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FYI: In response to the ColganAir accident, the FAA raised training experience to 1,500 hours from about 250 hours. That means there's no qualified entry-level pilots, which is the…

1) Moving from C/Java to a scripting language can reduce typing enough to alleviate RSI. 2) Also changing from an editor that requires alt keys to vi.

I was a computer consultant on the Canadian government research into the ozone hole studies in the mid 80's. It was a real thing, the data was obvious, and mankind came together to…

Of course, the only support you can easily outsource is that which can be script-based. Fine if you're a cable company or bank, not so much if you're a startup. Outsourcing support…

This is a very useful checklist for technical founders to: 1) evaluate potential "business co-founders", most of whom are losers 2) evaluate if they're on track monthly, and fire t…

The founders took out the last funding round for personal use. And Groupon has been steadily burning cash-on-hand since then. It's a very ill business.

> He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Actually, it's the other way around. He designed and built it, and Netflix learned scale experience from him. Pr…

> limited canadian experience Actually, limited Quebec experience. Everybody I know in other provinces, like Ontario, is happy with "single payer."

> In an ideal world. You mean, every other country in the Western world, except the USA.

I had a chance to hear a lecture on Odeo by either Jack or one of the Odeo founders back in the day at Yahoo HQ. He looked and seemed like a typical know-nothing 20-something found…

Having known people who lived in misery to 90 and 103 years, why would you want to increase life span exactly? There's no cure for ageing.

No, paying $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a bankrupt company with a 20-something founder, then not monetizing it, makes Meyer one of the worst CEOs in corporate history.

1) No, it's not market timing. It's crash timing, and it works great. 2) Buy low, sell high - never goes out of style.

Most companies in Silicon Valley will train you in Devops if you're a DBA, as long as you already can write a Perl or Python script.

The 3 that come to mind are Oracle RAQ, Galera/Percona Cluster and MySQL NDB Cluster (but FKs are still flaky). However all work best when the DCs are within a few milliseconds of …

Hey, I resemble that! :)

Actually, Hiroshima had a bomb assembly plant. So you call them civilians, I call them military production.

"try exercising" Actually that's very good advice, as expanding the lungs stimulates the nervous system similar to acupuncture.

SF smells like urine.

I think Ben Johnson also ran a 9.69 the same year. Everybody knew it was roids, but even so it indicated that the human body was capable of it. Johnson has a reputation in the gym …

Just something to investigate ... I heard when working with youth trainers that in an emergency when an Epipen is not available, caffeine (like coffee) can help, and even a glass o…

The capital of Canada, Ottawa, was chosen because it was too far North to invade in the 1800's. And Parliament is built on a cliff. :)

You have to respect a scientist who did her own mining of radioactive materials. Talk about getting your hands dirty.

Makes me want to plant a dandelion garden.

Around 40% of American adults are on welfare, unemployment or disability pay now. Typically when people run out of unemployment, or approach retirement in the case of emergency ser…