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Show HN: FlyerMe - AdSense didn't approve so ask you all to dissect it(flyerme.info)
2 points by gatlin 15y ago|3 comments
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by gatlin 15y ago
shameless plug I created http://flyerme.info as a tool to create simple posters with QR codes in them. I'd have advertised it more aggressively / put it on better infrastructure but AdSense declared it unfit for ads.
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by gatlin 15y ago
Thank you for writing this. I'm responding in lieu of a second upvote.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I work for a host which depends on cpanel. I've co-written an application similar to Fantastico called QuickInstall and it integrates with cPanel. (well, I did the rewrite - don't blame me for version 1!). cpanel is mind bogglingly stupid.
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by gatlin 15y ago
An idea I'm going to start doing now that I have savings and an inclination to share my fortune: 1. Donate to a local food bank / soup kitchen / church, etc which serves the homeless. 2. Hand out cards to beggars with the street address of
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by gatlin 15y ago
My hardware is a brand new 13" MBA with an old monitor, comfort curve keyboard, bose notebook speakers, and the magic trackpad. For software, homebrew and perlbrew are essential. vim and tmux are how I do everything related to my job. Adium
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by gatlin 15y ago
Yes. iPhone 3GS is very slippery without a case, too.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I was enjoying the sunset when the interviewer called me. I was on the roof of one of several buildings; climbing on and off is a feat of acrobatics involving two roof tops and these slippery metal vents. Both hands are useful. tl;dr somers
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by gatlin 15y ago
I applied to a kind-of sinking ship in Palo Alto last year. Got through a few interviews, answered all the questions right, and was gently let down. It was a stab in the dark. My friend who worked there (and, in fact, recommended me) told m
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by gatlin 15y ago
I was raised 30 miles southwest of Austin in a rather conservative small town. I have family, friends, and experience in Houston, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Lubbock, Amarillo, etc. Most of the major cities that aren't in the border regio
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by gatlin 15y ago
I think [Racket][1] does this. [1]: http://racket-lang.org
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by gatlin 15y ago
I've received some emails about this so I'll write this publicly here. I recall a case study and some papers that we went over for about 2 weeks in an education course. I will try to dig up the sources (this was about 2 years ago, though, s
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by gatlin 15y ago
In good conscience I must make a distinction: my public school complaints were the direct result of regressive policies on part of administration. Many of my actual teachers did the best they could with ridiculous constraints. In college, t
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by gatlin 15y ago
We use the Moore Method at UT. We started with a series of axioms and over the duration of the semester we built and proved ourselves as a group every theory. And only those theories successfully proven by the group were admissible on tes
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by gatlin 15y ago
Humble brag: I was declared "gifted" in every area except mathematics throughout school; I switched schools once and retook the test leading to some kind of broad-er exposure to the process. The tests to determine mathematical giftedness we
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by gatlin 15y ago
The upside is my chat roster is not pushed down really far. I know of the labs feature to put the roster on the right side but that ends up having annoying layout quirks (and, admittedly, irrational ugliness) which make that even less desir
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by gatlin 15y ago
That was one of my problems with it, too, even though I do get rolling pretty fast in the mornings. I think the real solution is to assume that the meeting time is going to be inconvenient for someone and just try to have a big stupid gro
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by gatlin 15y ago
Scott Adams, in the back of "The Dilbert Principle," describes the OA5 model of running a company: Out at 5. His main goal was an efficient organization that let everyone out at 5, which meant the product was delivered, which meant everyone
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by gatlin 15y ago
I won't pretend to be successful but many successful people I know did the following: 0) School, education, apprenticing, whatever. Helped someone else's dream along and forfeited their wants for a bit. 1) Did mind-numbing grind work for a
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by gatlin 15y ago
Side note: I don't envy what you do but kudos for doing it well.
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by gatlin 15y ago
That's actually very similar to my situation, and I sympathize. I was told verbally that I could use IIS, Access, and Perl (I didn't know it at the time) to whip up my project. And then inexplicably a number of Perl tutorials were flagged b
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by gatlin 15y ago
> I'd have them fired within five business days if it meant I had to send spoofed mail from their address containing horse porn to the head of HR to pull it off At least you're creative when you put ethics in the back seat.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I didn't elaborate my original story for brevity. Their firewall inexplicably blocked some technical articles I was trying to read for my job. So Firefox through my own proxy was the only way. Also, I reported all these tricks when I left.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I do. This has been an elaborate troll and I can't for the life of me understand why it was upvoted. Of course they're over-worked and under-staffed.
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by gatlin 15y ago
Oh, I know. That's why I was hoping I could just convince them to take my SS card or something in exchange for handing me the keys to my own machine. Needless to say, it didn't work. I did, however, make friends with the IT guy assigned to
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by gatlin 15y ago
I resent that! :) But since I do have admin and I'm leaving soon, maybe not ...
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by gatlin 15y ago
It sounds like if you'd been my IT guy at the state agency, I'd have had a much better time - simply because I would have had intelligent arguments :) The reason the printers were like this is some initiative by our dumbass Governor called
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by gatlin 15y ago
I feel like ranting - maybe this will generate a good discussion. Most of my experiences with IT have been fine. I worked at a Texas state agency once, though, that caused me to dream about throwing IT workers out my office window. For star
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by gatlin 15y ago
I was hoping this would be about worker cooperatives. However, I agree with everything in the article. There's a great deal of overlap with what I was hoping to read about and what I did read about.
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by gatlin 15y ago
I was sucking it big time on a video game once, and my friend turned to me and said "Don't try harder; try better ." We should be working young people better.

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