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el_chapitan
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About el_chapitan
http://blog.chapmanifesto.com
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Comment #36864961
> My heart rate has never gone back to where it was and my breathing never returned to being fully "satiating". > Gone through the gamut of medical tests and everything is "normal"…
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Comment #36574085
Advicerco. | Staff Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full Time/Contract | $100k-$200k Advicerco is enabling people to maximize the efficiency of every dollar by building a cash-flo…
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Comment #36156348
Advicerco | Software Engineer | Remote(USA) Advicerco is building an advisor-driven, automated cash flow management platform that maximizes the efficiency of every dollar. It manag…
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Comment #35883306
Advicerco | Mid Level Software Engineer | REMOTE (USA) Advicerco is building an advisor-driven, automated cash flow management platform that maximizes the efficiency of every dolla…
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Comment #35443911
Advicerco | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE(USA) Advicerco is building an advisor-driven, automated cash flow management platform that maximizes the efficiency of every dollar th…
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Comment #32310300
Biologyworks | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-time Biologyworks is a molecular testing company that created our own device and platform to facilitate small scale, po…
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Comment #31741369
Biologyworks | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-time Biologyworks is a molecular testing company working to create small scale and mobile testing platform dealing with…
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Comment #18229030
95% of the time, I wondered what problem Google Wave was trying to solve. But that 5% of the problem where it was the sweet spot was amazing.
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Comment #12050706
Suddenly my Latin and Computer Science majors make more sense together.
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Comment #7524071
I can speak to the performance issues. I use this on a very javascript laden website, and I've noticed absolutely zero performance hits as a result of running.
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Comment #6442292
People far smarter than me have been saying for a long time that if you make the price of the content more reasonable and make it far easier to get, most people wouldn't bother to …
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Comment #6153464
These are all fine uses of the word. However, when you use the word "veto" in the context of the President, it implies a certain set of actions that have taken place. It actually e…
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Comment #6152961
Point of order. This isn't a veto. A veto is for legislation, this is fully contained within the executive branch.
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Comment #5165976
I think I read that differently. I read it that they gathered the data, put together the spreadsheet and hosted on a .gov address. Is there an article that is more clear about that…
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Comment #4759403
It may just be the "this is the way we've done it in America" in me talking. But I'd probably be OK if we at least had some sort of instant runoff voting, or something similar whic…
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Comment #3354181
Given the length of this piece on just a small part of the book, I think you'd end up with encyclopedic tomes about Steve Jobs + Apple. This may not be a bad thing, but it would be…
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Comment #2988452
That is the attitude of all the people who later look at a either a working process, or a working product and say, "damn, why didn't I think of that?"
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Comment #2909254
I find it interesting that you're basically calling for them to do almost exactly what they did with PalmOS back in the day. Technically that company still exists, so PalmOS still …
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Comment #2752508
The system is flawed. However, the system also does some very good work by forcing more work into smaller companies. I have had the pleasure of working for two companies doing busi…
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Comment #2375942
I also live in Minneapolis, and I see a very different thing in the social media realm than the original author. It seems to me that when someone gets a smartphone, the first thing…
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Comment #2213713
A membership in a coworking location in DC runs about $300 month, and you don't have a dedicated desk, at least in the place that I was a member. However, the social interaction of…
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Comment #2177175
I recall learning prefix before I learned RPN. Then again, our teaching language was scheme. Writing an RPN calculator was one of the first homework assignments, though.
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Comment #2096072
This makes me remember when the first iMac came out (apparently in '98) and just broke my brain by not having a floppy drive. http://www.businessweek.com/1998/36/b3594050.htm
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Comment #1658491
I did it. I was completely burned out. I had actually had a hospital visit due to stress, and ended up still working another 5 months after that (3 of those after I told the compan…
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Comment #1614932
The supporters of history rarely get the credit for the work they put in. It is the person who was there when the final blow was struck that gets most of the credit. Apple shouldn'…