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by sblom 16y ago
One thing I've done before is create a truecrypt volume that a privileged few folks have the passphrase to unlock. Inside the truecrypt volume, we had a text file with username/passwords and other notes. Additionally, we had folders within
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by sblom 16y ago
Good discussion back at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658161
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by sblom 16y ago
Which is where your developer superpowers come in: your ability to spot the pattern and adapt it to lists of other things.
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by sblom 16y ago
But, Peter, they have conjugal visits in prison.
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Trading time for money(skitoy.com)
1 points by sblom 16y ago|0 comments
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by sblom 16y ago
"cut your losses, close down the company, and move on" only works if you have no investors, or if you end up on the verge of bankruptcy. While there are investors around, they'll be looking for pieces of the IP portfolio that they can carve
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by sblom 16y ago
I knew a guy at Microsoft who got sick of his dev job and moved to Las Vegas to be a police officer. From what I hear, he's having a ton of fun, but I'm not sure it's less stressful. :)
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by sblom 16y ago
I would even bet that disqus.com didn't just go to namecheap.com and say "hi, I'd like to pay 9.95 on disqus.com, please". Most pronounceable 6-letter domains are already being squatted on. In my experience, it really can't hurt to approach
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by sblom 16y ago
There are lots of folks out there who have managed to do exactly that. They're called consultants, gurus, etc. It's not as simple as just learning stuff, teaching it, and getting paid, but if you love doing those things it's certainly a way
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by sblom 17y ago
That's the one. Thanks a million!
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Ask HN: mother of all todo managers in Lisp
3 points by sblom 17y ago|2 comments
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by sblom 17y ago
It's well-established in the literature that a year feels like it takes (20 square years / {your age in years}) to complete.
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by sblom 17y ago
I installed Chrome Frame to make Wave work in IE8, and it ended up breaking Google Reader. Hardly a panacea, indeed.