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by ganley 16y ago
This is about writing, but applies just as well here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/09/16/writing-find-the-time-...
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by ganley 16y ago
That's not hard to track down; check census.gov. In fact, as of 2007 the distribution of households with incomes over $250K was 89% white. http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditu...
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by ganley 16y ago
It's a protocol, just like TCP/IP. Your extraneous information in the header was just discarded. :-)
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by ganley 16y ago
His prior book, Not Really An Alaskan Mountain Man, which coincidentally I just finished last night, is about working toward a subsistence lifestyle in Alaska. He never even gets close, but it's an entertaining read.
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by ganley 16y ago
Yeah, I'm familiar with that, and it's very much in the spirit of what I had in mind (though not as much so as the Willys). But note that they lost much of that simplicity in the Europa - the version that meets EU safety and emissions requi
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by ganley 16y ago
I've long wanted someone to build and sell a dead-simple car like this today. With modern emissions and safety standards, it might well not be possible.
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by ganley 16y ago
Phrasing all of your comments in a negative and hostile manner is also a poor way to make a point amongst any kind of people.
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by ganley 16y ago
You nailed it with that last sentence, and the OP would seem to be looking for the latter class of people. What troubles me is the constant either-or mudslinging between the job people who think the identity people have no lives, and the id
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by ganley 16y ago
For some of us, our job fulfills our passion just fine, and affords plenty of opportunity for ongoing education. I've always thought that many (not all, but many) people program for fun because their job isn't sufficiently interesting.
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by ganley 16y ago
Dean Kamen, Danny Hillis, and Adam Savage (not necessarily in that order).
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by ganley 16y ago
Something I've always wanted is to be able to set up my home phone so that between (say) 9pm and 9am, when people call they get an automated response that says, "The person you are calling doesn't want to be disturbed at this hour. If your
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by ganley 16y ago
Pennies.
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by ganley 16y ago
I've long thought there is a serious opportunity in connecting organizations who provide fun things to do with people looking for fun things to do. I had an (unpursued) idea a while back to create a single-serving site called, "What should
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by ganley 16y ago
Wrong, unless "privileged" means "not in abject poverty." We were distinctly lower-middle-class. I bought my first computer myself with my lifetime-accumulated birthday/lawnmowing/snowshoveling money.
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by ganley 16y ago
If it was sure to result in a positive outcome, then there's no reason it would be outside of your comfort zone, right? Sort of by definition, things are outside your comfort zone because they're risky in one way or another.
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by ganley 16y ago
Like him, I read outside, in the sun when possible. Thus, any LCD screen is a nonstarter.
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by ganley 16y ago
I wish I had more upvotes just for "do something that makes you break a sweat EVERY DAY." Even though it doesn't directly affect any of your issues except possibly the weight problem, I've found nothing that so reliably keeps my mood up as
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by ganley 16y ago
Not a statistically significant sample, but I've asked for this in (almost?) every job negotiation, at both bigcos and startups, and it has never even been considered.
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by ganley 16y ago
... and if you do, check out the Long Now Museum nearby. http://longnow.org/contact/
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by ganley 16y ago
Flawed analogy (see replies), but amen nonetheless. My kids are on the neighborhood swim team, and are among the worst swimmers on it. When they get down about doing poorly, I remind them that they're better swimmers than the huge portion o
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by ganley 16y ago
My first daughter did that. Only for 3 months, but for that entire 3 months she was either eating, sleeping, or wailing. (shudder)
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by ganley 16y ago
Amateurs. I'm one of 8. My parents never had a chance.
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by ganley 16y ago
Huh. My answer (as a father of 3) to how much time they'll consume would, only slightly facetiously, be "all of it." Your math about sleep cycles is way wrong, and the idea that you'll still have half the free time you used to is laughable.
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by ganley 16y ago
I got through eventually. It took several tries, though.
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by ganley 16y ago
I have the same newbie issues, but it's $4.30. Worst case, it's totally useless to me, and I'm out the cost of a latte.
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by ganley 16y ago
Easy: We're expensive, and we don't work 80-hour weeks. (Both generalizations, but both certainly far more true of older engineers than younger ones.) That said, I've worked for two startups, one when I was 31 and one when I was 38. If you
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by ganley 16y ago
Travel.
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by ganley 16y ago
Thankfully, I hardly ever see the Google homepage. I initiate all of my searches from Chrome/Chromium's address bar.
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by ganley 16y ago
His calculations for the cost of commuting take a wrong turn (no pun intended) somewhere. A 40-mile commute is 10K miles per year, which at IRS mileage rates is $5K, not the $10K he cites. He gets this math right for the 20-mile commute, bu
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by ganley 16y ago
As far as design basics for novices, Robin Williams's "The Non-Designer's Design Book" is far and away the best I've seen.

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