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by pseut 13y ago
Sort of, but if you think about some of the businesses that use this, three or four swipes can mean longer lines at peak times, which can make some people decide to go somewhere else. So they may not successfully collect money from people a
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by pseut 13y ago
You're missing the point, because what you'd need to claim is "there are no dumb backers on kickstarter." Even if kickstarter backers are smart on average, the point of the spelling mistakes, etc., is to find only the
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by pseut 13y ago
It doesn't take two weeks to read a technical book that covers material you already know. I have no opinion on the site's reviews, but it's completely possible to read hundreds of very technical books, as long as the material
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by pseut 13y ago
fucking jesus, I hope it's the opposite
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by pseut 13y ago
It's "excellent code," not "self-perceived excellent code" or "good code."
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by pseut 13y ago
For 3: email forwarding + vacation autoresponse help a lot. You get the messages anyway and whoever emails you gets an automatic reply with your new contact information.
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by pseut 13y ago
You might want to give plain TeX a try--it's surprisingly lightweight (once you learn how to change font sizes and/or decide not to care). A lot of the bloat comes from LaTeX and using 'eplain' will give you most of the
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by pseut 13y ago
> However its the only application I didnt know how to copy and paste in when I started using it, its still the only application I use that I dont know how to resize the text in. Ah, you must have never tried vim. :)
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by pseut 13y ago
Dude, you didn't even look at the pdf did you. That was the entry for 13 Mar 1978
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by pseut 13y ago
I'd like to try it out without signing up at all. Do you sign up for IRC?
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by pseut 13y ago
Not the parent, but I'm reluctant to give a website access to an account I care about just for a trial. If I know that I want to use your service, sure, but not if I just want to casually evaluate it.
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by pseut 13y ago
Two centuries later, portugal and england seem to be doing pretty well. I think you'd be hard pressed to find citizens of either country that would want to go back to living conditions from 200 years ago.
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by pseut 13y ago
>Can anyone give me a fair example of something positive produced of of economics? Some sort of phenomenon we didn't understand before? Gains from trade between two countries even if one of them has an absolute advantage in producin
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by pseut 13y ago
The Romer paper mentioned in the article uses NFL data.
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by pseut 13y ago
Yeah, because finger painting is so much better than drawing or painting. For precision, I like a stylus, even on my iPhone.
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by pseut 13y ago
I've found, "what was yesterday like, then?" to be a fine response when interviewers have claimed there's no typical day.
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by pseut 13y ago
I think they're definitely "beware of" if it's the answer to "what's the coolest thing you've produced?" Unless, like you said, it's an interview for a position in a large company that's de
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by pseut 13y ago
(If the question's serious...) many email providers that give IMAP access will let you set up a "mark spam" folder and they'll check it to update their spam filter for you. Otherwise, search for "your mail reader&qu
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by pseut 13y ago
It's also much less necessary with packages, where you can trivially change the order of most of the code is read.
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by pseut 13y ago
Github to a user page, definitely. If it's an organization page I usually feel differently.
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by pseut 13y ago
>Always use multi-part, with a nice text part. Not having a text part is a spam flag. Just to add: try to make the text part readable and useful too. I've unsubscribed from countless mailing lists because the text was illegible from
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by pseut 13y ago
In this case, the person probably thought he or she was pushing "feature-wip" or something similar after cleaning up that branch's history. Not necessarily unreasonable. If master is out of date then git push -f th
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by pseut 13y ago
This was software aimed at people seriously studying the bible with a reminder that would come up when they're reflecting on their religion. And you think that's irrelevant? They've already pirated the software so it's n
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by pseut 13y ago
From the video, this looks like a graphical spreadsheet debugger. That is a fucking fantastic idea. It's been a while sine I used a lot of excel, but this would have been great. I think you'd want to target non-programmers who use
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by pseut 13y ago
Proprietary information
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by pseut 13y ago
Ending a list of one-of-a-kind things with 'etc.' somewhat undermines your point.
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by pseut 13y ago
Google docs and its "don't be evil" motto were as good as declaring war on Microsoft. Missing that intent would have been tough.
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by pseut 13y ago
No. Look, I'll read the last paragraph for you: "The reason I want Word to die is that until it does, it is unavoidable. I do not write novels using Microsoft Word. I use a variety of other tools, from Scrivener (a program design
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by pseut 13y ago
If you don't already do it, set up separate branches for each advisor/supervisor so you can add their comments there, then merge it back with your own work. i.e., just pretend that they're using git too, but do it for them.
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by pseut 13y ago
Try adding a "wishlist" or "if I finish everything else early" section. You'd be surprised at how quickly some of those items get done when, um, procrastinating on the other tasks.

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