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by mr_luc 15y ago
If you're serious, then the website needs several things: 1. a giant counter of # of people who've donated to the fund (or signed 'the pledge', see below!), 2. a live twitter stream for the #NoForgivenessFund hashtag (but someone should com
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by mr_luc 15y ago
I have no idea. I'd start by asking Redditors how they manage their charity drives, and HNers if there are any Fundable.com replacements that work well. I won't do any of this; I'm expressly non-political. I just think there's an opportunit
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by mr_luc 15y ago
I agree that a targeted, intensely political fund that directly targeted reelection campaigns would be nice to have as an institution. I'm just thinking about the short-term message, though. When I read "Internet Freedom" I'm already half-a
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by mr_luc 15y ago
I think that politicians could be made to hear the Internet's voice here. Imagine if people started donating to a 'SOPA Supporter Anti-Reelection Fund', where all donations go to targeting vulnerable SOPA supporters in the next election. Th
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by mr_luc 15y ago
This is the best comment so far, I think, because it highlights why a designer + engineer, even a theoretical 'designeneer' equally skilled at both, isn't necessarily going to be twice as valuable, and in fact may be only as valuable as a
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by mr_luc 15y ago
Also, if it's by design: Placing a random comment after my submission lets it through. So you might want to strip out comments for that bit.
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by mr_luc 15y ago
"This code has already been submitted by catphish." Is this by design?
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by mr_luc 15y ago
That's the specific type of programming that's mentioned in the article "I am a programmer": "We're middle-men (and women), glorified translators, and we're in the unbelievably fortunate position that programming computers is still much too
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by mr_luc 15y ago
This is good advice, but it's dangerous for leaders who aren't themselves deep experts on their issues that divide their people. It hinges pretty strongly on a boss being the most discerning person at the table. As all of the comments point
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by mr_luc 15y ago
It's been a while since I've read this essay -- and I'm surprised by some of the reactions I'm reading in these comments! The essay is just as good now as it was then. The underlying ideas are not only correct, they're being actively valida
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by mr_luc 15y ago
Just seeing Thief on here makes me go all gooey inside. Dromed brings back memories. http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/upcoming.htm -- The Garden, 2002, FM under development by mr_luc; screenshots here: http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I agree with the truth that this comment expresses, but I hope for different things. I really mean to blog on this subject, in fact, as it's one that inspires me. Due to a curious combination of circumstances, I work 3 months each year in a
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Out of curiousity -- is 'UAW' United Auto Workers? I would find it funny that they were outsourcing ANYTHING.
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Just a note -- Gosu is already the name of a neat little C/Ruby graphics library that wraps up sound and graphics programming in a tiny little package that mostly gets out of your way. (I believe it was intended for people making little gam
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by mr_luc 16y ago
That sounds fantastic. I wish more cloud services realized that they can have a pretty generous policy re: killing user's data. It's like timeouts in Redis/memcached: doubling the TTL won't generally double memory usage, or anything close t
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Chromium on ubuntu 10.04 -- flash stutters on the left-hand side, canvas smooth. Of course, flash on chromium on ubuntu isn't what Adobe is optimizing for ... but that's just another reason to hope that canvas continues to do well.
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by mr_luc 16y ago
This article could not have been written to tempt me any more effectively. 'It doesn't cause hyperfocused procrastination, like Adderal or Dexedrine. It's 'deep concentration.' And you can go off it whenever you want! It's a temporary smart
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I remember hearing that The Simpsons TV show used to have a writer's retreat. The goal was to have a place and time where the show runner and the writers would spend a few days mulling over script ideas by their writers. They'd get away fro
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I sympathize with the author! I had the same experience a couple of nights ago -- a corporate-programmer-turned-manager friend (highly competent, Formally Trained in Dimensional Modelling and Analysis using the Microsoft stack, etc) was ask
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Or, like most people, you're not a rational machine. The future that costs you $50,000 (or helps/hurts you via any of the mentioned surrogate currencies) is distasteful. Your irrational brain won't let you do nothing, and makes you go out a
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Maybe I'm looking at this analogy too hard, but ... If I actually did have $50k riding on the election, I'd spend more than $0.0005 cents determining which candidate is best, because assessing risk is necessary to plan for the future.
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Not only is the author a troll -- as pointed out, he runs the Fake Steve Jobs blog -- his primary source, Nathan Myhyrvhvhlodold, is a troll. Let me clarify: Nathan might be a genius, but he's a genius whose words we can't ever risk taking
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by mr_luc 16y ago
It had me laughing for nearly two minutes. I didn't watch any more, but I didn't need to. Part of what made it funny was that there were still 8+ minutes to go at any given point, and that voice in my head saying, "No, not really. Google di
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by mr_luc 16y ago
They say that earning $1 in ad revenue qualifies -- with the implication that the game would be free. Freemium seems even more legit.
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I am ... ( takes deep breath ) ... going to do this. I'm posting to reserve my place, and to predict that my entry will be the most stupid-simple of all the HN-ers.
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I came here to post that on that subject, as well. >We believe that founder teams need a good mix of strengths in both vision/strategy and implementation/execution. We will match you with potential co-founders who complement your streng
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I took a few minutes to google a few terms, like "cassandra EC2" and so forth. I get the general impression that doing anything architecture-y or deployment-y requires amazon-specific steps, steps that I don't have to take on a barebones ub
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Which should be pretty low if I'm the only user. Linode doesn't charge you for bandwidth between nodes in the same datacenter -- is there something comparable in the EC2 world?
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by mr_luc 16y ago
$0.02/hr == approximately $14/mo if you leave it on. Is this really $6/mo cheaper than a linode 512? That might be nice for personal projects. I'm trying to teach myself some things that really need more than my local dev machine (puppet, b
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I downvoted you, and expect to be downvoted myself ... But I laughed. /me is, apparently, twelve.

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