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by kaens 16y ago
on Reddit a well-reasoned "unions suck" comment will get downvoted. I'd imagine that would depend on what subreddit the thread was in. Frontpage? Yeah, probably. Then again, if it is well reasoned, there will also be people pointing out
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by kaens 16y ago
HN also has a much stronger focus on entrepreneurship (understandably so). The level of technical competence on HN is very high, and there's way less noise, so if you're a technically competent person with a business side (or if you're just
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by kaens 16y ago
And? It wasn't. I find marijuana to be a useful tool, for the above types of coding, in high-level, low-level, dynamically or statically typed, or whatever languages. It encourages creative and lateral thinking.
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by kaens 16y ago
What in the world are you doing in California if you hate the smell of pot smoke?
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by kaens 16y ago
It's pretty forgiven across the board these days. There are states / areas in states where it is absolutely not, but the majority of law enforcement members, in the majority of areas, don't give a shit about some kid cheefing away on a spli
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by kaens 16y ago
I find it good for exploratory programming, fiddling around with finding a solution to a difficult problem and coming up with new ideas. There are many coding tasks it's not that great for for me, primarily those that make heavy use of long
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by kaens 16y ago
Thank you! The interview went well, just waiting on them to check my references and do a background check. Patches welcome ;) The frontend to it may get open-sourced when I'm done with it, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to proceed with it
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by kaens 16y ago
No, but if I did, I'm fairly certain I could do it for less than $500,000/mo, assuming I can do something like "once your file has been hosted without being downloaded for more than x amount of time, users will get a link sent to an email a
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by kaens 16y ago
Are any of them primarily motivated to write software by profit potential?
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by kaens 16y ago
Smuggling children is probably just as easy as smuggling thousands of pounds of coke, which happens regularly. The largest cocaine bust was on the order of 48,000 pounds. Drug smugglers, on the high end of things, have access to submarines
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by kaens 16y ago
http://github.com/jdodds/voussoir a node.js app for generating Arch linux livecds. It'll sit behind a pylons app in the near future, most likely. Making a website-as-service for making linux livecds is something I've wanted to do for a wh
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by kaens 16y ago
T410 here, after a long stint with a T41. It's a solid, solid machine. And it has channels in it that will drain liquids spilled on it away from components and through little holes in the body! I have not, and do not intend to test this.
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by kaens 16y ago
Being able to solve programming puzzles does not mean someone is going to be a good coder, but it will probably help weed out people that don't have the analytical skill that a company needs -- assuming the company needs coders with strong
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by kaens 16y ago
I can't agree more. I had much the same story, minus the "success", and much of the same mental symptoms. Starting medication for ADD was like putting glasses on my ability to get things done. It's not a silver bullet, but a lot of my other
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by kaens 16y ago
I have a similar story to NyxWulf. As a musician, I find that Adderall does not reduce my creativity per se, but it does change it a bit. That said, it is not a permanent change. If I take a break from Adderall, the way I think about music
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by kaens 16y ago
Guido has been talking about retiring from the dictator role for a bit now. I think that the language is in a spot where it's got a dedicated enough and competent enough community to move on from the "GVR as benevolent dictator" model of de
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by kaens 16y ago
Of course. My comment wasn't phrased extremely well. They just don't do much other than providing centralization of information. That's why "without a whole lot of middlemen" -- the line between AirBnB and the individual is pretty direct. I
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by kaens 16y ago
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/misc/driving/driving.htm I tried to find a non-druglibrary.org link to this study, but wasn't able to find freely available .gov links for it. http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB94173630 I
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by kaens 16y ago
I, on the other hand, would have a higher impression of the company, as I think that promoting and supporting business models that more directly enable individuals to make a living without a lot of middlemen is important right now.
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by kaens 16y ago
That's odd. If I, as an individual, work with a work visa in another country, while living and paying for myself in that other country, I am still subject to US taxes on that income. IIRC, most other "western" countries don't do that, but I
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by kaens 16y ago
I don't have a good "end goal" answer for that right now. I do think that the technology that has popped up over the last few decades allows for means of organization and collaboration for providing life necessities that were not available
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by kaens 16y ago
It's almost like the government is trying to get its populace to silently replace it.
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by kaens 16y ago
I hate to break it to you, but a whole lot of people in the US don't have accountants and yet still spend more than $600 at various stores over the course of a year.
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I used to feel like that. I felt constantly inferior. Eventually, I stopped feeling inferior and started feeling like I was associating with peers. I suspect that this had to do with a combination of me actually getting some experience (so
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by kaens 16y ago
The only gripe I have with tramp is that it seems to have an awful lot of network overhead.
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This is just insanely impressive.
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by kaens 16y ago
Maybe we should all post some Erlang articles instead of feel-good business articles and light reading.
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by kaens 16y ago
I must have misread you, I'm sorry. I got the impression that you were trying to state that the way you think about ideas, and idea-tracking (or the lack thereof) was somehow "correct" in some more objective sense. I got the impression that
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by kaens 16y ago
I agree that boring things shouldn't be memorized, and that being familiar with the concept of a regular language helps identify where a regular expression could help. Two points: + A lot of programmers aren't familiar with the concept of a
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by kaens 16y ago
If that works for you, great. For me, I jot down ideas, keep them in a file, and then implement the ones I want to when I have time to do so. I forget shit all the time, and really -- I don't want to hear any philosophical fluff about how t

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