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by lr 17y ago
There are a lot of very arty people who are programmers. Just look at the people who started Pixar (and I am not just talking about Steve, but he definitely qualifies). They were scientists (PhDs) and they loved art, and using the computer
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by lr 17y ago
I've had more time to think about this... This link is now the number 2 link on HN. A few days ago one of the top links was about how to survive on $36/month for food. You have to be kidding me, right? Sorry, but woman and marathon, multi-d
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by lr 17y ago
Exactly! You got a huge population of men in the SF area who want to work 70-80 hours/week. This leaves the door wide open for the men who have time for a relationship. I have found that women in SF are desperate to find men that will make
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by lr 17y ago
I don't know what bars you hand out in, but there are plenty of women (I prefer women to girls) in the bars/clubs I go to. You want to see beautiful women desperate to find a man, go to District (corner of Townsend and Ritch).
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by lr 17y ago
pg, thank you so much for writing this! "All we ask from those on the manager's schedule is that they understand the cost." YES! I was just saying this the other day: how a meeting for a programmer has a different cost than a meeting for a
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by lr 17y ago
This is the comment I just left on the blog: I will have to read the paper in more detail, but I have an extremely simple reason why math education in the US is so hard: We use the English system of measurement. Most students in grade schoo
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by lr 17y ago
For sure. Talk about "clouding" the subject. The cloud this article is talking about is not the "cloud" of today, it is the "cloud" of yesterday, i.e., this has been a problem since the first web app went online for commercial use well over
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by lr 17y ago
I completely agree. That is why I started sewing handbags. It was really refreshing to do this kind of work after working in front of a computer all day. I have not used the sewing machine in almost a year, and I am really feeling the need
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by lr 17y ago
Slap tipjoy on it, i'll give it a tip!
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by lr 17y ago
This is a slam on virtualization, not Ruby/Rails. Bad title, but the overall point remains: When you buy a "slice" of something, you have no idea what you are really buying. If you buy a piece of hardware with 32GB of RAM, then that's what
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by lr 17y ago
Brilliant! If feels like big companies have figured out how to DOS the USPTO to the point where the PTO is so overwhelmed with all of the incoming submissions that they have no choice but to grant the patents.
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by lr 17y ago
UC Berkeley uses goats, too: http://oep.berkeley.edu/programs/fire_mitigation/index.html
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Redcar is cool, but I still can’t use Linux(lucasrockwell.com)
16 points by lr 18y ago|21 comments
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by lr 18y ago
And the reason these jurors are not being held in contempt of court is...? Seriously, they violate the rules, they are held in contempt, and maybe even put in jail overnight. Let's just use the rules that already exist to deal with the prob
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by lr 18y ago
The whole point is that you have more RAM than data, not less. If you are trying to do queries in LDAP and all of the data (entry db and index dbs) do not fit in RAM, then forget about it. This is why you would design the system to take gro
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by lr 18y ago
So why are so few, to no, startups using LDAP? I would think LDAP would be a perfect short and long-term solution for twitter. They could put all of their users in LDAP, and then all of the people they are following into a group (each user
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by lr 18y ago
I tell people I am a "Professional web surfer."
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by lr 18y ago
Buy lots of gold and silver! But yes, diversify (savings, CDs, stocks, bonds, etc.).
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by lr 18y ago
Absolutely! And that's the point. Design costs money, and there are people who actually care about design.
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Mac vs. Acer, IBM, Dell, etc.: The Debate is Over(lucasrockwell.blogspot.com)
1 points by lr 18y ago|2 comments
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by lr 18y ago
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
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by lr 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The images are pretty bad, so I will try to do better ones this weekend. As you and terpua wrote, it would be more useful if one could use it on a blog for visualization of entries, etc., and that is something I wan
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by lr 18y ago
This is what I am doing with http://timefo.com . I have a day job, and I do Timefo at night and on weekends, and still have a life. I have hesitated to outright list it on HN as an "Ask HN" item, but let's just see what happens with this
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by lr 18y ago
Oh, I had to up-vote this because it is so funny! But I agree with jraines, it should be called the "Fail Whale".
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by lr 18y ago
If you ask an F1 engineer to fix a bicycle with a crescent wrench, do you think he is going to be lost without his $250K set of tools? I don't think so. The blogger is not talking about major pieces of code, he's talking about fundamentals.
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by lr 18y ago
We use Ruby on Rails for the web app, and our sys admin scripts are written in Ruby as well, as they can easily integrate with our DB via our Rails setup.
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by lr 18y ago
Hey zhyder, this is great! And if you want to make money, here is the perfect thing to add for paying users: dimensions! Artists could easily use this to layout art on a wall! Let them set the width of the wall, and the size of paintings, e
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by lr 18y ago
Why not use Google Apps for your domain (it includes email!)? I know they don't delete email, which is bad, but I'm willing to take that risk instead of running my own mail system. It is a piece of cake to set up, and they offer mailing lis
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by lr 18y ago
Sadly, I think your parents are the very minor exception, not the rule. This is a great column about the subject by Jon Carroll from the Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/23/... Let's hope future parents