RobGR

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by RobGR 18y ago
I would pay $100 / mo. I would like a desk, bathroom, and internet, but I don't need the receptionist. There should be a server closet where a member can leave a low-powered server, like an ordinary desktop, running, but pay extra for th
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by RobGR 18y ago
I understand from various articles I have read, that when you go to actually sell loose diamonds, you don't get much for them and find it hard to get near the "appraised value" offered. Consider this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/do
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have just spent some time reading up on GFS2. It sounds interesting. But it also seems aimed at "SAN" style storage, which is expensive. The acronyms that gaius posted above were also interesting to google, but I don't want to buy sto
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think if you compare the cost of getting a dual power supply server, to the cost of getting two servers, you will conclude that buying two servers gives you more reliability per dollar. I have come to the same conclusion even with regard
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by RobGR 18y ago
What you say may well be true. But Google was not willing to send a representative to say that in court, or have someone type it into an email, or have one of their many automated systems put that into an email. Google is certainly capabl
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by RobGR 18y ago
But it's HACKER tabloid junk. Surely it will appear on these pages again when xkcd makes a cartoon of it.
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by RobGR 18y ago
"Doomsayers were worried about something they called the "greenhouse effect." They said if we didn't reduce our carbon emissions soon, the world would heat up and we would have an ecological catastrophe." Ice age was the preferred senario o
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by RobGR 18y ago
It seems to get every picture 6 times. Would you be interested in publishing the source, as an example to other people who might be tempted to do similar things in bash ?
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by RobGR 18y ago
It seemed a little rambly and stream-of-consciousness, but when he talks he's like that. His written stuff is a little more disciplined. Bruce Sterling has been one of my favorite authors since I found him, I have always felt that his stor
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by RobGR 18y ago
I buy ramen at 8 to 10 cents a pack, and not at any special restaurant supply place or anything like that, just the good old HEB. If you start going the route of adding pinches of veges and peanut butter and etc, and your own flavorings, yo
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by RobGR 18y ago
Thanks for posting the link to that essay, it's one of PG's that I missed and I enjoyed it. I like the observation that marginal space matters. That is one of the reasons why I left the Boston area, after staying there a while after school
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by RobGR 18y ago
It should be possible to make a fiberglass modification kit for one or two gas-efficient models, and sell the kit and installation service.
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by RobGR 18y ago
It may be impossible to preserve much savings through the current and coming crisis. A couple of years ago I went on a binge and read every book about the South Sea Bubble and other aspects of financial disasters that I could find. A story
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by RobGR 18y ago
Clicking the up and down arrow on HN seems to work OK. Similar voting or comment moderation systems on reddit or other places are sometimes reasonably fast. I would not mind selecting a pull-down or radio button and hitting submit at the b
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by RobGR 18y ago
I heard though word of mouth (i.e., kind of unreliable, so I won't mention any names) that a certain company I had respected "almost died a few months after launching, because craigslist figured out how to stop us from spamming them for a c
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by RobGR 18y ago
I figured out (because PG mentioned it in his essay about HN) that I just have to set "show dead" in my profile options, and I can see the crap too. This is better than actually completely deleting, because it enables people to check on the
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by RobGR 18y ago
I like your idea. I like the simplicity of the layout of the page when you are logged in. You should make it so the browser can be shrunk a lot more without scrolling, though. This will help with cell phone browsers. It is not hard to set
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't write javascript, because I don't run javascript (with a few exceptions). I associate javascript with crap websites. It is slow and it causes the browser to use up a lot of memory. The functionality gained by it is usually pointle
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't know what gmail does, but what you describe can be done with spamassassin. The Horde webmail program has a way for users to submit false positives and false negatives to the spamassassin training command.
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by RobGR 18y ago
It makes me sad that I no longer see it, but just a [dead] placeholder. I like graying out the obnoxious stuff. I don't mind forcing people to click again to see something that is truly offensive. But I think when stuff disappears complet
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by RobGR 18y ago
When you thought the university was a load of crap, that no one gave a shit about you, that textbooks were meant for professors to profit, and that professors don't care about teaching you, you were right. It was not "youth angst" or "acade
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by RobGR 18y ago
Get cheap ass folding cafeteria style tables, chairs out of dumpsters, and make shelves from wood and cinderblocks. Pay someone to design your space ? Are you kidding ? One trick, is to get everyone to commit to once every three weeks, com
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by RobGR 18y ago
I'm in Austin and could not participate directly, but I think it is a good idea and you should try to do it. My advice would be to not spend money on servers and computers. Hackers can find their own computers, and set up a cast-off as a s
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by RobGR 18y ago
There is also an iPhone application called "Sales Report" that will download your daily sales data and give you a report with graphs & etc right on your iPhone.
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by RobGR 18y ago
Think about the small business owners you know. In their regular business, do they do a lot of searching on google ? Spend much time reading flyers that came in the mail ? The answer is probably not, and that's why it is hard to advertise
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by RobGR 18y ago
All the cheap hosting places suck. Dealing with the customer and the non-responsive $5 / mo hosting place takes more time and effort than just hosting it yourself. If they are truly low traffic, just host them yourself on a business class
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't know where you could get something like that these days. However, TI used to make a real portable terminal: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/... That one is considerably larger than the smallest models.
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by RobGR 18y ago
If this were done in the US, the umbrella company could offer a 401k, which many freelancers would like. (I know you can do it even as a freelancer, but it's a hassle.) Edit: There might be at least one place that does this: http://www.mb
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Since they have a good design, steal it.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I recommend RT: http://bestpractical.com/rt/ If you have a linux host, you can download the open source package and install it yourself. There are directions in the wiki on how to do stuff like have it handle the support email even when

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