froo

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by froo 17y ago
No, just look at that bottom picture. He looks suspiciously a lot like Dr Robotnik (with a shaved moustache) http://bit.ly/dbWcWv
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by froo 17y ago
Always trust a graph that has no numbers or points to compare scale!
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by froo 17y ago
Possibly, or it could be an attempt to soften the negative reaction one might have by viewing the following statements. It's kind of like a disclaimer for stupidity.
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by froo 17y ago
I know I'm going to get voted down, but I hope the results aren't like this. http://bornandbreded.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/crossed.jpg
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by froo 17y ago
>Where does one obtain a standing desk these days? Lifehacker had a recent article on this, let me dig it up for you. http://lifehacker.com/5503957/the-file-cabinet-standing-desk
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by froo 17y ago
>take breaks regularly >exercise daily This. I actually bought a recumbent exercise bike which sits next to my home office desk. I've mounted a touch screen LCD in place of the "normal" trip computer and it's hooked up to a netbook.
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by froo 17y ago
I've read Rework , I felt it was entirely a rehash of Getting Real . In fact, while reading it I would swear I read a lot of the passages in it were added in wholesale from Getting Real . I was experiencing some serious Deja Vu while rea
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by froo 17y ago
Not necessarily. I've run out of books to read, so I figured I'd crowdsource for new points to start from, go beyond my current scope. I figure there are lots of books people can recommend here that are relevant to my interests, so why not
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Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books?
118 points by froo 17y ago|182 comments
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by froo 17y ago
Ah my apologies then, I misread it.
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by froo 17y ago
I have a friend who plays WOW on his netbook, so they have other uses too.
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by froo 17y ago
My grandmother. She had asked about the internet and emailing and I decided to purchase one of these for her. It was a tossup between a PC with all the peripherals or the ipad where she just touches the screen. I thought the latter would be
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by froo 17y ago
What? That the guy who basically invented the PC by hacking together parts of other devices likes to carry lots of technology with him? I don't see the problem at all, it fits his profile. Now if it was someone like your average soccer mum
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Google now indexes over 1 billion Facebook URLs(google.com)
1 points by froo 17y ago|0 comments
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by froo 17y ago
I was pretty impressed just by the first part, but when it got to the desert and finally the cloud, my jaw literally was open by the end. Totally gobsmacked. Unbelievable.
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by froo 17y ago
Well I can, simply because there are a lot of people here that would be able to emulate exactly what I'm doing. Like I posted just before I went to bed, what I'm doing isn't concrete, it could end tomorrow and so, in that respect, I'm going
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Ask HN: Your favourite (oldschool) software?
16 points by froo 17y ago|18 comments
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by froo 17y ago
That's a fair point too. I often think of where I was a couple years ago (very broke) and it puts everything into perspective for me too.
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by froo 17y ago
Except that given it could potentially end tomorrow, I am motivated to work on something different. Sure I have a comfortable position at the moment, but resting on my laurels could be a costly mistake. I am just using this breathing room t
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by froo 17y ago
Not necessarily, a couple of the web's biggest properties came to be from it's founders other priorities. Google (backrub) started as a research project. Craigslist started out as a way for Craig Newmark to not feel so isolated. Wikipedia..
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by froo 17y ago
I disagree. I think that there are not enough categories. For example, I've got a comfortable lifestyle, I earn a decent passive income (~18k a month) and it affords me time to work on the stuff that I want to work on. I'm working on someth
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by froo 17y ago
The thing is though, I don't think the market sees it like that, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here trying to sell the source code and instead enjoying your millions of dollars. I've built something that I thought was brilliant, however
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by froo 17y ago
Shoot me an email - mark {at} marklancaster {dot} org and I'll send you a file to start going through.
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by froo 17y ago
That's the thing though, yours is an edge case. I see the value of utilising IM as a communication method for keeping an eye on things. However, I think that in the vast majority of cases, people will have people on their IM clients (which
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by froo 17y ago
I find the premise of using IM for time tracking (and hence time management) a flawed idea. For me, IM is generally a distraction and a timesink, which is why I've opted to uninstall any IM clients and instead do all my interactions through
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by froo 17y ago
> If you're hosting 50 sites on the same IP address, and have actually managed to get them to profitability, and Google bans the IP, now what? You tar the sites and move them. It typically isn't that difficult, however most of the peopl
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by froo 17y ago
Has anyone here tried this? Not first hand, but I have a friend who codes while working as a building attendant. Money isn't great, you have to work odd hours - but he says the best shifts are the late night ones because nobody bothers yo
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by froo 17y ago
"how long does it take that stock to move $0.10?" I guess that really depends which direction you're talking about. If you're not careful, having it move down 10 cents is fairly easy to accomplish and then all you're doing is working to l
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by froo 17y ago
Completely agree. Grab a photoshop book and get going. Another book I'd suggest is Stephen Krug's "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" if you want to get into it a little further. If a site is easy and intuitive t
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by froo 17y ago
>I'd play it safe and hit up individual writers, build buzz from the ground up. This. The lower tier writers of today are the big cheeses of tomorrow. It often pays dividends in the future to give them exclusives today and make their jo

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