Haul4ss

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by Haul4ss 12y ago
Is this the same mollycoddled social class in the history of humanity that just earned the right to vote in the U.S. < 100 years ago?
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
The whole point of YNAB (Rule #1 of their program) is that you need to proactively allocate every dollar you have. Every dollar has a job, and then you need to manually enter when that dollar is doing its job so you feel when that money act
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
Are you the original author of that project? Did you ever find someone else to take over development? I remember reading about that last year.
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
The funny thing is, they're not competing on price. Sans contract, this phone is a hefty $649. When I heard Amazon would have a phone, I thought for sure it would be very cheap, possibly even free with Prime membership. That would be a
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
I don't "like" any major brands or companies on Facebook, but I do several local companies. The froyo place we like publishes their daily flavor offerings on Facebook. The local butcher gives coupons on their Facebook page. S
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
Rent seeking, baby! Gotta protect the entrenched interests.
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
I think there are additional reasons MacBooks are more popular. Certainly you can't ignore the bandwagon effect. All the cool kids have MacBooks. I'm not saying that's why everyone owns one, but you can't discount it as
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
I think his point is that the next hugely successful billionaire will not be creating a competitor to something that is already hugely successful today. That's not to say you can't make a comfortable living building a better mouse
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
These kinds of projects are neat, but the reason I use vim on OS X is because it's the same editor I use on my FreeBSD server, and the same editor on all my Linux boxen at work. I'm used to it, and the experience is consistent. I
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
Why? Reasonable people aren't allowed to disagree anymore?
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
That's pretty remarkable, actually. I see he's going to CMU in the fall, which is a win for CMU. He's obviously a smart dude.
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by Haul4ss 12y ago
Kim's an easy target for humor, and certainly The Respected and Beloved Marshall's propaganda machine seems corny to us. But it's important to remember that DPRK is a brutal regime that is home to countless human rights trage
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
The ultimate example of the "what would you do?" question is Bill Gates. If there is any one person on Earth who does not _need_ to work, it's him. And yet he's as busy as he's always been. He's not just funnel
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
And every single piece of that news started under Ballmer's tenure. The new guy has been there < 60 days. The stuff they're announcing now was started months if not years ago.
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
That's odd, because I have the OneDrive client for Mac and iPad. But I'm using the consumer version tied to my outlook.com account. I've been an Evernote user for years, but now that it's available on all my platforms, I
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
They've gotten better in recent years, at least supporting OS X, iOS, and Android. I've used Office 2011 for Mac for a couple years now, and OneDrive works every bit as well as Dropbox or other cross-platform cloud document progra
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
Ive is selling a Mercedes, not a Chevy. By that I mean there is a very carefully curated image of Apple and the products it sells and the people who buy them that he is working to maintain with his words. I read the whole article, and it&#x
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
You're not! I work on a team of Screen enthusiasts. We all use it, every day.
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
One big reason is that it gives people the most important info they need up front. If they care about details, they can keep reading.
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
I have a number of friends in various pockets of the IT industry who do not have four-year degrees. Of those, the ones that are > 40 wish they had the degree. I suspect they're hitting the upper bound of the career ladder for non-gr
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
> how the hell did Microsoft go so wrong Well, at some point the software becomes too big for one person to understand, or even a small team of wicked smart architects to understand. Think about how complex Windows 8 is compared to MS-DO
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
Well, it was his first day on the job. I didn't expect him to roll out a 50-page strategy document. He was cheerleading here. Boosting the morale of Microsoft employees by talking about how awesome they are and how their lives will imp
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
I like the idea of a code comprehension test. I would give the code to the candidate 1-2 days before the interview, and let them ponder it. I know, technically they can cheat and google API calls or show it to their friends, but I bet with
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
I'm a bit of a bookworm, so there's my bias. But... reading a book is almost certainly a better use of time than, say, farting around on Imgur, or looking at celebrity gossip web sites, or playing Minecraft. Is it better than, say
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
I like Mac. I'm typing this comment on a Mac. My first computer was an Apple IIc, before there even was a Mac. But sheesh, this ad is schmaltzy even for me!
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Quarter-life crisis. He's asking "is this all there is?" Not everybody feels compelled to a higher calling. In fact, I'd say most people don't. That doesn't mean life isn't worth living, it just means he h
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
You could almost argue that your 1, 2, and 3 are the same thing as my 3, 2, and 1.
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
One of the most concise descriptions of good teachers I've seen actually came from pg in his "rarely asked questions" list. http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html (1) They had high standards. (2) They liked us. (
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
Nixon?
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by Haul4ss 13y ago
Wow, you've certainly been productive! How was your experience with the Microsoft Store and getting apps approved? What language did you write all the games in? How much code got reused between the games (I noticed a number of them app

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