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by m0nty 18y ago
Quite happy with that - thanks for the tip :) I need a website for my open source project, plus I want to test out a few domain/product ideas so that's ideal.
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Comparing GTD, "Never read email in the morning" and "The 4-hour work week"(wired.com)
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by m0nty 18y ago
About 20 years? I remember these from way back. They are less mystifying when you see them up close, but still fun to mess with.
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Apple treated me right when my machine fails" Your experience differs from mine :) I've always used PCs because they were cheap and I needed them for work, but last year I was working as a consultant (so integration wasn't such a big deal)
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by m0nty 18y ago
Well, I'm guessing most of you guys are in the US anyway. But if you find yourself in the county of Somerset, UK, and get a chance at an interview with a company providing IT services to a well-known defence contractor, and they tell you it
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by m0nty 18y ago
I quit a job a couple of years ago where (I kid you not) I had no desk, no allocated seating, and no PC. I was expected to bring in my own laptop. Whenever there was a director's meeting, we all had to surrender our communal office and hide
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Flickr is a great product and has had huge returns for Yahoo." Personally I think it was a good site until Yahoo! took it over. Now it feels a bit like that local friendly coffee shop you'd been using for years that suddenly became a Sta
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by m0nty 18y ago
It's not you. It's not me either! Isn't that aweseome? I mean, it's completely stupendously awesome that we're both so amazingly awesomely cool but somehow this thing just isn't working. I mean, we're not working. Together, that is. OK, s
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by m0nty 18y ago
But it comes in 75cl bottles, mostly ;)
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by m0nty 18y ago
> The culprit is the Coriolis force I remember reading about this (effect on space elevators) years ago, so I'm not sure it's a new idea.
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by m0nty 18y ago
I still think the bullying was the issue. There was much talk when the story came out that (in point of law) an actual offence might not have been committed. So I think this represents the court casting about for some reason to convict, o
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by m0nty 18y ago
And the other, related question: just how do "they" propose to stop us? Did I commit a criminal act when I signed up to HN using "m0nty" rather than my real name? Am I in fact trying to impersonate the other HN user "monty"? Does the fact t
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by m0nty 18y ago
"a workaholic with more enthusiasm than expertise" I've spent the last twenty years becoming a slacker with more expertise than enthusiasm, so I'm with you there ;)
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by m0nty 18y ago
"I think I, and a lot of people, respond to ninja, etc., negatively" Unfortunately words like that have become a bit "buzzy" with HR and management (non-techie) types: "Oh, so all we have to do is say 'ninja' or 'rockstar' and we're instant
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by m0nty 18y ago
"I don’t think the downturn in our general field will be as drastic as it was back in the day." Whatever area they work in, people always seem to say this. I used to work for a "Big 4" accountancy firm, back in '91, and the official message
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by m0nty 18y ago
That's from a year ago. I think TFA is speculating about the same kind of vulnerability, but active now. It is just speculation, though.
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by m0nty 18y ago
Disguise your scrapes as a browser, so include an Explorer or Firefox browser ID string. Randomize the times between scrapes, so it looks more like a human being doing it. Make sure the scraper takes "coffee breaks" every now and then. Run
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by m0nty 18y ago
"There is only one thing that breeds success, and that is passion." And when you've learned to fake that... Seriously, though, he doesn't make any concrete suggestions about what SEO/SMM should be replaced by -- just "hire an internal evang
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by m0nty 18y ago
Apart from the obvious disillusionment and realisation that a corporate career is often equivalent to a corporate shafting, maybe another factor is that you need less money nowadays to enjoy your leisure time. For example, one reason I was
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by m0nty 18y ago
Maybe, but the point is she was making a very comfortable living, then she wasn't. I can see plenty of weak-as-water social networking sites, etc, going the same way.
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Sure this is a startup-forum so it effects funding etc but still." It affects just about everything. I remember during the last big downturn, there was a piece on the BBC about a couple who had lost everything they had, in part because she
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by m0nty 18y ago
> Actually, the Haskell community is a lot like the Perl community. And nobody uses Haskell to be fashionable Point taken, but bear in mind that :^) indicates ironic or mischievous intent. I might as easily have said Erlang... I don't p
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by m0nty 18y ago
Maybe it's because Perl has never been fashionable, so you only do it because you want/have to, rather than make big money (Java) or make a fashion statement (H*skell, etc :^) It also has deep roots in Unix-land (I tend to find Unix hackers
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Each jumper, no matter how many there were, brought fresh horror, elicited shock, tested the spirit, struck a lasting blow." That is a seriously overwritten article. There are few things worse in journalism than people who think they're
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by m0nty 18y ago
Anyone have details of the kind of software being used here? In my experience, much "educational" software is embarrassingly lame, often over-priced, not available over the Internet, and made unmanageable by various copy-protection schemes.
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by m0nty 18y ago
"I'm just full of piss and vinegar, and I call 'em as I see 'em." Definition of "asshole."
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by m0nty 18y ago
"They avoided risk, played it safe and chose someone who wouldn't make a ruckus." Yes, you really need someone who's prone to making a ruckus when you're flying to the moon in a rocket-propelled tin-can. Anyway, the final decision about who
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by m0nty 18y ago
"with the rise of cloud computing, Google Apps, and cloud-based email and IM, choosing Mac is an ever more viable alternative" I can't see much of a link here. Most businesses I've worked for over the last five years are still wedded to PCs
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by m0nty 18y ago
"we should always beware of people trying to push sociological solutions to technological problems" I'd go along with that. I think ideas like carbon trading are clearly designed to subsidise poorer nations, without actually reducing the am
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by m0nty 18y ago
'According to Dijksterhuis, these people are making themselves miserable because they failed to properly "weigh" the relevant variables when they were choosing where to live.' Just because this person has a particular set of priorities, doe

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