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by jjs 18y ago
You've overlooked an important detail: how will I manage to look nerdy while wearing a sash?
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by jjs 18y ago
Could the time to downvote have already passed? (i.e. you downvoted on a stale page)
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by jjs 18y ago
Why, palish, I recall a thread from yesterday in which you complained that you lacked the stuff to be a genius. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436390 I demand you recant, you evil genius, you. ;-)
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by jjs 18y ago
Where is Porsche when you need them?
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by jjs 18y ago
Visual dictionaries (including online ones) already exist, although according to one ( http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ ), the aglet is actually called a "tag".
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by jjs 18y ago
If you trust your local transit authority's posted timetables, then you could gather GPS coordinates for bus stops and write an app that correlates the two with your current location and time.
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by jjs 18y ago
Perhaps I'm not following you completely. Please give an example where that could happen, given the scenario I outlined above.
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by jjs 18y ago
> It's general knowledge now that The 4 Hour Work Week is a farce The book should be read as follows (not listed in chapter order): 1) how to build a business that scales in output in a more than linear proportion to the time you put
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by jjs 18y ago
Not so: In my scenario, the labor for any job would eat the entire voucher. (I'm assuming he's got a "limit 1 per customer" clause in the small print).
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by jjs 18y ago
If he charges x dollars for "up to the first hour", and y dollars for every hour thereafter, where x >= 50, then there's no problem.
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by jjs 18y ago
Thanks for the tip. I plan on incorporating after I've finished the app and am ready to sell it.
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by jjs 18y ago
1. Finish writing my current desktop app 2. Incorporate (probably as an LLC) 3. Sell copies of said app to people in exchange for money. 4. Relax more. 5. Exercise more. 6. Visit more places and people. 7. If steps 1-3 work, buy Wil Shipley
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by jjs 18y ago
Solving the money problem will keep you warm at night, assuming you pay your heating bill... (And if you've got a messed-up family situation, money can put some serious (geographical) distance between you. :)
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by jjs 18y ago
If the upgrade is expected to change the user experience, this is also a great time to do some A/B testing across versions.
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by jjs 18y ago
In many fields, there is a growing mismatch (in terms of time, effort, and expense) between securing credentials and securing an education.
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by jjs 18y ago
I would have done anything to program at seven. I knew that computer games were made by people (and sometimes, by a single person), and I was determined to do it, but nobody around knew how to get me started. It wasn't till I was ten or el
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by jjs 18y ago
You know the github guys named that feature for maximum effect...
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by jjs 18y ago
Definitely one. If your bank account is full of zeroes, then you're not rich, but with a lot of ones, you are (as long as none of them is a sign bit....)
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by jjs 18y ago
Chalk poisoning. ;)
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by jjs 18y ago
"Fork queue?" Same to you, buddy!
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by jjs 18y ago
> I'd argue that parallelism and functional programming are topics far more vital to an aspiring computer scientist than things like web frameworks and SQL. Hell, they're even important for the aspiring web developer: being intimatel
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by jjs 18y ago
Not sure if it will work, but try: 1) Rendering an undirected graph via graphviz's neato tool. 2) Rendering to svg, which might let graphviz not have to keep as much rendering information in memory at any one time. 3) Asking about it on the
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by jjs 18y ago
My handwriting was always bad, and deserved to suffer. :P
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by jjs 18y ago
Yes, it's called python. Write a crawler that examines all local links, and builds a graph (it needn't be anything fancy; a collection of nodes and edges is enough, but you'll have to detect cycles when building the graph), and then print i
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by jjs 18y ago
How about, "Given the choice between only having sex for procreation, or only using the Internet for productive activities, which would you choose?"
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by jjs 18y ago
> "Legal use will be possible after buying an annual license from us," he was quoted by Kommersant as saying. "It won't cost that much — tens of thousands of dollars." I will trademark all variants of "LOL", and collect every time he
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by jjs 18y ago
Firefox plugins are easy to write if you know where to scrounge for documentation. :P
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by jjs 18y ago
Another way: own your own heavy equipment, and charge an hourly rental fee.
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by jjs 18y ago
On top of that, it's cheaper to fight it in court than to settle! :)
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by jjs 18y ago
But at least those are safe losses. With stocks, who knows if you can be sure to lose? Better stick with bonds...

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