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by philcrissman 16y ago
That might get into a distinction between programming (let's make the computer do what we tell it) and developing (let's follow these processes while we program). But it's a good point. That said, if I were interviewing someone who was clea
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Ooh, I kinda like that. Maybe sometime this weekend. Thanks. I think I also need to make it so you can edit your own summaries... at the very least for a short time after you post them.
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Yes, it's true, there's not a whole lot to it. It seemed like a good idea at the time, so I made it. I'm honestly not sure if enough people will find it useful for it to gain a community. Feedback, criticism, questions, are welcome.
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Show HN: too long; didn't read, the website.(tldrd.com)
8 points by philcrissman 16y ago|3 comments
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Yeah, Gentoo and Arch are both good (or were when I last tried them, several years back). Daniel Robbins is also working on new Gentoo kernels and portage trees (and has a _ton_ of Linux documentation/tutorials) over at http://funtoo.org
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by philcrissman 16y ago
I never actually did the LFS process, but I used various linuxes as a main desktop for about 4 years. It depends what your goal is. Linux from scratch will mainly teach you (wait for it) how to build linux from scratch. Systems that are not
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Well, it has to be. How could it remain eternal vaporware if someone isn't continuously claiming that they're working on it?
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by philcrissman 16y ago
This is actually a really good question. I would think the copyright of each article is owned by the blogger or media outlet which produced it. While bloggers in general probably universally love more exposure, I can't imagine that as a gro
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Yes. #rubymn (Minnesota ftw) #railsbridge (if you're interested in ruby on rails; the http://railsbridge.com community)
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by philcrissman 16y ago
the FB connect button did not appear for me, either (also in Chrome). Saw it in Firefox; but... I'm not interested in logging in with my facebook account, so I guess I won't be using the site. If it had you create a new account, quick and s
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by philcrissman 16y ago
> But after some follow-up questions, I'd soon find out they don't even read TechCrunch ... And here I thought not reading TechCrunch was a positive attribute.
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by philcrissman 16y ago
hoodwink.d was great. Something like that needs a larger community, though. Even at its most active, hoodwink.d didn't have a whole lot of chatter. Was always fun to use, though. There is a hornswaggl.d (a new instance of hoodwinkd) in the
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by philcrissman 16y ago
I've had duckduckgo as my default search engine in Chrome for over a month and have been pretty happy. Occasionally to look up a technical error/issue I have to go back to google; but you can search google directly from duckduckgo with "g!
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Selecting white still leaves the logo, other text, as white with a drop-shadow. Echh.
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by philcrissman 16y ago
So true. When you work for cheap, the client can still reasonably justify asking for all sorts of changes (after all, they are _paying_ you), without considering that by giving them a discount you are already essentially doing some of the w
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by philcrissman 16y ago
IIRC, offering a hosted version ala Wordpress.com is part of their plan. I'm not positive they'll succeed, but I don't think there's an intrinsic reason their plan can't succeed. Depends on the quality of what they build (apologies for this
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Exactly. And honestly, it's basically a first draft vomited up onto the web. It's not as if it's a manifesto on education/college/etc, just some thoughts on the topic.
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by philcrissman 16y ago
Of course it's not a "degree"... and yes, I have a bachelors degree, and this is what we learned also. That said, I just used an existing course list from _one_ graduate program in (yes) software engineering as a base. The whole idea is tha
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by philcrissman 16y ago
I really wanted to like Buzz, but so far I haven't been able to really dig it. It's missing a certain je ne sais quois, but I don't know what it is.
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by philcrissman 16y ago
That's true. But I'm not necessarily talking about walling myself off; it should be _just as simple_ to remove an application as to add it. Anyways, you're right, but still; if they're going to continue pursuing their own incentives and not
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by philcrissman 16y ago
I mentioned a few things that bug me in the above reply-to-myself... Should: - Be able to export all friend/contact information anytime. CSV is fine. - Be able to _easily_ block/remove applications & notifications. It's fine people can
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by philcrissman 16y ago
My reason isn't entirely the privacy concern, though, I just think their UX and some of their design/application decisions are _horrible_. It's an excruciating site to use if you want to do anything other than the two or three things they _
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by philcrissman 16y ago
I've stopped using mine, removed all apps, unfollowed (er, unliked?) all pages. I'd guess the market is ripe for a fb-type site that, for lack of a better phrase, isn't evil. And doesn't have a horrible ux.
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by philcrissman 17y ago
That's a good question. A lot of places. I've met a lot of likeminded folks at Minnedemo/Minnebar events (see http://minnestar.org ), and just through working/networking, and the local Ruby group ( http://ruby.mn ). Tech.MN has a pretty th
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by philcrissman 17y ago
There are a few things going on here; I just submitted another story about a very micro seed capital program (minnespark) that was just launched by part of the local tech community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230144 There's also
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Minnespark: micro seed capital for (very) early stage Minnesota startup(minnestar.org)
27 points by philcrissman 17y ago|10 comments
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MN approves $50m tax credit for early stage investment in high tech startups(tech.mn)
35 points by philcrissman 17y ago|8 comments
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by philcrissman 17y ago
http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
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by philcrissman 17y ago
I've found that useful too, at times. http://www.focusboosterapp.com/ is a nifty timer made just for this.
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by philcrissman 17y ago
I don't use it either; I've never really thought much about it, but part of the reason is certainly because I don't want to tie anything I'm doing online irrevocably to FB. Twitter OAuth is analogous, though I'm much less cautious about usi

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