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by elai 16y ago
How much of your speed in completing a task based on prior experience with similar or identical problems with your experience with the programming environment being similar to your peers?
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by elai 16y ago
Does having a startup, or being in YC feel like your cramming for exams, not enough time, too much to do, and no time for a good amount of sleep and proper food?
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by elai 16y ago
For young people who have nothing in kitchen equipment, this "minimalist kitchen" would be interesting: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-minimalist-kitchen.htm...
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by elai 16y ago
You can make opinion polls say what you want to say. Look at this comical example from yes prime minister: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMcZic1d4U
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by elai 16y ago
Thats pretty entertaining. Even if it's to troll childless 30 year olds.
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by elai 16y ago
There's reading, and then there's remembering and using most of it a couple of months later and years later. Otherwise it just becomes another form of newspaper/HN reading and just mostly gives a vague reference memory in the back of your
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by elai 16y ago
press the x button on the ad?
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by elai 16y ago
So if they said that "We are waiting for more customer response before offering this service" would that be fine?
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Ask HN: How many of you grew up with entrepreneurial parents?
12 points by elai 16y ago|8 comments
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by elai 16y ago
System76 has laptops with that option now.
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by elai 16y ago
A degree is also useful for visas. If your canadian and you don't have a degree good luck getting a TN or any other kind of work permit visa down in the US.
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by elai 16y ago
You do not transfer copyright until you are paid in full. Partial payments do not count. If they have not paid, every system and backup of that system that has your piece of code in it must be taken down, by your own hands if necessary as
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by elai 16y ago
He was just an instructor (He had a masters I think and had been doing this job for years). I was taking the course at a local community college and found their quality of math education far better than the local university. A lot of peopl
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by elai 16y ago
Since this would be as exposed, and slower than a powered paraglider, why doesn't he just use that instead and find a field to land in for work.
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by elai 16y ago
Wow that really succinctly described the difference. I think a bit of the reason why they do have deadlines is because people can put off not doing the work at all forever unless you got some sort of whip cracker going. I did it with a ma
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by elai 16y ago
Not really, the writing is about the same. YuGiOh, Bakugon, and other anime series made after the games they promote are actually a cheaply made long drawn out commercials, as originally designed. Chaotica, Pokemon and Digimon are a bit be
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by elai 16y ago
9/11 could of happened as soon as airliners were invented and became a public transit system...
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by elai 16y ago
I think a large part of health care price inflation comes from extreme distortions that governments and case law bring to that industry.
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by elai 16y ago
Germany is also a one citizenship state, which provides a disinsentive to immigration.
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by elai 16y ago
Gmail "might" delete inactive accounts after 9 months/270 days. But if it's forwarding mail it wont delete it, unlike hotmail. Hotmail has more conditions for inactivity it seems.
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by elai 16y ago
I think intelligence or skill comes from a combination of mental energy, focusing, internal values, and internal reward factors and motivations. The OP basically became slower because his brain had less energy to work with. Especially int
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by elai 16y ago
An interview I had asked my experience with large data sets and high traffic web sites and such and what I thought about them. I got an impression they were a bit shell shocked by the workload of a high traffic website. Many software pay
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by elai 16y ago
You pay with the card, and then you pay off the card with the student loans. Many colleges don't accept credit cards for tuition, and a local one stopped recently.
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by elai 16y ago
There are some things that are in the private apis that make dealing with certain problems a 100 times easier. Sometimes you just want the gui to force a rotation to a certain orientation at some point of the app. Other public api's such
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by elai 16y ago
There is also an expose option to show all windows for an application. Set it to a keyboard hot key.
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by elai 16y ago
Wow, a conspiracy theory that would make sense. The US government finds the leak in may, knows wiki leaks has it. Knows that they'll not be able to directly attack the organization on free speech grounds so they create a character assigna
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by elai 16y ago
It's because nvidia and intel can't play nice and apple decided using the nvidia built in gpu/northbridge and an older cpu generation is a better comprimise than going with intel's inferior gpu/northbridge.
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by elai 16y ago
I think part of this is following a time line as he grew up. Just look at the abuses 1970s, and the 1980s was a recession time for many.
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by elai 16y ago
It's inspiring.
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by elai 16y ago
Freenet has serious speed issues to resolve before anything like it would be viable.

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