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by jkmcf 12y ago
Driving across the US west, you can’t help but notice how every bit of land is cordoned off with barbed wire or fences. Doesn’t matter if it’s in the middle of emply plains or uninhabited mountains. "Private property" and "
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by jkmcf 12y ago
I never liked semester-long classes because it was hard to maintain focus and energy half way through. I’ve always wondered if a quarter system would have been better for me. Modules sound potentially good, but you’d still need a full coll
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by jkmcf 12y ago
A lot of people have an unartistic collection of disparate doodles haphazardly located on their body. There are 21 year olds who have covered significant portions of their body like this, and it looks lame and ridiculous. There are also a
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by jkmcf 12y ago
On the bright side, she made a lot of money (3m for majority share, and then sold to Comcast for 125M, of which she still had probably a non-trivial share) for an email newsletter she started "with the idea to sell it" and for a
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by jkmcf 12y ago
Ditto on the wifi reconnection problems. I thought I had it narrowed down to the 5GHz band, but that seemed to be a different issue. Also, I would say I've had relatively zero problems in recent years. Every now and again there will
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by jkmcf 12y ago
IMO, assuming exchange support matters, Airmail on OS X and Boxer on iOS are the best choices. Airmail has been consistently improving and I have no serious complaints against it anymore.
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by jkmcf 12y ago
Companies won’t/shouldn't hire Jr devs unless they have the bandwidth and desire to mentor them. They may also see your non-dev work as a potential distraction.
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by jkmcf 12y ago
Great advice here. If you are studying in the realm of science, I would doubly stress finding a job with a professor/group ASAP. If there are no paying jobs, go pro bono. It’s the best way to learn, and my biggest regret that I waited
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by jkmcf 13y ago
Our constitutional lawyer president also doesn’t have a concern for the Constitution. Disclaimer: voted for him 2008
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by jkmcf 13y ago
Apologies for my gender regarding sucky #2 and #3. I’m not sure aggressive is a plus anywhere. Men (and women) refer to aggressive males by a number of equally critical words. My only suggestion is be genuine, smart, and strong while not k
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by jkmcf 13y ago
April Fools jokes are only truly funny when they are unexpected, exceptionally clever, and well implemented.
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by jkmcf 13y ago
I've been running the Airmail beta version. Overall it is very stable, plus it gets bug fixes faster. One great feature is that it supports Exchange, and the most recent beta overhauled the whole Exchange engine. One exchange oddity,
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by jkmcf 13y ago
Thu May 13 12:39:11 CDT 1999 When I started my degree in Astrophysics (1989), the department head fully expected there to be a glut of openings due to the retiring old guard. However, these people didn't retire, and if they did leave
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by jkmcf 13y ago
Tap Log looks awesome, has data features I wish EN had, but Android only AFAICT.
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by jkmcf 13y ago
FWIW, I think I read that the gold standard is for each participant to record their audio, and then mix the different tracks together.
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by jkmcf 13y ago
Comma-related, grammar irony: "Put Your Commas on the Left, Dink-Butt"
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by jkmcf 13y ago
My corollary to this is buying the best thing you can reasonably concieve of affording. My prime example is a guitar. Once you move from the starter knockoffs, you should start investigating the more expensive models to find what you lik
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by jkmcf 14y ago
FWIW, from a few months ago: http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/12/29/process-super... tl;dr use runit
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by jkmcf 14y ago
Such sad news. Mr Banks instantly became one of my favorite authors after I read his SF novel Player of Games. Then I read The Wasp Factory, which cemented his status on the other side of the fiction fence.
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by jkmcf 14y ago
That might be the clearest explanation of the circle I've read.
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by jkmcf 14y ago
Find a mentor or an irc chatroom. My sophomore roommate knew a ton. I annoyed him to no end w/ questions (many RTFM comments…). A lot of the commands aren't named obviously, though the 'apropos' command may help.
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by jkmcf 14y ago
"now heinously ugly" A combination lock may not be sexy, but I see it as a classic design. There is no way you can call it hideous unless you have some childhood locker trauma to work through, and/or you only date supermodels, drive expens
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by jkmcf 14y ago
Additionally, the non-techy user is most likely never going to research how to get around their frustrations. First impressions and all that.
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by jkmcf 14y ago
I highly recommend skipping sinatra for padrino for anything beyond a simple site/api. It's sort of the happy middle ground between rails and sinatra. http://www.padrinorb.com/
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by jkmcf 14y ago
Hopefully Sublime Text's developers aren't following the Textmate precedent: 1. Make awesome software 2. Profit! 3. Party while software languishes (pure assumption) 4. Fail
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by jkmcf 14y ago
Title doesn't do the article justice: the paint increases the reflectivity so over the course of time the Sun's photons deflect it.
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by jkmcf 14y ago
Great list. However, these are things you should work on before your twenties. You need to get an early start!
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by jkmcf 14y ago
While I hate all the patent-BS, Apple already made the better omelette. It's not like you can revolutionize the industry every few years. But wait, they have revolutionized laptop design, smartphones, and even the all in one desktop. The
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by jkmcf 14y ago
FWIW, the E. V. Rieu translation of the Iliad mentioned in the paper's reference is by far my favorite, and I've read way too many different translations.
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by jkmcf 14y ago
You said it, they stink on ice.

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