beosrocks

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by beosrocks 14y ago
Last time this was posted < http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665> , Eliezer linked to a related article worth reading as well: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Be lives on in Haiku OS: http://haiku-os.org/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3904972 http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-dawn-of-haik...
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Pe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe_(text_editor)
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by beosrocks 14y ago
I don't know what you meant by tarbaby If you don't know what a word means, the first step is to check the dictionary! "tar baby: a difficult problem that is only aggravated by attempts to solve it".
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Dupe from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4044219 The only difference in the URL is the unnecessary "www." prefix. Perhaps news.arc could be updated to treat both URLs the same?
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Fascinating account, but even more fascinating is the author's consultancy: http://spencertipping.com/zeroconsulting/ You email me with a problem you'd like me to solve. (Be sure to put "zero" in the subject so that my email filter catch
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by beosrocks 14y ago
How did you guys come up with "MakeLeaps" for an invoicing and quotes service?
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by beosrocks 14y ago
I'm confused why Gould came up at all Perhaps Wikipedia can help clear your confusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould "Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical p
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Clicking the link returns a page that says simply: "You do not have permission to preview drafts." Looks like we'll need sysadmins a little longer.
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Amen! For anyone unfamiliar with Glenn Gould, check out these two videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVODxskoHFQ He was perhaps the greatest piano player of the 20th century and had a stron
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Wow - didn't realize on first reading that the comment was actually directed to Zhou Tong, who replied that he would "definitely pay attention to every single detail." Forensic's response was prophetic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by beosrocks 14y ago
If I did something seriously wrong, I would definitely admit it. Trying to run a financial site without the chops to do it was seriously wrong. Of course, it was wrong of users not to do more due diligence on the service, its record, the
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by beosrocks 14y ago
My pleasure! Glad to hear you found it helpful. It played a large part in shaping my course (and later success) as well.
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Steve Friedl's So you want to be a consultant...? ( http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html ) is also a must-read. Not only is Steve a Unix expert (and the brother of Jeff Friedl, regex legend), he's an excellent writer as we
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Related article from Science magazine, vol 210, no. 4475 (Dec 12, 1980) Is Your Brain Really Necessary? http://www.rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf tl;dr: "the brain can work in conditions we would have thought impossibl
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by beosrocks 14y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Here it is for those who missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGIgf-ICHM
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by beosrocks 14y ago
dr_dank's comment on Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66224&cid=6095472 ) pretty much sums up its awesomeness: BeOS was demonstrated to me during my senior year of college. The guy giving the talk played upwards of two