Deejahll

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by Deejahll 16y ago
I'll second everything said here. "The gym doesn't count" is an utter lie. If you've led a multiple-year sedentary lifestyle, a mere 15 minutes on a treadmill in the morning will show you an immediate difference in your motivation and menta
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by Deejahll 16y ago
And if you are, like I was, repulsed by the constant insistence from everyone that you should go to college so you can toke, drink, party, and fuck: take heart, you can get a lot out of college without ever associating with meatheads and fr
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by Deejahll 16y ago
I was in exactly your position. Mediocre high school, a few years of a programming job. In my case, I chose a community college followed by a state school followed by a new job. The choice to go to school is debatable, depends on your money
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by Deejahll 16y ago
Also, does Windows support redirection? If this were a one-off task that I were to do on my Linux box, I'd have written only: import sys template = ... # (same as above) for line in sys.stdin: print template % {
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by Deejahll 16y ago
- readlines() is redundant for filehandle objects, you can omit it. - Prefer Python's string formatting operator. I even prefer the extended dict-compatible syntax. - close() is called automatically when the filehandles are garbage-collecte
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by Deejahll 16y ago
How is it different from http://www.librarything.com/ ?
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by Deejahll 16y ago
Right now! Only possible because my wife saved up a bunch of money while I was working. Now we're burning through that, I'm updating my portfolio, blowing the dust and cobwebs off several startup ideas I had shelved for so long. No income y
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by Deejahll 17y ago
Cheap barcode scanner + Atmel AVR + strong refrigerator magnet. The first time you scan your product, it memorizes the date. Every time after, it indicates the product age with leds, sound, or an LCD. You keep it stuck to your fridge, scan
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by Deejahll 17y ago
Ah, this is very helpful. I was aware that I wanted to do something like #2, but I was not aware that such a partitioning was the norm.
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by Deejahll 17y ago
Thanks for the comment. I was wary of that book because I heard it described as a way to become a sort of uncaring-manager-at-a-distance while getting rich quick. Since there's more to it than that, I'll give it another look.
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by Deejahll 17y ago
> Reading through your list of points, it sounds like you're trying to justify not just trying Correct. "Trying" is risky, I'm just attempting to measure how much more of a risk it is to do it on my terms. Prior to today, my plan seemed
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Ask HN: Is success impossible for a part-time startup?
15 points by Deejahll 17y ago|19 comments