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by read_wharf 15y ago
One of the best uses of a mindmap I've ever seen.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I have a feeling I might use the "accessible" version of a page more regularly, if it were widespread enough for people like me who don't need it to be aware of it.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Be careful what you wish for. I used to wish for better integration between Google's various products. Now we have what we have, and I don't use Google anymore. Ironically, G+ was the service I was most excited about from any vendor in rece
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Has anyone implemented a browser inside Internet Explorer? Download some javascript file to "install" it, the javascript implements "good" javascript and rendering on top of IE's "special" javascript and rendering.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I think it's interesting that a news show, that is now going open kimono (and good on them for that) to examine and explain how they were taken in by an actor presenting his poetically licensed work as "journalism," labels its news show seg
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by read_wharf 15y ago
As this information becomes more widespread across populations and more detailed per individual, it will degrade the current relationship between insurance and customers that makes insurance work for both sides. This must change the way ins
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Yes, exactly, and we know that insurance companies will find ways to harass if not abuse data when it's in their interest. Remember the health insurance companies that give employees bonuses to find ways to invalidate a customer's policy wh
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I keep reading HN articles and comments until I see "Unknown or expired link." That's how I know I'm done. I don't use a feed reader (except in a very limited way, see below). Feeds expand to fill the time available. I don't read any blog r
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Enviously, I imagine. They have the worst customer service of any bank that I've done business with. My friends all agree. Anecdote of a handful.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Nothing necessarily. There isn't even much wrong with them selling car insurance. But the strong emphasis on upsell gives me the impression that my banking is not only incidental to bringing me in and selling me insurance, but that the ba
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by read_wharf 15y ago
We have enough to live as well as we've ever lived, which is pretty well. There'll always be something more. Some day, when a sizable portion of humanity lives to 115, we'll consider the genetic limit of 115 year life spans to be as importa
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"why is no one talking about breaking up these "too big to fail" institutions into companies that are small enough to fail?" Because they're too big not to lobby.
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"much of the new management either came directly from the military or from executive positions at other major retail companies such as Pepsi Cola, Best Buy, Home Depot--basically ANY line of business OTHER than banking. These people had no
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by read_wharf 15y ago
It is surprising to me how far a company like GoDaddy will go to alienate customers, and how a government like the US will go to alienate citizens, visitors and business people. I understand it's about money and power, but it still surprise
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"One should be able to send money and donate money to different organizations without being traced every time," he says." That's a tough problem, which the US government will demand of foreign governments and fight tooth and nail at home.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I use Vim because I've always used vi/Vim.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"I read bad things about modes in UI books." This makes me skeptical of UI books.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"Vim just sucks as a development environment if you can't combine it with a Unix command line." Where can you not combine Vim with a Unix[-like] command line? I use WinXP at work, and vim works quite nicely in a cygwin terminal.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"I don't think I qualified at any point for unemployment since I resigned" Maybe. Apply anyway. As for the paper work and all ... it's your job. Do it. There's probably web sites for every agency that you want to deal with, start there.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Spring is coming, which is really helpful. Try to get out and do things. It's really hard when you're poor, but at least get out and enjoy the natural part of the universe. Even a walk through the neighborhood looking at flowers is better t
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I had become almost completely out of touch with my already thin network, and was in essentially your same financial and employment situation. I got my current job because a recruiter was trawling LinkedIn. Use it, it costs you nothing, and
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by read_wharf 15y ago
The fed atty general in Colorado just the other day said medical marijuana clinics and laws are meaningless in the eyes of fed drug laws. So legalize all you want (and that's a necessary first step), but the fed is going to take a long ti
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Be in regular specific contact with actual friends that you know, either face to face or email. Use a mail list or a private Google group or similar if you want a group. Recommend stuff. Ask for stuff. Monetization not required.
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$ (cd /usr/bin; file *) |grep -i "python script"
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by read_wharf 15y ago
You can compact a lot of whitespace out of python. $ cat hello.py def helloooo(): print "helloooo" print "SLAM!" helloooo() $ cat hellomin.py def helloooo(): print "helloooo"; print "SLAM!" helloo
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"I really wish I could pay for free services just for the peace of mind that they'll stick around. I've got my website on Tumblr ..." The sensible middle ground is to host your site anywhere you want, but only using your own domain. If so
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I see the same thing in open source software. People who are really involved with their project assume that everyone who lands on their site is also really involved with their project and so don't see any need to explain what their proj
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by read_wharf 15y ago
You can't really know until you do something. Two months probably isn't enough time to know before school if you'll be a good programmer. If you're interested in something, you'll probably be pretty good at it. Not necessarily a star, but