dan_the_welder

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Ask HN: What exactly is going on? Hacked site.
4 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|5 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
My "digital home" uses FreeNAS on a old 400mhz beater box. http://www.freenas.org/
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Give it time. I meant to emphasize light, as in not Myspace style chaos. People would pay for it.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I have enough empty 155 lb coffee sacks to make a yurt.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I own a cafe and I roast my own beans. I won't drink anyone else's coffee unless I am on a roadtrip. I have one of these http://www.ambexroasters.com/pages/ym5.jsp Although it's older and not as shiny.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
What a stupid article. You would think that a "Silicon Alley Insider" would know that it already has a custom OS (window manager/distro) designed especially for it by Fusion Garage, Arrington's partners. Also you would think an 'insider' wo
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National Research and Education Network for All: Insurmountable Opportunity (gutenberg.org)
1 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|0 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I also like to add that after that stress and uncertainty phase, things seem kind of flat and boring. Which is where I am now. What's next?
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
When the adrenalin is pumping you do what it takes and sometimes you get in a box, and you get out anyway you can. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, either you are all in when the chips are down or you fail.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Yup, right there with you. I am doing a lot of mental hacking, i.e. reading about depression and health. Loads of reflection about myself and how I got here. Trying to get a better perspective on the good things I've done and the things I l
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I just checked out The Sixty One and it looks great, but it did not exist when the the Myspace band rush started. Edit-- The Sixty One is amazing. What a beautiful UI, it works likes a charm. I am gonna join and recommend the hell out of
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Sure it sucks now, but in 2004 it just blew away Friendster which what my social network was using at the time. Watch Facebook pages eventually add music and other content. Watch some light themeing appear for your personal page. What Faceb
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Oh great, now I need an app for every single website I visit. Oh you don't have one for my phone yet? Oh you are never going to support my phone? Wait, you've stopped using HTML for your own proprietary markup? Seriously? This is dumb.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Hmmm, thinking here. It's basically distributed Friendfeed which already seems to have all the functionality I'm describing.Except you can host your own stuff and adhere to a common API.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I agree with you totally, there is a cycle and walled garden social networking is the current phase and will fade into the background. Not go away mind you, because nothing ever really does,it just changes. I think that personal websites wi
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I am so relieved and nostalgic when I land on a website that looks like it was made in 1998. Oh look....text, just what I wanted and there is the information I need. Not that I am a total curmudgeon, lots of the new Railsey looking websites
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Ask HN:Pop-ups, previews, help bubbles, etc.
3 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|2 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Or people will switch to a different brand console because they are mad. Or perhaps a new industry will spring up to re-chip the boxes.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Man, I accidentally spent an hour there. Thanks for the link though.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Giant paint ball war field. Burning Man/Devils Night mashup festival. Darpa autonomous vehicle testing ground. Joking aside, I think it's doomed. Most cities transitioned from a single industry over generations. You can't force that now. It
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Microsoft disconnects modded Xboxs (news.bbc.co.uk)
17 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|19 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
A patent is a privilege. I have a right to make a living and there are finite ways to do so, if my right to make a living is blocked by others privileges then we don't have much of a free society. Privileges are directly opposed to rights.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Yeah sure when you are on top but then there is the fall from grace. As you become less relevant or get superseded. That's when the ego comes out, tantrums, destructive behavior, etc.
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Intel in threats and bribery suit (news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|0 comments
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Yes yes yes. Anything more than necessary is too much.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
As a business owner I can attest that a phone number equals a bank account. Daily we receive phone calls that are designed to trick the unwary into agreeing to being billed for worthless services. After the third or so time an employee had
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
What we need to do is invest in durable goods. It seems to me that the last economic cycle has seen the most idiotic waste of resources ever. Disposable products made in disposable factories and sold in disposable buildings. It's all crap a
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
We would not even have developed Language if these kinds of rules existed in the past. Really. You spoke of what you saw? That's a public performance. Pay up.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Tablets are awesome, it's just the 2000 dollar price point that kept them out of the running.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
When the government obstructs the market in egregious ways, it is called corruption. When the people circumvent it, it is called the black market and it is often the most important market when the government is corrupt or incompetent.

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