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by mark_element 8y ago
If you have an Alexa you really need to try playing Jeopardy on it. The Jeopardy Alexa skill and Akinator skill are fairly quick casual games that are very worthwhile.
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How did we build a Data Warehouse in six months?(medium.com)
2 points by mark_element 8y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 8y ago
Not OP but heath insurance, taxes and other costs that can be marked down exactly as being for Employee #X are in the 40%. Paying for an office having light, power, internet, management, and a mailroom is in the 20%.
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by mark_element 8y ago
This seems pretty accurate. A lot of consultancies or professional services models also have a hefty bonus structure. This can strongly impact your total compensation.
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CasADi – A software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control(paper.casadi.org)
3 points by mark_element 8y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 8y ago
I'm quite impressed by this presentation. There is a tremendous amount of content here to excite some different audiences about opportunities for planet scale changes. I'm super concerned about externalities for any sort of geo-en
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by mark_element 8y ago
One small error on the list: The Chemours Company 7685 Kiln-DeLisle Road, Pass Christian, Massachusetts, USA That should actually be Mississippi not Massachusetts. It is probably the source for the white pigment used in many Apple products
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by mark_element 8y ago
I don't like the naming. "Apache 2.0 with commons clause" is not the right way to describe this licensing paradigm. It is fundamentally no longer Apache 2.0. I appreciate the motivation, but think it would better serve everyo
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by mark_element 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609
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Microsoft to launch disability-friendly Xbox controller(theguardian.com)
2 points by mark_element 8y ago|0 comments
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Patrick McKenzie – “Leveling Up” (2014) [video](vimeo.com)
3 points by mark_element 8y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
During the online poker boom there were many such stories. The amount of money moving around online poker in 2005-2009 was just insane. Lots and lots of people went from 1k or less invested to moderately wealthy. I knew multiple people pers
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Story of systemic gender discrimination inside UC Berkeley’s IT Department(pando.com)
3 points by mark_element 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
A note, why do they use such small sensors (11mm) rather than the large sensors in full-frame DSLRs (42 mm)? Didn't quite get that constraint as being absolutely necessary.
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by mark_element 9y ago
It sure seems that way. If I understand their copy correctly this looks really really really expensive. I'm assuming the tweets per request is the limit to the result set returned, which is crazy small.
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The Role of the Founder/CEO: You Have One Job(hackernoon.com)
3 points by mark_element 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
This should let early employees and any investors who want to get out to get liquid. Otherwise they might have trouble unloading their equity without some other mechanism being made available by Uber's board.
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RealDonaldTrump account no longer active on Twitter
4 points by mark_element 9y ago|3 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
Very surprised to see this on HN front page. Control theory is a fabulous subject and has nice relationships to computational theory because classical (and more modern [s/d/o/nl/MPC] control theory) are obsessed with opt
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Want to Build an Incredible Product? Strive for the Delta of “Wow”(blog.usejournal.com)
2 points by mark_element 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
Highlights for me: Started ordering stuff for the mars ship now, started facilities construction, possibly hitting a first launch in 2022 and a second launch window in 2024. An extremely aggressive and impressive timeline.
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by mark_element 9y ago
It is more like how Berkshire Hathaway owns Duracell and GEICO and actions in one don't directly impact another.
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by mark_element 9y ago
Benchmark here has quite different time pressure than potential common stock holders. They need to get liquid.
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by mark_element 9y ago
It is important to note that Statoil is majority owned by the Norwegian government so it's priorities are maybe a bit more complicated than more independent multinational oil and gas companies. Although all the big energy companies hav
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He robbed banks and went to prison. His new job: Georgetown law professor(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by mark_element 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
Agreed. Looks like this a big deal™. Would love to know the method of spreading across all their point of sales, were they running on windows?
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Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit(reuters.com)
4 points by mark_element 9y ago|0 comments
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by mark_element 9y ago
Yup. I feel like I won a small prize at some point on a campus tour for knowing this fact.
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by mark_element 9y ago
Response to your response to GP's edit. Pretty sure GP was talking about him and his spouse not him and you.
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by mark_element 10y ago
https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

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