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by migpwr 14y ago
I apologize for the off-topic comment but I am hoping a few of the folks on here who are familiar with Hadoop can help me with a small career decision. I'm fortunate enough to be up for two systems positions with companies in my area, and o
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by migpwr 15y ago
I am not trying to offend you, and am only commenting because I believe stories like these hurt less experienced people who are trying to learn how to handle salary negotiations. I personally do not believe this actually happened. Nobody wi
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by migpwr 15y ago
They were pigs, not hogs. The original investors walked away with a majority of the final round of funding. I don't think Google's $6bn offer would have allowed them to do that. The people left holding this junk are now trying to pawn it of
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by migpwr 15y ago
I feel the same way and think I have something that might work. I don't know that it's legal but I think you can pay for access to Slingboxes with the different sports packages. It's what I'm considering so I can drop cable all together...
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by migpwr 15y ago
I have the image of the injured bird in "Up" limping along burned in my memory. I actually thought the scene was a little mature for the kids watching the movie, so I agree with you about them convincingly conveying emotion.
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by migpwr 16y ago
I didn't do it for my mom, but helped my ex-wife launch a small business on Etsy. I would recommend looking into some hobbies she has and stuff she is familiar with. My ex-wife orders cute buttons for clothes from japan/korea, repackages th
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by migpwr 16y ago
Wow! Tim Ferriss is on a roll today...
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by migpwr 16y ago
Have any of you ever considered building something on your own, and trying to bring someone on-board with something in hand, instead of joining a co-founder dating site? This is becoming a repeating theme here on HN and it seems like its an
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by migpwr 16y ago
It's difficult and usually becomes more about managing business finance than the products in my opinion. It seems like this type of business is mostly covered in Entrepreneur magazine, or Inc, but they're always feel good success stories. I
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by migpwr 16y ago
I know this article's focus is more on the technology but this specific camera is going to look incredibly old in a year or two.
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by migpwr 16y ago
I think the two of you might be overlooking some of the social pressure involved in taking thousands of dollars from a close friend. If I made that offer to any one of my friends, they'd turn it down every time. They might say it's impossib
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by migpwr 16y ago
Isn't that known as an "upsell" or "upselling"? It's what the guys at the sneaker store do with socks and laces, no?
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by migpwr 16y ago
Try the newspaper. What exactly do you expect on an open forum?
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by migpwr 16y ago
I'm applying for Capital Factory, a similar program, and the big recommendation everyone's making is "Tell a story".
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by migpwr 17y ago
You do business with the people that will bring you a profit. In theory, it doesn't matter what personal views the person across the table has if they adequately provide the services you need. Learn to identify the wants/needs of those peop
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by migpwr 17y ago
That's actually not that bad. Google voice does a number on translations when the message is in another language: "My telephone number on the most gorgeous of and ideas. Fits in."
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by migpwr 17y ago
Apple sells 51,000 total items through the Apple store since they started taking pre-orders for the iPad.
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by migpwr 17y ago
Yeah, maybe, but it's completely gone from my submissions list. No biggie. I think it's a great article and HN seems to agree. allenbrunson: That's definitely it. I didn't know it behaved that way. I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't s
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by migpwr 17y ago
Great bit from the article: "If they decide to sue, they get to look through your email records (it's called "discovery"). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. You lose." Weird. I submitted this article but my submission ha
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by migpwr 17y ago
Similar protection schemes existed with old dongle protected programs as well. Some were made nearly uncrackable because of how many checks were littered throughout the app. Most crackers wouldn't bother with patching every single location
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Four men charged in computerized online ticket scam(news.cnet.com)
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by migpwr 17y ago
I'm going to go back and read the article but does anyone here do any hacking on Honda ECUs? There's a pretty big community of engine tuners and programmers that focus on reversing Honda ECUs. It's a fun way to try and improve gas mileage a
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by migpwr 17y ago
I don't have unused gift cards but I do have gift cards with remnants on them. I'll buy a larger item and have 1-3$ left on the card which typically isn't enough to buy anything. I'll forget how much is on it and then never end up using it
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by migpwr 17y ago
Sysinternals stuff: Regmon, Filemon, TCPView
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by migpwr 17y ago
Why didn't anyone make something like a best bang for 100$ on sparkfun.com guide? I'll show up to anything that's free but I'm not real sure what the best deal is. The Arduino starter kit?
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by migpwr 17y ago
I believe tenacity can be "learned". I don't know if I'd call it learning though and don't think it's like learning to ride a bike. Your environment can chisel an "edge" into your personality. Something like a chip on your shoulder. Doesn't
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by migpwr 17y ago
Don't tenacious failures exist in professional sports? In boxing, there are fighters who never achieve "greatness", or see much success, but are regarded as having heart. What could be more tenacious than knowing you're outmatched and still
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by migpwr 17y ago
Surprising how reluctant the NFL has been to giving their fanbase a live online option. MLB is, by far, the best online streaming option.
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by migpwr 17y ago
I watch about 1-4hrs per day depending on what's showing. Mostly sports but I like NatGeo, History, Travel, Discovery etc. I don't watch any sitcoms but there are a few well written shows like Mad Men, Wire etc. I also enjoy stuff like Top
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by migpwr 17y ago
We mostly had problems with the remote, but also various pieces of hardware, like the roku. The playback would show up a little dark but I don't think it was directly related to the setup. It was also choppy over the wireless at times. We d

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