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by astrec 17y ago
Call me paranoid, but I prefer to remove keys from the agent on screensaver or sleep and I'm pretty sure that's not straightforward without SSHKeychain (but I'm happy to be proven wrong :))
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Why Gates is richer than Allen - an Ed Roberts story(cringely.com)
8 points by astrec 17y ago|1 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
SSHKeychain and DTerm are two brilliant productivity tools for OS X.
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by astrec 17y ago
Rarely buggy, often perceptibly slow (in relative terms where fast HN is your benchmark - generally smokes anything else I use day to day).
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by astrec 17y ago
I've never learned a language I've hated to get a job, but I've learned to hate many languages (or at least aspects thereof). Learned being the operative word. At this point in your career you'd be well served to learn idiomatic blub a fe
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Hedges: Is America Yearning for Fascism?(alternet.org)
2 points by astrec 17y ago|1 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
I guess you're being voted down because: a) overt politics doesn't mix well with HN, and b) left/right is a matter of perspective. As an observer from a country where the most conservative Prime Minister since federation was still some way
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by astrec 17y ago
Asynchronous communication, including IM, is usually more efficient than interruption iff the question of the moment is not urgent (in the truest sense) and the recipient is busily engaged in getting other things done. <insert I/O ana
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by astrec 17y ago
On revision, thanks for deciphering my terse question. As an aside, I did invest in one web startup which took the unusual step of returning the entire first round investment by way of dividends prior to an IPO. Very peculiar and not US bas
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by astrec 17y ago
Dividends? Or a clear preference for 100% reinvestment in growth and a bigger liquidity event?
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by astrec 17y ago
I think so. This talk by Pamela Fox should offer some insight: http://igniteshow.com/videos/im-barbie-girl-cs-world
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by astrec 17y ago
Where are the writes?
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by astrec 17y ago
Contradicts how? She's still free to whatever she wants, including get published in csmonitor.
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by astrec 17y ago
I've mentioned this a few times before, but when we started with didn't own the .com. It took 10 years of trying to negotiate a reasonable price - all the while our business increasing the value of the domain - before we bought it for $400,
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10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years: The Dropout Economy(time.com)
3 points by astrec 17y ago|1 comments
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A Room of One’s Own: do women need separate spaces to flourish?(theyearofthecat.com)
1 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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Historian cautions against strong-arm tactics in copyright battles(out-law.com)
1 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
Interesting. It's a start, but I think the idea needs work. What is the upside in completing a job then pitching for the contract vs. pitching for the contract then completing the job?
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Amazon objector claims partial victory in One-Click patent challenge(out-law.com)
2 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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What Does A WebOb App Look Like? (blog.ianbicking.org)
2 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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Joe Armstrong's Erlang libs(github.com)
3 points by astrec 17y ago|0 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
Just a few qualities: You want someone with passion. They should have a skin thick enough that they don't take rejection to heart, but thin enough that 'hear' those who would offer them constructive feedback. They need to be able to concise
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by astrec 17y ago
What a load of old boots. To value a planet's worth of trees over some cockamany plan to save a single human life doesn't infer valuing trees more than human beings. I have no doubt you'll get your fake plastic trees as we simply won't have
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by astrec 17y ago
Equally extreme statement: I would go to war to stop you.
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by astrec 17y ago
My favourite part about polymer currency is never having to check my pockets before I wash my jeans!
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by astrec 17y ago
You might get more mileage if you prefix this comment with "shameless plug".
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by astrec 17y ago
Francis Bacon - Of Studies. Then read Samuel Johnson essay of the same name. Edit: haha - wanted to flick you a link and discover about.com says more or less the same thing: http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/studiesessay.htm
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Australian Sen. Conroy Filters Mandatory Internet Topic On Own Site(puregeekdom.com)
32 points by astrec 17y ago|1 comments
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by astrec 17y ago
Read the equity equation if you haven't already done so: http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
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by astrec 17y ago
Our biggest site serves a nation of ~21 million, does ~3.5 million UBs (standard UB caveats apply) and derives 28.94% of it's traffic from Google organic. I have to scroll down to keyword number 34 to find a phrase that is not some permutat

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