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by pmichaud 17y ago
I've been offering these kind of calculators for a while to students... but the department doesn't require a grad their homework. Is this college? What college department requires that sort of thing?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
That's a engineery solution, sure, but I think it'd come out just about even if people had to purchase multiple seats for themselves, which I think is perfectly fair.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Well, I knew what I wanted my hobby project to be, and I also have a rough long term goal. So, upon reflection, I realized that I was spending 95% of my time doing shit I hated doing, or at best was ambivalent about, and I decided that was
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I faced this precise dilemma. I finally just quit. It was less stressful to do what I wanted, and worry about the bills than it was to have the bills paid by not doing what I wanted.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
If you're using photoshop it's really easy to automate the creation of the sheet. Dealing with the coordinates is just a matter of using the right conventions and sticking to them.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I use dreamhost VPS for around a dozen sites, and it's pretty damn good. The control panel is really useful, and there has only been one stretch of a few hours in which the server was slow because of a network problem on their end, but it's
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The logical thing to do is set up a system in which the government invests in projects, and gets some kind of stake similar to equity so it can recoup some of that tax money for reinvestment (or whatever purpose).
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It really depends on what you're bringing to the table. If you're a rockstar, then the programmer might be willing to take less since she knows you'll bring in massive business. If you're among the legion of "idea guys" who have never actua
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's very useful, and it's perfectly fine to post it on your blog, but if you want to share it with HN, just submit the original
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This can be explained by placebo. If you expect to feel more impressive and manly in a porche, then your body will react accordingly. It's not the car, it's the idea of the car, which is mostly marketing.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Blogspam. Original here: http://mixergy.com/affordit-wil-schroter/
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Great... but does it work?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It looks just like a logo you paid $400 to crowdspring for. Uncanny!
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I have deep inroads and personal connections into the design industry, and it recently cost me $1500 to get a preliminary, temporary identity done, not including any printing costs or anything. That's a rock bottom price for good work.
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Cal Newport is Wrong About Passion(petermichaud.com)
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I pretty much agree with him. I've been telling my kid since they were old enough to understand me that the world is a complicated place, and to be careful, but to also live in possibility, not in fear.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
That was really long, but actually quite interesting. It seems as though he could have disappeared if he hadn't been quit so sloppy. Plus, he did a few things deliberately to leave hints. So, if this were a matter of life and death instead
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Maybe it's not "defective" people that post on dating sites, it's outliers who aren't likely to hook up with a random and have it work out. Maybe people with strange hobbies, beliefs, intelligence levels, whatever.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I think it's more effective to ask for a specific dollar amount. If you notice, radio pledge drives and the like mention a "suggested donation amount" constantly. That way you short circuit all kinds of over thinking people do. Ask for $100
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I didn't think it was too aggressive. Maybe you're just not comfortable with frank, direct writing?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I think the more general advice is to have multiple streams of income so you can offer deals to people who are sensitive to those deals -- that means you can discount the cover price for people who care, and discount the ad cost for other p
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by pmichaud 17y ago
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/fbifile Link for those interested in that case.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is fantastic personal advice too. Think of something you're doing in your life right now, and ask yourself: would I be doing this if I had just started today? Job? Marriage? Friendships? It's worth thinking about.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Am I to take the downvotes to mean we like to undermine the credibility of people by saying things like "...who is best known for his belief that black people are intellectually inferior to white people" before we address the actual data? I
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I didn't like the implied ad hominems much 8/ Respect for Gladwell--;
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I have this problem because I have one eye. I do a few things. 1) Make sure my monitor has a high refresh or response rate. Either greater than 75hz or less than 4ms (2 is better) respectively 2) You may be making things worse by setting th
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Good to know. Going to sit on my account for a while.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Posted in the comments: Maybe I'm exuberant in a recent life change, but I think the answer is clear. Money is a metaphor -- as you said, it's a fabrication that's meaningful only in the company of others who share the delusion, but on a de
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by pmichaud 17y ago
You're wrong about this -- neuroscientists know quite a bit about the mechanisms that make the brain work. You don't have he same knowledge because it hasn't been popularized and disseminated yet.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The main argument against this is that teachers might be penalized for teaching in rough schools instead of lily-white. middle class, suburban schools. I don't see a reason the system couldn't be set up to normalize the schools based on wha

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