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by goldcd 7y ago
Maybe I'm alone here in never actually having read any of her books - but being well aware of the content as I bump into the lovers/haters online. To me it's up there with the Bible. I'm aware of the jist, sounds like th
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by goldcd 7y ago
Horse is optional - I think the critical item is "A Gabriel"
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'd so love to believe that was the same person, who clicked down then up :) Pretty sure it wasn't - due to the piss-poor design of Y-combinator's forum. "I don't like click" hides the thing you don't like
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by goldcd 7y ago
thank you
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by goldcd 7y ago
WTF??!?! - It's not "a right" Every site you type something into and press 'submit' has a complete choice as to what happens with your submission. My take is that our current 'problems' are down to everybo
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm goldcd@bobpitch.com... Hopefully that's enough to work it out, and this thread has moved down the board to just the people looking at their replies.
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by goldcd 7y ago
Yes... ..and?? Putting myself in YouTube's shoes, I've no idea how I could easily stamp out these links/comments. What's maybe more interesting to consider is that there's been no blocks linking a URL to a particula
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by goldcd 7y ago
I've no idea why you'd get a down-vote either - whoever that was, "Hang your head in shame and reverse that click"
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by goldcd 7y ago
This is a 'full on brag' (not some humble-brag) - I'm really proud of the site. Every f'in part of it I built from scratch. It's me, for better or for worse. More pragmatically, it helped shape what I like doing for
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by goldcd 7y ago
The original site was - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popbitch (scurrilous media gossip from within the machine) Mine? - Mainly what people have eaten for lunch... ..but if I had to come up with a proper answer it&#x27
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by goldcd 7y ago
Sortof... Always loved computers, but unlike maybe most people here, for what I could do with them (not the beauty of their logic blah). Did a Masters in Bioinformatics, that came with a few Oracle lectures... and then as this was in 2000 w
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by goldcd 7y ago
I now realize, I didn't add a conclusion. My little site is 'local' - I don't have to deal with the world turning up. I don't need admins, I don't need a TOS, I don't need arbitration systems etc etc. Ther
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by goldcd 7y ago
I think it depends on the website you're wanting to run.. I was part of a now-dead "threaded message board", which had a somewhat cliquey view of what should/shouldn't be posted. In the evening when the moderators w
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by goldcd 7y ago
I main-splain the reason why they're not 'picking up real jobs' as that those jobs come with commitments. Even if it's not "you must work these hours" - it's "my books need to be ready at the end of t
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by goldcd 7y ago
I'm with you on this. I really don't like the 'gig-economy' being a replacement full-time job, but I can definitely see the advantages of it when you're at a loose-end and just want a bit of extra cash. ~ to when yo
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by goldcd 7y ago
Yes. The "Once we leave the EU the US will give us a way better deal that the one they have with the EU&UK today" - ENDLESSLY keeps being trotted out. No indication as to why the US would want to do this. Trump's spent ye
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by goldcd 7y ago
Not usually one to plug stuff - but the Wayback Machine browser extension is very useful for "This is down, would you like to see a snapshot" (or "This is up now for now, would you like it snap-shotted"... or my favourit
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by goldcd 7y ago
We killed it - https://web.archive.org/web/20190524202002/http://www.os2mus...
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by goldcd 7y ago
OK - more facetious than I thought. Sorry. Maybe more realistic scenario is just when working away asking "Can you come to my room so we can spend 30 mins updating the deck for tomorrow?" Think I'd have been fine asking that
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by goldcd 7y ago
I suspect that view depends on your gender. I didn't mean that as a facetious comment. As (hopefully) a non-creepy male I was blissfully unaware of the prevalence. I didn't do it, see it, hear it - and therefore it didn't h
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by goldcd 7y ago
I can genuinely see that anybody could 'struggle' anywhere, once you consider living costs and the miscellaneous monthly payments adult life insidiously inflicts upon you. Whilst income gradually rises, your corresponding monthly
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by goldcd 7y ago
The scary thing I take away from this, is that I'm now interested to know what plane I'm going to get on. For my entire life I'd thought (rightly) that "aircraft are the safest mode of travel" - this issue has for t
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by goldcd 8y ago
I can actually answer that (due to random quirks in my life). 1) Opposite my office there used to be an audiobook company. Whole office of people built around a sound-booth where an actor would spend a week or so recording a book. I used to
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by goldcd 8y ago
I could not agree more. Audiobooks and podcasts are one of my favourite things. If I need to concentrate there's music - if I have to do some mundane physical task that used to bore the bejeezus out of me, I now have them. I even enjoy
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by goldcd 8y ago
Individual prices of books exist solely to push you towards the monthly x-many-books model - which is pretty good value. I've been a member since 2005/6 (pre-amazon ownership) and I think my longest recurrent monthly thing. Audiob
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by goldcd 8y ago
I'll agree that "liberalism" is a relatively recent political label - but that's about it, especially when religion starts popping up throughout the rest of the short article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by goldcd 8y ago
"When most Europeans hear the word “liberal” they think of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan." No. NO WE DO NOT. Irrespective of your views on Maggie - nobody considers her a liberal..
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by goldcd 8y ago
I think there's also a wide division as to what people think their government is for. e.g. "Should I pay to arrest/convict/incarcerate the person who stole my phone" vs. "Should my cancer be cured without bankr
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by goldcd 8y ago
Sorry - I wasn't saying accountants "didn't do it" - just that "they shouldn't" My pedantic (and massively down-voted post I now notice) was just an expression of my annoyance at mixing syntax. I'd al
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by goldcd 8y ago
Well no it isn't.. MM would be 2 thousands - as in the representation of the year 2019 as MMXIX (2x1000 + 10 + (10-1)) Anyway, MM is clearly man-month or 2 digit month of the year when you stringify a date... we don't need more.

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