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by pmichaud 17y ago
That's true. I had a near 4.0 (one A-, gah) as a senior before I said "fuck this noise" and dropped out. I also had a family, was active in a couple campus clubs, and held a full time job as a developer. I was busy, but it's not impossible.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Do bloggers really have this problem? I have more drafts waiting to be finished than I have articles. I have too many ideas to execute them all. Am I alone?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm still just looking for a plugin that opens tabs the same way as Chrome does. If it weren't for the ecosystem of plugins that I rely on for FF, I'd have moved to Chrome already...
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't understand this post. Some companies go a little too far in an effort to squeeze revenue from people. In capitalism "too far" isn't an aesthetic statement, it's a statement about the extra revenue per customer not making up for the
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The model was built to fit the data, which isn't difficult. The hard part is getting it to predict anything, which this model has not.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I don't think it's really for google to make the kind of compromise the author is talking about, or wrestle with it. The reason is that google represents one side of the tension, and we the users represent the other. When people (like the a
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I think we'll transition to more socialistic system when people begin to get desperate. It's that, or mayhem, and the people who aren't desperate are the very people who can buy reprieve from mayhem in the form of socialism. It'll be worth
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is really impressive-looking. I have at least one site that would benefit from this big time.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Wait, this title is misleading. There's a huge difference between the crystalline fructose you can buy at good grocery stores and the High Fructose Corn Syrup manufacturers shove into every food they can. It's like saying water must be bad
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I remember reading one of his rants from a while back, and it actually caught me off guard. I know quite a bit about javascript, but the way he was talking made me think I was perhaps missing the boat. I looked into what he was saying, and
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. I didn't get into it in the article because I was trying to be succinct, but you're right.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's funny, I was going to point out in the essay that I think the exact opposite of what you said above: You have to write to think, but just because you write, doesn't mean you've had big thoughts. It's necessary, but not sufficient.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I just posted the essay: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993253
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Writing is Thinking(petermichaud.com)
91 points by pmichaud 17y ago|35 comments
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I JUST wrote a draft of an essay that says essentially what this says: Writing is necessary to thinking, and reading doesn't cut it.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is my fond hope. I don't know if we're capable of that (yet?) as a species.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I stopped reading when I got to the bit about programmers being glorified translators.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Recruiters exists because of two problems: 1) Programmers can't find all the jobs that are available 2) Companies aren't generally able to evaluate programmers But #1 is less and less true, and the recruitment industry doesn't do a good job
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's clearly aliens trying to communicate with us. Or with the other aliens who live on Titan.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Except for like, the job site portion of HN.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
http://kotiro.petermichaud.com/writing/on-drama/ http://kotiro.petermichaud.com/writing/the-story-conversatio...
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by pmichaud 17y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I was just working on some things, and my FTP disconnected. I pinged the VPS, it was gone, my control panel is gone, and even the main dreamhost.com site is down. Am I going nuts here?
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DreamHost completely down?(dreamhost.com)
4 points by pmichaud 17y ago|11 comments
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It looks thet center on a bluish bluster in the bottom right of the initial screen. I don't know the answer though.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
He's talking about a traditional radiator system. They are generally hooked up to either no sensor, or to one that's nearby the unit. I think his idea is just to heat the room more quickly.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Of course it's compatible! But that doesn't rob it of its magic. Just because we discover the lever, doesn't prove there isn't something tugging on the lever. I have a couple articles on my site about how the concept of the "supernatural" i
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I just wrote an essay that supports what you said: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/dont-reject-your-experien... We HAVE to assume "out there" stuff has some objective underpinning, or we commit the same sin as invoking God, but in mirr
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The Peter Principle is darkly amusing, but it's not joke. I wish it were.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
So, the thing is that devs put their neck out for your stupid contest, and you screwed them because there wasn't enough interest. The reason there wasn't enough interest is that you failed to create it. You could have easily made it viral b

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