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Theory of Spencerian Penmanship - writing that trains you how to think(iampeth.com)
21 points by aggieben 18y ago|6 comments
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by aggieben 18y ago
Yeah, recruiters - especially the ones that troll craigslist - are a real pain. Most of the things I've responsded to have turned out to be fake. The recruiters just make up jobs and post them to get your resumes, and then they give some
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by aggieben 18y ago
Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing. I didn't sign up for gigtide, because the killer feature for resume sites like this is to be able to send out via email in all of: text, rtf, word, pdf, html. Having a nifty profile with a sort o
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Need an updated resume? Maybe something like this...(gigtide.com)
14 points by aggieben 18y ago|9 comments
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by aggieben 18y ago
The sorry decline of General Motors has proved Reuther right: the government is the better provider of social insurance. Let industry worry about selling products. Huh? Seems to me that this just proved that the market is a better provid
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by aggieben 18y ago
I do.
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Gentoo team hopes developers know what they're doing(briancarper.net)
2 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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by aggieben 18y ago
Yup. It's just in the water, I think. It's starting to get better, particularly in the East parts, like Plano and Richardson. There's an incubator in Richardson, actually - it's called Star Tech Early Ventures (startechev.com). I've bee
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by aggieben 18y ago
Thank you thank you for that link. On the Wikipedia page, I found this: www.lionev.com Which is perfect .
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by aggieben 18y ago
I just hope they get around to making a light-duty truck like my Ford Ranger. My wish: all-electric Ranger-like truck for $10-20k
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by aggieben 18y ago
That's exactly the problem I've had. There's 2-3 people I've worked with in the last 3 years I've approached about getting our nuts out of the corporate lock-box, and none of them have any interest. With two of them, you can tell immediat
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by aggieben 18y ago
Oh, I don't know about that. I am completely incapable of empathizing with the human being who chooses to beat his daughter to death for dating a boy from another religion. Amen to that.
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by aggieben 18y ago
Yeah, onion routing will grind your data rates way, way down. It also very much works against the inertia of the internet as it stands, which it turns out to not be all that useful.
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by aggieben 18y ago
The essence of IPSec is a mandatory feature of IPv6. I don't see how this could mean anything other than "packets don't have to be encrypted by default, but encrypted packets must be allowed to be sent and received at any time". That make
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by aggieben 18y ago
Lets face it, we are in an exponential technological curve, go back 100 years, and probably 90% of stuff in your house didn't even exist back then. Actually, I think there are very few things in my house that didn't exist a ce
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by aggieben 18y ago
I couldn't find a more authoritative source on very short order, but FWIW, here's the TLDP ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/chapter-encryption-au... ) Unlike in IPv4, encryption and authentication is a mandatory feature of IP
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by aggieben 18y ago
Or IPv6, right?
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Labor laws create institutional ludditism(cnbc.com)
1 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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by aggieben 18y ago
That wasn't the point. I like the GNU userland. I just get tired of hearing RMS bitch about the fact that everyone calls Linux kernel+userland distributions "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux". That ship has sailed; it's time to let it go.
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by aggieben 18y ago
Sometimes I wish Linux distributions would totally dump GNU and use newlib or something. I suspect the only thing that has kept GNU in the distros for so long is GCC.
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by aggieben 18y ago
Yes. That's called Marxism . It starts off with assurances that it's really in everyone's best interest, but ends up as totalitarianism in practice.
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by aggieben 18y ago
The only restriction is that one can't deny others the same freedoms. Ah, good. Progress. We agree that what FSF calls "free", and what RMS so piously lectures us all about, has at least one substantive restriction. My definition of "f
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by aggieben 18y ago
I never really meant that the calculations should be without context. One could keep a "running distribution" to update P (probably a bunch of Ps, actually) as you play. Maybe we're now just looking at the same thing from different angles.
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by aggieben 18y ago
To me the great irony is that FSF software isn't really free either - it just has its own restrictions that it prefers to others'. To me, FSF is synonymous with "hypocrite", and seems to have sprung directly from Stallman's own peurile bit
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by aggieben 18y ago
Well, if it's any comfort, your hunch is correct. I'm not very experienced. My observation, perhaps incorrect, is that poker outcomes are almost entirely based on psychological manipulation, not on probabilities - because people can be psy
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by aggieben 18y ago
It's not dissimilar in Texas. I guess I just don't see the inequity here. I suppose one important difference is that there are some municipalities (like mine) that recognize the lost revenue and are trying to get caught up (i.e., assessme
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by aggieben 18y ago
Sounds like mostly good ideas, with a couple that have already been done, I think: 3) # Give me a listing of all the houses in my city sorted by (value of house/taxes paid). That would go a long way to bringing equity to the assessment sys
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by aggieben 18y ago
Lots of local governments already do this. http://www.txcountydata.com/ This one in particular also makes historical valuations and tax bill records available.
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by aggieben 18y ago
You have clearly never played poker. What is it with people that think this kind of quip buys some sort of credibility? This is the second time today that someone has started a response with "Clearly, you have never...". I have played p
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by aggieben 18y ago
I would expect this to be true of any probability-based game, particularly where: 1) the distinct human advantage of unquantifiable sensory perception is taken away (i.e., a person can't "read" a computer's body language to make his probabi

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