amorphid

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   by amorphid 9y ago

   Say village A is upstream from village B. A poops in the water. How far downstream does B need to be for the water to be drinkable? Or is there no safe distance? If there is a safe distance, in theory, you could teach the villages in A
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   Object oriented COBOL is actually a thing now :)
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   As a former employer who didn't pay very much, or at least not as much as I would have like to have paid, I'll just offer this... the employees who got paid the most were the ones who realized the company itself was trying to bec
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   I've been driving through rural Serbia for the past day on two lane highways with no sidewalks & not much of a shoulder. There are ton's of people walking along the edges of these streets, traveling from one town to the next.
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   And that was basically the pitch... "We aren't magic, we just do what you would do. If you have the tim to recruit yourself, do it. If not, give us a try, and if it's not working, fire us."
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   I managed to develop a pipeline of mostly referral business. When people come to you, it's a different kind of sale.
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   Ask HN: In your opinion, what is the current state of Ruby?

   13 points by amorphid 9y ago|9 comments
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   by amorphid 9y ago

   Eating peanut butter works great, too!
9. 489.▲
   by amorphid 9y ago

   "I, 000000000000000000257044a9121b4ad1a5713c1b3d572c764615da760cc7e8, the leader of this great company, have clearly not done enough to foster a civil workplace environment. We are not yet to the point where A & B can get along, d
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I can't wait for the Bash version of Ninja Scroll.
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I remember hearing of isolated incidents, but nothing major happened that I'm aware of. I guess the biggest thing to happen was a lot of COBOL programmers made pretty good coin leading up to January 1, 2000.
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    For free or for compensation? For compensation, maybe AirPair.com?
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    Growing a business takes money. Silicon Valley is (for now) where the most money is. It makes sense from that perspective. Good luck with your venture:)
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    Competition?
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    Nuclear, coal, and geothermal all use steam, so there's a bunch more hot air for ya.
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    Have you checked out https://www.couchsurfing.com ?
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    by amorphid 9y ago

    I have a Google Personal Assistant. I like it for setting timers, alarms, and playing news & podcasts. And asking random questions to see if I get an answer. But for anything nuanced or important, I use a laptop or phone to get the j
18. 498.▲
    by amorphid 10y ago

    If you'd be willing to share, I'd love to read some high level bullets about your work.
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I've definitely cut back in Amazon shopping. There's too much garbage on the site. And it is nearly impossible to flag fraudulent items.
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I bet we'll fear Amazon's AWS in the future.
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    Thanks!
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    A screen saver todo is a good idea! Is it open source? Care to share it? Heh, asking if the code is open source in this context feels like panhandling :)
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    Off the top of my head: - when venting/bitching/complaining, make that clear by saying, "Hey friend, I'm just venting here. <venting> ... </vent>" - don't run out of money - don't take mon
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I enjoy going to meetups to learn when jumping into a new technology X, especially when I get to talk to experienced developers about how to solve a given problem in X, or the difference between X and some other technology with which I&#x27
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I did, because I wanted to have the experience of understanding how a Git server works. But I still like using GitHub. Their web UI is useful, and I don't have to maintain a server.
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I hear that. When I ran my business, I had trouble trying to give shares to people who already worked for me!
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I'm not sure that's true. Copying a product that is doing well isn't a new idea. How many auction sites have tried to copy eBay? As far as I can tell, it's still the king of that market. Once something is sufficientl
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I use dialyxir, too. Mostly I was referring to wanting dialyzer to output Elixir syntax, not Erlang.
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    I submitted the video where I first learned about musician Maggie Rogers. I love it! https://youtu.be/G0u7lXy7pDg?t=18m13s
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    by amorphid 10y ago

    That's not entirely accurate. An Elixir release compiled for the target platform can be bundled up in a tarball with everything it needs to run, including the runtime. No Elixir install required. I do agree that pushing around a sin