momotomo

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by momotomo 16y ago
To travel, yeah. Baby steps, it'll be my first time offshore (at 28 years of age)
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by momotomo 16y ago
The maintenance aspect is the biggest hidden cost I think. Your last point is interesting - one of the guys that used to mentor me in meditation often said that the attachment to not having things is just as painful as the attachment to hav
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by momotomo 16y ago
Yeah, the maintenance part is possibly the hardest aspect. It's also killed typical socialization in my own home, except for people that genuinely enjoy just sitting, sipping tea and talking. I was pretty stuck anyhow (progress wise), so if
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by momotomo 16y ago
Office PC. Realistically, job and career wise, I'll uptake a home computer again at some point, but only when the habits associated with the old ones die off.
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by momotomo 16y ago
This struck a chord with me. Recently (and more or less intuitively), I got rid of pretty much everything I own to charities, friends and relatives. A couple of graphics workstations, home entertainment system, mountain of business and phil
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by momotomo 16y ago
Agreed, my thinking was mostly about existing customer base and exposure, not the technical side of things.
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by momotomo 16y ago
Sums up my thinking on it exactly. I can't see this being more than a curious news item if it stays in this format.
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by momotomo 16y ago
Surprised it's not android based given that it has an app store and some reasonably popular games already. Anything that would stop them moving in that direction?
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by momotomo 16y ago
openid and google would be handy, but that's just me, not sure on the masses. Will sign up for watp and get started. Tiles have a creative element, scarcity and a time constraint. I always wind up getting hyper competitive and tearing throu
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by momotomo 16y ago
Tiles.ice.org? I have nothing constructive to add except thank you for bringing back this concept. A few years ago I went back to ice.org to find out it had turned int a wasteland and was completely gutted. Genuinely shocked to see this res
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by momotomo 16y ago
This. Do the same thing, but with variations based on how badly I need to focus. - First is a battered old internet-free linux box with a text editor and a few basic tools for focussed work / dev. - Second is to sit somewhere unfamiliar in
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by momotomo 16y ago
Ah! That's good, didn't realise. The upvote is a good idea, but yeah, there's a million different ways to submit the same online content. The function is definitely desirable, but it seems better suited as a browser plugin or such. Although
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by momotomo 16y ago
Ok, Reddit handles this really well in their submission system. If you post a link, and it exists, it simply flags: here's all the posts that already have this link. Do you still want to proceed? Gives you the choice of jumping into the exi
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by momotomo 16y ago
On the theft topic - engraving makes it less likely to be resold, but not less likely to be stolen. Opportunistic theft with such a small time window doesn't lend itself to reviewing the item.
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by momotomo 16y ago
The NDA comments across this thread are interesting, in the company I work for we NDA on just about every single external interaction. We're an IP black hole - anything you do using company resources (including sitting interviews) is consid
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by momotomo 16y ago
Solution I found (globally, in a lot of scenarios, not just related to HN) is: Don't do anything unless it's specific. I try to only sit at the PC if I'm "doing" something on it. Even in micro bursts. Shortlist of examples: - If I'm thinkin
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by momotomo 16y ago
Indeed. It's a fun exercise in coding but the output is very "monkey at typewriter not producing Shakespeare".
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by momotomo 16y ago
Second Sekida's book, it's a brilliant guide, and quite light hearted as well. It's about 2/3rds practical content and instruction then some anecdotes and light philosophy.
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by momotomo 16y ago
If you want to get fit, boxing. Been around a few different arts, and its been the most physically intense, especially if you train with competition crews. Served me pretty well self defense wise too, been in a few scraps at clubs / pubs an
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by momotomo 16y ago
I can't back this up with statistics but I'd hazard a guess that a portion of antidepressant subscriptions are entirely related to a sedentary lifestyle. My world goes completely to shit if I'm not exercising on a regular basis, it changes
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by momotomo 16y ago
I think there's too much romance in people's expectations of what real work looks like. It's genuinely great to pursue your passion, but it always has a cost. The "if it's not your passion, you're wasting your life" thing aggravates me to t
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by momotomo 16y ago
You could definitely add value, even from the perspective that in a generally technical community, you have a non-technical perspective. If you are generally clever and motivated, there's few situations where you won't have input. Even aski
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by momotomo 16y ago
Second this. I'd love to switch to openoffice full time. I'm a heavy, heavy MS Office suite user and even with the UI changes in 2007 / 2010, it's still light years ahead of openoffice in terms of workflow (at least in my experience). Addit
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by momotomo 16y ago
Our process can take up to 1-2 months before people have full systems access and everything bedded down. I've seen some new hires have literally zero access for up to the first three weeks.
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by momotomo 16y ago
Can relate, I work in the arts so theres always a 1:1 cap on the production / profit aspect of it (excluding soft copies like prints and digital editions). Though, given, that's completely discounting the return of the enjoyment of the craf
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by momotomo 16y ago
The lack of scale is probably cooling people's interest in investing in this - realistically it's not going to escalate into something that produces returns by a factor of N. It doesn't mean it's a bad idea - but this is basically hobby / s
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by momotomo 16y ago
Just signed up, impressive. The fact you can generate an entire list just by text + return key is great design. I've been using notepad for this kind of thing previously because I just want a simple think of it / dump it / get back to it la
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by momotomo 16y ago
Irritating. If you want to mandate a contribution, create a structure that does so and implement your own internal taxation. It's weak to nominate something as a donation, inferring it is optional, and then try to enforce it. Complete lack
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by momotomo 16y ago
You have a choice about how you define and label yourself, don't take this route. Life's a big challenge, insulting yourself just hinders things.
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by momotomo 16y ago
The article is a little sketchy but I can relate to the issue that is being put across here. I work a day job (as a systems analyst) that I'm quite passionate about, and my "side project" is as an artist / illustrator. To get suitable stret

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