lwhalen

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by lwhalen 14y ago
I'm recycling a comment I made two weeks ago because it's relevant here, and it saves me the typing and thought-bandwidth of retyping the exact same thing in a slightly different way. The absolute worst thing I've ever done for myself was t
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by lwhalen 14y ago
The absolute worst thing I've ever done for myself was to go to college. I had a 50% scholarship towards one of THE top electrical engineering schools in the country (not MIT, but you'd be in the right state if you were guessing), and I to
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by lwhalen 14y ago
ditto the 'have children' comment. I've consciously chosen not to reproduce, after having the equivalent of a 'dry run' for raising kids for a few years, and I certainly couldn't see myself ever being happy as a parent.
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by lwhalen 14y ago
facebook required? I'll pass, thanks.
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by lwhalen 14y ago
at $800 a pop, it's a steal AND a bargain! </sarcasm>
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by lwhalen 14y ago
About $60k/yr
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by lwhalen 14y ago
Yes, this. A thousand times, this. Personal case in point - earbits.com. Freaking LOVE their service. I used to use their 'don't need an account' option almost daily to stream awesome new music, and I would've LOVED to create an account
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by lwhalen 14y ago
I want to move to New Hampshire so very, very badly. The politics sit well with me, the lower taxes sit VERY well with me, it's all-around a great place to live. Unfortunately, I've found that the market for Linux sysadmins just isn't as
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by lwhalen 15y ago
It's... a Craigslist clone. The article makes it seem like backpage.com is some online brothel whose sole (or main) focus is "teh trafficking of innocent wimminz and children oh my!", but a quick spin through the site seems to show that it
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by lwhalen 15y ago
Is there something particularly strange or unique about this story's formatting that it couldn't have been rendered in HTML?
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by lwhalen 15y ago
why is this a PDF?
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by lwhalen 15y ago
Is there a reason folks use Yammer over IRC? My company pays for Yammer, but nobody seems to use it. Most folks (at least in the engineering/sysadmin circles I tend to work in) hang out on the internal IRC server all day.
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by lwhalen 15y ago
So... you worked with Paul Ekman?
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by lwhalen 16y ago
No. Next question?
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by lwhalen 16y ago
I studied electrical engineering at WPI for 4 years. They were going to push me into a 5th to complete the degree, so I said "heck with this" and dropped out. It was the best decision of my life, and after having paid down $60k of my over
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by lwhalen 16y ago
The only winning move, is not to play. Facebook-free even in 2011, and I still have friends, a social life, and all the perks of 'being human', with none of the Facebook privacy problems. :-)
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by lwhalen 16y ago
www.tryruby.org Also, google "Learning Python the Hard Way" for an equally-excellent Python intro.
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by lwhalen 17y ago
Worcester Polytech, but I didn't finish