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by icky 18y ago
Given the number of people alive, and the number of research positions in universities, I have trouble accepting that this premise was ever true.
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by icky 18y ago
> If you’re writing code like in Damien’s example and you want to be able to insert lines without changing a bunch of variable names, I have a tip: increment by 10. 10 PRINT "BASIC LIVES AGAIN!!" 20 GOTO 10
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by icky 18y ago
Don't listen to him, OP. He failed to refer to you as "brah".
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by icky 18y ago
Every time I forget about Tim Bray's sharecropper essay, Apple reminds me of it again.
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by icky 18y ago
Actually, Steve Urkel was very popular (IRL). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel#The_Ratings
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by icky 18y ago
Remember to have some money saved up, and line up a new job first. At that point, you won't have to face the dilemma of doing the right thing vs. making rent.
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by icky 18y ago
Or Flash.
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by icky 18y ago
> Do you think 23 year old PG would be following someone like 2008 PG this obsessively Yes, especially if he's giving stock tips from the future. ;)
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by icky 18y ago
Last I checked, hostgator's own host is The Planet. Go directly to them, if you're going to go that route. There's no sense in having your customers have to wait through a chain of three companies (counting yours) before their support tick
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by icky 18y ago
This product has great synergy with my geospatial social death-squad meetup app!
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by icky 18y ago
> The only real up side is looking for the job is REALLY fun. ... and you get compensated in experience. ;)
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by icky 18y ago
> The split second you get any traction, any success at all? Look over shoulder, they’re coming. You are already ‘the old way to do it.’ Yeesh. I already misread the headline; this just reinforces it. :(
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by icky 18y ago
As I read that article, I could feel my brain cells committing seppuku.
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by icky 18y ago
> Seriously though, what do you expect to gain by posting this here? Karma? ;)
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by icky 18y ago
> Most hackers probably don't use word or have spell check handy. (I use VI or Textpad). $ man ispell
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by icky 18y ago
> If clothes don't matter, why am I being judged because I value aesthetics, not excluding the clothes I wear? Because they do matter. The function of any level or style of dress at an interview is to mark you as part of the Right Gr
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by icky 18y ago
> More importantly we're in London, England - not the West Coast :-) That explains everything. I had a friend who actually got turned down for a management position for wearing a suit to an interview (they thought he was "too formal"
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by icky 18y ago
Easy: When you see a job that you sort of don't want, quote a higher rate and see if they bite. Repeat until you've topped out.
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by icky 18y ago
Glorious game. My only question is why do the robots carry cash?
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by icky 18y ago
> Cool game - reminds me of Smash TV Which in turn should remind you of RoboTron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron:_2084
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by icky 18y ago
> As an aside, is this something I would have gotten some exposure to if I'd been a college grad? You might have had some exposure to the subject, but probably as part of other problems, i.e. not under the name Computational Geometry
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by icky 18y ago
First, make sure that your remote cofounder is a human, and definitely not an unfriendly AI. ;)
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by icky 18y ago
> for what it's worth, a toy example is just a classical computer simulating everything in our universe we've yet seen. I suddenly feel the need for much, much more RAM...
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by icky 18y ago
> it took a little fidgeting to get the actual distances right because of the weird curvature of the earth issue; but it should get you close for reasonable distances. Probably can't tell you how we solve it at work, but the very much
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by icky 18y ago
> But Zed would know what to do. WWZD?
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by icky 18y ago
> He — an Xer — was running late for a meeting, and Let us all learn to be responsible adults, like Generation X!
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by icky 18y ago
The winky face meant I was extra serious. ;-)
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by icky 18y ago
It's very on-topic: Workaholic instant-noodle-eating late-nighters occasionally need reminders of upcoming calendar events.
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by icky 18y ago
Congratulations on finding your father. ;-)
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by icky 18y ago
> but I'm told that the new Android 3e^i, shipping in July, will cure cancer! Take that , iPhone! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213895

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