TooMuchNick

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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Aging is bad because it hurts quality of life. Right now, people live longer than their bodies can perform at full capacity. Most people would prefer to remain healthy for their entire lives. No matter how ready someone is to die, no one w
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Wow, it's the buddy system for backup! That's a great solution to the psychological barrier: usually, no one but you can tell you to backup your personal data. I went to a Christian college where everyone was issued laptops, so several of m
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
And because you will by default be lazier than you should be, sit back right now and think of some worst-case scenarios that would screw up the projects you're currently working on, and write down what you need to do to avoid those. Living
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Man, I had no idea. Where'd you hear/read about this?
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Ha! This is honestly going into a comedy I'm writing about startups. This is Arrested-Development-level hypocrisy.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
In this case, I actually find the baroque "misspelling" charming. It's like Ben Franklin is spelling the word "tweet." The overwrought spelling fits the tone of the site: a little more weight is expected here than in the usual Twitter messa
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
And if Sousa were right, the country wouldn't now be full of clubs, bars, cafes and concert halls where live music is performed, and there'd be nothing to play on the radio (or, okay, download on Bittorrent). Music scales through distributi
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
IBM's new business plan: Run the works of the Clash through their software, crank it through Songsmith and make millions on the YouTube adsense.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
But like I said, there are plenty of awful cafes on Valencia. I guess I conflated financial success and coolness: Mission Creek, one block down Valencia from Ritual, seems to get along just fine but it's a terribly dull place to go. The cof
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
This could also be a pain for users who are used to checking the front page. If the states are listed alphabetically, everyone can find their state every time.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
This also answers my longest-standing question about cafes: Why are there so few fun ones? San Francisco's Valencia Street (with its immediate offshoots) supports hundreds of interesting businesses. Many of them are cafes. Only two of those
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
The difference of magnitude between the revenue of the proposed wifi charges and the revenue of BART ticket prices is so staggering that a comparison makes little sense. It's much more likely that money could be taken from another area of c
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
The semi-social, semi-user-generated porn site fantasti.cc was created by a group of popular dot-commers (I know who but I can't tell) who have so far kept their names off the site. One of my partners at Boffery (a pre-alpha visual diary fo
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
I'm honestly not being cheeky, I suppose I'm just slow: Wouldn't it be easier to just not think about the points? I've found the points useful when looking for a summary, takeaway, or rebuttal that earned attention.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
I have to complain, I've ridden BART in San Francisco for three years and had no idea I could have signed up for wifi. I wish I'd noticed the network on my phone and looked into it, but of course looking for wifi on BART never occurred to m
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Except, I'd think, for the bit where Eric Bauman makes even more money in the sale and faces no charges for a decade of illegal business that funneled capital away from the creators who deserved it. Dear lord, I think I just gave myself eno
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
It's okay, a little smack on the hand is just what I needed. I have no idea what's brought so many new users (I just came to find talent and advice for my startup), but as long as it's a temporary influx, the new users will settle down as t
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
"A little dirt is good for you" strikes me as a bittersweet lesson for those of us who avoid the conflict and drudgery that's necessary to reach any worthwhile dream. Plus now I'm hungry for some beef.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Since I'm spending a lot of time on 4chan lately as research for an article, I got a fit of giggles when you mentioned the hormone-drunk adolescents that rule...Reddit.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
I just learned the very hard way to never ever comment on HN after drinking.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
It would be healthy for submitters to look at headlines before they copy them directly, realizing that what makes sense for a blogger (aware of Digg) seeking some well-deserved attention for a post might not make sense in an extremely speci
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Unless you have a not-so-secret smirking attitude toward Paul Graham, having publicly ridiculed him in an earlier stage of your career and now being lucky enough to have no need for his money.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
And by "grown-up," we mean "like grown-ups who aren't from TechCrunch."
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Ha, yes, that's a major concern for us. We lucked out and found some very experienced people who've worked with federal financial data. We're assuming major security threats from (before) Day Zero. One advantage is that all Boffery accounts
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Karma whores. But seriously, mostly we care more about talking to the HN community than we do about adding value to your article. When you say "more helpful," you mean more helpful to you and your readers. "More helpful" to me might mea
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Bugmenot Firefox plugin, so on any login form on the web you can right-click and select "Login with Bugmenot": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Sorry, I should have realized the OS would be very important. I want to try writing a couple of Mac apps.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Still less silly than sweatpants and slippers.
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Sounds like that line in Bridget Jones: "I'm very busy and important."
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by TooMuchNick 18y ago
Meh. Nothing I don't see on my Google search. And they didn't find my email address.

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