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by reeses 12y ago
Fully agree. There are so many people who can't do the basic Excel work even to generate the information on the chart who are capable of starting a business. (I include in this every restaurant ever opened, modulo statistical outlier
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by reeses 12y ago
That's not a problem with the chart. That's a problem with starting a business. You don't have to grow along a fixed axis, whether that be # of users, # of widgets, etc. You just have to average the growth in income. I ha
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by reeses 12y ago
You had me at 'syntax'. The fact that we're still typing crap into windows and calling advances along this one-dimensional path 'innovation' is pain. Intentional[1] had a lot of promise but was too slow off the mark
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by reeses 12y ago
It's that race to the bottom they mention. As they mention, they're in a relatively expensive labor market (although, as I sit here in the Bay Area, they have me thinking about a recruiting run to the UK). They're paying for
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by reeses 12y ago
This works out when discussed in the context of "competitive compensation" in your market. While your manager may not care that you want to live in a USD5,000/mo apartment, she may care that companies x, y, and z are paying
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by reeses 12y ago
The concepts are the important part. You can get a long way with a nasty interpreter to see if your concepts play out. :-) If it's a "deep" concept, I'd pick a simple representation that I can implement without much cog
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by reeses 12y ago
Well timed after prime music imports your itunes library. no hairy workarounds to replace an iphone in your mac ecosystem, which is something google has not achieved. (yes, other than apps, but that will follow)
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by reeses 12y ago
To make a comparison for anyone who hasn't programmed FPGAs (especially on the path to etching silicon), placement is extraordinarily important. Not only can (will) you make a highly non-optimal layout, FPGAs are not orthogonal. You&
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by reeses 12y ago
Former LVMH director here. The Chinese luxury market is insane and has been popping for the past ~10 years. It's not just LV (and child companies) but across the board, with Richemont and others doing quite well. LV just happens to
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by reeses 12y ago
In general, of course, it depends. In the case I mentioned above, we left the candidate site immediately, arranged earlier flights, and flew back to Seattle. There may have been exec communication but I was just the technical DD guy at the
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by reeses 12y ago
A fun one is finding loans from friends and family that involved any sort of strings, whether convertible or interest that has accrued because Aunt Bertha forgot about the $50k she gave you. It's easy to forget these loans from the ear
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by reeses 12y ago
The most commonly-heard excuse is that programmers do not like all the parens.
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by reeses 12y ago
I would assert, rather, that we have 60 years of compiler and runtime experience, both academic and industrial. Consequently, I would propose that there is no excuse for a public release of a commercial programming environment to be so slow
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by reeses 12y ago
It's also more pronounceable and appetizing, like the chilean seabass.
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by reeses 12y ago
Don't worry, it will turn out to be, in fact, an aardvark. Please see the "panda bear is a racoon, oops, no, he's a bear," controversy. The fundamental problem is that Wikipedia's editorial policies great drag on t
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by reeses 12y ago
Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...
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by reeses 12y ago
Write an email and ask. People are generally decent and like to explain how they did something that impressed someone.
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by reeses 12y ago
The first thing I think with "cheap <industrial>" is "superfund". I hope no one ever did any work with electroplating, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, VOCs, asbestos, explosives, PCBs, or any other fun stuff that wil
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by reeses 12y ago
I suspect you already know the answer to that. A brand new dump truck would be clean, with a minimum of oil, grease, dirt, or grime. I'm sure you could construct a large enough accommodation inside the bed of the truck to have the eq
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by reeses 12y ago
That's the thing. If all you say is "fuck", then there's no problem, but you also have no range in your profanity. When I swear, there's no way I would want a child to hear it. Their parents would hate having to e
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by reeses 12y ago
Which it will, in the form of transfer taxes and capital gains taxes.
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by reeses 12y ago
"professional engineer" is more than just being paid. It is a regulated term that connotes an ethical code, qualification, and acceptance of responsibility. It can be loosely compared to the bar association in the USA, or many gui
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by reeses 12y ago
Your comment is quite pythonic. There should be only one question about the only one right way to do something in python.
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by reeses 12y ago
And most Lisps.
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by reeses 12y ago
This comment is a fine example of jl's points. While the tone was not rude or aggressive, commenting merely to contradict and to attempt to invalidate specific points, out of context, is unhelpful to someone who is self aware enough to
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by reeses 12y ago
It is apparent you have not written many grant applications. :-) For example, from the NIH ( https://grants.nih.gov/grants/writing_application.htm ): Remember the Details! Below are tips to assist you in meeting the requ
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by reeses 12y ago
The USPTO has a patent search for the US Patent and Trademark Office at http://patft.uspto.gov/ . As for MSFT not having any patents in 1983, this is largely the result of the policy of not patenting "abstract ideas&quo
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by reeses 12y ago
I actually found it optimistic, in the "destroy a village to save it"[1] sense. HN, as it currently stands, will cease to exist. I suspect the volume of submissions pointing directly to old wikipedia articles will dry up. I con
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by reeses 12y ago
The "luck" over the long term is, as you say, more than just the equivalent of finding a quarter on the street. Nearly everyone I've observed with long-term "luck" has been mostly successful at recognizing and actin
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by reeses 12y ago
But I bet you wrote more, more accurate, and more advanced calculus than he did, and you wrote it the way Leibniz intended. :)

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