Harkins

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by Harkins 15y ago
I think (1) roughly describes HubSki, but that's going from descriptions I've heard rather than personal experience.
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by Harkins 15y ago
This is nearly the entire business case for running your own gTLD, trademark owners are compelled to protect their marks. I worked on the .pro registry a few years ago, a motivation for the business to run it (because it wasn't big) was the
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by Harkins 15y ago
There's a bunch of us nomads here on HN, search for threads about location-independent businesses.
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by Harkins 15y ago
I'm sorry to see this. Peter was a friend, and it was great to meet someone else in Chicago working on similar stuff. (We joked that you can tell us apart because he's the Peter in Chicago bootstrapping a social game built in Rails, and
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by Harkins 15y ago
The only thing missing in software is the "instantly" in "instantly sued". That's not going to happen because patent-holders want to wait for there be something worth shaking down first.
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by Harkins 15y ago
And that you now own as little of the profits from it as they think you can survive on.
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by Harkins 15y ago
I used to be one of the WaPo Django guys. Jobs was a separate team on entirely different technology stack on different hardware, though probably in the same data center. I know they happened to use Java (and probably still do) but have no m
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by Harkins 15y ago
That's a big brush you're painting with, but the core is true: this is about judging how they chose to name their project.
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by Harkins 15y ago
I look at the choice of "Misaka" after "pantyshot" and think this is unambiguously an example for talking about the recent topic of not tolerating assholes in open source software.
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by Harkins 15y ago
What do you run?
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by Harkins 15y ago
It sounds to me like the FBI grabbed the entire enclosure that included their target and unrelated DigitalOne customers, then sorted out which they wanted to keep as evidence from there.
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by Harkins 15y ago
There are several books about it. Off the top of my head... 4 Hour Work Week touches on it, Vagabonding by Rolf Potts has a version for lower-skilled workers, and Life Nomadic by Tynan is a free pdf.
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by Harkins 15y ago
Return business is primary, yes. There's standard networking things like building a blog and being friendly, but also nonstandard networking: http://push.cx/craftsmanship-calendar That calendar is way out of date now (it's on the TODO lis
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by Harkins 15y ago
Older planned development suburbs had straight streets, and seeing the same house repeated a dozen times is pretty depressing. I always thought it was so that people weren't confronted so bleakly with the cheap repetition.
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by Harkins 15y ago
Funny, the only time I've had luck with VRBO/HomeAway is peak season, grabbing last-minute deals on things that would otherwise stand empty. :)
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by Harkins 15y ago
Cool. You don't have an email address in your profile, but I do in mine - please drop me a line when you have any news, I'm curious about the idea. :)
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by Harkins 15y ago
Yep. Currently in Montreal on an east-to-west tour across Canada. :)
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by Harkins 15y ago
If you are an American citizen, you always have to file taxes on wages, no matter where you earn them or who you work for (even if you steal things, you pay taxes on them).
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by Harkins 15y ago
Web stuff works for me. Demand is high enough that there are companies willing to take part-time workers.
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by Harkins 15y ago
IANAL, but I've been traveling 6 months and have read a lot about this. I have never seen a work permit needed unless you are working for a local company. If you are an American working for American clients remotely, you're fine. Always, al
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by Harkins 15y ago
I've been on the road six months so far, and have been using Craigslist, AirBNB, HomeAway, and VRBO.com. (Though these last two nearly never have sane prices.) You absolutely have to haggle. Every time. Even if you're only staying two days,
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by Harkins 15y ago
LibraryThing is intended to be useful for cataloging one's own collection, less so for finding new books. It's been around since 2006, yes, but it hasn't had big changes since the first year or so. I became a lifetime member not long after
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by Harkins 15y ago
The kind that profiles. The common case to optimize for may be insertion (especially with US $1 notes) rather than withdrawl. Semi-sorting by putting all change at the front while withdrawing for payment from the large bills at the rear is
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by Harkins 15y ago
They're using LaunchRock. I think this brand of scammy must be some kind of default setting, I've seen it a number of times.
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by Harkins 15y ago
Ruby has been in ridiculous demand in Chicago for at least a year. I blame Groupon. :) They've hired big chunks of three or four consulting shops and are building their own internal teams. One of the Obtiva owners (consulting shop) wrote:
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by Harkins 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Nomadically traveling the world (currently in .ca) - Remote only, availability up to 20h/wk Currently do web dev front to back on Rails/jQuery/real life js/MySQL/Postgres. Can do PHP, Django, but usually only for porting to R
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by Harkins 15y ago
They don't have to scale infinitely, only a handful of news sites serve more than 20m pages/day. As for not overwhelming users or moderators, that was part of my secret sauce. :)
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by Harkins 15y ago
Two months ago I got a form letter rejection from the semi-final round of the Knight News Challenge on my proposal to do exactly this. It was based on what I'd learned about news forums from working at the Washington Post, machine learning,
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by Harkins 15y ago
There is a nice Firefox plugin called Scrapbook that does this.
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by Harkins 15y ago
Then quit abusing the term "open source". It has a specific meaning. The other word in the title is "Startups", would you do interviews with only established multinational companies and call it "startups"? Would you publish a cookbook and c

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