michaeldhopkins

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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
http://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551436 Googled lawsuit settle father daughter "short story" I actually wanted to read this again recently so thanks for thinking of it.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
After paying so much money, they refused to spend a few thousand on bribes to stop the guy? That doesn't make much sense.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
At least of a few of the teachers outraged about Forbes will be working Google Scholar into their curricula because of the article.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I really wish it was two-way Highrise contacts integration with Google Apps.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
One way to practice is to DDOS your server until you figure out how to withstand it, then steadily increase the load. In fact, several services help you do this and provide some nice statistics too.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I've seen this response to the document before and it often turns out the author of the response had missed a page so mistakenly thought there was little math. There are communities of people who would indeed consider this an easy test but
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
That's the point -- you don't understand it well enough to explain it.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Poor working memory is a motivation problem for some people who find it too difficult to do what they want to do. Other people need to hack their principles, their health, their environment, etc. to do what they want. I believe all of those
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Somehow a person eating food can't control themselves but your desire to change their behavior is objective? Your preference for bad legislation that was transmitted to you contagiously from your environment. Perhaps you would like someone
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
No, he did not. http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Yes, it's acedic to measure the worth of oneself and peers by money alone. But given that men and women are both in it for money, competing for equality/inequality measured by sex, it's necessary for the runners up to aim for the leaders as
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I expected this to be downvoted because it's so awkward. It's hard to think about what will be the winning strategy five, ten, twenty years from now, a lot harder than complaining, but it's important for a group to do if they want to catch
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Skipping sounds great! I'd love to socially plan a whole evening out with my friends using a site like that, factoring in drive times and everything. In my opinion that's more interesting than review quality, although reviews are of course
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I wish it was a startup related to scotch. Anyway... Wisdom isn't a metric I trust if it's just users voting each other up. Seems like something a few spammers could easily game, right? Also, what does skipping to something do?
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
It's always the perfect time to start and finish thinking about, then start and finish developing an idea to be successful whether or not YC exists. I'd guess the YC application due date for Summer 2012 is April 2012.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
This article is behind the times. By the time most professional women have learned to ask for raises like some men do in 2011, those men will have moved on to a more advanced strategy to make more. It's similar to how an expensive universi
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
For me it's not the app's cost so much as the decision to invest time into it (set it up, form new habits, etc.) A cup of coffee requires no time investment -- the equivalent of the app for me would be researching whether I should drink cof
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
H.P. Lovecraft. I aim for Hemingway but that's close so I'm happy.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
A lifestyle business is one which growth founders will stop or slow once they've reached target income. At, say, $200,000 per year, a lifestyle business founder wants to do something else whereas a more fundable founder wants to add another
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
&! user here. Try it as a Fluid app if you have a Mac, then size the window to fit the app so it takes up the space of a slightly larger IM window. I actually zoom it out using Fluid so it takes up a little less space. &! sends Grow
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I'm using this with some projects and enjoying it. Overall I agree it's a very fast way to know what everyone's doing. It is suited for a desk environment since it is desktop-only. (It's closest to working on the iPad but has some bugs.) Th
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
My favorite example of the "workcation" is Andyet's month-long stay in a castle, partly because it's not pretending to be much more than an awesome idea: http://andyet.net/blog/2011/mar/3/devcastle/ http://andyet.net/blog/2011/jul/18/dev
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
After reading Code my hacking skills increased considerably. I am never comfortable relying on abstractions so understanding more of the programming stacks I use increased my willingness to experiment with then. It also helped me to better
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
Christianity has one way into heaven, baptism, but beyond that things diverge quickly. It's better (IMO) than believing different religions but acting the same in practice. As Chesterton put it: "So in Christendom apparent accidents balanc
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
I meant the actual lemonade stands he encounters, but good point.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
This is terribly sad and I'm sorry for your family and your neighbors. You have somehow trained yourself to see your locality through the abstractions used by organizations that reside elsewhere. Instead of seeing the child, the water, the
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
The behavior most consistent with Siri now would be "What would you like me to check you into?" "You want to check into ABC Business on Foursquare? Is that right?"
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
You are right. I misremembered his Stanford speech.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
He had six months to live in 2003 so I doubt that 100% figure very much.
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by michaeldhopkins 15y ago
This is avoided by rendering each star/half star/empty star as an li or a div, defining common styles like width, height and positioning and then background images for each.

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