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by mbubb 16y ago
Nice review - I made the mistake of reading the 1 star reviews for the same book. Incredibly irritating. A book with goofy elephants, jelly stains and a ludic Socratic exposition is not everyone's cup of tea - I get that. But the fact that
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thanks - good point
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Just got my new cards from zazzle today. Used them before and was happy but wish I had this info. Next time will try moo. Question: what do others think about a large business card size. I like that because i inevitably jot something on the
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Nice.
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That is really decent of you. I am on the wrong side of the Atlantic to take advantages of your services or else I would ask permission to send on my CV. All in all I have found my contact with recruiters to be helpful in a few ways. The sh
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I thought techiferous made a good point - but in many cases the direct contact with the company might re-direct you to the recruiter. I am not sure how it is working in London area but it seems to me that many of the financial firms in NYC
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Nice, very nice. There are a lot of good critiques in the comments and I might agree with some... But my initial gut reaction was 'yes - I get what this is and like the basic design...' I would imagine in time links to the actual HN discuss
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Hello My HP 6510b has run every version of Ubuntu since 8.04. I put a 12 cell travel battery on it when I travel so it is a bit heavy. 4GB RAM. Usually run xfce. I am a sysadmin so often have a handful of xterms open and VirtualBox running
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In 1996 I helped startup a branch of a company in Seoul. We had a number of help wanted ads for office staff that got a lukewarm response until we put the phrase "married women welcome to apply". Seemingly overnight we got very talented app
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Actually installed Xubuntu on a netbook (old hp 2133).
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Yes true - or perhaps Hakeem Olajuwon in his prime or Tim Duncan maybe... not quite as absolute as i made it
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US has the best players at every position in basketball, hands down. Not quite the same in baseball but you could produce a dominant American team. But might not have the best team always. I think there has been a decline in US baseball and
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Basically true that baseball is US, Caribbean, Korean and Japan. But some interesting players from Mexico, Canada, Australia and Europe belie some spread. Frankly I would not think it could spread... I like the World Baseball Classic and I
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This is not completely accurate. Korean culture had basically no Western contact before the 1870s. There are Korean and Chinese accounts (ie Chinese envoy's accounts of Korean life) dating back to the 1100s describing Korean concepts of bea
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Happened to my wife and I during her citizenship interviews. Brief panic. Mumbling - eventually she came out with, "he does something with computers". Good enough for the INS
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Ah right. Thanks for reminding. PerlMonks.
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Articles in this vein can spur thought which leads to unexpected ideas. This is perhaps a point of overlap between reddit and HN and really has very little direct relevance to startups, hacking, programming. The piece in question here was
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Remarkable quote by Stephen Jay Gould: “It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity,” he wrote in his 1985 essay. “Of course I agree with the preacher of Eccles
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I agree - and like the site. Good clean design, am not an expert in the area but could get a sense of the different indices right off the bat.
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I get the joke but am not sure that it was originally a debian thing. I have seen it in BSD and here are also rpms for this. A good debian/ ubuntu ascii art joke is the "apt-get moo" sl is a lot of fun when you first stumble across it...
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Thank you
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on my android my favorite way to follow news is twitter feed. That is where I would like this as I can quickly link to the discussion (which has a link to the article). I dont find myself using rss as much. twitter nicely encasulates diverg
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Except that this would make a qualitative change to the game. This would be a version of that most hated of results - the shootout. People who truly understand the game (I am not in that subset) speak in terms of flow and touches and the se
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Well said: ...Each generation learns things and most of it is not passed on to the next generation. Every single one of my peers got squat from their parents in terms of "this is how it works, pay attention". Blade Runner is an excellent ch
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I think about this all the time. 2 boys 3 and 6 yrs old. I cringed a bit when I saw the title because it made me think of the term 'alterna-dad' and of a style of parenting in which children become accessories and 'buddies' to their extende
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Turn it off. Largely due to crappy news and marketing. We went off cable 2 yrs ago. Public library dvds, netflix and amazon streaming, and the internet in general replaces it all. Occasionally surprises that need explanation. YouTubing for
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At times it seems like an undeniable conclusion. Notsure exactly why but your pithy post reminded me of the Ginsberg poem "America"
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A good point and a valid concern. I didnt read this as a return to barter nor tribalism but instead a comment of the reduced subject. Late Modernist and Postmodernist debates on subjectivity tend to see the Enlightenment idea of a coherent
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Hello - A bit late getting to this topic but I had a useful resource. Through my 'Google Listen' acct I found a good resource - zen cast podcasts on buddhist topics. In recent months there have been some excellent talks on meditation / awar

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