JimmyL

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by JimmyL 17y ago
Some initial feedback: - When I look at your site, I don't know what it does. As a result, I'll just go back to Google. I gather there are some special commands (which I see from clicking through the manage link, but when I do my first lo
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Yeah, this is what pisses me off about people who suggest radical simplifications of the tax code - reminds me of Steve Yegge's Shit's Easy Syndrome . Taxation is difficult. There are a lot of weird things you can do with your money, and a
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Send them as two sequential SMS messages, or an MMS message (user's choice). Pretty much anyone who is receiving tweets on their phone has unlimited received texts anyways.
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YC should be a means to an end, as opposed to an end in and of itself. Your goal, with respect to this area, should be to launch a series of successful startups that allow you to execute your exit strategies and build cool things. YC may, o
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by JimmyL 17y ago
One of my pet peeves about Twitter is that conceptually, it hasn't embraced the fact that most of its users don't Tweet by SMS. I'm all about using a restricted message format to encourage spontaneity and focus the message, but if I want to
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Where do things like all-Flash web apps fall? Are they web apps, since I use my browser to get to a web page that contains no more code than is needed to launch the Flash movie? But what if I chose to download (or otherwise receive) the .fl
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How do you define a browser? If you strip away the visual chrome, a browser is simply a piece of software that interprets a certain set of languages and displays the result, not unlike the JVM or the CLR. As for your example, I can do that
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When thinking about nukes, remember that the whole point is to not fire them - their value lies in deterrence, and in everyone knowing the horrible things that would happen if they were fired (this is less the case with tactical nuclear wea
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The product that I really think blurs the line right now is Mozilla Prism ( http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ ). Sure, "we" know that a Prism "app" is really just a web app running inside of a stripped-down copy of Firefox, but the ave
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They don't want to aim it at the Saudi oilfields, they want to aim it at Mecca.
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This gut got lucky, specifically at this stage: >> So the man says, "I understand, that's fine, but you can't support yourself right now, and you'll need to be able to do that before we can get divorced..." The wife was well within
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Yesterday. If your version control system has so much overhead that putting code under VC is a chore or something to be put off and planned for, then it has a problem - and you need a new VCS, or at the very least, a new set of tools and wo
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I sent this link to a friend of mine who's a corporate lawyer for a large international firm - her first response was "PACER sucks so hard right now; maybe this will make it better", followed a few minutes later with "this is pretty cool, b
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I'm also NAL, but I think privacy laws are the kind of thing that you can't just disclaim away - you may be willing to give up that information, but if it's illegal for them to collect it it's still illegal.
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Often happens at all-you-can-eat sushi places; personally I know of three or four in Montreal/Toronto where this is done. They're the kind of places where you order small dishes off the menu, and you can just keep ordering them until you're
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- Original Le Corbusier LC4 - Convertible sports car - Star Alliance Super-Elite card - Man Ray/Ansel Adams original photographs - 100+ year-old trees - Cottage on a nice lake
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This seems (externally) similar to the idea of drinking lots of water so that you'll have to wake up to take a piss - except here it's being hungry that's waking you up. My problem with sleeping, though, is falling asleep - I can wake up wh
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In the context of a plug-in hybrid, what does the "gallon" in "miles per gallon" mean?
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In 2007, Shacham first described return-oriented programming, which is a powerful systems security exploit that generates malicious behavior by combining short snippets of benign code already present in the system. The only references I c
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Miles per gallon answers a question no one asks - you don't say "I have a gallon of gas, how far can I go?", you ask "I am going 40 miles, how much gas will it take?" MPG comparisons are based on two vehicles using the same amount of gas an
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If you've got a DSLR: find the darkest sky you can, get a chair and some books to balance your camera on (or a tripod), set your f-stop as low as it goes, your exposure to 30sec, your ISO to 800, and focus to infinity - press the release, s
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Version control - use it for everything Even things not software-related. If it's done on a computer, it should be in VCS. Ideally on a repo hosted by your school, if that's not possible, then one on a third-party machine that's run by as l
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Re: GPA, take As when you can get them. Doesn't matter if the course is bullshit - an A is an A, and your GPA is cumulative. This is especially important in first-year, as your performance therein haunts you for the rest of your time at sch
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Having just got out, some things that I wish I had known when I started up: Take Risks . Lots of them. College is one of the few times in your life when you're old enough to do cool risky things, but in a position where short of killing so
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They're IOUs because the average person reading the stories about them won't understand what it means if they said they were bonds (they'd think commercial paper, if anything). If you read hardcore financial papers, they're effectively bond
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An interesting tactic Bell (in Canada) has done recently is explicitly add a fee for canceling if the contract conditions change. Generally, terms will say that the contract may change from time to time, and it's left up to the reader to ma
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I suspect class actions attorneys would get excited by this, because of the extra fees they can charge. I suspect the process would now go something like this: 1. Some people talk to a class action attorney about a class action suit. 2. Att
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Yeah - the buying patterns of tech and cars are quite different. As you say, people don't buy a new car every eighteen months. Buying cars also involves a lot more intangibles than buying technology does, and costs a lot more. There's also
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>> If the economy keeps moving toward recovery, as many measures suggest, then the new products might well work out for buyers and sellers alike. Isn't this exactly what they were saying when encouraging people to take out ridicul
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I think an explicit purpose of this strategy is to avoid people who are resume-bombing to hundreds of jobs. In all cases that I've seen, the companies are small (5-15 current employees) startups where hiring a candidate with the right perso

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