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by incision 13y ago
I grew up in the swampy humidity of the DC Metro and didn't live with air-conditioning until I was 20 or so. Much like the author describes, we spent a lot of time outside into the evening/night and at the public pool over the sum
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>PCW and its peer publications—PCMag, but also BYTE, Computer Shopper, and in 1991, a fresh-faced CompuServe service dubbed ZDNet—helped bring a niche interest into the mainstream. I have fond memories of BYTE and Computer Shopper. I r
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by incision 13y ago
Timing perhaps [0]. 0: http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...
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>Anyone has a idea of why the hell someone would build a bipedal war machine? Off the top of my head... 1.) I'd have think there's something to bipedal locomotion considering the evolutionary success it has had. 2.) We'r
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by incision 13y ago
Excellent, looking forward to this.
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by incision 13y ago
* Realtalk [0]. * FLOSS Weekly [1]. Some great guests, but it's very broad so you might not get what you're looking for every week. I haven't checked it out yet, but I recently took note of Foodfight [2], looks to be DevOps f
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by incision 13y ago
Nice, I'm always looking for new things to listen to during my too-long commute. Just one problem, unless I'm missing something, there's no RSS feed - a critical feature for a podcast series.
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Interesting that Aerovelo won this. As I recall, they were the only contender not using electronic assists which were set to become invalid this month: 'With the pilot using both hands and feet to power the aircraft, UMD faced a cha
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> "Are you bigger than I am?" I'm your height, 60+ pounds heavier and no stranger to the gym. I've been in IT for going on 16 years. I've had many people admit they were initially intimidated after we've go
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>"Ballmer is a very intimidating guy both in physical size and attitude and is always ready to be combative." As larger than average person I'm fascinated/frustrated by the way physical presence affects people. Most
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I had some personal cards made up last year. Prominent: Name and a one-liner describing what I do. Below: Email, google voice number specific to the cards, link for people who want to know more. I kept the card quite plain. I've seen t
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by incision 13y ago
In my experience, pride plays heavily into the devaluing of convenience. For every abstraction and or simplification there are people who put it somewhere on a scale from wasteful to cheating. You don't even have to dig very far into
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"First come first served. I paid just as much for my coffee as you."
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by incision 13y ago
Doesn't work for mass duplication, sure. Also, I'd expect heroes to be small subset of exceptional people.
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by incision 13y ago
I think the parent's gripe is about single people taking up entire tables that could seat a group, hence the use of "single" versus "us" and the divider suggestion.
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>Is this really a serious problem? Anecdotally, 9 out of 10 visits to a coffee shop, I just get coffee and leave. I operate much the same way, but now that I think about it I might be inclined to hang around for a moment if I could eve
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by incision 13y ago
I've had a few experiences with flat organizations. Notably, the one which was proud to loudly proclaim it's flatness and openness was far and away the worst. It didn't quite fit the high school analogy, but it wasn't f
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I always though this was a horrible idea for a system where users are simultaneously consumers expressing their preferences and curators/creators being rated through the same metric. I recall lots of angry back and forth between folks
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>We shouldn't engage in wishful thinking either. Of course not. That's why I refer to staying in school as a "first step" as opposed to a solution. >But since the unemployment rate for whites with no high school
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That's certainly logical, but I can't speak with as much anecdotal authority about those communities.
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As I've mentioned on HN before, I dropped out of high school and found my into a job in technology by way of a GED, public libraries and work as a landscaper, in the DC area coincidentally. Everything mentioned in this article rings to
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by incision 13y ago
>Aren't Project Euler's exercises seem more likely maths exercises? Project Euler does involve a math, but so does efficient programming. Efficiency can seem a pretty abstract thing and it might not crop up right away in more
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I'm in a very similar position. If you really like Codeacademy, there are non-track exercises that involve Python in the API section [0] and a couple of Python challenges [1][2] that aren't listed. What I'm doing now: * Solvi
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by incision 13y ago
Well damn. Though, it did feel inevitable after so long without news. If you're not sure who she is, take a moment to read up [0][1]. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth 1: http://www.amazon.com&
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by incision 13y ago
I've had a similar experience with certain laptops - an electronic squealing sound that apparently only I can hear. As best I can tell, the sound comes from an inverter connected to the displays.
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The TED Talk [0] being referenced is excellent. What rang particularly true to me wasn't harder work feeling more rewarding, but that people are willing to work longer and for less direct pay when they see that their work is valued or
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*>"Why isn't there something that makes it super simple for me to take surveys on my phone while I wait somewhere?" Judging by the going rates on mturk, you aren't going to make a quarter for a simple survey, more lik
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1.) UI is confusing. Not immediately clear what's a button. 2.) Not UI feedback, but the data seems pretty sparse. Getting not found on relatively common sizes. 3.) I'd wager the average person has no idea about width, profile and
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Do you think they strictly mean it that way? Sure, they ould literally mean "How and when do you intend to flip this thing and pay me off?", but you don't necessarily have to answer in those terms. Personally, I'd take i
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I've been fascinated by the mturk concept since it launched. I sign in from time to time and complete tasks that look interesting. Unfortunately, the service is flooded with $0.02 spam tasks (Register an account and post ad-copy on a s

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