iamelgringo

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1. 1021.▲
   by iamelgringo 17y ago

   So, I've been an ER nurse for the last 15 years. I run the Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley meetup, and I love to support startup ideas. It's extremely rare that I don't support a startup idea or give it a fair shake. This is a specta
2. 1022.▲
   by iamelgringo 17y ago

   Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel. Priceless.
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   "If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."(support.microsoft.com)

   155 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|29 comments
4. 1024.▲
   by iamelgringo 17y ago

   I picked up Hackers and Painters because of a review over at Slashdot five years ago: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/07/0456241 My life hasn't been the same since.
5. 1025.▲
   by iamelgringo 17y ago

   Who was the guy that used to do Kermit and Ernie? It was Jim Henson himself for quite some time, and then Steve Whitmire took over after Jim's death.
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   Python's CleverCSS(sandbox.pocoo.org)

   38 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|10 comments
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   Safari 4 beta leaves data, privacy trail in its wake(mac.blorge.com)

   3 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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   How Sesame Street Changed the World(newsweek.com)

   22 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|7 comments
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   Python compiler package... I can think of a few better variable names(docs.python.org)

   1 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    I've worked as an ER/Critical Care nurse for 15 years, and this author is correct in saying that health care costs in this country are particularly opaque. I have absolutely no idea how much the stuff I do costs. That can be a good thing
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    The part that's frightening is major medical expenses. Any trip to the Emergency Room or stay in the hospital is going to run into the thousands, and easily into the tens of thousands of dollars. The regular non-emergent basic stuff can a
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    Dell Unveils Via Nano-Based Server (pulls 20-29 watts @ full load)(osnews.com)

    27 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|5 comments
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    A Bug and a Crash (around.com)

    6 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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    Google Almost Bought a Paper (The NYT)(reuters.com)

    3 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    * While acknowledging that the administration's heart is in the right place, he pointed out that traditionally, direct investment in technology by governments doesn't work out well. He said the United State's subsidies on ethanol, France's
16. 1036.▲
    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Diabetes: I'd much rather have a surgery or procedure that could replace my Islet of Langerhans rather than take insulin 2 times a day and live with a strict diet the rest of my life. Many diabetics I know would agree. We don't have that
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    I just read Dan's book, Predictably Irrational, and it was really great. http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-D... There was a lot of stuff that was applicable to marketing/sales if anyone's interested in that.
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    Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest App Store?(blogs.sun.com)

    22 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|15 comments
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Nice work, Simon. Thanks, and thanks for all the hard work on django as well. Keep it up. :)
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Nutrition != Medicine.
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Straight up WSGI: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/27/introducing-wsgi-pythons... Django, Pylons, Cherry.py, Turbogears, web.py, Zope, Plone (more of a CMS than a framework, though), Juno, itty, djng, mnml, itty, newf... I'm sure there's
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Actually, there were plenty of finance companies that I glossed over. Most of them took a beating this past year, so I didn't include them.
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    Lamson The Python SMTP Server(lamsonproject.org)

    65 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|21 comments
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Glad to hear that your story is getting a little more press, Owen. You deserve it.
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    VC Cash Is April Showers on Web Startup Flowers (nytimes.com)

    2 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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    'Chemical robots' swarm together(news.bbc.co.uk)

    2 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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    Unladen swallow: accelerating Python(lwn.net)

    2 points by iamelgringo 17y ago|0 comments
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    I've been working on a web app for the past year, and, I am a BizSpark member. Getting in to the program was a bit of a pain because a couple of their partners never got back to me. My Dev box is Windows 7 + Python/Django courtesy of BizSp
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    Ok, I just had to... I got the data from here: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2008/full_l... And, I pseudo-randomly sampled companies that interested me. Walmart Revenue : $378 B Profit : $12 B Employees : 2055 K R
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    by iamelgringo 17y ago

    I've been using Win7 for months, and I'm as happy as a school girl in a new Christamas dress.