adbachman

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by adbachman 17y ago
According to him, it's the number given by "people who are getting the firehose feed." http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-tw...
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by adbachman 17y ago
Because it's a short bit of worth-reading hard sci-fi written by someone known to much of the HN community who's not known for writing engaging fiction, but clearly capable of it. So, it's interesting on few levels, but probably divisive in
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by adbachman 17y ago
Agreed, it's a last mile problem. When I get a letter addressed to 914 instead of 918, I know which house it's supposed to go to. No effort required after step one: address envelope. It'd be easy enough to hand out your address as a url, "j
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by adbachman 17y ago
I think the point of the article was best summed up by: > While our competitors furiously worked on regaining market share, we were arguing about whether the carpets should be wool or nylon. The result was not pretty. Growth is not t
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by adbachman 17y ago
This keeps coming up. It keeps getting posted, anyways. this article - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=421555 from an HN comment thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32383 CMMI in general - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by adbachman 17y ago
It (debouncing) is available as a library from the arduino site: [ http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/Debounce](http://www.a...
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by adbachman 17y ago
The ABC site (the "abc full episode player") isn't even silver light, it's some kind of half-assed, totally custom plugin. From the site (when browsing on linux): Oops Our new video player is only available for: * Windows XP/Vista - Int
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by adbachman 17y ago
We're "unschooling" our kids (4 and 2, right now). At their age, it means pretty much the same thing it means at any other age, as I understand it. To us, unschooling means we don't push an agenda. Neither I nor my wife are our childrens' t
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by adbachman 18y ago
Extremely lightweight repository creation is my reason. `git init` and you've got a local repo. One .git folder in your root directory and that's it. Blow away the one folder and you're back to where you started. None of the .svn folder spa
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by adbachman 18y ago
My wife has been trying to get something going in our neck of the woods: [foodmake.org]( http://www.foodmake.org/ ), and it seems to be going pretty well. The goal is to get people talking and then get them off the web and connecting in the
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by adbachman 18y ago
The software is Impromptu [ http://impromptu.moso.com.au/](http://impromptu.moso.com.au/... , it sounds a lot like [fluxus]( http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ ) which emilis mentioned. > Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for compo
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by adbachman 18y ago
Most governments (city, county, state, and even national) are required to post all requests for proposals (RFPs) publicly and consider all proposals they receive. As with any business or political process, it helps if you know people. http
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by adbachman 18y ago
Are you kidding? Not being able to talk about pop idol wannabe got booted is a serious problem for you? "My problem comes when everyone at school is talking about some element of popular culture, and one kid doesn't have a clue what to
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by adbachman 18y ago
It has nothing to do with the nature of the activity. Graham's point is that the social networks provided the last stimulus needed (over the last 30 years) to get computers into daily use in almost every household in the first world. You di
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by adbachman 18y ago
We could, and did rely on the code he produced. But that doesn't mean anyone believed they could rely on him. If he had said, "You can rely on me", you might have an argument. Your bad for reading too much into it. From the blog post: >
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by adbachman 18y ago
Wikis, too. Kills me when I run across a wiki.hostname.com that has no link to hostname.com. I think the problem (with blogs, wikis, ticket tracking, SCM systems) is that people stick to what came in the box and don't bother to tweak the te
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by adbachman 18y ago
Someone else in the comments (on Cuban's site) said something similar. His response was to the effect of, "I have no interest in investing in those types of businesses. They take time to build. This is about hitting the ground running"
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by adbachman 18y ago
This just warms the heart. I have to side with the reporter here. From the comments it looks like they're getting a lot of digg and reddit traffic (hell of a lot). It serves as a strong reminder of why I left those sites a long time ago.
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by adbachman 18y ago
You have numbers to back this up?
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by adbachman 18y ago
> "who died and appointed you the arbiter of stupid" I think that's the key. We all are entitled to an opinion, but none of us is entitled to spit that opinion in the face of anyone else. > "It's your attitude towards other people
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by adbachman 18y ago
The group was pretty much founded as an anti-business alternative to the existing business friendly events. I don't think marketing or "startup culture" have a place in the FU. But that's just my impression from reading the initial blog p
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by adbachman 18y ago
Software developer for large (5 - 7 billion USD) non-tech manufacturing company. Currently investigating the local startup / small company scene for an upgrade, though.
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by adbachman 18y ago
I don't think the author was claiming we should or would stop watching purely passive media. His statement was more that, on the whole, time spent passively receiving is cognitive surplus. If the floodgates are opened even a bit (1 hour i
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by adbachman 18y ago
> "You don't have to appeal to everyone." I thought that idea was one of the highlights of the presentation. If you can sell 400 accounts at 40 USD a month, you're going to live very comfortably. If you can't find a market niche where
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by adbachman 19y ago
26 + BA (theology), 1/3 of a CS master's