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by jam 13y ago
macbook air home theater projector: http://goo.gl/S9siD apple wireless keyboard and trackpad with tray: http://www.hekseskudd.com/ nice couch, good speakers
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by jam 14y ago
the iphone app "nomis" does this well: http://www.nomisapp.com/
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by jam 15y ago
I think desks in general stopped being ideal after the switch away from writing on paper. Nothing new has caught on and it's quite unfortunate. I like to work with a keyboard on my lap, and there are so few good options for it that it's inc
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by jam 15y ago
K&R, but technically more like 1TBS (as described on Wikipedia).
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by jam 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the author, but Apple doesn't really need to make easy-to-use desktop operating systems any more. That's what the iPad is for.
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by jam 15y ago
Try Vimium: http://vimium.github.com/
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by jam 15y ago
motorcycle tires
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by jam 15y ago
"These electronic trading boats" Wait... is this a joke?
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by jam 16y ago
A few weeks later I hit uninteresting roadblock Did you use speech-to-text to write this post, or is that just an odd mental slip?
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by jam 16y ago
The design for syntax highlighting is pretty clever, and makes that feature much more responsive than most in-browser editors. The current line is always black text on a light blue background... and then when you move the cursor to a new li
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by jam 16y ago
matlab
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by jam 16y ago
...unless you consider financial markets to be sufficiently complex that individual success is unlikely to be correlated to good decisions. It's more difficult to say the same of successful entrepreneurs.
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by jam 16y ago
Let me tell you, being a math major doesn't automatically mean you get P=?NP.
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by jam 17y ago
Do I need to remind you that not everyone interested in shrinking government expenditures is a Republican?
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by jam 17y ago
In twenty years, does privacy still exist? What about in a hundred? I'm definitely not a fan of exposing data that people wish to keep private. It seems conceivable, though, that privacy is an idea that won't survive time and technology.
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by jam 17y ago
Have you considered a remote development server?
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by jam 17y ago
The purposes of financial instruments (like debt and equity) are to replace these sorts of inefficient transactions.
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by jam 17y ago
"VC money" post-investment is now your company's money. Assuming you own a percentage of your company, it is your money.
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by jam 17y ago
they do everyday in democratic schools > http://www.sudval.org/index.html
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by jam 17y ago
At least a quarter of the programmers that I work with have a degree in something non-computer related.
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by jam 17y ago
Really? My takeaway was the difficulty of trying to uphold otherwise-worthless paper as legal tender.
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by jam 17y ago
Worthwhile part: >Call it Madoff’s Law. Where there are consistent returns, it doesn’t mean that the risk is reduced, it means you can’t see the risk. Worthless part: >I would create additional forms of licenses (...) that any fin
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by jam 17y ago
I'd rather own Tesla.
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by jam 17y ago
I believe he was questioning this line: >It's the flood of low-skilled workers that essentially drop the bottom out of the labor market that present a problem.
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by jam 17y ago
https://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=lin
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by jam 17y ago
Bigger companies can also "use it" easier than small companies. It would make patent sqatting more expensive, but probably not prohibitively so.
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by jam 17y ago
I can't speak for him, but my guess is that his ideal libertarian state would be non-democratic, opt-in only, or both. Don't ask me how he plans to achieve it...
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by jam 17y ago
>> "[T]he extension of the franchise to women ... [has] rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron." Seems like so many people have been pissed about this line. It seems obvious that he didn't mean "women should
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by jam 17y ago
Spending per GDP is the best actual metric I can come up with for visualizing the "size" or "power" of government in society. There's no 1:1 relationship with regulation, but the two are surely correlated. In Rand's writing, government spen
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by jam 17y ago
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=18...

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