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by johnswamps 16y ago
That's nonsense. If you have 5M in the bank, you can take out 200K (4%) every year and still never run out of money. Surely you can get by with a little bit less than that and still be financially independent? Honestly you can probably get
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Disclaimer: I am a PhD student at Stanford. Why do you say the opportunities to do research as an undergrad at Stanford aren't great? The CS department has the CURIS program ( http://curis.stanford.edu/ ) which pays for Stanford students to
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by johnswamps 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/888224/what-is-your-longe... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124968/most-harmful-misc...
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It would be great, but the API support is not there, which is why there aren't any extensions to spoof your user-agent either. Compared to Firefox extensions (which basically let you do everything), Chrome extensions are much more fine-grai
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by johnswamps 16y ago
What are the plans for doing this again? Is this going to be a yearly thing or have you not decided (depending on how it goes, etc.)? I'm interested in attending one of these once I finish my PhD.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I couldn't ever give up vi key-bindings but I liked the rest of emacs more, so I use emacs in viper-mode (comes built-in), which emulates vi. You can use emacs as a modal editor but still fall back on all the emacs functionality. For most o
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922715
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Right. Even if the physical damage isn't that bad, injuries such as a concussion can end your career. The military has pretty strict rules about this stuff.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
My first attempt was probably worse than yours, but after I was mostly done with all the levels, I went back and applied what I had learned to all the earlier levels. I was able to reduce giant, sprawling messes of mostly conveyors to much
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Here's mine: http://imgur.com/9xbU3
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by johnswamps 16y ago
They're definitely not Turing machines, but they are Turing complete, they use tapes, and you can write to the tape. Some of the later puzzles ask you to solve problems that are impossible for a DFA (such as accept X blues followed by X red
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I spent most of yesterday playing this game. It's one of the most engaging games I've ever played. It's a lot of fun trying to come up with neat, elegant solutions. You need to use a lot of concepts that are used in programming, such as loo
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Why not? I wake up, make some breakfast, then check hacker news while I eat.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Maybe, but it's useful for the 95% of us for whom this doesn't apply (because we don't have a startup). I don't have time to read every story on HN, so I'll often check the comments first to determine whether it's worth reading the article.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
There's probably a lot of them on-line, but I can give you my experience with it. I'm in class right now but I'll edit this post later (30-60 mins) with a review. Edit: I agree with everything jrockway said. I've seen improvements in my sle
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's unbelievable how wakemate blew all the goodwill they had. The product they promised at just $50 was so compelling that I couldn't NOT preorder it. But a month ago I gave up on them and ordered the zeo (for $200 more). This should be a
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's usually worth trying to ssh into the machine when X locks up (if you don't want to just reboot). Depending on what caused the problem, this will often still work even when it's unresponsive locally.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Does anyone know how it compares to The Joy of Clojure (I realize it's not done yet)?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Sorry, perhaps my post generalized too much. This was in the context of proprietary software, specifically software as a service. I've edited my post to clarify that.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
But that's not what Stallman believes, that's what the author of the article wrote. What makes a freedom a freedom (to me) is that you have the ability to waive a freedom if you wish to do so -- otherwise it's an obligation. And Stallman i
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's also probably good practice for founding a startup. You get to learn about the issues that come up in running a startup without having to make all the big decisions yourself. Think of it as similar to auditing a college course.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I've always thought that if I had children I would try to treat them less like little kids and with more autonomy. For example if they misbehaved, instead of just punishing them, I would give them a chance to write a paraphraph or two if t
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Steam is sort of like an app-store for games which only ran on Windows for a long time. You buy games on Steam and can then download the games on any computer you install Steam on. There's a bunch of other stuff such as being able to talk t
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by johnswamps 16y ago
At what point in the process does this happen to you? You should be able to add Portal to your cart, at which point it'll ask you to create an account. After you've registered you can then checkout. It shouldn't ever force you download stea
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by johnswamps 16y ago
You can get the game without steam installed (though you do need to sign up for an account on-line and you may need to give your CC info), so you may as well "purchase" it now. Worst case you never get to play it and are out 5 minutes of yo
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It really puts things into perspective. We get excited when we come up with a different way to display a form and these guys were building planes that traveled at Mach 3 at 80,000 feet nearly 50 years ago. The amount of technical problems y
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I've been reading "Skunk Works" ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316743003 ), which talks about the development of the SR-71 and other planes (such as the U-2 and the stealth bomber) at Lockheed's Skunk Works facility. It's a good read. I think
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by johnswamps 16y ago
But these fluctuations are often just noise. Having a glass of water before you step on the scale isn't going to help you lose or gain weight, but it still shows up on the scale. You're just micro-managing things that don't matter on this p
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I have no idea if it works or not, but I want to point out two things. 1: It seems that this is a correlation study rather than a causality study. 2: Your weight can fluctuate on a day to day basis, especially depending on what you've eaten
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Is there confirmation besides this one post?

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