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by chops 17y ago
I had a similar experience several years ago, though not vacation related. I was testing a script I was writing, and had a critical typo, which ended up wiping out (rm -fr) all my website code (it wasn't a business thing yet, so I wasn't ta
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by chops 17y ago
Here's the print version: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=print...
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by chops 17y ago
What!? Classifieds have been around for forever and were the bread and butter of the print newspapers for a long time. If craigslist "took on" anything, it's classifieds. The "second-hand random stuff" market that ebay had previously was
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by chops 17y ago
In Atlas Shrugged, she presented a world on the brink of full-on economic collapse as a result of increasing governmental controls and favors, while the politicians and the people kept blaming the problem on the supposed "free market" and u
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by chops 17y ago
In my youth Ayn Rand and the Rational Man ha great appeal to me, but as I grew older I learned that man is not rational. In his core man is emotional and often works against his own self interest. Being rational is hard work and most peopl
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by chops 17y ago
The financial differences are irrelevant. A slave is one who works for another without choice, under threat of force. The (American) slaves were given basic provisions for life, even some leisure time. Their fundamental problem wasn't the
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by chops 17y ago
You're probably right, but what about Joe Everybody Handyman who decides that the possible payout isn't worth the risk of starting a business. Sure he could do it, if he really wanted to try, but the prospect of starting a business is a
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by chops 17y ago
only that people deserve health care, food and shelter Why? These aren't automatically available in nature. They require work, and the application of the mind, to acquire. Health Care is a service provided by individuals. People have
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by chops 17y ago
While this is an older essay, this is up there with one of my favorite PG essays This part always has particularly far-reaching consequences. The problem here is not wealth, but corruption. So why not go after corruption? People like to a
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by chops 17y ago
On a long enough timescale, everything dies, including hyperlinks.
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by chops 17y ago
Conveniently, I don't have anything that's inaccessible from the main page, so a simple wget --mirror http://www.geocities.com/my/path was enough to get everything I needed. Stripping out the auto-added ads was easy enough to not be
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by chops 17y ago
I'm glad that they're not immediately deleting existing sites. I have old geocities sites up that I never really backed up (from when I was a teen) and I have no idea what the username or passwords are. Now's the time to wget --mirror them
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by chops 17y ago
I find I miss the social interaction altogether. I don't have any co-founders, and so my social-interaction is merely talking with my wife when she's home from work, weekly lunch with a few friends, random get-togethers with friends, ventr
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by chops 17y ago
I'm glad I'm not alone :) Interestingly, I find that this tends to affect the men of my family more than the women. My mom, sister, and wife don't seem to have this problem at all. While both my dad and brother all suffer from an inabilit
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by chops 17y ago
Mental attention, she notes, is selective. Like a flashlight beam, we aim our consciousness on but a thin slice of what surrounds us. At a party, for instance, we hear only one voice among many until another voice speaks our name and our a
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by chops 18y ago
On casual (read: non-business) sites, I just put in some kind of fun little insult. Example: http://dkpfiles.com/pias/pics/f941GOZ66b29i2Q2Z.jpg This is just too phishy and does instill bad habits in users who (using IE6) already don't ha
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by chops 18y ago
This is fully awesome, though I guess I should upgrade to Firebug 1.4. It doesn't seem to work on 1.3.3 at all (though I may be missing something). And I know it says it requires/recommends 1.4, I just thought I'd mention it for anyone run
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by chops 18y ago
So here’s a suggestion to sites still hiding behind the beta wall: Throw open the gates. Get your own Fail Whale ready. And please, let me know when I can link not to your invite-only beta program, but to your cool, slightly buggy site ava
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Poll: How do you startup-owners prepare your taxes?
3 points by chops 18y ago|1 comments
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I do it by hand
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I use online software
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I use offline software
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Outsourced accountant handles it
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Have an employee do it
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A friend or family member does it for me
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Other? Spill the beans
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The rule even got screen time in the movie Finding Forrester, when Sean Connery and Rob Brown have an entire conversation about it (and deliberately start their sentences with the offending words in order to make their points). This was t
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by chops 18y ago
when you can't justify your case, and it is crumbling in your hands - you snap back: "But what about x?" You then raise a totally different subject, and try to get everybody to focus on it - hoping it will distract attention from your own
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by chops 18y ago
The tricky part might seem to be how one defined a startup. But that could be solved quite easily: let the market decide. As much as I support your position (I'm an open immigration advocate), the concept of "Let the market decide" isn't
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by chops 18y ago
I use a separate email account for newsgroup subscriptions, but beyond that, I have every email I've ever sent or received for the past 7 years or so. Before gmail, I have my old thunderbird email files zipped up and archived incase I ever

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