ap22213

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by ap22213 6y ago
I guess if you’re looking for a silver bullet, keep looking?
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by ap22213 7y ago
It may also be because women, as a group, have vastly higher purchasing power than men. And, dollars talk, as they say in the USA.
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by ap22213 10y ago
I tried to delete my account, but I don't know how. HN is a distraction anyway. I have a company to sell.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Maybe I'm bad at persuasion? I'm just saying this isn't about me.
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by ap22213 10y ago
I'm sorry, I looked back through my words, and didn't see any name calling. That's fine if you want to ban me. I'll go elsewhere. But, I think you're greatly confusing incivility and name-calling with honesty and po
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by ap22213 10y ago
Why argue with me? If you just want to win, to beat me, I'll surrender. Just please do something positive today.
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by ap22213 10y ago
So, how about doing something productive today that helps solve the root problems? You won't be able to do it all on your own. Find 2-3 other people to collaborate with.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Sorry - was just using that as an example to illustrate that most people have some preferences about what they want and need in their environment. The purpose wasn't to demonize strip clubs or pot houses. Some people may prefer a strip
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by ap22213 10y ago
There are zoning and planning because, well, people actually live in those places, and it's natural for people to want some control over their environment. Is that really such a bad thing? It's like drugs, and prostitution, and al
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by ap22213 10y ago
S. Korea and Japan make some great films that are also globally profitable and influential. Seems like there's something else going on that is stifling China's film industry.
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by ap22213 10y ago
What is the point of these types of arguments and opinions if they don't have any evidence to back them? I don't give a shit if it's functional or object-oriented or procedural or whatever comes next. I just want a language t
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by ap22213 10y ago
If you're in a position to negotiate the terms of the option contract, then sure, you're right. But, someone with that kind of negotiation position isn't the article's target audience anyway. Unusual options contracts us
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by ap22213 10y ago
My only true mistakes were people mistakes: Being too cocky. Underestimating the capabilities of my seniors. Competing with my co-workers rather than cooperating. Not learning to communicate effectively.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Isn't that like someone in the 19th century predicting that automobiles will never happen because rail is so much more effective, comfortable, safe? Convenience and flexibility always seem to win in the end.
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by ap22213 10y ago
People wouldn't mind as much if they had the same kinds and amounts of data on the their observers as their observers have on them. I kind of work in this field, and it's easy to know a lot more about a stranger than they know abo
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by ap22213 10y ago
Yeah, when I think of big, I automatically think trillions. But, I'm jaded. lol I was hoping for something that maybe looked like a set of hierarchical clusters. Where I could drill down level by level.
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by ap22213 10y ago
icantdrive55, you appear [dead]. (Does that mean that I'm dead, or you're dead? I don't know.) Anyway, your story is very similar to one of my experiences. I had a medical issue. So, I found a specialist from one of those
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by ap22213 10y ago
Interesting stuff, and it was worth the read. I took some good ideas from it. However, as I read it, I also wondered if his principles were used to test his principles.
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by ap22213 10y ago
I love this. To me, this is real 'smarts'.
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by ap22213 10y ago
It should be noted that libel laws are still in effect. That means that companies can and will pressure authors to remove reviews through extortion - i.e. threat of a libel suit. Even if the threat is baseless, most people will remove rev
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by ap22213 10y ago
Many of my friends and some relatives joined the armed forces in the early 90s. The world seemed relatively safe then, trending upwards, and it seemed like a stable path to a middle class life. Then the never-ending wars came. And, many of
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by ap22213 10y ago
This was surprising: "Among Gen Xers who have exceeded their parents’ income, those with college degrees are less likely to surpass their parents’ wealth, mostly due to student loan debt."
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by ap22213 10y ago
I remember reading years ago about how water utilities were replacing chlorine with chloramine because it was cheaper. From what I understand, chloramine is more corrosive and it erodes the lining in the lead pipes. Does anyone know if it&#
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by ap22213 10y ago
For me, 'expert' wine recommendations are rarely useful. But, crowdsourced reviews have been remarkably consistent. A vintage with a mean score of 4.1 of 5 (over, say, 100 reviews) is almost always better than a wine with a mean s
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by ap22213 10y ago
The problem with premature optimization is that most of it has little effect on overall performance. Software performance almost always follows a Pareto distribution. But, wtf do I know, I'm just some regular person.
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by ap22213 10y ago
I don't mean to minimize the effort that went into Git. But, have you ever looked at the source code? It's like someone dropped the kitchen sink into the global namespace. The whole code base is full of premature optimizations. An
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by ap22213 10y ago
DVCS is fundamentally a simple concept. And, every use case should be possible with a series of elemental operations. Any 'advanced' use cases can and should just be 'macros'.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Retail and service jobs. I have a few friends who are single parents and make less than $12,000 in retail. Many want full time work, but it's rarely available.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Just go work somewhere else. Luckily for many of us, demand has been outpacing supply for years. If the market was worse, then it wouldn't seem so strange. Lots of other professions require a portfolio of work.
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by ap22213 10y ago
My CTO likes to hire cheap. 90% of the time he passes over more experienced candidates for those with only 0-4 years of experience. He says it's because of the big cost savings. But, internally, we think it's very short-sighted an

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