andrewl

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Monetizing the Rapture(businessweek.com)
31 points by andrewl 16y ago|17 comments
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by andrewl 17y ago
Arts & Letters Daily is excellent. I also like 3 Quarks Daily, at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/ The mix is sometimes bizarre, but it's always interesting.
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by andrewl 17y ago
I want to dig into Fossil as well. And I'm impressed that SQLite moved to Fossil in September 2009: "Version 3.6.18 - Beginning with this release, the SQLite source code is tracked and managed using the Fossil distributed configuration mana
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by andrewl 17y ago
Yale has an officially-mandated "shopping period" described at: http://www.yale.edu/yalecol/publications/transfer/general/se... I can't tell if you're expected to drop in on classes in the middle of them or not. I read it as you can sampl
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by andrewl 17y ago
We've had good results with FogBugz. We are a group of eight developers and user support staff in a company of 300, and it's the right size for us. We have a bit under 15,000 cases in the system, going back to June 2006, so I can't say we'r
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Lock Picking as a Sport(nytimes.com)
1 points by andrewl 17y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 17y ago
10ren - Interesting points. I've always liked what Alfred North Whitehead says about notation: "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases
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by andrewl 17y ago
I read this a few years ago. It's excellent, but it made my blood boil. I hate manipulation and pressure.
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by andrewl 17y ago
I used jEdit for a long time. It's an excellent editor, but I left it behind for Vim. I had to spend a lot of time on remote machines and I needed something with a console mode. It's my impression that it was orphaned. Is it still under act
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by andrewl 17y ago
The space pen story is not true, according to Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
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by andrewl 17y ago
The article "Caring for Your Introvert," from the March 2003 Atlantic is a good, and more nuanced, discussion of introversion. There are also links to two followup articles. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch
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by andrewl 18y ago
Does anybody have experience with the work environment in New Zealand?
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by andrewl 18y ago
Here's Paul Graham on the switch to Mac: http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html
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by andrewl 18y ago
I like one big file of to do items and miscellaneous notes, and Google Docs is good for that, for me. With Google Docs, you can send an email to yourself and it will be converted into a Google document. Here's the link: http://docs.google.
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by andrewl 18y ago
The Philly On Rails group is a good place to start: http://www.phillyonrails.org/
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by andrewl 18y ago
Robert Sapolsky has a fascinating article on this topic called "Bugs in the Brain." I couldn't remember the article title, but I just had to google for the terms: sapolsky french kiss polar bear and that did it. Read the article and find ou
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by andrewl 18y ago
DavidW, what was the book?
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by andrewl 18y ago
Having children is easy, and obviously billions of unremarkable people do it. But raising children well is extremely difficult. It requires hard work, deep thinking, and dedication. "...some of the best kids in every generation come from th
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by andrewl 18y ago
jEdit is excellent for the reasons you list, and others. But the developers seem to have abandoned it. I finally moved on over a year ago. But I'd love to see active development on it.
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by andrewl 18y ago
Kevin Kelly is always interesting. This relates nicely to Paul Graham's Cities and Ambition essay, discussed here at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201373 You definitely can't force it to happen.
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by andrewl 18y ago
That's right. The programmer may not be stupid at all. He or she may just be in the middle of learning patterns. One might say that only stupid speakers make simple grammatical errors. Or they might be beginners in a second language. I hope
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by andrewl 19y ago
I like most of these. I don't get this one: Compassion is contempt with a human face.
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by andrewl 19y ago
ericb, your comment about mental processing speed and speed of communication makes me think you would enjoy "The Mote In God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. I thought their concept of an alien race was quite original. (Anybody e
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by andrewl 19y ago
I found these two rather odd: 7. Software developers talk a lot about tools, but seldom use them. 30. COBOL is a very bad language, but all the others are so much worse. Number 7 just doesn't match my experience. But I am an N of 1. I don't
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by andrewl 19y ago
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Star Trek, the original series I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. The first science fiction story I read, which lead to all the others. The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner. That's Alice's Adventure
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by andrewl 19y ago
I lived in Austin 1996-97 and I loved it. Swimming in Barton Springs pool is one of my favorite things to do. However, if you have a problem with heat, be warned. In the summer you expect 100 degrees every day. I like the heat, but it can b
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by andrewl 19y ago
BA in English and Creative Writing, Oberlin College Most of a second bachelor's in psychology, University of Pennsylvania A year-and-a-half in a Clinical Psychology PhD program, University of Texas, Austin MS Information Systems, and MS Lib
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by andrewl 19y ago
Well, you need terms that apply to the first and second halves of a pair as well as the first element in a list and all the rest of the list. First and second work for lists of two items, but they don't feel right to me for longer lists. Al
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by andrewl 19y ago
That betting strategy is called a Martingale, or a Grand Martingale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_ (betting_system)
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by andrewl 19y ago
Robert Sapolsky has a short but interesting discussion of what leads to the development of warrior-class cultures and what makes them so common in his book "Monkeyluv and Other Essays on our Lives as Animals". The chapter is "The Cultural D

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