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by phugoid 16y ago
My own experience is that there's a world of difference between moving between cities every few months (with a home base), or actually living somewhere for a few years. The former is more expensive, but far less hassle and lighter on the s
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Piano Staircase(thefuntheory.com)
17 points by phugoid 16y ago|2 comments
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by phugoid 16y ago
Check out "The Art of Pizza Making: Trade Secrets and Recipes" by Dominick DeAngelis. He's holds a PhD in engineering, and has done a lot of research to compile a simple pizza book. His recipes are a bit sweet for my taste, but his book h
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by phugoid 16y ago
If you have other (better) people poking around your code and giving you a hard time, you'll probably keep improving your strategy. But if you're working alone like I am, it's very important to land on articles like this.
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Yahoo is shutting down del.icio.us(imgur.com)
1 points by phugoid 16y ago|0 comments
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by phugoid 16y ago
This is distasteful. Every tech geek on the planet is trying to sound authoritative; I get that. Everyone wants to present themselves as a master of some sort. But self-praise is no praise. The Hacker's Path? To write such an article, y
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by phugoid 16y ago
Assuming that you're just starting to code, this project sounds too ambitious. At least try breaking it into smaller chunks that you can work on independently. For example, moving data in and out of a database. Install MySQL, learn about
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by phugoid 16y ago
That's exactly what I was shooting at. I realize that my occasional apathy is a great luxury that my grandparents didn't have. I find inspiration in knowing that I am a stone's throw away from real hardship.
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by phugoid 16y ago
My grandfathers managed to get their work done, all of it, without chanting mantras on a schedule. One of them was a farmer and part-time blacksmith, the other a cod fisherman.
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George the Robot(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by phugoid 16y ago|0 comments
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by phugoid 16y ago
Why? For the same reason that people cut flowers and put them in a vase in the middle of the table. Or that people shine their shoes, wash their cars, cut the lawn, trim their hair. Hint: it's not because they have to. You don't have to r
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by phugoid 16y ago
Fine, but who are they designing for here? A sizable fraction of their visitors will be using IE, so it has to look great in IE. It's fine to be harsh if you're being logical.
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by phugoid 16y ago
I _love_ the design. I noticed that the font for "Just buy this one" inside the orange badge is aliasing, both on the main page and when it appears smaller on other pages. I find it detracts from the shear prettiness of the pages. Edit: I'
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by phugoid 16y ago
I don't know any of the people involved here, but I would rather see this handled by the law than by an Internet lynch mob. The law maybe impotent and incompetent at times, but it's the best we have for dealing with criminal behavior.
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by phugoid 16y ago
I was really opinionated ten years ago, before I had tried to build anything serious. These days, I think every choice is a trade-off. I wonder if I'll ever be opinionated again.
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by phugoid 16y ago
Thanks for the heads-up. The trademark issue should be OK as they are not using icarus, plus they're in another country (USA vs. Canada).
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by phugoid 16y ago
Thank you both for the quick thumbs-down.
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Ask HN: How much would you pay for a hyphen (domain name)?
8 points by phugoid 16y ago|12 comments
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by phugoid 16y ago
I think we all have it in ourselves to be petty dictators, even to the point of convincing ourselves it's for the greater good. When we have a teaspoon of power as parents, managers or customers, is it not tempting to hide the truth and imp
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by phugoid 16y ago
These days, I really enjoy removing the skins from chick peas. You soak them overnight, boil them for two hours, and then you can squeeze them out of their skins. It's very repetitive and boring, and lets my mind drift. Plus you get smoot
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by phugoid 16y ago
I'm very curious why this comment got down-voted. I would not have thought of doing what aberkowitz suggested, and it's doesn't sound stupid to me at all. Would anyone care to explain why they think it's a bad idea?
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by phugoid 16y ago
I heard a radio interview about this about a year ago in Dubai. This is the land of SUVs with tinted windows, maids to do anything that remotely resembles domestic work, and wretchedly excessive bling. When asked about who would want to li
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by phugoid 16y ago
You're at a disadvantage compared to the nerds who have been sitting behind a computer since they're 8 years old. Instead of competing with them, try to use your background in aviation to wedge yourself into the software business. I sugges
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by phugoid 16y ago
I sincerely wish you would elaborate on that. How do you pick up projects? Where would you find entry-level projects? Do you mean open source project (in which case there have been several posts on HN and reddit about getting started). Ma
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by phugoid 16y ago
I quit my job because of a cartoon about having a LaTeX CV. I had no plans of making a move, when I saw this cartoon on reddit: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56 So I redid my CV from scratch in LaTeX, and it looked pretty good (
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by phugoid 16y ago
He says "The restaurant kitchen may indeed be the last, glorious meritocracy," yet his own career has greatly benefited from his talent for writing and self-promotion.
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by phugoid 16y ago
A lot of the hype comes from uncertainty and lack of real confidence in the whole idea. If entrepreneurship had a predictable recipe to follow and we didn't have to give it a second thought, we wouldn't spend so much time on the matter.
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by phugoid 16y ago
I can't say much about the app as I haven't tried it yet, but my first impression of the web page are: Who is this for? At first I thought it might be for doctors, to sort of "crowd-source" a diagnosis, especially from the phrase "investig
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by phugoid 16y ago
Someone planted a "Here be insane muslims" flag in Saudi Arabia. I don't have permissions to remove it myself, so could you please?
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by phugoid 16y ago
Googling. I used to write a lot of things from scratch, unnecessarily. Whenever I find myself working at a level of abstraction much lower than the problem I'm trying to solve, I start googling. This has led me to django, grid 960 (css),

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