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by cubix 18y ago
Spending the first half of my twenties working my guts out for a big corporation where my efforts went largely unnoticed outside of my immediate sphere. I'm certain that if I put that time into a start-up I would be much better off today --
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K as a Prototyping Language(cs.nyu.edu)
42 points by cubix 18y ago|25 comments
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Haskell, bondage-and-discipline and separation-of-concerns programming(syntaxfree.wordpress.com)
17 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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Language Log(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
2 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
I'm surprised more people don't roast their own coffee. I've been doing it for over a year now. It's easy, and buying green beans is roughly a third the cost of buying them roasted. (Of course, you can make the process as technical as you w
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by cubix 18y ago
HN's karma system is a sort of "incentive superficiality", yet it seems to work well enough. Perhaps a similar model of collective peer review could be applied to the work place. It might address some of the injustices that Joel mentioned,
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by cubix 18y ago
There's most likely a large genetic component. I doubt I had formed many beliefs about the universe when I was only 5 or 6, but my tendency to stay up late and sleep in appeared as early as then, if not sooner. If I'm free to set my schedul
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by cubix 18y ago
Thanks for the link. I've struggled since childhood with both falling asleep and waking up, especially the latter. (Some of my earliest memories involve been ripped out of bed and thrown into a cold car to be taken to school.) I've read qui
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Can a Night Owl Become a Morning Person?(slate.com)
48 points by cubix 18y ago|45 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
"... Janet Portman, a lawyer and an expert in landlord-tenant law ... said her doubts about the viability of Mr. Takle’s business model remain." Her concerns seemed a little strange to me. How is his model fundamentally different from a tra
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by cubix 18y ago
Well, obviously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker-Pschorr
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A humorous introduction to Haskell (freeshells.ch)
22 points by cubix 18y ago|4 comments
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America's suburbs: An age of transformation(economist.com)
5 points by cubix 18y ago|7 comments
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by cubix 19y ago
Ze Frank made an interesting comment related to this: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/12/121906.html