menloparkbum

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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It's as easy to hack the iPhone as the PSP or DS - you just need to jailbreak it.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
An old roommate of mine is a psychiatrist and he claims that 60% of his job is denying drug requests.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
How many vaccines do kids get these days vs. how many were given 30 years ago?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Also, isn't it unreal how this company was paying the founder 200K a year with no revenue This is par for the course for venture funded startups. There's a whole class of people in Silicon Valley who make a career out of being the overpai
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It wasn't necessarily that simple. They were trying to merge a company with a Windows infrastructure with a company that had a Unix infrastructure and were trying to decide on one infrastructure moving forward. But yes, he was the one pushi
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I could be remembering my history wrong, but wasn't Paypal successful because they didn't do any of the stuff Musk suggested when Confinity and X.com merged?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I remember people saying this back in 2001.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I've done this to some degree. My suggestion would be to build a product that throws off income rather than try to support yourself through remote contract work. A desktop app, iPhone app, subscription web app, or even ad supported web app.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Some of the questions are things like "what pair of men's sunglasses should I buy?" I'm guessing that the products at the end are paid placement (or will be) and there will eventually be a click to buy button.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Academia is worse than startup-land for relationships because it's almost certain that you are going to have to move around a lot, and quite possibly to a college town in the middle of nowhere. Startups you don't really have to move, and ev
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Artists generally don't make money off CD sales anyway, record labels do. This is often repeated but I've never seen a link to the source. Are there statistics somewhere that show this is true?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Pro athletes make enough money to alleviate most of the issues that their lifestyle brings about. Plus, they are pro athletes . Yet they still get divorced. And sometimes they don't. Musicians, actors and artists get divorced all the time.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
More than 50% of marriages end in divorce. Back in the day my grandparents stayed married even though my grandpa was at sea for 3 years. It seems like you're likely to get divorced even if you don't work that hard. Or stay together in even
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
This is valid, you will sound like a girl. However, it's better than not knowing how to speak at all. It isn't so hard to correct - just go drinking with some old japanese guys once a week.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Where? My brother is a high school teacher and since he's got a math and science background he practically gets hired sight unseen.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Sadly, I'm so cynical about anything that has to do with public education and state politics that whenever I read a story like this, the first thing I think of is how much money the vendor mentioned in the article is going to get paid for t
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
horowitz and hill?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Get a Japanese girlfriend. If that's not possible, sounddust's method seems the most likely for a hacker with limited access to Japanese people.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
this is great info, much thanks.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
the Musk dude was just an early investor who hijacked the company didn't he hijack paypal, too?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
arranging real-life encounters where everybody has a decent chance at relaxing and being themselves. The thing is, nightclubs do a pretty good job at this already I don't know where you live but I've never been to a relaxing nightclub whe
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I got a sLIME environment set up and found a screen scraping tutorial. It is a regexp based tutorial which seems very Perlish. I guess I was wondering if there was going to be a magical Lisp pattern matching way of doing this. I'm building
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Perhaps this all stems from an education system that glorifies difficulty above all else. Weren't you also the guy who was talking about being ostracized by your teachers and peers because you weren't math olympiad material? From your com
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Cool. I just set up a Clojure dev environment. My questions: 1. can I make the REPL do "up arrow goes back in your command history" like BASH does? edit: found the answer to this in one of the tutorials 2. Is clojure a good choice for mak
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Your idea is pretty good. I signed up for OK Cupid a while back and repurposed the photos and certain other information from my FB profile. It would have been nice to just auto-import. I would take a look at OK Cupid, if you haven't. The ot
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I can't just declare myself a resident of a state that has no income tax. That doesn't work I know many expats, my cousin and sister included, who establish residency in South Dakota for this purpose. The state only requires a one night s
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
That said, while I appreciate your sentiment, I know in my heart that the author is right. Even the "keep up with technology" people know in their hearts that these articles are correct. Everyone knows programmers have a half-life, they j
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
My guess is that they have huge amounts of money to spend and very few people, so they simply outfit their military with top of the line everything. Also, Norwegians love their ships.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
This seems highly context dependent. In the SF schools I've been in, you'd get your ass handed to you by 8-15 other people if you did this to the wrong person. Also, if you hit someone with a chair you're going to get expelled, even in the
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
You can't. You have to sign up for the dev program to get the app on your device. You can program to the simulator, but that doesn't help you with the unique features of the phone (camera, accelerometer, etc).

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