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by anthonyb 14y ago
Also, he basically destroyed the Ents. That was my favorite part of the book ("You have angered an elder power. The elder power hits you. You die.") Instead we get Treebeard being basically a dummy sidekick for the hobbits, who realises lat
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On selling to consumers(chester.id.au)
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That book's not even by Kiyosaki, so it's a doubly random link.
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That's one of the other ways to get a good price. Figure out what you want, what options, etc. and ring around all the local dealers "I'm going to buy this car at the end of next week, lowest price gets it." Haven't tried it myself, but app
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by anthonyb 14y ago
good freelance developers though, are rare as hen's teeth.
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Sorry, yes, I was thinking of Fetchmail - must've lost that between brain and keyboard :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Why save it just for christmas? ;) ESR telling people how to be hackers is pretty galling when you consider what a massive pile of bugs it is/was. For my money, getmail ( http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ ) is far better value.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
And what's a "bullshit excuse"? I don't think you'll find an easy criteria for that, either. Is "someone else's happiness" a bullshit excuse?
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> Though whatever it takes does not imply illegal or immoral approaches. Yes it does, and that's often what's lost when people start applying mantras like that.
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"Learn Karate from book?" </miyagi>
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I'm not sure that I see your point. Adding extra bits is more work for the legal team, and might lead to 'bugs', but a clause like this is going to lead to pissed off engineers who might leave. To further mangle the analogy, what if I relea
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by anthonyb 14y ago
So? Contracts should be as close to your agreement as possible, and be within city/state/federal laws. If your contract isn't accurate, it's like programming by hammering some shoddy crap together and letting the testers/users sort it out.
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In this particular case though, there's not a lot of complexity or nuance, is there? It's a blanket "We own all your IP" clause in a contract.
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The other factor is environment. High stress environments are a killer. Reading The Programmer's Stone ( http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/ ) was a real eye opener for me in terms of mental state and what was possible if given enough
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How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware(lowtechmagazine.com)
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> I suppose it gets the job done Every time someone says that, Djikstra kills a javascript framework.
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Even as a toy, that's hideous Python code.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Isn't the ORM a core part of your system? Why are tests for it in /addons/? http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openobject-server/trunk... doesn't seem to have a /base/ subdirectory either. Here's what I can find: 5000+ lines of ORM code
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Unfortunately it's often a good proxy metric for the deeper stuff like consistency and test coverage.
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Watch the damn video! It has feet that pop down - is that so hard?
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because physics.
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Your second bet should be greater than 100x for it to be worthwhile. Still scary, but not for the reasons that you were thinking of.
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A career mistake that capable people make(linkedin.com)
20 points by anthonyb 14y ago|5 comments
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Except that it's not that easy. Your body will conserve energy if you're hungry, making you feel colder and more lethargic. If you go without a sweater, you'll burn more calories and end up eating more.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
If you're used to burning carbs sure, since you'll have high insulin levels. It takes time to build up to the point where you're able to burn fat easily. http://www.endurancecorner.com/Fat_Burning_Essentials2 http://triathlon.competitor.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
He's also completely overlooking the overfeeding studies that Taubes references in his books. Eating 10000 calories of cheese or pork chops is a lot harder than with ice cream.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> Agora Nomic, which is currently suffering from lack of interest And deservedly so. I started playing once, and got chosen to be a judge. After a couple of hours reading the rules I passed judgement, and promptly got shot down/counte
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Hmm, well that's not how we played it - the cards incremented, not numbers themselves. The rules went something like: when you play 'X', then all cards are incremented by 1. Kings are 13 and wrap around to Ace, which is 1. The second rule w
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Sounds interesting, can you give us more details on how it works? I had a quick look at your homepage, but couldn't see any links for it, or a github profile.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Nope. In Bartok you're allowed to explain the rules, although asking a question is penalised.

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