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skennedy

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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - H. Aiken

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skennedy··on Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches
Thank you for making my day. Worth every second of the 10 minute video. Amazing.
skennedy··on Kuwait set to enforce DNA testing law on all
Just sent a message to my sales team that all Kuwait project bids need to take this into account. I will not force my team to accept projects that they are not comfortable taking. The Middle East has some friction for businesses but I imagine this will only add to the discussions.
skennedy··on Congratulations You’ve Been Fired
> Imagine a frat house mixed with a kindergarten mixed with Scientology, and you have an idea of what it’s like [working at a startup].

Is this an accurate description? I feel this might be more of the well funded ones but would not know.

skennedy··on Why Las Vegas has coped well with drought so far
As a current resident of Las Vegas, it is interesting to see articles like this written. We recycle 94% of the water that makes it to a drain[1]. In addition, recycled water accounts for 40% of our overall water usage[2].

However, I just broke a 3 year lease after 2 years because of both an in ground pool and very green lawn. Both contributing to a $300+/month water bill 5 months a year. The landlord could not get the HOA to approve landscape changes and the pool evaporated a thousand gallons a month. It is great there are laws for new houses, but there is still a challenge to change for homes built 20 years ago. Add in the electric bill for non-stop air conditioning in the summer months ...

No income tax in Nevada only goes so far. It will be interesting to see how much longer we can sustain our growing 2 million person population[3].

[1] http://www.snwa.com/ws/reclaimed.html [2] http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/10/even-your-ev... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas

skennedy··on Government computers running Windows XP will be vulnerable after April 8
Were they not vulnerable to hackers now and in the past?
skennedy··on Atom
To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics](https://github.com/atom/metrics) for details.

More data going to Google without opting in first? Bummer.

skennedy··on University of Maryland Data Breach
Having gone to UMD for computer science I can say that the DNS servers are not on the main campus. And certainly a completely separate group of people managing them than basic infrastructure of the Registrar. That said, collaboration would probably be a good thing if it does not already happen. But who's to say any system is infallible?
skennedy··on Data Broker Lets You See Their Dossier About You Starting Today
At the bottom of their new user signup page is a link to an "opt out" section. If believed, they allow you to install an online cookie and mail them forms to stop Acxiom from tracking you online and selling your data.

http://acxiom.com/about-acxiom/privacy/us-consumer-choices/

skennedy··on Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
Works on mobile devices which is perfect when on the go. Give me a pause button so the timer doesn't go before I'm ready or make the clicking sound. Then I'll be at the site every day.
skennedy··on Ask HN: I'm a generalist. Not a specialist. Getting a non-entry level job.
Sadly, technical roles as I yet to get an interview for a Product Management position. Companies seem to all require a certain number of years with that title and I have yet to find the right way of presenting myself. Maybe I should make a more concerted effort in that direction ... thank you!
skennedy··on Ask HN: I'm a generalist. Not a specialist. Getting a non-entry level job.
Getting the interviews never seems to be the problem. The resume and cover letter HR screening process is pretty predictable. But not having "5 years experience in XYZ" is continually becoming a thorn in the side during in person conversations.
skennedy··on Ask HN: I'm a generalist. Not a specialist. Getting a non-entry level job.
A mid-career generalist is like not having chosen what degree you're going to graduate college with in your second senior year

Well said. However, being a "very experienced dilettante" is exactly what I am hoping to capitalize on. When I left I was managing and mentoring people that were all older than me. Technology XYZ or tried-n-true architecture ABC is not always the best answer. I do not want to specialize because it forces me into a box.

Truly escaping and starting at run 0 sounds truly depressing. But then, so does the LMS world.

skennedy··on New tool for secret agents and the rest of us
Does this mean X-Ray glasses for real?
skennedy··on Playable Mario Game as a blog background
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right ABAB Start ... damn still no. Over 25 years of rescuing her from the jerks of the world. Getting tired of being in the friend zone.
skennedy··on Show HN: PinPigeon for Pinterest - Send pins as postcards
Pinterest user's pin with the "promise" that they own the content. Well we know that's not happening. But what happens when PinPigeon prints images with copyrighted content from Coke, Budweiser, Apple, etc? Or, less identifiable but equally protected?
skennedy··on How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?
A succinct quote and something I had never really put thought into. Nicely said.

It’s not until you reach a near First-World level of development that pursuing your passions rather than escaping poverty seems like a reasonable and/or admirable thing to do.

skennedy··on The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North American and Asia
I'm in Maryland and up/down speeds are completely fine despite the supposed 100% packet loss. Feel this is a bogus post.
skennedy··on What happens if TV goes the way of music and newspapers?
Sites like Hulu and Netflix generate money from content that has already been created. The budget was found to create the initial content and publishing sites like these create residual income from targeted advertising. Great.

The content providers know the direction things are heading and probably know $20-30 a month for one channel from each subscriber is a tough pitch. So what's the ingenious model to offset the loss of big money cable television advertisements?

skennedy··on Presidential Candidate Sentiment Analysis using R
When you know the right pieces to the puzzle, amazing things can be created. Thanks for taking the time to show even more cool tools for future tinkering!
skennedy··on SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast
New video (not private) with engine blast around minute 5:21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGaKsSFS6E

skennedy··on Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
In August 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that anything that was manufactured overseas is not subject to the first-sale principle. Only American-made products or “copies manufactured domestically” were.

It would seem if the sum of foreign made products makes a new product, you would still need the permission of original manufacturers to resell it. Wonder if that could be stretched far enough to say foreign food spices at restaurants can no longer be used.

skennedy··on Ask HN: How to track real people impressions? Not bots.
Unfortunately, I need a solution that can track metrics for each individual customer and display results to them. Not an overall site tool.
skennedy··on [dead]
Posted my question yesterday on a weekend and was hoping on a weekday the thread may get more traction than the 3 upvotes. As for the one response, I tried clarifying in the description that I need to track for each individual customer. But I will respond now to the one person.
skennedy··on PayPal CEO writes personal response
Why now? Why this situation is it finally hitting home?

What confuses me is that David acts as if these are new stories of accounts frozen, staggered access to money, and blocked recourse to customer chargebacks. This has been happening for years with hundreds of publicly written stories of bad will by PayPal.

skennedy··on In 50 years, Steve Jobs will be forgotten, Gladwell says
To be remembered for 50 years is more than most people in the world could ever achieve. Including world leaders.
skennedy··on Ask HN: Your relationship or your dream?
4 years of medical school, 3 years of residence to follow (likely in another city of the US). For the startup, probably needs another year or two before the team can start working remotely.
skennedy··on Ask HN: Your relationship or your dream?
That's fair and makes sense. Thank you!
skennedy··on Why you & your girlfriends should stop checking in
How clever can people get with a set of API's, do something questionable and/or scary, and not get publicized? That's what scares me. So many open API's out there and clever people will keep their mash-ups confined to a closed circle audience. Makes me wonder when companies that offer open API's will be more discerning.
skennedy··on Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward
I love that they are profitable, growing rapidly, and generally kicking butt. My biggest wish for them is to start taking market share from Adobe by making their website toolkit more flexible and advanced. When a professional designer can get everything they want in a browser, no extra software, and changes are real-time...for me, they win.
skennedy··on Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage
Twilio is down. Bummer
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