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by genwin 14y ago
For a family or working person, sure. For an individual who no longer has to work or live in a city, $13K/yr is a windfall. One could live like a king, experiencing great nature with all the time freed up, and have money left over. For medi
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by genwin 14y ago
I would much rather get $20K a year for life and have all day every day to do what I want, than have to work to earn $100K a year. I could live on $20K/yr easy. My main cost would be transportation to hiking trails. But I could live near th
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by genwin 14y ago
Thanks for the blast from the past! FoxPro was leading edge in its time. I'm also a fan of SQLite; it works great for my website. Who needs bigger iron (on a single machine anyway) when SQLite can insert a million+ rows a second?
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by genwin 14y ago
History will record that the grand collapse started with Cyprus.
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by genwin 14y ago
Some of the thumbnails are super stretched out vertically, like 30 cm tall.
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by genwin 14y ago
Article's from 2011. From Wikipedia: "As of mid-2012, no news of the vehicle-sized engine had yet been made."
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by genwin 14y ago
For niflet.com I skip sites that don't have an RSS / Atom feed. It's maybe 2% of them. For political sites maybe 10%; it seems a lot of those sites predated WordPress et al. You probably know this already, but for WordPress try adding "/fee
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by genwin 14y ago
Yes, it won't cut it for those who want control over the feeds.
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by genwin 14y ago
Here's an alternative: niflet.com It's a news aggregator that adapts to your interests. Articles that users liked are anonymously shared with others having similar interests.
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by genwin 14y ago
Is the profile that's edited by those who have your permission to see you visible to others who don't have your permission to see you?
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by genwin 14y ago
Are you going to be able to keep up with the thousands of such FB-linked sites you need to opt-out from in the future? I'm a private person too, so I don't use FB.
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by genwin 14y ago
1. In the US, highly likely not. My friend with two masters, one in CS and the other in business, doesn't do better financially than those I know without a degree. Even if you got paid more for having the masters, the break-even point could
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Niflet needs no special signup for Google Reader users
2 points by genwin 14y ago|0 comments
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Epic optical illusion (or "glitch in the matrix") redux(cbsnews.com)
2 points by genwin 14y ago|0 comments
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by genwin 14y ago
For an alternative check out niflet.com. It adapts to your interests. It's written in Go, such that it can handle a ton of traffic on a cheap box.
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by genwin 14y ago
Zite sounds a bit like Niflet.com, which adapts to your interests. No pretty pictures but loads super fast. Works on every device that has a browser.
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Quantum computers leap into the real world(newscientist.com)
3 points by genwin 14y ago|0 comments
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by genwin 14y ago
Until NewsBlur is back, check out niflet.com. It can handle 1 million visits hourly. It has 4000 feeds (so far) and adapts to your interests.
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by genwin 14y ago
It has a lot of non-USA sites. Just upvote the stuff you like.
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by genwin 14y ago
For a news aggregator that adapts to your interests, try niflet.com. I'll add any decent feeds people want.
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by genwin 14y ago
I tend to google to re-discover things I already have bookmarked. It usually takes more effort to look for the bookmark.
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by genwin 14y ago
Go is good at keeping all the cores on the machine pumping. Maybe they switched to machines with more cores.
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by genwin 14y ago
> I feel[1] that a smart/talented C/C++/anything developer can go from someone who has never seen or heard of golang to a proficient and productive Go developer in a matter of a few weeks, maybe even _days_, if not less. Agreed! My care
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by genwin 14y ago
My website, niflet.com, is written in Go. It uses Go's web server. While in learning mode for Go I saw that others were using Nginx instead. Now that I've gone through the development process I can see why. Go's web server is basic. Things
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by genwin 14y ago
I meant that jumping ship might be easier at any company. Businesses put rigid limits on raises. If you want to make a market rate it's best to get it when hired.
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by genwin 14y ago
It's best to ignore any objections and focus on getting paid a market rate (what other companies would pay). So something like "I'm worth $x". I find that the other side quickly stops raising objections and shifts to compromising on a $ fig
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by genwin 14y ago
If you don't have a degree then simply leave an education section off your resume and don't bring the topic up. Ignore degree requirements for jobs; apply regardless. Doing this, your lack of degree will probably have little remaining impac
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by genwin 14y ago
> When your boss tells you that he won't pay you any more because you don't have a degree, it builds. It's just a convenient excuse. If it wasn't a degree it'd be something else. The boss was negotiating, so negotiation skills are what'
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by genwin 14y ago
Unless there's money to burn a career should be treated like a business. For many people getting a CS degree would be a big net loss. One can certainly master Dirichlet allocation from the comfort of home, no fees required.
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by genwin 14y ago
A higher level language would've been worse for developing my web app, niflet.com. I did the prototype in PHP and found Go to be easier to code in, much less coding overall, and at least 10X better performance. I didn't have to deploy a sep

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