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by modoc 11y ago
I'm 35 and overall am feeling at the top of my game. I don't envy the 20 years olds or feel lost. I've learned so much, not just technically but around user and enterprise needs, inter-personal skills, and about myself sin
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by modoc 11y ago
All of my car/motorcycle track instructors were big believers in "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast". Basically go slow and work on the correct form/line/being smooth/etc... Once you have that down, you are r
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by modoc 11y ago
Hard to know if your success is driven by paleo, or by cutting out booze and soda and adding in walking, or if you're just taking less calories than before. Whatever works for you is great, but I just hear so many people raving about d
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by modoc 11y ago
I've always heard them called sensory deprivation chambers.
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by modoc 11y ago
The ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) is the US's OLDEST Intelligence agency, so yes.. :)
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by modoc 11y ago
FWIW you can absolutely pass normal bullets through most airport metal detectors. The typical threshold meant to not flag basic jewelry/etc... will let 1-2 9mm rounds pass through. SOURCE: flying after being at the range with two 9mm
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by modoc 11y ago
New England during a bad winter... During the bad ice storms a few years ago that left many areas, including mine, without power for a week+, things like generators, kerosene lamps and heaters, etc.. ranged from several times more expensi
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by modoc 11y ago
Byron does not come across that well in many many accounts. Talented but not that nice a guy it seems...
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by modoc 11y ago
Built one of these as a youth with some friends. Worked great:)
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by modoc 11y ago
Same here. I'm absolutely hitting the right keys, but it's losing the first letter of the new word every time unless I pause myself between words for an extra second or two.
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by modoc 11y ago
And yet my parents (both born in the 1960's) both played with beads of mercury on their desks in school on numerous occasions... It was pretty common
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by modoc 11y ago
I've always been strongly in the stateful web app camp, and I don't find anything hacky about sticky sessions:) But I think the divide between the stateless and stateful camps may come down to a combination of initial technologie
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by modoc 11y ago
Wrestling with the same sort of issues here. Middle age plus the stresses of growing a company, etc... I've started hitting the gym a bunch (3-5 times a week) with personal training twice a week. Trying to do hot yoga once a week. U
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by modoc 12y ago
Is that true? Did CF break Verizon or was it the other way around?
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by modoc 12y ago
If E85 has ~40% less energy in it per volume/weight, then you'd need to be pushing ~40% MORE fuel in the same timeframe to break even on power, right? So you'd need the octane jump from 91/93 to to 94-96 to allow you to
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by modoc 12y ago
As the owner of 3 ducatis, a snow blower, and a generator... when ethanol gas sits around for a while it does awful awful things:( Fuel stabilizers help a little, but the only way to REALLY make things work is to either run the engines at
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by modoc 12y ago
At least in our limited experience we aren't saving any money, and that's not the driving factor. When the best person for the job needs a visa, that's what we do. It typically costs us $5k+/year in filing and legal fe
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by modoc 12y ago
FWIW Amex Business Platinum card holder here. Their Concierge got us a reservation for 6 people at 8 pm, at the French Laundry, the next day.... That's as close to magic as I've ever seen.
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by modoc 12y ago
100% bootstrapped and on track to break $10m/year in 2015.
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by modoc 12y ago
We've added in a late payment fee that gets added on every month a payment is late. As soon as that first notice goes out saying "You now owe us $X,XXX MORE!" people seem to magically send checks. You have to have that in t
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by modoc 12y ago
US male here. I've been hugged by many women I've just met at multiple events and conferences. I'm no male model, nor would I initiate a hug with someone I'd just met (or generally in a business context unless I knew t
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by modoc 12y ago
My understanding is that modern tank water heaters are extremely efficient, 96%+ so I don't think they use that much energy these days?
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by modoc 12y ago
You've made a bunch of posts about Firefighters in S.F. Everything I'm seeing is that S.F. Firefighters are some of the highest paid in the world, and have amazing pensions on top of their salaries. I'm curious what your re
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by modoc 12y ago
You can read the sponge reviews on Amazon:)
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by modoc 12y ago
As zrail mentioned below, it's not that much traffic from a load perspective. It's a Java app, so it uses some RAM, but honestly the hardest load to tune for was the inbound spam. I have a massively overspecced server that I use
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by modoc 12y ago
I didn't have to do anything special (that I remember - this was many years ago).
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by modoc 12y ago
40k-50k addresses are created, with about 80-85% of them receiving an email. I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
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by modoc 12y ago
I get 3.7-4 million page views per month from 850k-1 million unique users.
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by modoc 12y ago
10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.
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by modoc 12y ago
it's not that "college" would make a huge difference, it's that an Ivy league (or similar school) would allow a person like my friend to make connections that are helpful. The high-end prep school he went to means he ha

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