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by davidwparker 16y ago
Avoid debt, Save money, Give generously, Live frugally. If you have debt already, then pay it off as fast as possible. Go crazy to pay it off- rice and beans, beans and rice. When you're done paying off debt, then save vigorously (before p
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by davidwparker 16y ago
I think you just need to think about what you want, and think about what sources you read from. You say you have 68 sources in your feed, whereas I have ~100. Personally, I like Google Reader, but I don't use that to read my RSS (just mana
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by davidwparker 16y ago
I agree with you that declining for $10k is really stupid, but as an engineer, I would want to know what kind of impact I would have. If I'm not working on meaningful work, and having an impact, then I probably wouldn't want the work anywa
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by davidwparker 16y ago
Thanks for the reply maqr. I've had similar successes with Slicehost. I've been wanting to look into Linode and Prgr, but 1) haven't found the time, and 2) can't really justify the cost of two VPS yet. I'll definitely try out GAE for my cl
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Ask HN: What and How many VPS/hosts/servers for side projects?
11 points by davidwparker 16y ago|8 comments
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by davidwparker 16y ago
I haven't used vanilla google.com in a long time. My homepage is google.com/ig and normally when I search I just use the search bar built in to Chrome (or Firefox, etc).
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by davidwparker 16y ago
My main two: 1) working out. Normally something outside: running around Red Rocks, jogging and looking at the mountains, playing ultimate frisbee, etc 2) board games. Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, Dominion, Hansa Teutonica... not Set
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by davidwparker 16y ago
The only bug I have is that I don't get any sound. I haven't really tried anything yet to fix it, but played for about 3 minutes. Anyone have any thoughts on what may be the issue though?
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by davidwparker 17y ago
"InfoQ: This is probably provable (one way or another), but do you suspect that the JVM's use has decreased over all, or that Java proper has decreased while Ruby/Scala /Jython /Groovy have taken up the slack? Actually none of these languag
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by davidwparker 17y ago
Crashed for me the first time on Ubuntu Linux Chrome 5.0.342.9. Tried it a second time and it worked okay.
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by davidwparker 17y ago
If you do plan on removing friends rather than using FB lists and organizing permissions based on lists, I would suggest going to http://www.facebook.com/friends/ It allows you to click X next to each friend rather than going into each in
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by davidwparker 17y ago
Great article Patrick. In particular, I liked where you mentioned doing external API calls asynchronously. I hadn't thought of that in the past and I know I'll be doing that in the future.
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by davidwparker 17y ago
Here's a demo on my blog: http://davidwparker.com/2010/04/10/any-metadata-bookmarklet/ note: I've only tested it on Ubuntu Chrome 5.0.342.7 as I know Chrome supports localStorage.
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Tell HN: Add any metadata to any domain bookmarklet
4 points by davidwparker 17y ago|2 comments