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by sgs1370 8y ago
I took a physics class using the Art of Electronics in my senior year of undergrad (my major was nuclear eng. and my lab partner was another nuclear eng. friend). This class ranked right up there with my nuclear engineering labs in the foll
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Unless someone is actively trying to sell the domain on sedo.com (or similar site) the best bet is to use whois to find the owner and email them, we get a few inquiries for our domains a year and we just send back a friendly "no we&#x2
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by sgs1370 9y ago
"Demotivators" was a copycat company, and the chief scientist of my previous company had this one hung on his cubicle, which I loved (by the way, he did help with customers when we asked) https://despair.com/produc
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Nowadays, this might not be true. 10 years ago, I hired Oracle dbas (not many, mind you) at hourly wages of 300K+ (edit: yes, they worked 40hrs/wk at least)
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by sgs1370 9y ago
"There is no risk" What? You're wrong.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Monoprice: $1.76 - https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id...
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Would the proper category then for Bud be some type of "lesser" sake then?
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Huh? I am all in favor of people having kids and know it is necessary for society... But are you saying you can't pass on other stuff to the next generation? An example of this is teachers, i.e. a teacher who had no kids but who did
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Your comment reminded me of a game (maybe the only one) I wrote in middle school, on a TRS-80 Color Computer (I think 4K, although maybe I had the 16K upgrade by the time I wrote the game). I wrote it in basic & saved it on some casset
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by sgs1370 9y ago
The Elon Musk battery plant went through a similar bid process, although I don't know if it was on the same scale. I think Nevada and Buffalo won that bid.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
re: IBM, I'm not sure that SoftLayer/bluemix is getting a lot of traction. AWS: IMO they are the leader to be defeated by the competitors, doing well, cutting prices, making it easy for devs. Google: have heard positive signals
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by sgs1370 9y ago
So if you're not allowed to give less than 4 weeks notice, what happens if you say "I am quitting in 4 weeks" then you come to work and do nothing all day, I guess the employer can fire you then?
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by sgs1370 9y ago
thanks - this is a good heads up. I asked my team to back up anything not checked into our git repo to some disk not controlled by OSX, and btw don't rely on your time machine, who knows if some bug in the new FS might affect that als
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by sgs1370 9y ago
I could be wrong also, my remembered banker stories were about larger transactions, it's true. (PS, why can't I reply to the comment to my comment? I guess I don't comment enough to understand HN :-)
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Annual recurring revenue, I'm not sure if monthly subscriptions or even 1-year contracts count but I think multi-year contracts definitely do.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
PS if you do a "next thing", don't spend very much of your own money on "it". Even though you don't "have" to get outside funding, do the angel/seed/VC thing based on your previous success
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by sgs1370 9y ago
You should* also be working with a banker who sells companies for a living. They will take some % (10%? Who knows) of the deal, but in my limited experience it seems worth it, since they will also help you make introductions and give advic
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by sgs1370 9y ago
I'm obviously very old compared to the target audience. I was accepted to Columbia and Texas A&M and chose Texas A&M because I had various scholarships that paid for my tuition and room/board. I had some scholarships to
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Google is no longer using email data for gmail ads. They might still use it for their google search ads or anything else they want.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Aren't there two other very recognizable and very rich people trying to reduce space costs? I'm not sure if the other 2 want to go to Mars first (before other profitable space ventures), of course.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Yeah, and memory is a fickle thing. I want to say "job X" but then as I really think about it, I realize I am disregarding some bad times there, too.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
The SEC issued a warning that many offerings labeled "ICO" are fraudulent. (This one may be different than the frauds, but the SEC's warning was to watch out if you see that initialism.)
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by sgs1370 9y ago
This will motivate me to get everything into VPCs, which I should have done a while ago.
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by sgs1370 9y ago
I did this about 2 years ago with all 3 of the major agencies and in addition to the benefits described in post and comments, my junk mail volume dropped considerably. I don't know if it's always the case but this did not cost me
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Interesting article and I agree with most of it except 1 - Most employees are not as skilled as pro athletes. 2 - If you want to carry the athlete analogy further, then you would only give contracts to the employees who made you happy with
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by sgs1370 9y ago
I think going into robotics, 3-D printing, or drones (but be prepared to work outside the US) is a much better field nowadays than CS/programming etc. (Of course, if you're so inclined healthcare/physical therapy is also a g
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Daisy/Quake - she was great as a hacker, and I'm so sad about that electricity guy who died, but wow, someone who can fly and break bones or collapse buildings, that is not just a brawler, that is objectively more awesome than bei
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Most people don't change their minds about more than just a few things after some early age - barring some life-changing even. I think it's rare that any number of [books, movies, conversations], or amount of time exposed to same
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Perhaps unrelated, but is this the same type of collusion that is continuing the practice of having middle & hs students carry around huge backpacks full of books instead of some e-device with the books on it? Or is the latter just imp
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by sgs1370 9y ago
Facebook is right on their heels

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