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by frossie 16y ago
I an rapidly reaching the conclusion that it doesn't matter what you teach the kids, as long it is taught well by somebody who understands and loves the subject. Because what you really want to teach is the ability to learn from the b
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by frossie 16y ago
Having been in a similar situation ("I need to resign or work part time"), I think the best thing you can do is show awareness of the effect it will have on your coworkers and suggest ways in which this will work out. For example: "I sugges
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by frossie 16y ago
Well I don't particularly feel the need to convince you, but I can tell you some of the advantages that Emacs has for me: completely mouse-free operation (important to me for ergonomic reasons), available freely everywhere I want to work (g
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by frossie 16y ago
Wow, I am blown away by the concept of community-developed hardware. The power strip isn't bad, either :-)
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Community-developed Pivot Power strip now available to order(engadget.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|1 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm just amazed you're a scanner, but you keep paper manuals. Don't worry, I understand it sounds peculiar. One reason I keep manuals is for when I re-sell the product later, like you said. I also freecycle a lot of stuff, I feel it's nic
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by frossie 16y ago
First, I suggest you get a Fujitsu ScanSnap or other straight-to-Evernote scanner. Seriously, because once you start doing that you will realise how little you actually need to keep in paper format. What remains depends on your life situati
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by frossie 16y ago
Reread the paragraph before the one you reference: "Vary your message" Don't matter. Still annoying if you are doing it every week. In other words, don't be a stalker, but do be persistent, helpful, and interesting. Most people overrate
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by frossie 16y ago
Good grief. I guarantee you that if anybody contacted me every week asking if I have an unadvertised job for them, I'd file them in the "stalker" folder.
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by frossie 16y ago
We use email, IM, google wave and yammer for work. None of them are perfect. I probably use IM most of all, we don't have a culture of instant response so it is not as disruptive as it sounds. But you are right, I don't feel any of the abov
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by frossie 16y ago
I know, I know, it is meant to be funny (it is) and it's lame to make a serious comment but: The problem is by now many households have hand-me-down iphone chains in the family and have spent much money not only in the handsets but also in
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by frossie 16y ago
That's a damn good idea. Takes away the pain of the alternative (throwaway addresses). Good landing page too, I thought, as was the "what is this good for". Nice job.
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by frossie 16y ago
Try to aim for exciting but serious (like kls said, no Ninja talk). My personal bugbear: Make sure you clearly differentiate from things you are not prepared to live without (eg. must have written iPhone app currently on sale at the App Sto
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Why I Don't Believe In Personal Branding(thingstheydont.com)
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Can I run my business with a 4-day work week?(askamanager.blogspot.com)
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by frossie 16y ago
Well I don't have one (is this a US thing? you get email for life when you get to college?) but I wouldn't anyway - I don't self-identify with institutions as a rule. Edit: Really I would recommend you get your own domain (not a joke one)
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by frossie 16y ago
I try to have no more than four addresses going at a time: 1. Work 2. Friends, family, and signing up for free services that I want to identify myself with 3. Commercial transactions (anybody who has my credit card) 4. Anonymous address (wh
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by frossie 16y ago
Interesting. The author does have a point, to wit that a lot of the things most students would find exciting are in the "later" parts of physics in more traditional courses. But I am not completely convinced with this approach. My personal
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by frossie 16y ago
Did you have a particular example you want to discuss?
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by frossie 16y ago
Regarding "whitespace" - I personally find head room to be a lot more psychologically meaningful that square footage (in other words, I'd rather live in a 1,000 sf house with 9ft ceilings than a 2,000 sf house with 7 foot ceilings, although
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by frossie 16y ago
Yeah, there is a ranking algorithm, same as for the story ranking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704 And?
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by frossie 16y ago
I second starkfist's note of caution. How about finding a job in a semi-rural place (if you don't care which one, there are options - eg. check out astronomical facilities which tend to be in relatively isolated areas) and trying it out for
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by frossie 16y ago
He subsists, according to court filings, on $200,000 a month and still flies his private jet. So, for various values of "broke", then. Moreover he seems to have no cash at the same time as he is going through divorce proceedings where th
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by frossie 16y ago
good lord thanks for telling me about tree-style tabs, it seems great for researching a bunch of code frameworks Well, since I'm sharing the love... Tree Style Tabs in combination with Selection Links is a killer combo. Say somebody point
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by frossie 16y ago
Add my thanks too for mentioning the tree style tab extension. I've been using tabmix plus and arranging all my tabs in rows, but a tree view makes so much more sense. Hey, you're welcome - somebody pointed it out to me, so I am just payi
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by frossie 16y ago
Good on them for coming out and explaining their reasoning. Personally I use the totally fabulous Tree Style Tab extension and have the tabs on the left. Given the prevalence of widescreen displays, it makes a lot more sense to have them on
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by frossie 16y ago
The issue is that they want me to pay my own way in order to be on call. Ah. Well in a salaried world I would say fair enough (my organisation pays for phone and internet connections for on-call staff). In a startup world... I don't know
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by frossie 16y ago
Posterous (pronounced either post-er-us or paw-ster-us, you choose) My apologies for focusing on minutiae, but really? I always thought it was post-er-oose (oose as in moose)
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by frossie 16y ago
we can't launch Foursquare both in Silicon Valley and in New York City and see which has the better outcome. Well, I think the OP's point is that you aren't as likely to get as far as launch in, say, Houston than you are in SV. The proble
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by frossie 16y ago
Okay, I realise we are reeling with the whole "What? This person doesn't want Internet at home??", but let's forget about the internet thing. The issue is, as I understand it, that you don't want to be on call 24/7. So the decision tree see

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