amohr

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by amohr 17y ago
Looks great! The custom designer works well and the available artwork is fantastic. One thing: maybe this is just me, but the account verification email got caught in my spam filter. If I had to guess, I would say it's because the title w
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by amohr 17y ago
That's cool for millionaires and Time's most influential people. But some of us are looking for jobs. And we're pretty paranoid.
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by amohr 17y ago
I LOVE the art explorer - it's like Pandora for art.
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by amohr 17y ago
google just started a campaign for "favorite places" google.com/favoriteplaces that uses QR - I assume these are not entirely unrelated.
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by amohr 17y ago
Here's the issue he's talking about http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1... - it's on the back cover. This is one of the many 'last' Whole Earth Catalogs.
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by amohr 17y ago
So our family business has been taking credit cards for 9 or 10 years - it's a mobile business, so we have always had to use a cell signal. The earlier machines were bulky and monstrously expensive, and so were the analog service plans for
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by amohr 17y ago
One of the books on his shelf is Suburban Nation ( http://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-America... ) - worth a read. It's interesting because that book is to Urban Planning what tiny houses are to Architecture.
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by amohr 17y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Time-Toys-Llc-10300-B/dp/B00007BKU...
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by amohr 17y ago
In my experience, the people who are most informed about how a computer actually works are those most convinced that it runs on magic. All my compE friends insist that cpus are maintained and operated by tiny gnomes. While less technical p
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by amohr 17y ago
I think the big question mark here is what are we supposed to be accomplishing with our education system? Are we going for equality or maximum output? To get more total productivity out of graduates, there's a huge crop of low-hanging frui
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by amohr 17y ago
Also, http://peace.stanford.edu/ launched about 30 seconds ago. It has a list of all the other participating Peace Innovation sites.
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by amohr 17y ago
Bonus for sailing - I don't think I've ever partied with anyone harder than I have with sailors. I lived with the captain of the racing team in college and we hosted the party for our regatta. It lasted the whole weekend and we built a spe
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by amohr 17y ago
I played Magic: the Gathering on and off from grade school until I started dating. One thing it definitely taught me is the importance of a consistent vocabulary. The rules to the game are written in a sort of legalese - there's some stra
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by amohr 17y ago
I want to start a job search site that allows for rich profiles that can subtly communicate someone's design sense, style and personality. You would have the option of uploading various formats and building a portfolio of your work. This c
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by amohr 17y ago
Fun Fact: In the 2004 proceeding in the RCJ, the case was handled by "The Honourable Mr Justice Mann"
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by amohr 17y ago
I love it - I have been looking for exactly this service for a while now. I have a bunch of ideas for these types of items that have never really gotten off the ground due to the overhead. I opened a store front ( http://www.customizedgrap
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by amohr 17y ago
The logo now links to a search for unexplained phenomenon. So far I haven't gotten anything past that. edit: link: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#q=unexplained+phenomenon&#...
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by amohr 17y ago
I agree that a car is expensive, but it doubles it's value by offering me a place to sleep if I can't find one by other means and serving as a big suitcase, allowing me to keep clothes straight and my equipment at the ready.
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by amohr 17y ago
Yeah, this is the thing that's really bugging me. I don't want to bank on people just inherently wanting to share their story and calling in favors. I've got a couple weeks before I can realistically set out, and that will probably be hau
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by amohr 17y ago
uh oh - Mixergy's giving me a 500 error...
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by amohr 17y ago
The point of doing it on such a small budget (besides being how much I have) would be to force me into making it up on the fly. The project is deliberately structured to be somewhat open-ended.
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by amohr 17y ago
My mom would bankroll my phone bill and probably some other things. She also has her own business, so I could work for her while I compiled my work.
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by amohr 17y ago
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign My degree is in Political science with concentrations in computer science and economics. I also have about half a degree in physics and a whole lot of coursework (around the reqs for a minor) in ma
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Ask HN: Am I crazy?
89 points by amohr 17y ago|92 comments
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by amohr 17y ago
Downvoted for not being about Erlang.
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by amohr 17y ago
Or the world's wittiest calculator?
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by amohr 17y ago
I've got my money on a publicity stunt to announce a new Carmen Sandiego movie.
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The Recession-proof Graduate(slideshare.net)
2 points by amohr 17y ago|0 comments
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by amohr 17y ago
As long as people are submitting easy hacker recipes, here's one of my staples: -Fill a saucepan with water and boil -While you're waiting, chop up one small onion and heat some oil in a pan -Brown the onion in the pan with some garlic and
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by amohr 17y ago
I upvoted it for a bit of perspective, which is always relevant. It reminded me that, outside of this particular culture, there's a whole world of people who have never heard of the people that we look up to. If I wore a shirt that said "p

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