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by chrisa 16y ago
I mostly program in ruby, but have been working with objective-c more lately, so I can try to summarize what my thinking with a few examples: - Why do I have to begin every string with @? I know the technical reason why, and the difference
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by chrisa 16y ago
While I certainly agree that it doesn’t imply mediocrity, my experience in Boy Scouts is this: While there are exceptions (see dagw’s comment below for example), I have found that scouts who aren’t interested in getting to eagle are a net d
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by chrisa 16y ago
Here's the HN thread about them from about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755665
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by chrisa 16y ago
I would recommend reading the whole thing, but the second paragraph on page 7 is packed with real world advice. This is what it says _failed_ entrepreneurs do most: - Wildly under-capitalized - Organize as a sole proprietorship rather than
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by chrisa 16y ago
Many colleges publish average salary data; just google: "[University near you] career services salary", and you can get an idea about what an average college grad from your area will make. For example, here is Indiana University's: http:/
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by chrisa 16y ago
Many people on HN would feel fulfilled if they started a successful startup... he gets his fulfillment from climbing mountains. I also think there’s something to be said about him inspiring other kids (and adults!) to achieve their dreams.
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by chrisa 16y ago
Assuming a dart-throwing monkey does about as well as the S&P, then nearly -30% as well: http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&...
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by chrisa 16y ago
Ah yes, I forgot to mention: watch your eggs very closely, or they turn slimy (which is as gross as it sounds, yes). If you get them out in time though, they taste basically like an omelet cooked in a pan. Then again, I was a teenager las
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by chrisa 16y ago
This reminds me of a staple of my Boy Scout cooking: eggs in a bag. Just crack your eggs into a zip top bag (it must be a freezer bag to handle the temperature), add cheese, or peppers, or whatever you like in an omelet, suck out the air,
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by chrisa 17y ago
I just picked three; here's some more: (It still could be coincidence I suppose, but it feels like more than that) http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Damn_Near_Identical_Movies... http://www.filmjunk.com/2007/03/07/when-movies-come-in-pai
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by chrisa 17y ago
Even if this was the result of an illusionist, it highlights something I've often thought of, and has come up on HN a few times: that very similar products and movies will come out at just about the same time. The best examples I can give
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by chrisa 17y ago
Yes, we have a variety of rules and methods to do things like that, but you might be surprised at how many issues there still are. In the Wal-Mart case for example, they spent years trying to get compliance from their suppliers, and in the
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by chrisa 17y ago
That's what we do (track medical devices, pallets, documents, etc., with barcodes and RFID). The biggest barrier by far for this market is the status-quo: if you have to add even a few steps to employees’ current workflow, the project will
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by chrisa 17y ago
Creating marketing brochures with html, so that I can use css to create a consistent feel across all of them. There's probably a much better way to do this, but I need them for next week. To do it, I'm using webkit2png to make a png from t
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by chrisa 17y ago
If you click on the [scribd] part of the link, you get the scribd version. If you click on the other part of the title, you get the original pdf version. More info recently here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124940
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by chrisa 17y ago
It's independent of time zone. 20 years from now in any time zone will be the same "time" (in an absolute sense), but it will look different to different time zones. For example, it might look like 6:00pm for me and 5:00pm for you, but it
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by chrisa 17y ago
I think that's it. A recent discussion on reddit[1] mentioned that energy actually weighs something (because of e=mc^2), so the energy required to lift "1kg" of energy would be exactly equal to the amount of energy that dropping it would p
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by chrisa 17y ago
I don't know how accurate this is, but this site claims about 490 tweets per second: http://www.twitpocalypse.com/
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by chrisa 17y ago
Here’s more information about the "tool tracking" RFID reader from the company that makes them: http://www.thingmagic.com/applications-overview/toollink-by-... (I work with ThingMagic’s other readers, but haven’t gotten the chance to try
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by chrisa 17y ago
Is it just your comments, or were you trying to reply too quickly? In April, PG added a delay on the "reply" links for deeply nested comments in order to prevent flame wars. Announcement: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#29apr09 Disc
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by chrisa 17y ago
EPC Gen2 RFID tags have a 96 bit unique id that we store
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by chrisa 17y ago
I was able to reproduce with Chrome 3.0.195.27 on Windows; it's happening because Clicky Web Analytics has an image inside of a <p>, and you've styled p in footer to have a background image. I was able to get it to go away by remov
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by chrisa 17y ago
The split won't actually raise capital for the deal, but will help to payoff shareholders of the railroad. According to http://www.marketwatch.com/story/berkshire-approves-50-for-1... the split is to "accommodate holders of smaller amoun
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by chrisa 17y ago
http://amcharts.com/ is one example I can think of. You can use it for free if you don't mind "charts by amcharts" in the corner. This makes it possible for free personal use, as well as the ability to try it for free, but if you want t
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by chrisa 17y ago
We use http://amcharts.com/ . The thing I like the best about it is that you can customize everything through a visual web based editor, and then just copy the xml that is generated. It has also been stable for us, but one downside of co
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by chrisa 17y ago
I think it is an asset for legit ones. Just this morning my battery light came on, and when I went to the repair shop I was told I needed a new alternator, and it would cost $400. I thought that was high, but didn't have any data to back
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by chrisa 17y ago
If you go through the trouble to hire professional copywriters (even freelance), you could offer addons as well; like $0.0x/word for professional spell/grammar checking (and other services).
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by chrisa 17y ago
This reminds me of the PG essay "Stuff": http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html That essay changed the way I think about "things", and since reading it a few years ago I've sold, donated, or thrown away a lot of things that were simply taki
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by chrisa 18y ago
If I heard serial cooking, I might think: cereal cooking - however silly, you might want to pick that .com up as a misspelling (it looks available as of right now)
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by chrisa 18y ago
Great implementation, I especially like how it visually shows me the error on my page. It would be nice if I could add the words it thinks are errors to my custom dictionary, so I don't have to type each one in.

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