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by jmadsen 12y ago
A few specific ideas, that I realize will only fill a certain number of hours, but still very good use of your time: 1) bring a notebook and do planning for your startup - it will get you away from keyboard & screen all day, there'
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However, it also just recorded "Number of 20-year-olds in Japan rises for first time in 21 years" [1] (the year you become a legal adult), giving a different signal for the future [1] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/new
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This is something I realized just a few days ago, looking back. 11 years ago I left a Silicon Valley software company's IT department, where I was making $85,000. Doing standard IT work. 11 years ago. A lot has happened since then, but
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- Trello, and break it down to the most granular set of tasks that you can. - Put some real easy ones in a list called "low-hanging fruit" - When motivation is low, pick one or two off to get going...if motivation doesn't co
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In kind of general agreement with many comments below. If I can just take a stab at what I see as at least one of the ways we got here: During the previous recession after 9/11, many company managers jumped on the title of the book &qu
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The story of Capannori – A Zero Waste champion (2013)(zerowasteeurope.eu)
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Cloud castles: NASA wants to deploy manned solar-powered airships to Venus(rt.com)
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The laws and attitudes of the Congressmen is something I find very typical of our politicians: Screw over everybody so a few wealthy folks don't "get away with anything".
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Hi! Just a simple little tool based on the old banner sharing the web used to be run off of. TweetStart.me is a place where bloggers can share their latest work & then pass on other good blogs to their own followers. The idea is to figh
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Show HN: TweetStart.me – Bloggers helping Bloggers(tweetstart.me)
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Those are valid points, but I think too many here are assuming they don't have anything more substantial & this website is their entire speil. I don't think people like these two would risk their considerable reputations publi
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This may be of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_drilling_technologies
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You don't need to be a carpenter to tell if the doors are hung straight. You DO need to be one to actually assess the overall build and structure.
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I love how every Tom, Dick & Harry with a bit of math & engineering thinks he can "dispel the myth" of HN Idea X with two minutes of off-the-top-of-his-head equations. Read about these two: http://www.gravitric
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Your Own Satellite: Things to Know Before You Go(makezine.com)
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1200 Station Workers in Tokyo Shift Tracks from Above to Underground in 1 Night(spoon-tamago.com)
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If I can just follow up on my own post... I don't think I made it obvious, but the average Japanese person tend to be just as frustrated with this whole system as you or I would be. This isn't some inherit trait they all have from
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From living in Japan for 11 years, I would say that is a very astute observation. Japanese are extremely risk-averse, and extremely safety-minded in general. It is helpful to keep that in mind when considering the "weirdness" of m
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Where are all the Somali pirates?(mashable.com)
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Then you clearly have something to hide, and Oh! I pity you, fool!
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Plan to reborder the US into only 38 states(mentalfloss.com)
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This. Seriously - I look around for the library or code snippet I need, I find x variations that all seem correct. Recognizing the answer that will actually work and hold up under stress is a measure of the programmer. A Go-cart & a L
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Old news, but who's doing anything about it?
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Read this just last night and wanted to quote it somewhere: "For instance, the law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. A man may half
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Interesting to read all these comments about the "real" problem. What the article actually SAID was: "Labor in India and China is still cheaper than it is in the United States, but it's not the obvious economic move that
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it's a little more elaborate than we genuinely cook every day, but: Rice - in a rice cooker with timer, so just needs scooped Natto - from a package Pumpkin - been made already, prolly leftover from previous night's dinner Cucumbe
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This is why when you are learning - which is the rest of your life, btw - you want to try to get involved in projects with a small team of developers, and do your best to do things outside of your current scope. There is not much time to le
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"Why are you waving that handkerchief?" "Keeping the elephants away..." You know the rest.
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My Grandfather used to use it to take the rust off his car.
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Crops Grow on Fake Moon and Mars Soil(popsci.com)
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