CatDancer

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by CatDancer 18y ago
Doesn't help. The point is Excel doesn't know what range I want when I extend my table, not whether I can give the range a name or not.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Oh my goodness, you're going to get my spreadsheet rant. This is what frustrates me every single time I use Excel (or the Google Docs spreadsheet, for that matter). I may not be answering your question since I'm talking about usability ins
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Appjet ( http://appjet.com/learn-to-program/lessons/intro ) would be really cool. When he wrote a program, he could share it with his friends instantly just by sending them the URL.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Have you asked them?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I'm a bit confused what you're asking for... are you, personally, in financial trouble, and looking for ways to save money? Or are you thinking of starting a business that would make money by helping people save money?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I haven't looked into getting multiple asset hosts to work with S3 myself, but how much asset data do you have? Storing the same data in multiple buckets certainly sounds inelegant, but, on the other hand, storing 1MB in S3 only costs $0.0
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Aha, that explains why resumes are so useless: a resume is a listing of credentials.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Me(blog.myspace.com)
1 points by CatDancer 18y ago|0 comments
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I don't disagree with your comment overall, but specifically on the point of backups: backups are far and away much easier on EC2 compared to other hosting providers with now that Amazon has the new Elastic Block Store feature... need a bac
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I use both Linode and AWS, and I find both easy to administer. I would say AWS has a mildly steeper learning curve (various AWS command line utilities to install, etc.), but nothing I found difficult. A really nice thing about AWS is that y
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by CatDancer 18y ago
The source to Hacker News, actually. ( http://arclanguage.org/install ) I'd gotten so used to software being bulky and complicated, I was quite inspired by what resulted from Paul's goal of minimizing the needed code size for an applicat
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by CatDancer 18y ago
You may find http://www.sagemath.org/ helpful for your project, if you haven't seen it already ^_^
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by CatDancer 18y ago
How about recommendation #7 of http://paulgraham.com/head.html ?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Well, I think there's different kinds of risk, and mathematically from a financial point of view they may look the same, but it's not the whole story. For example, suppose I want to take a year off and go hiking. I could have worked th
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Have you read Founders at Work?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I just happen to vehemently disagree with the notion that you can let revolving debt ride while you pursue high-risk investments Starting a business is not a high-risk investment (unless you put your own money into it) And if you truly b
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I did that. I got a contracting job making $50/hour, worked for a year, grossed $100K ($50 an hour times 40 hours a week times 50 weeks in a year), paid off my $40K debt, paid $40K in taxes, and lived off of the remaining $20K. So I want t
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Yes, I once had a failed startup, and ended up with $40K in credit card debt. I assume you are personally liable for the business credit card debt. (As you generally can't get a business credit card without personally guaranteeing it). So
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by CatDancer 18y ago
What I meant to ask was is this an issue with MzScheme or the Hacker News code? The reason why I'm asking is because I have a project I'm writing in Arc on MzScheme, and it would be helpful for me to know if MzScheme has a garbage collecti
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Is running out of memory a bug in MzScheme, or instead e.g. Hacker News not removing references to items not recently used (that could be latest lazily loaded from disk if needed again)?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
And, in turn, the demand for securities is coming from countries such as China that are becoming richer, and people there want a place to invest their money where they will get a good return.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Sure, for the same amount of house, other factors being equal. But that doesn't mean that the prices people pay for houses goes down, even if other factors stay equal, because people buy larger houses with more features for their money.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
What is missing?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Requires registration. The bookmarklet "saves for later", does not display the page in a readable form.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Cleaned up poor contrast on my test, but no font size change and no feedback button. Still included all the extraneous confusing content.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
An improvement, but the result is still pretty ugly. Displays content in a smaller, harder to read font than my default. No button to give feedback "you messed up, I can't read your 'readable' version".
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Sure, I do this all the time, but it plasters the entire contents of the page on the screen. The result is not what my grandmother would consider readable.
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Startup idea for you: A button to make websites readable
8 points by CatDancer 18y ago|38 comments
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Taking your questions in reverse order, I would first recommend not borrowing money to start or grow your business. Get investors instead. If your business should happen not to work out the first time, you walk away free and clear and can
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by CatDancer 19y ago
Concurrent Programming in Java by Doug Lea. (Though do your actual programming in a more powerful language such as MzScheme if you have any choice).

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