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by nfnaaron 17y ago
mass = tasks, the ones that need repeating (or you'll stop (making money)) and the ones that have yet to be done (or you'll stop (making money)).
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Even if you deleted your gmail, and it was eventually actually deleted by Google (or even, if you never had a gmail account), the other half of a good many of your messages would still exist in other peoples' gmail accounts. Depending on ho
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
There are lots of ways to deploy your talents and other resources, and those of your employer. Some of those ways are subject to your choice, and some are subject to constraints. Maybe he didn't have $1500. He accomplished something for his
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"shouldn't he captutre some value?" I think he captured a pile of spiritual value.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Agreed that there are a small percentage of people who are professionals, for whom the risk of live practice is probably worth the risk, also considering the likelihood that they would have to deploy their skills in this way. For the rest o
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I think, when you're young you just don't think about time all that much. When you're older, you do.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"(After ensuring the gun was unloaded) one of us would point the pistol right at the other's head." Fail. Absolute fail. We say "the gun is always loaded" even when we "know" it is not, because if we never, ever point a gun at something tha
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
For people reading Startup Wiki, it might be interesting to follow a startup through the full life cycle.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"The Seattle Python community represented there was almost painfully polite. ... I later learned that this may be an attribute unique to Seattle Python developers." When I lived in Seattle, I read that musicians, playing in PNW clubs and ve
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Not them by themselves, but they have you striking on the ball of your foot, or mid-foot at most. That reduces the sudden impact on your foot and leg. Heel striking is like driving a post (your lower leg) into the ground. Striking on the
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Macmillan ... are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99 "We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles. We want y
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Actually, as I think about this a little more, the logical conclusion of Amazon's efforts to control publishing is more Google-like than Apple-like, where an author will suddenly find his "self" published book removed from the Amazon store,
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Conversation snippet between publisher and author: "Hey, we haven't gotten the updates from you yet. Everything OK? Need some help? We really need to get this published, while you're still fresh in readers' minds from your last book." Conve
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Re comments that this has been going on a long time, and that the West does it too. It probably has been happening a long time. Many may have assumed it. If Western governments have been papering it over, it's good that it comes out so that
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
If you want to know what's in the world's libraries, including probably your own, and your mom's: http://www.worldcat.org/ At the top is a search for: [Everything] [Books] [CDs] [DVDs] [Articles] Under that is a link to "Put WorldC
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
This is a good demonstration of why, if you're saving/archiving/safeguarding important code, that you save the code, the toolchain, environment and hardware. Important enough to make all that effort, anyway. Like maybe climate research code
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Duly noted.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"By leaving out two features ..." If you introduce a product with distinct features X, Y and Z, then you'll sell that product to everyone interested in it and who require X, Y and Z. If you introduce product V1 with only X, you'll get the X
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Awkward? It seems almost hostile.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
http://www.murphybedcompany.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_bed "William Lawrence Murphy (1876-1959) applied for a patent for the Murphy bed on April 1, 1916 and was granted Design Patent D49,273 on June 27, 1916. Murphy starte
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
In a previous post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066987 I recommended PuTTYcyg and was going to leave it at that. It turns out that PuTTYcyg doesn't play well with PuTTY Connection Manager, a tabbed PuTTY wrapper. So I wrote up how
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Use PuTTY with Cygwin to access localhost on Windows(nfnaaron.posterous.com)
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The size and shape does strongly suggest writing with a stylus.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. " OT, b
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You're correct, I read the reference excerpts and took their literal implications.
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"Once again, I’m not arguing that the grass-fed alternative isn’t a viable response to the problems of factory farming grain-fed cows. I’m only suggesting to advocates of the grass-fed option that, if they feel so compelled to draw on the p
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Ah, my mistake. I thought you were contrasting C+Lua with all the other C+language pairs, C+Lua with C+C++.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Why?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"35 people." I wonder how big the Newsday executive suite is?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Related to '4. What is this going to cost me?' and '8. Will this site be here tomorrow?', I usually ask myself "how is this site supporting itself?" There are so many free sites, I'm reluctant to invest time using a site if I don't see how

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