a_m_kelly

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by a_m_kelly 4y ago
Not sure where you're writing from geographically, professionally or culturally but I can't imagine doing this to anyone. In a professional environment, grabbing someone's arm and leading them around by it seems like an incre
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by a_m_kelly 14y ago
"A Stable (but perhaps unexciting) Business - This is where most people end up." Really? "Most people" with a new business end up with stable but unexciting businesses? I suspect most people end in failure, not Stable Business. In a post fu
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by a_m_kelly 14y ago
This seems unlikely as Prometheus is being directly by Ridley Scott, not James Cameron.
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by a_m_kelly 14y ago
I've done quite a bit of looking around re: 433 Eros's composition. I have found very little to suggest to me that there's large amounts of valuable minerals there. Can you cite someone that's done a composition extimate? This: http://www
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by a_m_kelly 15y ago
As someone who works in higher education, I'm most excited about this: "...operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions." In m
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by a_m_kelly 15y ago
Try your local public library, it's free. You may have to wait a day or two for ILL or movies to get to your local branch if they don't have what you're looking for right there. There's also going to be an online listing of movie that are a
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by a_m_kelly 15y ago
I can second the recommendation of that book, I've heard a lot of good things, though I haven't read it. It's recently been updated in a 2nd edition [1], though I have no idea if there are substantive changes, presumably, there are, given m
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by a_m_kelly 15y ago
This seems like a really good idea, except that for me, it destroys two of the main reasons I send post cards when I travel: * The physical mail is moving from where I am travelling to where the recipient is back home. It has to travel, jus
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
It seems to me, at least as far as my Google Autocompletes and general beginning linux searches, that many people who are new to linux are searching "problem $x ubuntu" not "problem $x linux." That's just my anecdotal evidence, Linux, when
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
Thanks for responding, I certainly see where you're coming from, as you've said, you can't change an entire industry over night, but that won't stop people like me from wishing that you could. I guess I'm impatient for a company like yours
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing that they have listings but not actually giving out much info
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Alternative ebook distribution & sales with Gmail, GoogleDocs & Paypal(massivesqwertz.com)
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
That's an interesting question. My [minimal] understanding of copyright law suggests that whether the book's in public domain in Britain has no bearing on the rights granted to Americans to use it. If it is in the public domain in Britain,
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QzG7EHf...
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
seconded. I live in Boston and I am almost never further than a single block from a BofA ATM here. Their ATMs now allow me to make deposits at nearly all ATMs, so until I move out of Boston there's no reason to switch.
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
If you find yourself to be interested in this sort of thing more broadly, in the justification of violence or it's utility, I recommend William T. Vollmann's exhaustive, intricate attempt to establish a framework for understanding the motiv
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I think the thinking here is that hard drives are cheap and ubiquitous. I have a whole drawer full of old hard drives, and though most people don't, I'm sure a lot of boxee's eventual user base does. Given the amount of streaming content av
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
well, it looks like the Boxee Box _should_ be supporting Netflix "by the end of the year" and they appear to be in talks about Hulu+. http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/netflix-and-hulu-plus-com...
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I haven't been paying attention, but has eyetracking software gotten that good? Can you point to people or companies who are working on this, or currently available solutions? I've been doing some usability testing stuff and it'd be nice t
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
It's true: the old ones are very good, the recent additions to the Ender series for instance are terrible, they're an obvious cash in on his brand, I suspect he writes them quickly so he can make some quick cash (or to fill up his existing
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I know this article isn't about the content of your resume, but is your experience as a BSA camp counselor relevant programming or design work? Very few employers will understand that being Nature Director likely meant you were an Environme
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I did something similar the summer I also got my first on-the-books job. My mom had met a local business owner at a party and she's recommend my "skills" as a "web designer," I put together a slick looking splash page with the company logo
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I'd love to know what sort of infrastructure you're running this on. I'm in a course for my Masters for library school that deals with similar sorts of problems in maintaining and preserving for the "long term" digital materials. From your
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
re: the OLPC, what were you running on it? I have one in my closet and I've been meaning to put something that isn't the stock software on there for a long time.
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I've gotten in and things are loading, but slow. That the thing is still running at all seems nice given the ass-kicking I suspect their servers are likely receiving.
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I'm not so sure about the name. I understand how it conveys their mission exactly and it does that really well: leave facebook(or twitter or wherever), come here. I can see how setting themselves up from word 1 as opposition to facebook has
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by a_m_kelly 16y ago
I'm a bit confused by the interface. You suggest in a comment that it's built on something called "Slide Deck" but I've never encountered that. I seem to have the main slide I'm reading with previous and next buttons. My mouse wheel (I disc