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by icky 18y ago
It's surreal to see this even in the NYT's orbit.
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by icky 18y ago
It would allow an article to remain if it has overwhelming popular support.
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by icky 18y ago
1. If your partner is unwilling to do the same, then why should you effectively work for him, for free? 2. If you can keep up both job and startup, you can afford to be much more picky about how, when, and from whom you take funding, if you
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by icky 18y ago
Yes. One thing you might also try is allow the top n posters (nickb and company?) to enable downvoting on certain articles, whereupon the rest of us can pile on if we like.
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by icky 18y ago
Can anyone confirm that GAE isn't just dropping SSL requests in general?
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by icky 18y ago
Finals can also be put off. The school will certainly have a leave of absence program.
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by icky 18y ago
I'm probably not your target demographic: I'd rather miss rush hour, and I'm currently lucky enough to be in a position where gas prices don't matter much to me (~10mi commute, occasional telecommute, hybrid car, good income, low expenses).
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by icky 18y ago
No. I like having flexible hours.
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by icky 18y ago
It's true. If someone asked me for Jeff Atwood's email password, I wouldn't mind at all.
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by icky 18y ago
come to the Ubuntu brown side!
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by icky 18y ago
Seriously. If you know someone in the company, skip H.R. and send your resume directly.
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by icky 18y ago
> He thinks we inefficiently overeducate. Maybe from a purely economic perspective, but in any society in which people elect their leaders, every citizen ought to have a firm grounding in civics, numeracy, critical thinking, history, an
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by icky 18y ago
> or "think before your act" (I'm sure there's an elegant quote/prophrase for this in English. Anyone know?) "Look before you leap" comes to mind.
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by icky 18y ago
Drinking coffee and eating curry are great for the brain, hell on the bowels! ;)
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by icky 18y ago
> I used to work at a startup where everyone was always baked and we also had serious quality control problems. Problems with the quality of the software, or the pot? ;)
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by icky 18y ago
If one of them is the best brain surgeon in the world, it might explain his reluctance. "If someone else gets a tumor, they can always come to the best brain surgeon in the world! But if it happens to me , I'm stuck with the second be
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by icky 18y ago
I wasn't arguing against charging money. My point is, if you are going to charge, don't charge too little, as it will probably be counterproductive.
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by icky 18y ago
"I'm mighty tighty-whitey, and I'm smuggling plums!"
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by icky 18y ago
It's not quite so simple online. (See also vlad's comment). The set of people who will make an online transaction and pay, say $30, has a very large overlap with the set of people who will make an online transaction and pay $1, because the
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by icky 18y ago
Hello, next home server! :-D
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by icky 18y ago
> Programming is easy. "Green field" programming is easy. Hell is other people's code.
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by icky 18y ago
Python will crush your crush your competitors, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their users!
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by icky 18y ago
For my Firefox keywords, I have g for google search, map for google maps, gis for google image search, imdb for guess what, w for wikipedia search, py for local python module documentation lookup, modindex to flatly take me to the local pyt
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by icky 18y ago
"Also, the GDB Boogie." "Oh, yes. Two songs." (Apologies to Flight of the Conchords...)
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by icky 18y ago
Congrats! :-D
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by icky 18y ago
... I presume.
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by icky 18y ago
You've got to remember that the marginal utility of your first billion dollars is a lot higher than the rest...
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by icky 18y ago
> "Half-life" by biological elimination is not precisely exponential as with radioactive decay, and may trend closer to a linear process -- as in, your liver can eliminate X units per hour, not X% of however much you've had. Damn. I
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by icky 18y ago
> I can't believe the spanish explorers missed the goody box way back then. I always called them Goody Huts. :-)
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by icky 18y ago
> Who stole the original thinkers of that era, and planted type-theoretical bureaucrats in their place? Once a sufficiently advanced type-theory is in place, original thought can be automated and rigorously proven at compile-time. ;-)

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