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by rtw 18y ago
You can be quite sure I know exactly what the word means.
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by rtw 18y ago
The website: http://www.iphonefreelancer.net/
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by rtw 18y ago
I disagree entirely. If I was pessimistic I wouldn't have met and talked to anyone. It was instead the opposite situation. Eventually I couldn't attend all my usual spots to get any work done because there were too many relationships ther
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by rtw 18y ago
I was talking about the specific plan to monetarily support such a place. Seems like it would be a time suck to engage in this kind of place a lot -- and therefore the self interest it takes to get people to "buy in" and help isn't there.
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by rtw 18y ago
This boat circumnavigated the world on renewable fuels which included human fat: http://www.earthrace.net
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by rtw 18y ago
I am not trying to be super cynical here, but... The problem I see with this kind of thing is that it looks like it would probably be against someone's self interest to make too much of an investment in (by hanging out there, possibly payin
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by rtw 18y ago
Awesome thanks. Two coincidences: this fun mud thing is in Python (works via RPC)... and the entry method name is "hammer," heh.
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by rtw 18y ago
I have a screenscraping thing in place that targets an ASCII only environment (LambdaMOO mud). Manually replacing unicode stuff like this has been a pain in the butt. Luckily that was all just for fun and didn't need to be perfect. Is the
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by rtw 18y ago
Interesting, Argentina suddenly popping up here a lot, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408190 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407853
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by rtw 18y ago
It's highly likely that you a) explicitly agreed to this default when you signed up and b) their terms of service (which you agreed to when you signed up) is written in such a way to prevent them from refunding you. I'm not going to go look
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by rtw 18y ago
I see downmods on above comment without explanation. On a whim, this prompted me to say a little more: The more OSX crosses into mainstream consumer territory, the better. I only run Linux myself, but having been a long time developer and
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by rtw 18y ago
(original submitter here) I care. I care about end-user personal computing trends. They a) amuse me and b) affect my income. That's why I submitted, to see discussion on a topic I am interested in. Quoting from http://ycombinator.com/new
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by rtw 18y ago
It was actually accepted as a "poster" which is not a rigorous thing. I still think it's an embarrassment. This has been done before, and accepted as a full CS paper (search for "scigen"). The best example is the "Sokal affair" (search for
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Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special(blog.wired.com)
18 points by rtw 18y ago|46 comments
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by rtw 18y ago
Pretty cool, thanks. Coincidentally... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408190
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by rtw 18y ago
Does your buddy need to travel back to consult with customers in the US (assuming that is where he is from)? Was he an established consultant before the move?
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by rtw 18y ago
laptop, huge-normous battery for laptop, water
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by rtw 18y ago
Teaching is a skill on its own, it's orthogonal. I've read, and believe through my own intuition/experience, that being a "true expert" in most things is often such an intuitive place to be that it cannot be translated mechanically in that
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by rtw 18y ago
What is the value of this over Google CSE (Custom Search Engine)? http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
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by rtw 18y ago
s/affect/effect/ I know, you already knew that. But if nothing was said, we would descend into chaos.
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by rtw 18y ago
From the article: * 92 percent of VCs thinks investments will slow in 2009. (Translation: We are all going to be hiding under our desks.) * 19 percent say they are going to invest in more companies. * 60 percent are decreasing their seed in
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Proof: Group-think a Dominant VC Trait(gigaom.com)
1 points by rtw 18y ago|1 comments
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by rtw 18y ago
Led me to http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ Funniest single serving site ever. You need to try it out, for example: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=something
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by rtw 18y ago
I also won't store my backups in anything but my own S3 buckets (they are encrypted, privacy is not the issue). Is duplicity stable in your opinion? I am usually one to use alpha/beta software etc. but this is a long term need. I am a bi