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by owyn 5y ago
Because it's an irrelevant question to the post or the rest of the discussion? The answer matters not. But the OP sentence is like a sudoku. 2 3/8 is ambiguous. It could be 2 pipes or a measurement. If you read all the way to the
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by owyn 5y ago
also a video game! https://store.ste ampowered.com/app/ 234270/Ken_Folletts_The_Pillars_of_the_Earth/
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by owyn 5y ago
There are a lot of weird edge cases I need to work around. This sounds like a potentially more valuable product to me. Any time I find myself doing integration work like that in an e-commerce setting I think "hm, could this be the St
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by owyn 5y ago
I dunno what the op intent was except just a general sense of discretion that is kind of the HN vibe. But it's obviously Ghilotti Construction. And yes, they do seem to build everything around here, freeways, bridges, big stuff like th
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by owyn 5y ago
Open a self directed IRA with a company like Pensco, fund it with cash and buy the options with a check issued from that account instead of a personal check. If the options are one cent per share and eventually are worth hundreds of dollars
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by owyn 5y ago
Yeah one day my dad dropped his business card in a bowl at the local Yamaha dealer and won a brand new GSXR 750. He rode that ninja bike to work daily for at least 10 years.
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by owyn 5y ago
I read the blog post and it seems like you feel like you have to sell this product yourself. But you don't have to do all that, hire a salesman? Pay them commission. That's what they do. They enjoy the challenge. Also maybe hire a
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by owyn 5y ago
I have seen a few installations of his work and they are really amazing to see in person. His work really messes with your perceptions in the best way.
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by owyn 5y ago
The current poet laureate of the US famously struggled with the letter R as a child. L and R are also kind of hard to differentiate for some non native english speakers. Interesting brain stuff, and I think sesame street really was working
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by owyn 5y ago
Sure, when your "I Quit" rant needs a table of contents you might want to dial it back a little. They make a lot of valid points but you can also just stop working on stuff (and there's a paragraph saying that several other p
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by owyn 5y ago
Someone found a fix for it and it worked for me. If you re-install the Safari package again, it resolves the issue. Looks like it was the "combo" update that broke safari by installing things in the wrong order, which probably i
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by owyn 5y ago
Nope, it's part of the OS now.
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by owyn 5y ago
Well, it sure is for me. I immediately noticed it and started ranting about it on a tech channel at work. This security update just went out a couple of days ago so it probably isn't widely distributed yet. One of my co-workers also ap
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by owyn 5y ago
Thanks for this comment! I applied this security update yesterday and it updated Safari and I get the same reliable crashes on some web pages. The really annoying thing is after it crashes a couple of times it blanks out the whole page. Nor
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by owyn 5y ago
There's an old short story by Alan Dean Foster touching on that idea. Earth is isolated behind a force field because it's considered so dangerous until an alien empire under pressure from an undefeatable foe has no option but to a
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by owyn 5y ago
Ha yes, exactly. There are a few different meanings based on context. But it's primarily just one of those fun sounding nonsense words that I also like to say. Not sure where I picked it up from. It is usable in any sentence as a drop
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by owyn 5y ago
I've been using Shadow for a year and that's exactly what it does. It's a standard windows box and you can install whatever you want on it, and there's no usage limits. I use it to play windows games on my mac without fu
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by owyn 6y ago
Watched one video, and the recipes are good and the video production values are really high, and yet the views are really low. I have no great advice on how to fix that, all the ingredients (ha) seem to be there. I guess having watched a bu
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by owyn 6y ago
A steady supply of producers is also an increasing number of consumers. At what point is that unsustainable? Which is more important in the long run, the competition to be a "world super power" or having a livable planet 1000 year
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by owyn 6y ago
Back in WW2 the US worked on pigeon guided bombs but it never got very far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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Shadow PC game streaming service declares bankruptcy(9to5google.com)
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by owyn 6y ago
Maybe in the later empire? The Romans might not have had their own cavalry but they used mercenaries heavily [1]. From what I remember of the Roman history podcast, many of Caesar's battles were won entirely by judicious use of cavalr
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by owyn 6y ago
A VC isn't going to give you a coding test so they use "worked at google" as a proxy. Also presumably the developer/founder made enough money at google that they could probably stretch out whatever seed money you give th
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by owyn 6y ago
Weight lifting is definitely good for you, so I picked that up in my early 40's and I have no regrets (although be careful and learn good form and don't hurt yourself -- stronglifts is a good resource to start with). After a coupl
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by owyn 6y ago
Thanks! I'm fine! Since I started my career in SWE (at a company which went public and crashed hard in the first dot.com bust) I've always had enough so I never really worried about money. And I usually had more than my musician
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by owyn 6y ago
Just in time too, because that's also probably going to be the retirement age by the time most of us get there. /s I have mismanaged a bunch of my career and life choices by just kind of "winging it". For example, I bo
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by owyn 6y ago
So how about "exit" as in Elixer It :)
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by owyn 6y ago
Okay cool, I can just eval the actual code separately from the koan test framework for now, it's fine. Sounds like an interesting problem for the reader for sure. :) edited with suggestion to call use-package I'm not very famil
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by owyn 6y ago
Cool, I started doing these a couple of years ago, nice to have an updated version. I haven't done lisp in a long time but I'm trying to get back into CL. One question: using SBCL I can run the script with sbcl --script contempla
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by owyn 6y ago
Vodka is a Lisp, but instead of parentheses, it uses boxes. The yellow boxes around the words you typed before? Those are the equivalent of parentheses in Lisp. It's a lisp environment! But I agree there should probably be a demo or

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