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by crdb 4y ago
"Récoltes et semailles" (Harvest and plantings) by Alexander Grothendieck.
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by crdb 5y ago
A couple years ago, I needed a front end developer to implement the work of our designer in a way the team could maintain. Not having a network in front end, I combed through the past 3 months of "Who wants to be hired" and freela
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by crdb 5y ago
"I think, says that everything you do illegally, you do efficiently. This, of course, is perfectly obvious. For one thing, you do not write at all because writing on an illegal project is suicide. For another thing, you work with whate
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by crdb 7y ago
> You'd want to put them in kind of nondescript areas to avoid taking out the historic stuff as mentioned in the article and maybe pay out 50% above market to existing buildings in the way so they are not too pissed off but it could
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by crdb 7y ago
At the time there were no other options in the niche, and it fitted well with what some of us wanted: huge battery life, few features that worked well, lightweight, robust... cheap! Meanwhile Samsung, Garmin etc. went after Apple looking fo
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by crdb 8y ago
My Amazfit Bip ($99) is supposed to have 45 days and lasts about 30 days on minute heart rate monitoring intervals (based on a month and a half of trying it). I wanted something a bit smaller, to fit under the shirt cuff, so got the Mi Band
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by crdb 8y ago
The ironic thing about your reply is that it is crafted in exactly the type of management speak that executives used to convince stakeholders in both occasions. "absolve relevant parties of their responsibilities" - what relevant
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by crdb 8y ago
> a bank fired some old people to pay a billion dollars to a contractor who would hire the same (!) people to do the job "a bank" is technically incorrect. The decision was a perfectly rational prisoner's dilemma defection
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by crdb 8y ago
> ABC giants (ADM, Bunge, Cargill) ABC(C)D. Dreyfus is in between Bunge and ADM in terms of revenue and quite influential in Africa and some parts of Latam (Cargill is the outsized one, twice as large as any of the other and culturally q
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by crdb 8y ago
They destroyed the tooling and already built prototypes as fast as they could. In particular: > The only airframe ever to fly, XR219, along with the completed XR221 and part completed XR223 were taken to Shoeburyness and used as targets
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by crdb 8y ago
Sullivan's Cove was best whisky and one of the Limeburners best international whisky. Despite this, you can't find the former at Sydney Airport's duty free (Heinemann) and only two NAS of the latter. These NAS are not even on
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by crdb 8y ago
The impact has been negative for the following reasons. First, the groups made whisky into a luxury good, expanding the customer base away from the amateur who bought the bottle for its contents. In certain industries, a bubble is a good th
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by crdb 8y ago
Count me amongst those who prized the patina. A significant number of people in the arts world decried the cleaning - some even petitioning the Pope to halt it. Whilst skillful, part of the appeal was the passage of the centuries, like shoe
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by crdb 8y ago
Anecdotally, I know of a Singaporean whose brother charged for taking the daughter with his kids on holiday. He didn't outright make it a billable item but made it a markup on flights and hotels. Both are HNWIs for whom the amount is a
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by crdb 8y ago
> Uber could operate at breakeven by raising prices slightly more than 10%. [...] Uber could be highly profitable by raising prices 20%. No, because the demand would be different at those price points, and lower demand might not compensa
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by crdb 9y ago
Google Maps has been a lifesaver in Sydney CBD for me as a driver unfamiliar with the Byzantine lane timing required, lack of signalling, and frequent undocumented works and blockages (I do wish they'd incorporate the random M5 closure
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by crdb 9y ago
This happened with MP3s? It happened to me with several hundred PDFs of sheet music from IMSLP that I was storing on iBooks. I couldn't work out where they had gone or why they were wiped. I switched to GoodReader and painstakingly had
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by crdb 9y ago
OBikes are wrecks in Singapore, because, it seems, oBike does not care about having staff to actually repair or maintain the bikes. We have a slightly more respectful population, perhaps, but it does not stop bikes from rusting, missing ped
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by crdb 9y ago
A database would already provide a layer of security (most people, including many "professionals", would not know what to do with it). Customer data is often stored in a large, denormalised table in an Excel file called "cust
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by crdb 9y ago
I'd frame 1) slightly differently, as there are many cases of bootstrapped unicorns. Time is also a currency, so you make a trade-off between time (extra years of your life spent acquiring funds to scale, and delayed product launch) an
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Ask HN: What technical due diligence do you perform before M&A?
6 points by crdb 9y ago|0 comments
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by crdb 9y ago
My Kindle account (based in France) is the only reason I still have a French bank account. I am terrified of losing the account and therefore all my e-books as I reallocate a "foreign" card and my account switches to that country.
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by crdb 9y ago
There is a wonderful opportunity for Microsoft right now. Many managers have already switched to OSX for personal use and if they can (including at places like IBM) for work as well. The reliability is unbeatable especially as Windows becom
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by crdb 9y ago
In our case: - Referrals from the network (e.g. VC to portfolio) - Cold outreach, once - (mostly) old colleagues getting a new job and asking us for help Anecdotally, I am so frustrated with the high number of low quality j
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by crdb 9y ago
Interesting examples to pick. I trained as a classical musician and when I picked up the guitar, I was too lazy to learn the notation and learnt the songs by ear and feel instead (this may be why my guitar is collecting dust in a corner). C
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by crdb 9y ago
I talked to a company that was building some kind of hardware to transcribe in real time what conversations people were having at bus stops (the round trip to the server was not fast enough). They said the buyers used it for targeting ads,
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by crdb 9y ago
> But please enlighten me. What kind of conversations could have possibly happened before this letter that could justify saying something like "You invested money (or time) and we've just lost all of it. You will be getting $0.
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by crdb 9y ago
Funny you should say that. I grew up in the UK (Central London, Cambridge) and found most interactions with the government difficult in their bureaucracy and sometimes sheer unpleasantness (airports being at the top of the list, until the m
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by crdb 9y ago
Yeah, the hard thing about commenting on the US is that it's really 50 separate countries which do a lot of regulation locally. Cannabis being the obvious example today - in some of the country, you can smoke it in front of the police
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by crdb 9y ago
Funny how these things work... I've lived in Singapore for close to 7 years, have permanent residence, and it is when I travel to the US that I feel slightly uncomfortable. It starts with the immigration agent who sometimes feels the n

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