HedgeMage

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by HedgeMage 15y ago
So do it!
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
It's not just location: Telecommuting makes a huge difference: less child care, less gas, no unpaid commute time, etc. Benefits: Is work paying for my gym? How good is the health insurance? How much vacation do I get? Is work keeping me sto
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
It's definitely a function of social conditioning -- how else would it vary so much based on the community in which one is raised? When it comes to salary negotiations, most lower-SEC (socio-economic class) country women I know will count
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
For the 5-and-under crowd, ebooks simply cannot compare to the paper book experience. Color, size, the physical act of page turning, and (for the littlest ones) texture are too important. However, my 8yo is in the process of earning his ow
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
It depends on the age of the kid... for a 2yo, moving pictures and talking characters in a book app offer similar benefits to pop-up books and those book-on-tape/CD/vinyl and deadtree book combos -- they help the child learn that the words
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
FAIL Why would I want to use my email address as an identity? I already get more than enough spam.
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
1) I use duckduckgo.com instead of Google; in addition to its other advantages, it doesn't try to tailor results to me (or track what I'm up to in general). 2) I make looking at alternate viewpoints a part of my research heuristic in genera
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Ugh. Yet another site/app that depends on Facebook. I'm not even going to try it.
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
"Developer" or "Hacker" depending on the context.
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Gas, wear and tear on my car, before and after school care, etc. would probably add up to about 7k/year if I didn't work from home in the relatively inexpensive city where I live (Indianapolis). I can't imagine what it would be in Chicago
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
It's not just non-work time you get to share when you work at home! My 8yo has a small work table in my office; he comes home from school, opens up the backpack, and we work together (my job, his homework) for a while. He usually checks u
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Tagging, tagging, tagging. I'd use this if I could somehow subscribe to an RSS feed of just categories of things I'm interested in.
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Cute and all, but not the sort of thing I'd ever want to tie to Facebook. OpenID is preferable, creating a new user name / password is a livable second choice.
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Can we have an option for "I don't care as long as I stop seeing posts about the (un)desirability of visible comment scores" ?
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Why do you think that?
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
I'd adore a Google Earth overlay that showed rentals and/or homes for sale (preferably grabbed according to my own criteria) so that I can use things like drive time to important locations, school boundaries, etc. to find places I'd like
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
A few tips from a female hacker to your girlfriend: * Start using open source software -- the easiest place to start is developing on something that you already like and use, and which has an established developer community. Use lots of di
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Hi, I'm under-educated and a single parent of a special needs child. I was a stay-at-home mom (my son was 4) when a looming divorce prompted me to re-enter the workforce. Nobody wanted to hire me, so I started a company. Now (almost 4 year
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
I don't accept your premise -- that work time is, by definition, time away from one's children. My son is 8. His playroom and my office are really one big room, with some furniture dividing it into separate spaces. He comes home from school
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Who says breastfeeding time is unproductive time? I used to sleep while breastfeeding at night -- plunk the baby on the bed, stick a nipple in their mouth and doze. When baby grabs at the other one, switch sides. During the day, I coded wh
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
The rule of law is only as strong as the people's opposition to it being broken. Of course the government flouts the law on a pretty regular basis: how many people are willing to stand up and say "enough!" -- and I don't mean only when t
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
My best work comes to me,either through word of mouth from satisfied clients, or my reputation in the community. When I was first starting out, I took a lot of so-so jobs. You only have to have a couple really good clients to get word-of-m
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
This is definitely the most sensible response so far. I was the mom who coded while breastfeeding and had her son at his first LUG meeting before he was two months old. Being a mom and being a hacker have always melded pretty well for me,
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Fountain pens aren't as messy as you may think. I usually fill at home and carry 2-3 pens if I'm going to a conference or something where I may write a lot. However, if I do need to fill on the go, I carry ink vials instead of bottles (the
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Have you tried a fountain pen with a quick-drying ink? Noodler's Bernanke black and blue, or a Private Reserve fast-dry ink, are good choices, especially if you are a lefty.
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
I agree that it's hard to argue that people were deceived, especially considering that I've chosen not to use Dropbox from the start beacause they only used one key for everyone, because employees could access my files, and so on. If I (w
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
It bears repeating that emacs grows with you . You don't have to learn and customize a new editor when you take on a new type of task. From the time I wrote my first Linux config file, to when I started coding in C (and through the next d
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Yes! The smoother a pen writes, the less your brain has to be engaged with the physical action of writing (constantly modifying the motion of your hand to accommodate changing friction depending on the part of the paper, direction of the s
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
Irony: posted by someone who doesn't know when to use "then" and when to use "than".
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by HedgeMage 15y ago
The Constitution is fine; the government's habit of ignoring it is the problem. EDIT: The Constitution is fine; our habit of letting the government ignore it is the problem.

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