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by jspiros 13y ago
This story reminds me of my experience growing up and going to public school in Ohio (in the United States). When I did classwork, I did it very well. When I took tests, I was always in the top of my class (which led to me being in the high
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by jspiros 13y ago
I posted this as a comment on the article, but I figured I should mention it here too: I’ve switched to Twilio + OpenVBX ( http://openvbx.org/ ) as a replacement for Google Voice. The per-month cost is low (something like $2/month per numbe
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by jspiros 13y ago
Looks like it.
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by jspiros 14y ago
There's also http://naev.org/
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by jspiros 14y ago
Me too, me too. So disappointed.
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by jspiros 14y ago
For just a second I considered posting "lol" after reading the comments on this that missed the point, but I realized that's not really appropriate for HN. And besides, I didn't want to make it seem that I don't agree with the author, becau
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by jspiros 14y ago
I remember learning about these many years ago, and just thought of them as a simple novelty. Now that I'm looking at them again, I can't help but wonder if these could be, or have been, weaponized? Seems like explosive glass would be prett
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by jspiros 14y ago
I haven't been reading or watching the news for years, now, and it's had a huge positive effect on my life. But it's also made me, I think, somewhat more sensitive and aware of how other similar things affect me. Which is why I've started t
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by jspiros 14y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. One of the biggest problems I had with working in an office was precisely how easy it was for people to bother me for just a quick question, killing my flow. I much prefer having passive indicators and qu
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by jspiros 14y ago
I didn't go to college, though I grew up in a college town and eventually even worked for a while as the college's lead web developer. I've been developing software professionally for customers and clients since I was 14 (currently 25; so,
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by jspiros 14y ago
You can own partial BTC, so 0-1 really means >0 && <1.
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by jspiros 14y ago
Funny, I've avoided startups precisely because I want to avoid working for others. The sense I've gotten is that "startup" means something very different from starting a business with your own money and contacts, and with monetization alrea
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by jspiros 14y ago
Is this necessary? We use plenty of symbols the origin of which have since become obsolete and mostly forgotten. Almost everyone is familiar with the meaning of arrows, for example, but not many people are immediately conscious of how it de
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by jspiros 14y ago
I find the 80 char limit nice as a suggestion/warning, a way of saying "are you sure your approach should require lines of code this long?" So, a good way to make sure that someone is writing readable code, which is otherwise the overall go
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by jspiros 14y ago
Like I said, I can't speak for everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if there were many different ways to approach bookmarks, some not even falling on a continuum between the two I described. But nor would I be surprised if a lot of people took
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by jspiros 14y ago
For my bookmarks, I got lazy and now just use Firefox/TenFourFox/Iceweasel with a local sync server. So, I use Firefox's system, which allows for hierarchical and tag-based organization, and searching based on title. Prior to that, I used D
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by jspiros 14y ago
Since I still buy into the benefits of the spatial metaphor, I like this kind of stuff. But, lately, I've been moving to a more search-driven experience where I can add content/bookmarks/files/whatever to the system and forget about them un
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by jspiros 14y ago
Tanenbaum wrote a textbook, Distributed Operating Systems[1], which covers in some detail the design and implementation of the Amoeba system. I recommend checking it out if you're interested in these things. The detail I enjoyed the most is
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by jspiros 14y ago
While I can begin to understand (though do not necessarily agree with) the interpretation of "commerce" as just about any activity, and that being possibly understood at the time the Commerce Clause was written, I would still argue that the
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by jspiros 14y ago
I experimented with this exact sleep schedule when I went from working entirely remotely for 8 years to working in an office for a year and a half. I found that physically going to an office would exhaust me anyway to the point that I could
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by jspiros 14y ago
Creating a branch with git branch bugFix does not automatically check it out, so you'd have to follow it up with git checkout bugFix but if you do git checkout -b bugFix it will create the branch and then check it out a
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by jspiros 14y ago
20/20. Mattel was the only one I was uncertain of, but the correct answer was slightly blurrier, due to it probably being an actual logo copy scaled down or up slightly, as opposed to a "freshly-made" duplicate for the purpose of the test.
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by jspiros 14y ago
You can still access the data files for private use, see http://www.imdb.com/interfaces . Unfortunately, the data has a restrictive license. Though, I'm not sure if that entirely holds, as I believe there are limitations (at least in the U
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by jspiros 14y ago
(This is a comment on the parent comment, not a comment on the original post. Hope that's alright.) "You start to see that it is also a privilege to be able to argue, even vehemently, without inadvertently confirming a malignant stereotype