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Comment · 12 years ago
I agree with this other than the lunch and learns. Leave their one break in the day out of it.
Comment · 12 years ago
Exactly the position I am in now. After a couple of years I am looking to move on but I am finding that no one needs the experience I have. Everything I have done for my current company is desktop development and the vast majority of the nearby jobs are web development. Companies these days don't want to hire anyone who can't hit the ground running so it's a rough situation. Better to get out now than many years from now though.
Comment · 12 years ago
>Salt-water can be desalinated cheaply and pumped anywhere.

Really? I thought salt water desalination is a rather difficult and expensive thing to do. Can you cite support for this statement?

Comment · 12 years ago
yes! I have been playing a lot of king arthurs gold as well but the community is very small. There are usually only at most 2 servers with a decent number of players.
Comment · 12 years ago
I work for the company that is building this 3D printer (Cincinnati Incorporated). I am only a software guy but if anyone has any questions let me know and I'll try to answer them!
Comment · 12 years ago
>so we often work up to 1.5 to 2 times (60-80 hours is very common) over our official salaried hours for free.

Take this with a grain of salt, it really depends on where you live. I live in the Ohio area and of everyone I went to college with and everyone I have ever worked with I have never met someone that has worked more than 45 hours a week.

Comment · 12 years ago
I work with a guy that used to be a submariner and he talks about how the best thing about being in a submarine was the food, including lobster. Maybe being in submarine they couldn't spend too long cooking it? As someone who just tried lobster for the first time this weekend I don't think anything can make it taste good.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for this link. Am I reading wrong or does the article say the drone costs $15? That sounds unbelievably cheap, does anyone know how much a drone like this in America would cost?
Comment · 12 years ago
It's probably the fact that a huge leap in battery technology would make huge changes in both electric cars as well as being able to store solar power (and therefore allowing people to live off the grid). Faster computer hardware wouldn't have nearly the effect and I'm sure these companies want the biggest hype possible.
Comment · 12 years ago
I googled something like "Paul Software Engineer" to see if I myself would come up and found Paul Graham's articles which lead to hacker news. I had no idea what a startup even was but found the content to be of such a higher quality than anywhere else that I visited often.
Comment · 12 years ago
I wish, most people don't seem to care. I for one would rather see my tax dollars go to something useful like education.
Comment · 12 years ago
As someone with the name Paul Brown in the Cincinnati area (where the Paul Brown stadium is) I deal with this almost daily. I'm sick of meeting someone and about 75% of the time they go "oh, do you own the stadium?". I'm seriously starting to think about moving far away so I don't have to hear it anymore. I don't even like football!

I also went to high school with a guy named John Conner and everyone use to thank him for some day saving the human race from the machines.

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