOOG shares held by Larry Page and Sergey Brin give them control that its publicly traded shares do not.
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
The Valley is a Harsh Mistress http://www.warplife.com/tips/business/stock/venture/capital/... My Live Picture stock certificate sure looks nice. I dont really know but would be unsurprised were so
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Expectations may be different but that does not imply the laws are different. Expectations are what engineers have; laws are what Congress passes. I understand that in the State of California it is unlawful to shoot a whale while riding a
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
Was the respondent on craigslist's premises? IIRC their office is San Francisco. If thevshop is open to the public its not actually trespass until the shopkeeper asks one to leave. One fine day I discovered a gross electrical code vio
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by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
I applaud every effort to improve Javascript as it all takes eons to download over my dialup but commonly does not actually work. A favorite contribution is called something like "You Don't Really Need jQuery". I will dig it

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