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by mcdougle 13y ago
Reading articles like this makes me think of a distributed computing system we had at my college. Dunno if anyone's heard of condor, but basically, you'd submit an executable and some metadata to the central machine, and it would
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by mcdougle 13y ago
reimage it again when you get home? edit: To those below: True. I thought about hardware after I posted; didn't even think about the BIOS thing but that's a great point.
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I dunno. I agree with you that "only works in Windows" is not a downside for MS, but.... I'd argue that the best way for them to make Windows a good programming platform would be to make it better and easier to program in
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I think he's saying the total investment is $100m. So if it sells for $100m, each individual investor gets his money back.
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Actually... it's not really about capitalism. I like capitalism. It's flawed, yes, but everything is and I believe it's the best we've got. In fact, capitalism, by design, rewards the most entrepreneurial. Our current sc
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by mcdougle 13y ago
>> You can always get a proper job afterwards if it doesn't work out. This is what I keep saying! My mother (and my ex, too) would get very upset when, after college, I suggested building a business freelancing and eventually bui
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by mcdougle 13y ago
actually, at the beginning, he does say that you should invest in low-cost index funds
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by mcdougle 13y ago
For the longest time, this is pretty much what I believed, and so I never touched the stock market, preferring to invest in other assets. And, depending on how your investing mindset, it's still true. I was recently introduced to the d
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by mcdougle 13y ago
If you're already going to pirate the game (by torrenting it), there's plenty of free streams available online all over the place so that you can watch it live. The subreddits at /r/nfl /r/cfb and /r/
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by mcdougle 13y ago
yeah it's looking a lot like it did in April.....
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I'm kind of in the same place. Bought 1 bitcoin for the novelty a while back, sold a chunk of it yesterday to get my money back, and now I'm waiting to see how high it'll go. If it breaks $1k I'll probably sell a bit mor
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by mcdougle 13y ago
It seems you discovered for yourself what every book on communication emphasizes -- ask questions! People would rather talk about themselves than listen to you talking about yourself, so if you just get them talking and then listen to wha
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Like you implied, when you're trying to get a business deal, you're communicating for the audience. It's really all just sales. A lot of really successful salespeople probably don't have good spelling and grammar, but th
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Wow that's cool. I didn't even know that existed!
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by mcdougle 13y ago
That's assuming everyone's using Ubuntu (or some other Debian-based OS)... He actually did mention that in the post, though -- packaging Ruby into the installer -- and mentioned how difficult it is. I've never tried it myself
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I imagine he just set up an LLC or something to that effect, and made his site look more professional, with a logo on it. I can't imagine it's that difficult. People do it all the time for all sorts of personal businesses. I haven
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I don't think Soylent has to stop families from eating together, and if it does, the reason those families aren't eating together probably isn't entirely due to Soylent. Rob himself mentions in his blog many times that he ima
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by mcdougle 13y ago
It doesn't help when a co-worker writes a query that just left outer joins every table on the server and uses the where clause to filter out the excess... (found one of those this morning)
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by mcdougle 13y ago
That's a very interesting take on it. I don't think I plan to do freelancing simply as a "stop-gap." We'll see how my mindset changes as time goes on, but I do hope to actually build a business out of it -- make a g
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I most definitely agree with this. There's risk either way -- opportunity cost if you don't take the plunge. I feel like ux-app did it well, too, though, by mitigating the risk since he was able to take the 6-month leave. If a per
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by mcdougle 13y ago
You know... I bet you could go indefinitely on freelancing in addition to building your projects. I don't know what your lifestyle is like or what kind of expenses you have, but I do know that if you're a software guy, there'
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by mcdougle 13y ago
that second one -- where the social network was just a series of client applications rather than a central database -- would be an amazing idea for a product. Like a bittorrent-esque Facebook.
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by mcdougle 13y ago
That's the major problem with these presentations, IMO. It'd be best not to make each slide a separate item on my browser's back/forward navgation, especially when there's built-in functionality to move about the pr
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I work with SQL Server and its parts (SSIS, SSAS, etc.) pretty much exclusively at my day job, and I occasionally find myself hacking up Python scripts to automate various tasks. I don't know about a year ago, but several months ago I
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by mcdougle 13y ago
There are (or at least were when I sold insurance) products that costed very little (compared to an actual plan) that provided you with the negotiated price the insurance company would pay if something happens. If you can afford to self-ins
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Or a net worth >$1mil At least, that's what it's always been. I'm not sure if the new law changes this; it was pretty ambiguous about that (at least to me as I skimmed over it). This is the first I've heard that they
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by mcdougle 13y ago
The problem with that is that, in society currently, your grades are what matter -- at least if you want a normal job at a normal company. To get a job, you have to have a college degree and a good GPA. To get that, you have to get good gra
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I like this idea a lot. Reminds me of some of the team projects I did in school. It also seems a lot more productive than all of those pointless corporate meetings...
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by mcdougle 13y ago
> The loss of GMail conversation view was initially really REALLY painful Considering all the shit going down lately... we've seen a recent surge in use of things like DuckDuckGo and OwnCloud, but no good replacement for the Gmail U
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by mcdougle 13y ago
sounds like grad school....

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