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by ganley 17y ago
I've looked pretty hard into this, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that the trouble isn't technical, it's social. Do you really want your friends putting your contact info in the cloud? In order for this to work, you really need a m
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by ganley 17y ago
Agreed: Why bother? FWIW, lately I've swung away from reading stuff online, RSS feeds, etc. and back to novels. I'd forgotten how much more satisfying long-form reading is. It's like food: Junk food seems really tasty, but you forget how mu
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by ganley 17y ago
Agreed (having also written a text todo-list processor). Furthermore, I found that it was too hard to encode state, and the various ways for a task to respond to changes in state, in a reasonable way - far too many exceptions and corner cas
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by ganley 17y ago
My father (who did start a company) gave me the sage advice that you don't want to start a company unless that company will be the absolute top priority in your life.
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by ganley 17y ago
Steve Jobs (allegedly): "Real artists ship."
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by ganley 17y ago
Bike messenger.
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by ganley 17y ago
You absolutely can change this, but 30 days is optimistic. I was like this too, and it took YEARS to really break - not break to the point where I was successfully forcing myself to do these things, but break to the point where it was part
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by ganley 17y ago
Not news, but bears repeating. What the post doesn't mention is that not only are the returns on this investment zero at best, but the effects when it is expected and not delivered are devastating to morale. More than once around the turn o
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by ganley 17y ago
About an hour less than I'd like to.
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by ganley 17y ago
Just make sure the ratio of people to cake isn't too high.
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by ganley 17y ago
Not necessarily, but the question wasn't specific enough to recommend a subset. It's all potentially relevant.
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by ganley 17y ago
"Concrete Math" by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik.
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by ganley 17y ago
Hey, thanks! I wrote that. I went here to post it, and it was already here.
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by ganley 17y ago
Puzzles such as those produced by ThinkFun seem to be doing just fine. Those are a little easier than Rubik's Cube, but IMO this is a good thing - I've known very few people who were actually able to noodle out the cube from scratch. Speaki
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by ganley 18y ago
Just produce. A lot. It's hard to produce original work in a medium without first mastering the medium itself. There's an old chestnut about the pottery class in which half was graded on quality and the other on quantity; in the end, the qu
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by ganley 18y ago
Not at all. I think about the end of The Fountainhead, when Roark's accomplishment is symbolized by the sign that says "Howard Roark: Architect," and I think about what that sign would read for me. I've never come up with anything better th
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by ganley 18y ago
Thank you, HN. I started to comment on Jeff's post itself, but on the way down I saw so many people agreeing with him that I gave up in dismay. I'm happy to see the HN crowd has better sense. All I'll say is, if you lack math background, th
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by ganley 18y ago
The cleverest dead-simple algorithm I've seen is to favor the team whose head coach has the highest salary. When I first heard of this, it did pretty well that year.
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by ganley 18y ago
If they could cram an accelerometer in there, then you could pick a song by tapping on it a la songtapper.com ...
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by ganley 18y ago
As in the cases people already described, and some others I won't go into, it is NOT as simple as unchecking a preference. Also, try plugging your USB hard disk into a different USB port in a different order from your iPod. Now it comes up
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by ganley 18y ago
Amen. And iTunes is a total nightmare if you don't want it to store the files where it wants to. I'm all for abstracting away the file system, but the fact remains that there are files under there, so don't make it difficult for me to deal
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by ganley 18y ago
It's not really a forum, but Project Euler (projecteuler.net) is awesome.
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by ganley 18y ago
I did (almost) this same thing 12 years ago: http://joeganley.com/code/jslisp.html ... though his is more complete and polished than mine, and the interface is nicer in ways that were basically impossible in 1997.
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by ganley 18y ago
At a glance, I'm pretty sure this doesn't work. The average jump is not to the bisection between the current node and the node you're seeking, it's to the bisection between the current node and the end of the list. As you get closer to the
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by ganley 18y ago
My '97 Chrysler Concorde just rolled over 100K a couple of days ago, and despite its 3.8L V6 it's still getting 27mpg highway. I'll second what someone said: It's just transportation. I get my fun outside of my car. And give it a rest, cycl
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by ganley 18y ago
She's done some interesting work... wish the NYT article had focused more on that and less on Rubik's cube.
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by ganley 18y ago
I have no useful suggestions, but like @pchristensen, you had me halfway through the title. Most excellent idea. I'm reminded of an old Wired piece by Neal Stephenson entitled "Mother Earth, Mother Board" in which he talks about the 'hacker
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by ganley 18y ago
The best bed compromise (IMO) is a futon mattress on the floor; during the day you can roll/fold it up and store it, as the Japanese do. As for books, I keep very few; I figure book storage is the library's job, not mine.