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by Casseres 13y ago
Chris Gardner was 27 or 28 and homeless when he became a trainee at Dean Witter Reynolds. If the name isn't familiar, a movie was based on him called The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), played by Will Smith. If you meet the hiring mana
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by Casseres 13y ago
> I gave up and got a new laptop. Hopefully for free. Most states have a lemon law.
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Yes, but it doesn't solve everything and it's not available to everyone.
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I doubt that's something Facebook would ever do as it would remove the point behind "Timeline", which goes all the way back to when the user was born.
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by Casseres 13y ago
Good point. In my mind, ideally the next big social media platform will be P2P and open source. I have some ideas on how this might work and the features this would include, but I've never hashed them out since my programming ability
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by Casseres 13y ago
Expiration dates for posts is a brilliant idea. Who ever is working on the "next Facebook", I hope you implement something like this.
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by Casseres 13y ago
When linking to Quora articles, please add ?share=1 to the URL so people without accounts can read all of the comments. Clickable: http://www.quora.com/Tips-and-Hacks-for-Everyday-Life/What-i...
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by Casseres 13y ago
You read the name and vote with that name, not your own... Go to next polling station and repeat with a different name.
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by Casseres 13y ago
It sounds like the DMV staff you encountered were bigots. I would report them. Get the local media involved. Offer to wait while they call the police since having a fake passport is a crime.
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Every place I've been to vote, the election workers had a printed list of people who could vote and would highlight their names once they voted. It's in plain view and it would be easy to read the names and find one to use while
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by Casseres 13y ago
If some disaster happened and we wanted to restart the technological revolution without any tools from said technological revolution. It's a good thought experiment, and if anything ever should happen, hopefully we don't lose cen
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by Casseres 13y ago
And that's one reason why people go to war; they can't understand the arguments of both sides of a conflict, so it escalates to something that even unintelligent people can do: fight. If more people would take the time to discove
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by Casseres 13y ago
For those of you who are saying the Music Cover isn't a good device for making music, I don't think Microsoft was trying to make a music product, but rather an example. A while ago, some people from the Microsoft Surface team did
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by Casseres 13y ago
If one was confined to 200 sq ft, I would agree that it would be difficult to live in. I think the idea with most of these tiny houses, is that owners live more outdoors, and they move the tiny houses to the environment they want to live i
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by Casseres 13y ago
That's a great looking tiny house. If you're interested in seeing more and learning about other people's experiences building and living in tiny houses, I recommend checking out http://tinyhouseblog.com
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by Casseres 13y ago
Shortened URL expands to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Int... Sydverma, please explain what it is you are linking to if it can't be inferred by the URL. Many people
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by Casseres 13y ago
I and quite a few other HN users use NoScript. It blocks JavaScript per domain name automatically unless you whitelist it. It's great for privacy and security.
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by Casseres 13y ago
I'm at 153, and I do not have downvote privileges. The problem is while I do read a lot of HN and actively upvote when it's appropriate, I do not comment much. I suppose I just have to wait to find an awesomely relevant article
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by Casseres 13y ago
Exactly. If it's important, you'll want to start right away. If it's not important, you'll probably fail in the commitment.
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This reminds me of the sci-fi novel, The Unincorporated Man . Set in the novel's past, was the Virtual Reality Plague. Essentially for the vast majority of people spending time in VR was more preferable than living in real life, and
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by Casseres 13y ago
I put up 3 domain names. So far I've only been contacted by one of the people I'm supposed to exchange with and gave my domain name to that person. While I will give away the domain names that I committed, I don't think I&#x
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by Casseres 13y ago
I sent an e-mail asking what the major was. Never got a response.
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The theme of this discussion is about freedom. That includes not having to rely on an external source of spending money, yearly income, "fuck-you" money, or whatever you want to call it. This is also known as financial independe
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Handy Tip: Add ?share=1 at the end of the URL so others don't have to log in to read all of the answers. Thanks for sharing, it was a good read.
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That's per year and doesn't keep up with inflation. To have financial independence, you need enough money so that $75k or whatever annual number you want is derived from the earnings of whatever your your sizable chunk of money i
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That's an interesting thought, but don't ask it just so you can push that babl... website. About half of your comments/post seem to be about trying to promote the site.
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by Casseres 13y ago
Some "pickpocket-proof" pants might be a good investment if you ever go to a concert, Mardi Gras, or other crowded gathering in the future. I've never tried them, so be sure to look for reviews before buying. I have no affil
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by Casseres 13y ago
Here's a list to get you started: - No Encryption (security) - Phishing (security) - Spam (annoyance) - Tracking when it's been opened (privacy) - No confirmation that it's been received by the recipient server. (Did it get l
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All it would take is something like the Morris worm.
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I absolutely hated it when websites did this. If I wanted to copy the text or image, I was going to - whether it be by going to the page source or manipulating it with Firebug. As for those ads websites sometimes through in with whatever

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