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by scottru 1y ago
This is a lot of fun. Congratulations!
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by scottru 3y ago
Agreed 100%. Our (informal) manual for consultants used to say something like "The cupcakes in the break room are not for you. Most people will not care if you take a cupcake, but somebody will, and we will hear about it. We give you m
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by scottru 3y ago
FWIW, this isn't the case at Google (or many other large technology companies). Google dictates the staffing agency markup (which is very limited) and audits for compliance. This, among many other processes, has significant negative im
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by scottru 6y ago
This could be because of the manufacturer, or it could be because your father is older than you. There's a small amount of actual data ( https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/pfizer... , wh
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by scottru 6y ago
It's answered (I believe) right below the chart: "Importantly, the data does not solely include TEUs arriving in a particular week. It also includes TEUs arriving in prior weeks that the port expects to handle in the stated week.&
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by scottru 6y ago
just wanted you to know that I found your site about a year ago (somehow?) and have always loved it. Nice work!
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by scottru 6y ago
Based on the most active thread here, I think this article has accomplished its goal, which is to lead (smart) casual readers to believe that the congestion and associated delay are due to increased exports to the US because of the predicte
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by scottru 6y ago
DCRainmaker has a specific guide for a range of Garmin watches and machines - https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/07/how-to-upload-your-garmi...
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Best Camera – Losing to Instagram, Developer Issues, Etc.(chasejarvis.com)
2 points by scottru 10y ago|0 comments
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by scottru 10y ago
Gimlet Media did a really fun story talking about Paul in the context of superpredictors. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/58-earth-pony/
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by scottru 12y ago
Boy. As someone who actually runs a contracting + project agency, that looks to be of an approximately similar size as 10x (at least before this was published), this was lifting-cars-painful to read - not just because they have PR and I don
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by scottru 12y ago
These are excellent responses as usual, and I'm coming to this a few days late, but I wanted to add another answer for someone who maybe isn't willing to bite off quite as much sales skills as tptacek and patio11 are suggesting, o
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by scottru 12y ago
Hark was a Capitol Hill startup (and some great people), but has been effectively defunct for ~9 months. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/hark-hit-wall-corporate-records...
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by scottru 12y ago
Blake, you're right that the vast majority of PNW _vendors_ (i.e. technology service providers) are MS shops. That's because almost all (at least 95%) of the vendor ecosystem here is supporting Microsoft or clients Microsoft direc
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by scottru 13y ago
Unnecessary ad hominems aside, you're confusing what we know now (BlogThis! didn't become big and important) with what was a realistic concern then (distributing easy-to-use one-click blogging that biased towards one platform would grow tha
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by scottru 13y ago
That's right - they seeded nonsense queries with very specific results. Working assumption is that Bing was integrating clickstream data (either from ISPs or from the MSN Toolbar) into their results. http://www.wired.com/business/2011/02/b
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by scottru 13y ago
Hi Michael - Welcome to HN, and thanks for creating an account and then posting a minute later. We're happy to have you. I'm not sure you're going to get very far saying (to your knowledge) EVERYONE else doesn't give a hoot about the engine
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by scottru 13y ago
Altay, I wish you the best of luck here - I hope this model works for you and your team. One thought for others, one for you. >>First and foremost, our clients are the developers. No, they're not. Your clients are the people who pay
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by scottru 13y ago
No 40Kwh models have shipped.
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Microsoft releases global database of all patents it owns(microsoft.com)
2 points by scottru 13y ago|1 comments
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by scottru 14y ago
Does anyone know where we can find actual user reviews of this? I like the ballsiness of requiring payment just to see the beta, but I don't know what I'm getting for my $60.
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I want to know how much money you make(roosterpark.com)
1 points by scottru 14y ago|0 comments
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W-2 v. 1099, SuperDuperMegaGuide(roosterpark.com)
2 points by scottru 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottru 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Seattle or Remote (NA hours required - we're on Pacific Time) We're looking for a few freelancers for different clients. 1) Ruby/Rails developer, primarily front-end development: clear knowledge of view layer, highly d
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Manage the recruiter: four questions to ask(roosterpark.com)
4 points by scottru 15y ago|2 comments
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by scottru 15y ago
Super happy to be a sponsor!
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by scottru 15y ago
First, on the mail to the existing employee: get it, ha ha, recruiter so stupid. It's generally kind, though, to make room for the capacity for human error: it seems like a safe bet that the recruiter made a mistake and didn't think that wo
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Finding a job for hackers: more thoughts(roosterpark.com)
2 points by scottru 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottru 15y ago
I've been using followup.cc for this purpose (among others) for the past few months and am a complete fanboy - it's a great tool for inbox-obsessed task managers like me.
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by scottru 15y ago
This looks really clever: good luck!

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