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by ptn 17y ago
Wow, the smiling to strangers thing sounds like It'll help, thanks for that. Here's another one I came up with: I live in a 12-store building where 44 families live. I will say hi and bye to everyone that shares the elevator with me instead
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by ptn 17y ago
People don't ridicule me now , but they used to, up until I was 16 or so. That's probably it.
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by ptn 17y ago
I do go outside. Parties, bars, the casual get-together. No problem meeting new people. Wanna go grab a beer? :-)
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by ptn 17y ago
> Better change that or you will not be doing well. That's the number one challenge you face I think. This is a very serious problem indeed. Please read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209303
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Ask HN: I'm way too shy, please help
72 points by ptn 17y ago|91 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
I'm a college student who wants to start a business, these are the questions that I'd like answered: - do it full-time or on the side? - what kind of advice should I not listen to? - My skills are programming and designing, what kind of s
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Painting the Mona Lisa with MS Paint(youtube.com)
3 points by ptn 17y ago|0 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
This is interesting. Were you neighbours or something?
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Doing More with the Django Admin Site(ibm.com)
2 points by ptn 17y ago|1 comments
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_why on Ruby Metaprogramming (dannytatom.github.com)
1 points by ptn 17y ago|0 comments
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YouTube Music Discovery Project(youtube.com)
20 points by ptn 17y ago|8 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
Another great recommendation, from what my economist of a dad tells me.
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by ptn 17y ago
Wow, this one looks promising. I'll definitely give it a shot.
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Ask HN: What history of economics and technology book would you recommend?
26 points by ptn 17y ago|18 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
Concealing your identity makes you a loser if you do it so nobody can make you responsible for your acts. That was not _why's case, he did it because of privacy reasons.
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by ptn 17y ago
You can get a couple more if you drop the "to": How can I get my gf and How can I get my bf
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Electric saw detects fingers so it knows when to stop(youtube.com)
3 points by ptn 17y ago|3 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
That's why I write my code (var and function names, comments) in English. First, it meshes nicely with the rest of the language, keywords specially. Second, the most important docs, books, forums, wikis, mailing lists, etc are in English.
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by ptn 17y ago
What does SGTM stand for?
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by ptn 17y ago
New tennis racket.
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by ptn 17y ago
1. Become better at programming. 2. Write a killer webapp with Django. 3. Learn very well one of these: JavaScript, Clojure, Ruby. (Current level for all: 0) 4. Graduate. 5. Start contributing to an open-source project, probably only casua
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Portrait of a Noob(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
77 points by ptn 17y ago|41 comments
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Linux System Monitoring Tools(cyberciti.biz)
12 points by ptn 17y ago|3 comments
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New Google Easter Egg
36 points by ptn 17y ago|15 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
When you say no to some things, you obviously have to think about what to say no to. It helps you prioritize and focus on the most important stuff first. Only when you've stripped down an idea to it's bare minimum can you really say that
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by ptn 17y ago
First thing that went to my .bashrc was: alias ack='ack-grep'
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by ptn 17y ago
Didn't work for me.
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by ptn 17y ago
I think you mean Erlang.
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FreeBSD 8 released(freebsd.org)
78 points by ptn 17y ago|33 comments
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by ptn 17y ago
--Front page stories are not in chronological order (I can't keep track of which stories I've already read) That's kind of the point. Instead of seeing a bunch of stories, you see them ordered by the opinion of users. Visited links are

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