conoryoung

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by conoryoung 17y ago
Feeding a squirrel while wearing a tank top is a good move. Draws attention away from the fact that you're trying to draw attention to your buff physique while at the same time emphasizing your sensitive caring side. Not that there's anythi
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Ask HN: Link to a site designed using a CSS framework (Blueprint, 960,etc)?
3 points by conoryoung 17y ago|3 comments
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by conoryoung 17y ago
Can't wait to try this with my JFK commemorative keyboard.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
A boycott would only work if there were a concerted effort behind to spread the word as far as possible. The recent Whole Foods boycott was a good example of how to do it - organizers used the forums section of the Whole Foods website to ge
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by conoryoung 17y ago
Electric car company
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by conoryoung 17y ago
In some studies, self-regulation skills have been shown to predict academic achievement more reliably than I.Q. tests. Observing an individual's ability to self-regulate works as a good predictor of character in all kinds of situations, i
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by conoryoung 17y ago
The target demographic is not exactly rolling in cash but an interesting, socially conscious idea nevertheless.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
Good article. Paypal, Amazon Payments and Google Checkout should all be in a good position to dominate the mobile money market in the US, I would think.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
StackOverflow does this for free. If you post a code sample and don't properly indent it, someone with high rep will correct it in within minutes. Such nice people.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
Interesting psychological side effect I just noticed: I wasn't previously aware of my tendency to scan a long thread for comments that stand out because of their high comment scores but I just did it when I opened this thread and felt like
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by conoryoung 17y ago
Is it in fact the longest post you've ever written or just similar to the longest post you've ever written which also happens to be on this same topic?
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by conoryoung 17y ago
I haven't even learned one tenth of the features in CS3 yet. And yet, surprise, surprise, I seem to do just fine. More feature bloat as far as I'm concerned.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
I considered it for a moment but immediately erased the thought from my mind.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
It's like when your boss let's you "resign" so you don't have to tell a future employer you were fired. EY was fired.
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by conoryoung 17y ago
So I take it you don't believe any of these languages are going to achieve much traction in the business world. That's generally my take too. But there's still a lingering doubt: what if one of these is the "next big thing"? Just like you w
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Ask HN: Is learning Scala/Clojure/Haskell a good career move?
5 points by conoryoung 17y ago|6 comments