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by deerpig 13y ago
A friend of mine has a mother who recently turned 101. She was still driving until she was 98. Today 30 is still young, and 40 isn't middle age any longer. Middle age doesn't really start till you're 50. You're still a
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Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees: we'll all be worse off(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by deerpig 14y ago|1 comments
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by deerpig 14y ago
Let me see how I can delicately sum up my feelings about this: "Google, you Bastard!" I think they announced this while the news cycle is wall-to-wall New Pope Mania to cover up this appalling summery execution :)
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by deerpig 14y ago
I would love to see syntax high lighting and eventually support for this in org-mode....
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by deerpig 14y ago
Every time I see people like this I am reminded of the Einstein quote, "everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." There is much to be said for living a simple and even frugal life, but this is not a simple life, it'
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by deerpig 14y ago
I live in Cambodia, work 18 hour days and between email, skype and the telephone I keep up with friends in family in North America on both coasts, in Europe, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, India and even people in my own time zone (Thailand
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by deerpig 14y ago
It would seem that everyone here has ignored how many different ways that rice cookers are used in the far east. It's very common to put a whole chicken or salted duck egg (in the shell) in with the rice when it cooks, by the time the rice
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by deerpig 14y ago
I would be interested in organizing a meetup in Phnom Penh. For no other reason than to see how many people here read HN? Is there someone I need to talk to before organizing the event?
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by deerpig 14y ago
I would love that. I've never been able to get the workflow right with mobileorg...
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by deerpig 14y ago
In one sense you are correct. But do we really need so many people doing what is essentially journeyman work, building trivial one-feature products with piles of VC funding that forces them to produce things that make money, rather than th
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by deerpig 14y ago
So much for Balmer's "developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers...."
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Emacsy, An Embeddable Emacs-like Library(kickstarter.com)
2 points by deerpig 14y ago|0 comments
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by deerpig 15y ago
As someone who has been in the Internet business from the beginning with a number of startups under my belt and who "migrated myself to a non-US controlled country" (East and SE Asia) 25 years ago I would offer my the following formula for
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by deerpig 15y ago
Wow, after reading the comments it's amazing how difficult it is for most people to understand that eliminating time zones doesn't mean that anyone will change when they work. You will just have a different number for the time you do thing
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by deerpig 15y ago
Did I read this article wrong? Why would American Mormons need to go through American immigration to work in another country? I live in Northeast Thailand, and there is a hive of Mormons not too far from here who always travel on bicycle i
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by deerpig 15y ago
What are these themes for?
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by deerpig 15y ago
It's far easier to migrate to Singapore than Hong Kong. At best you'll be able to get residency after 7 years, but that's only if you can manage to get a work visa, which is not easy unless you work for a big company. I lived in HK for 10