mattmichielsen

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1. 31.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   I figure I'll eventually get into some of that more expensive stuff, but at this point I can't really afford more than autocross preparation.
2. 32.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   A coworker once came up to me with their million dollar iPhone idea, and I had to tell her it had already been invented by George Costanza. Then we found http://www.sitorsquat.com/ after 2 minutes of Google research and she was severely
3. 33.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   Sweet. The 924S was greatly underrated in my opinion. I have an '87 that was my previous autocrosser but is in need of new struts, which are pretty expensive (more than I paid for the car).
4. 34.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   I wonder how legal it is to accept donations for beer brewing supplies from my friends "in exchange" for the beers I provide for them. The donation jar on top of the kegerator works, but a lot of people don't carry cash these days. I gues
5. 35.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   I think I have about $1600 in my autocross (and sometimes daily driver) car. It really isn't that expensive if you find something cheap (like a BMW E30 or Porsche 924) and do all the work to it yourself.
6. 36.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   Solo II autocross is a really good (and super cheap) way to improve your driving skills.
7. 37.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   Reminds me of this awesome flash game: http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/
8. 38.▲
   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   Awesome. It was actually called "4D" on my old 386, and I haven't thought about that game in years. I spent countless hours building tracks and driving on them when I was 11 or 12 years old.
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   by mattmichielsen 16y ago

   This reminds me of when my friend's fairly high-end laptop was stolen from a party at his house. This was back in my wardriving days, so we went out several times looking for the MAC address of the wifi card. We didn't end up finding it t
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    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    I made it to Life Scout and quit when I was around 15 or 16. At that point, it didn't feel like learning how to weave baskets and such would really help me in life. Also, a lot of younger scouts were joining my troop, and their parents we
11. 41.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    I guess my MacBook isn't "current".
12. 42.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    cmd-left
13. 43.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    The way I've argued about probability in the past is that 10 heads in a row is just as likely as any other specific outcome, for instance HTHTHTHTHT or HHHHHTTTTT. The coin flip events themselves are not related to each other, as the outco
14. 44.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    Something like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oXCm4N3J_M
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    Olympus Stylus Tough camera carries malware infection(sophos.com)

    1 points by mattmichielsen 16y ago|0 comments
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    Jetstar to trial rent-an-iPad service(theage.com.au)

    1 points by mattmichielsen 16y ago|0 comments
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    Tech.view: A robot in every home: Helping hands(economist.com)

    1 points by mattmichielsen 16y ago|0 comments
18. 48.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    That's the beauty of it. You don't have to.
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    Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution(wired.com)

    2 points by mattmichielsen 16y ago|0 comments
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    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    My strategy is to own a few $500-$1200 cars (might be different in your area) that work buy might not look very nice. When one breaks down, drive one of the other ones until the best one is fixed. Of course, sometimes they sit in my garag
21. 51.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    I always used Wikipedia as a reference for my college papers, but cited the pertinent references from the bottom of the Wikipedia page.
22. 52.▲
    by mattmichielsen 16y ago

    I do the exact same thing. You don't want to go much lower than that though, as your water heater will become a bacteria cesspool.
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    Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force(freepatentsonline.com)

    1 points by mattmichielsen 16y ago|0 comments
24. 54.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    I miss using my 1983 Compaq luggable.
25. 55.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    I like how the large clock on the desktop doesn't correlate with the system time in the upper right corner.
26. 56.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    I use Mercurial in a corporate environment and we use a central repository to pull from and push to. It's really beneficial to get people actually used to committing by feature or bug fix rather than just in huge batches when they feel lik
27. 57.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    I guess the $100,000 they're going to save by being down for the sale duration will pay for some nice infrastructure upgrades.
28. 58.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    Well, I was hoping to get some free parts for my RepRap project. Oh well, I guess I'll just order them tomorrow.
29. 59.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    Remember how sweet http://dogpile.com was back in the altavista/excite/yahoo/etc days of category-based search engines? Are we going to have to use search aggregators again? I sure hope not.
30. 60.▲
    by mattmichielsen 17y ago

    I did the same exact thing, or left fingers stuck in all the choice pages. Maybe that's why recursion came easy to me years later in my early programming classes.