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by giggles_giggles 11y ago
To answer your first question: MetaFilter does accomplish this goal with a $5 one-time fee (as you thought) required to comment or post in combination with heavy moderation, and it works quite well. The community is largely civil and discus
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by giggles_giggles 11y ago
It should be pretty obvious it's a joke. The logo is the same as the Instacart logo, just modified slightly to have cat ears ;)
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
This was not even a theoretical problem. There were batch-members who had problems getting into the country because of "Hacker" being in the name.
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Oh I understand! Please read my comment as concern and not derision :)
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
This strikes me as though it should be an art piece underlining the tragedy of what the Kindle and all DRM-encumbered digital media has taken from us. When a friend or visitor walks up to a real bookshelf in your home and takes interest in
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Sounds to me like the real solution to this problem is to have some sleep hygiene and get off of your laptop for awhile when you get sleepy. If I was frequently waking on the couch with my laptop on my chest I wouldn't think "gee,
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
My understanding is that, among other things, the generators come under extreme stress during exceptionally windy occasions, causing a lot of wear and tear that happens way up at the top of these giant windmills. These require a lot of manu
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
"8. Just a nice dude" Women need not apply either, I suppose.
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
I think the skirt advice applies to men too
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Hulu's commercials are the absolute worst. I'm not paying a monthly fee so I can watch that stupid Jack in the Box add about the bacon cheeseburger a thousand times. Even if there were more different ads it wouldn't be so bad
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
For what it's worth, diphenhydramine (mentioned in the article) is Benadryl, and it's widely known that it causes hallucinations in high doses: https://www.erowid.org/pharms/diphenhydramine/diphenhydramin
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
So the script wouldn't pause and ask for user input during normal operation.
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Isn't this fundamentally just using GitHub as a torrent tracker? I can't imagine that GitHub would be entirely happy about this, and it still leaves a third party (GitHub), functioning as registrar of torrents, vulnerable to attac
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Cheap shared hosting that costs a few dollars a month and comes with managed support. In this market a LOT of folks are largely non-technical, and want to pay for a managed system. DigitalOcean is great for people like you and me, but if I&
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Yeah, I both have a shifted sleep phase as well as a shifted eating disorder, where I consume most of my calories after 6pm and don't really get hungry at all until 3pm or later most days, even if I go to bed famished. Also, melatonin
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Alternatively, you could try to address the things that make them want to leave instead of writing them off as misanthropes? Once my living expenses went up and a 15% raise would've absolutely kept me with the company if I'd been
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
The site in the OP is pretty clearly a deployment of the software that http://lobste.rs develops, uses, and publishes as a 3-clause BSD-licensed project: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Microsoft owns Skype, not eBay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Technologies
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
It really kills me that something this small requires Redis. I don't want to have to install Redis on an rpi just so that it can monitor the network with a small script. Why not just use a Ruby-native data structure and store results i
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
The headline is somewhat misleading -- this is a basis for federated IM, like xmpp. It's not truly distributed, the way something like tox.im is.
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Yeah, I read his/her post a few times to try to figure out if (s)he had any experience and wasn't sure, and not seeing anyone mentioning Hacker School, I thought it'd add to the discussion. Since (s)he doesn't specify hi
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
I did Hacker School, which is free to attend, because it's funded by recruiting. It was life-changing, and provided me with a great network that I still talk to on a day-to-day basis with a very, very wide range of experience and inter
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by giggles_giggles 12y ago
Depending on where you live, it might make sense to attend some meetups related to the technologies you're learning. These are often good networking opportunities, and the first step to getting your foot in the door in my experience is