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Obama Releases iPhone Recruiting, Campaign Tool(news.cnet.com)
1 points by Flemlord 18y ago|0 comments
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by Flemlord 18y ago
I didn't say Glass-Steagall being repealed was responsible for everything that was wrong. But having it in place would have kept our institutions smaller with fewer entanglements, therefore fewer firms would be in the "too big to fail" cate
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by Flemlord 18y ago
4. Home theater PC.
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Not getting rid of the Glass-Steagall Act would have limited the scope of the crisis. The act was put in place in 1933 to prevent the "too big to fail" problem with banks that led to the Great Depression. In general, we've had a Republican
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by Flemlord 18y ago
They have these everywhere in Europe. And yes, they're as gross as they sound. Apparently Europeans love tasteless sandwiches made up of mostly bread, with a single slice of meat or cheese between the slices. They serve them everywhere, in
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by Flemlord 18y ago
For anybody who doesn't know, Armadillo Aerospace is the brainchild of John Carmack (Doom, Quake) and they're one of the few startups who have a serious shot at achieving privately funded spaceflight. Here is John's explanation for the flig
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Test flight of RRL Rocket Racer with Armadillo Aerospace(youtube.com)
1 points by Flemlord 18y ago|1 comments
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Very nice--fewer links, but they were all of extremely high quality. Suggestion: Throw this up on 99designs and get some better graphics. The current ones seem amateurish, and not in that good Google kinda way.
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I Can't Figure Out What Facebook Is For(overcompensating.com)
2 points by Flemlord 18y ago|1 comments
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by Flemlord 18y ago
> Why is emacs a great editor? It isn't--don't believe the hype. On the other hand, I couldn't write a line of code without IntelliSense. Does anybody know anything about Emacs.Net that Microsoft is working on? http://www.knowing.net/P
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Hilarious. You're assuming the DOJ is actually trying to prevent monopolies; it seems to me their main motivation is responding to pressure from Congress and corporate lobbyists. If Apple were called into their offices to defend their marke
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by Flemlord 18y ago
For convenience: Christopher S. Putnam said ”unique to flywheel designs is the gyroscopic effect, which causes spinning objects to resist changes to their orientation. As stated a flywheel resists change in its angular location. In playing
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Which is best?
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by Flemlord 18y ago
If you don't think you can stop him, don't try to fight it. Let him quit, and work out a part-time consulting deal. If you really think so highly of this guy, offer to become his first client and maybe invest in his new venture.
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Ditto. However, I switched from FireFox and I'm starting to miss FoxMarks. (I have four computers that I switch between.)
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by Flemlord 18y ago
"They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts!"
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Shift-B then wait for 24 turns.
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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record(news.cnet.com)
3 points by Flemlord 18y ago|0 comments
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Wow, what a load of crap. I love Penny Arcade, but I'm not sure why it's even on the list, let alone at #1.
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Jerry Seinfeld Can't Help Vista(pcmag.com)
2 points by Flemlord 18y ago|0 comments
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Three ways you can develop a Ron Paul-type movement in your own company(usnews.com)
13 points by Flemlord 18y ago|12 comments
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by Flemlord 18y ago
This is a bad rehash of "The Power of Persuasion" by Robert Caldini. One of the best sales books I've ever read.
833.
by Flemlord 18y ago
Words that result in buffer overflows: * more * double * triple * ...
834.
by Flemlord 18y ago
Because Roombas don't work very well.
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by Flemlord 18y ago
After many years of hiring, I've found one warning sign that tips me off to this type of behavior. If an employee complains excessively about his old/current company during an interview then he's likely to complain about his new company too
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Ask HN: Seeking a personal spam filter (an actual person)
2 points by Flemlord 18y ago|4 comments
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Simplistic for an experienced developer. But this is the approach I find myself taking when I'm working with an inexperienced programmer or intern. It helps to ask "why" over and over.
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by Flemlord 18y ago
I read the title as "Man-Made Tomato". Quite the letdown.
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by Flemlord 18y ago
Code Complete and Crossing the Chasm were the first good business books I ever read. They started me on a self-education path that eventually led to me founding a successful startup.
840.
by Flemlord 18y ago
PDF has some sort of huge licensing fee attached to it for document creation. I'm working on a project where I needed to buy a redistributable PDF ripper component. I couldn't find one for less than $1500 because of the Adobe licensing fees

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