dmh2000

i imagine most serious runners spending big $ on shoes are concerned more with performance, less with safety. And since runners go faster now than they did in Bannister's time, something has changed.

no kidding. when i read that statement it told me the article has no credibility.

there are already lots of credit card processors that compete on service. they cost more to use (both in fees and your labor to setup). people buy on cost then wonder why their cheaper solution isn't as good as the pricier one. like people who buy the cheapest airline ticket then gripe that the food wasn't good. you get what you pay for.

>after crashing his one week old Ducati Monster 696 motorbike.

doh!

ok, who's the oldest founder of a startup selected by YC?

if you had a computer class in high school in 1968, you went to an awesome school!

> Long Term Capital Management, a highly leveraged hedge fund whose directors included the two Nobelists, collapsed and had to be bailed out to the tune of $3.65 billion by a group of banks.

$3.65 billion? that seems rather quaint these days.

the reality is that aircraft wings are pretty well thought out by now and 'new' ideas such as this usually have significant drawbacks that are already known. usually that information is left out of the marketing hype of the 'new' concepts. the drawbacks usually include one or more of the following : heavy, active system (you don't want a airplane that won't glide when the power quits), difficult or expensive to build, and the ever popular flying-qualities-not-as-good-as-a-regular-wing-despite-overblown-claims.

>10. Avoid distractions.

hacker news, reddit etc

in my organization, anyone who advertises their own credentials, especially a PhD, had better be very very good or that person will be ridiculed mercilessly.

>Well, what if there are no openings come this May--literally none. No job postings. No on campus interviews. No job fairs. This isn't a fantasy. It's happening right now.

Been there when I was in school in the late 70's and early 80's. it sucks but it didn't last forever (that time anyway).

just what I was going to say. it his blog he mentioned they were faxing out some 'agreement' for him to sign. My immediate reaction was 'why the fuck would he sign anything?'.

that advice could apply to big companies, say GM and Chrysler, who at first went before Congress with a plan to convince us (the taxpayers) that they made no mistakes and that we were wrong to think they did.

how about 5 years? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/17.html

"To have everyone in your world using your software, but not offering you any jobs greater than a system administrator position is tough."

this kind of refutes the idea that you can make a good living by writing an open source package and selling support for it.

>the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, calculators, and spreadsheets are unlikely material for a captivating History Channel feature

i disagree completely. double-entry and calculators fundamentally changed society.

>You're looking at a picture of a single circuit the size of a large office building, built to a precision of 100 microns. I agree that this is impressive, but remember that you get to cheat: You build the thing, measure how far off you are, and stick delay lines in the short branches until everything lines up.

they call that Agile Microwave Engineering

oh, and you must have two microwave engineers working on each delay line.