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They do already and have been for a couple decades. Dell in particular has had a long history of doing so. Personally, I have worked for a couple companies that have done just that…

First company I sold... paid off student loans, traveled around for a year.... then started a consultancy.. Second company I sold... invested in a friend's business (she's now my w…

I've had this situation happen a few times in my career, my advice is take the money and don't look back. Invest the money, burn it, buy rental properties with it,or go on a trip. …

If everyone on this thread tweeted his story, he'll get his money back. In the age of social media, the only effective tool we have against corporations is public shaming.

Honestly, it is probably just you (and your peers). Quite frankly chances are the team you have sucks at operations, lacks the necessary experience to design complex systems, and p…

I've been falling back in love with Forth, and specifically SwiftForth https://www.forth.com/swiftforth/ the full source code to everything comes with the paid version, and you can…

stop reading hacker news

Reading the article it hints at the reality that it doesn't actually work like passive glasses as it implies. the blueshift effect happens because they're using a laser to excite t…

I this had happened at any of the companies I started, I would have fired several people in the aftermath. The problem is the policy is broken by design. Let's look at what is wron…

In case you're wondering, most firms in this business won't even talk to you unless you're looking to hide at least $10MM. Below that amount, the costs of setting up the corporate …

For many projects, Github is just a place to publish yet another public repo. Using github issues and pull requests is a sure fire way to feel ignored. If you want to contribute, e…

No age is too old. I co-founded a startup last year, successfully raised a 8 figure series A, and am the youngest of founders by more than a decade, and I'm over 35. The difference…

os:cmd is still available, and has access to things it should not.

Metro-North's signaling equipment is a nightmare. There was a scheduled upgrade that was supposed to have been in play by January 1st of this year, and the project is still not yet…

The cheapest way I've found to live was to buy a 4+ unit apartment building that when the 3+ other apartments are fully rented cover the cost of the mortgage, and utilities. As a r…

what are the units on the table? the top looks like number of workers, but large numbers are unitless.

This approach works really well with any number of tethered device scenario. You can use the same basic approach to debug distributed Erlang program, work with tethered mobile devi…