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by codemac 7y ago
> Besides football programs, most schools get their financing from international students Citation? Why do our federal and state budgets have multi billion dollar line items for funding universities if it's just international studen
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by codemac 7y ago
I've been in some IRC channels for decades. It's awesome.
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by codemac 7y ago
Sure - nothing is written in stone? Have you found it effective to discuss the actual method of how you'll accomplish something months before you're working on it? It seems like it would almost always change for development - mayb
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by codemac 7y ago
He's still going to serve on the "compensation committee"..
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by codemac 7y ago
I find that MBO/OKRs drucker-style is lighter weight than V2MOM as the method is left to the person doing the work. Is there an advantage to documenting and setting methods in stone ahead of time? Curious about your experiences with it
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by codemac 7y ago
I don't use macos or windows anywhere in my entire life. My work laptop, work servers, personal laptop, and phone all run linux. So, yeah - keep weeding out those idiots?
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by codemac 7y ago
I don't do that because then you're just giving the reader more work to do. Is there an unseen advantage to not including the actual text in the email?
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by codemac 7y ago
Email is great, along with keeping a google doc of all previous updates sent in reverse order. Then author the email in the google doc, paste it into gmail and send - along with a link at the bottom to previous notes.
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by codemac 7y ago
I use Byron's rc every day, and it's installable on all machines I use. Though I also use dvorak and other things where I control the computer I input on 99%+ of the time. Do you not have access to a compiler or package manager on
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by codemac 7y ago
You know that it's too late for you, right? My photo has been uploaded countless times to facebook without my permission, and my data has been sold countless times through brokers that acquired this information illegally. There is noth
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by codemac 7y ago
Is there any way to get this working in Firefox? :(
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by codemac 7y ago
> Many of the fancy foods on here come from Whole Foods .. did we read the same list? Do you think lentils are "fancy"? Spinach? Mushrooms? Them starting with algae is probably a weird move, but regionally they are very availab
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by codemac 8y ago
There are great essays on the topic, but basically - they were kicked out when the position started to earn money for the business. Programmed Inequality by Marie Hicks [0] is a great introduction to some of the history. As my mother was a
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by codemac 8y ago
I actually do C-h i, then C-s for package name. Then RET on the package name, then C-s <term> RET and hit C-s repeatedly until I'm near a page node that seems reasonable. Also, C-h C-h will show you the help of help commands. M-x
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by codemac 8y ago
How does my spouse go to the dentist or barber for me?
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by codemac 8y ago
Poorly written - I just meant that it's silly that I dislike it, considering smoking harms the public's health (and thus removing areas for smoking around others is good for the public)
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by codemac 8y ago
Went to Disneyland in February with my wife. The size of these strollers is incredibly out of hand, to the point there are now these wagon-like things parents take around that are 2x4+ feet for one kid. They were absurd, and the whole &quo
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by codemac 8y ago
The thinkpad carbon x1 has been a dream for me, I highly recommend it to my nerdy and lost Macbook brethren. However, I'm already on linux and have lived life out of emacs for decades, so I am biased. The folks that have invested in th
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by codemac 8y ago
I just created my own chrome extension, and an html file for the new tab page: https://github.com/codemac/config/tree/master/chrome Currently, I have a cronjob that greps my todo files in org mode, and p
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by codemac 8y ago
Keysnail did all of this, and the author has now been working on something called xKeysnail you should check it out! - https://github.com/mooz/keysnail - https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
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by codemac 8y ago
Use youtube-dl and you can train yourself to go past 2x pretty easily as well.
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by codemac 8y ago
A surprisingly effective tip from an Edward Tufte seminar was using 11x17 paper to create a 4 page "booklet". Unsurprisingly non existent from Tufte was figuring out how to apply any of this to my current work culture.
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by codemac 8y ago
You are underpaid.
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by codemac 8y ago
The stat (more drug addicts than students) is actually true for all of America's population as well, so I'd imagine the same is true in just about any major US population center.
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by codemac 8y ago
Most of the kids pre-school are waiting on their school lottery, though right? Do you think they'll stick around if they don't get into a well regarded school?
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by codemac 8y ago
There are less high school students in SF, period. There are less children in general. This is due to a large number of variables I don't see being controlled, and a severe lack of source information. I'm much more worried about t
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by codemac 8y ago
Just SV unicorns usually, and even then a lot of it is speculated value. But the unicorns definitely pay if you're above a certain experience level - and if you build the correct professional network you can basically demand it.
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by codemac 8y ago
This is a great guide, and solving quick real problems is how people get started programming in general. I think seeing scsh for the first time made me realize just how good & bad shells are.
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by codemac 8y ago
Any other references to what you're referring other than a very long video? I don't know this Actualized.org group at all or the person talking, and clicking on the forum lead to even more confusion.
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by codemac 8y ago
I didn't say it made them less of a business owner.. though I don't know any that sustain themselves from that alone. I was saying a lot of people I know do these things even though they'd rather have a job as an employee. So

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