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donnaware··on Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions
Maybe Bezos should spend less time fiddling with 10,000 year clock and more time caring about employees ?
donnaware··on Van Halen & Startups
Perfect post for a Friday night. Loved it :)
donnaware··on Sleep (or how to hack your brain)
Isn't that what supposedly Edison did, take cat naps and then go back to work? He probably did not know anything about REM and Polyphasic, maybe just discovered he was more productive that way?
donnaware··on Nuclear fusion 'will work' (auto-starting audio)
Fusion has always been and always will be 30 years aways...
donnaware··on The OJ-ware License: the Beer Ware license for San Francisco in the 21st century
Cool, still like Karma-ware tho
donnaware··on Why we don't need Gigabit networks yet
The only people that "need" Gigabit connections are the High Frequency traders. For everyone else, 100Mbps is plenty.
donnaware··on George Bush’s Brother Is ‘Tweeting’ In Chinese On Weibo
hmmm, didn't W hold hands with the Taliban right before 9/11 ? Just sayin
donnaware··on Rumor: iPhone 5 Coming to T-Mobile Sept. 25th
Here is my rumor, the iphone5 will be available on all networks. Sort of like everyone else's phones always are.
donnaware··on How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years
This is a giant waste of money.
donnaware··on [dead]
there is, I think, a deep yin yang of the words Namaste and motherfucker ajoined. hate and love meet on the other side of oneness.
donnaware··on Survival Of The Stupidest
this explains the "tea party"
donnaware··on Stop Living for the Approval of Women
Interesting, but, would the first hut (abode) have ever been built without men needing to impress a woman? Perhaps that was the proverbial byte of the apple? ;)
donnaware··on Steve Jobs Would Never Invest in a Y Combinator Startup
LOL, yes, WWSJD, but let's not forget, there are thousands of very sucessfuly companies that somehow manage to muddle through with out SJ. In fact, I would argue that SJ approach may not be ideal for certain types of businesses.
donnaware··on Socrates as a mentor?
People forget that Socrates was forced to drink poison ostensibly becuase he had not made many friends with his "method". So one might consider that. I think often times say "the Socratic Method" which is a method of aurgument when really, they mean to say "ask a lot of questions" but that does not sound as cool I guess.
donnaware··on Wireless Breakthrough?
From what I can tell, DIDO does not overcome Shannon's law, it just moves the channels around that still fall under Shannon's law (basically re-using white space). Interestingly, this is not that different than what LTE does already (using it's SON feature, Self Optimizing Network). One problem that DIDO has is that it neglects the the speed of light, latency, introduced by the central manager.
donnaware··on The Economist - Tablet Computers: Difference Engine: Reality dawns
Ya, but I think they are basically right, Apple basically has the "groovy" market (I guess they call that mind-share these days) whatever, so if you are going to release a non-Apple Tablet, it needs to do more and cost less. Not that different than the PC market.
donnaware··on $25 PC priced like a textbook, works with old analog TVs
Can you say vaporware?
donnaware··on ~
You had to know this was coming~
donnaware··on Alcubierre Warp Drive Time Travel
bitchin!
donnaware··on There is tech startup life after 40
Yes! I am 54, I started in a start up that got bought by a big company. I am still here, but feel I am much wiser and would like to try the start up dance again. Why not?
donnaware··on [dead]
LOL, Busted !
donnaware··on How to Revive Dead Ni-Cad Batteries Using a High Voltage Power Source
ya, this fix has been around a long time (came out for cell phone batteries back when cell phones used NiCad). FYI, the fix does not last, after a few charge cycles back to being dead. :(
donnaware··on The Dead End Cult of Burning Man
Sounds to me like a dweeb who secretly wants to go but no one will go with him because he is a dweeb. Dude, stop whining, if you want to go to BM just go, stop being a bitch.
donnaware··on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones?
we really do NOT need 4 times zones in the US. Why not consolodate to 2 (China spans 5 but standardize on one zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China) I am not one of those people that thinks every China does is groovy, but in this case they are on to something. I think that there is more comercial benefit to 2 time zones in the US that we get from daylight savings time, the time for which has come and gone. Why not just have East and West TZ's?
donnaware··on Ask HN: A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?
So that means your idea is good. If good enough another company may look around for something to compete with your competitor, that might be you. There are worse things in the world than being aquired by a big company (Google, Amazon etc.)
donnaware··on Walking on a cube-shaped planet
hmmm, do you suppose such a planet might be made of diamond ?
donnaware··on Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks
All that seems like a big hassle. Why not just put the files that you are most concerned about on an encrypted USB stick?
donnaware··on Post Claims Hacker News is Fixed
so
donnaware··on Group Theory in the Bedroom
maybe I will just buy a new matress this weekend :)
donnaware··on Don't Ignore Tim Cook's Sexuality
As an LGBT person myself, and having struggled for many years to overcome various prejudices, I absolutely celebrate Tim Cook's success and appreciate that he is a great role model for young LGBT persons.
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