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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
Except that the generic consumer in this case is actually very specialized and the market is very illiquid. There are only so many types of tractors you can buy and I would imagine all of them have the software since it "improves&quot
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
Your comment seems to bridge two things: hacking life and staying relevant in technology. For the former, I'm 42 and doing just fine. I try to keep up with the latest trends though I don't buy into everything just to keep my san
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
I'm afraid we have lost our sense of irony.
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
I do love the old school design as mentioned in another comment. However, there is probably about as much support for brain training to reduce Alzheimer's as there is for low carb diets to do the same. [1] We just don't yet know
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
Wasabi was technical debt. Like all forms of debt, there is productive and unproductive technical debt. Productive technical debt actually give some return on that debt. Unproductive technical debt doesn't. Given the fact that Wasa
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
The fact that they are killing it off after 10 years of very profitable use tells me the line between good and bad idea is very gray.
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
When I came to the realization this isn't satire, another piece of my soul died.
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
I'd be interested in any information where these young, vegetarian, non-smoking Indians started eating a high fat, high protein, low carb diet and what effect it has on blood levels. Or alternatively, an actual vegetarian diet removin
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
In The Four Hour Chef, Tim Ferriss explains how he picks up languages and it's a very similar method. The structure of many languages are the same and so once you know the basic structure and a few helpful words, you can start to comm
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Whiteboarding beyond the surface(myequil.com)
2 points by scotch_drinker 11y ago|0 comments
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by scotch_drinker 11y ago
This is a critical subtlety to this discussion that is never mentioned as evidenced by the comments in this thread. Just like "piano player" is a continuum, so is programmer. I will never be able to work at Google because I lack
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Code Keyboards(codekeyboards.com)
49 points by scotch_drinker 12y ago|108 comments
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
Which HDS do you have? I'd like to have a better flashlight for getting through the woods in the dark.
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
The really interesting thing is this largely a demographic with disposable income and without the belief that everything should be free. It seems like this would be a decent niche market to try and break into if you could provide enough co
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
I'm currently reading The Wilderness Warrior, the biography of Theodore Roosevelt who was instrumental not only in setting aside the Grand Canyon as a national park but also in saving millions of acres of forest through the West from w
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
He doesn't say "used car". He says "cheap car". Those two things are different and seem to be a great source of confusion in your comment and others in this thread. Also, he said $170 for two hours of labor.
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
"I don't understand the valid reason for X" is vastly different in connotation from the original statement I commented on, "I don't see how anybody can like X". It is not completely wrong. Words have meaning
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
It is contempt. It implies that there is no valid reason for liking X. You may not look down on them but when someone says "I don't see how anybody...", that is contempt. Not understanding is vastly different from expressi
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
From a worst case cynical viewpoint, he got free labor and those people got free training. It wasn't like he chained them to a desk and then made them get jobs in PHP. Best case, it was a mutually beneficial relationship entered into
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
It would be interesting to hear both why the chose a "high fat-high sugar" diet and to see further research that did more isolated tests in the vein of "high carb", "high fat" and "high protein" inste
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
The images in the original link show that there will be a massive flare mounted on the bow.
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
Mowing height should be based on the type of grass, not a global 1 height fits all. Here in Texas, where lots of lawns are Bermuda, mowing high will leave you with a weak lawn. Of course, if you have St. Augustine or fescue, sure mow as h
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
Mowing height is almost entirely dependent on the type of grass you have. Mow St Augustine low and you'll have major problems. But let bermuda grow to 4 inches and you'll have a different set of problems. Find out what kind of
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
The eye ball is white but the eye is not especially if the eye is considered to include the eye socket. Unless you are lying on a dentist's table, your eyes are dark when compared to the rest of the face because the eye socket creates
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
They are likely to also be forbidden from dollar clearing for a time, possibly up to a year. This is an unheard of penalty and is actually very punitive. It's a new strategy by the US prosecutors and there was a good Planet Money pod
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
He specifically talks about spending more time on his passions which unless they are clinically unhealthy make him happy. You are the one reaching for a conclusion in ascribing productivity to an automaton. Productivity and passion are no
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
"We" don't need any Git tutorials. We could read the documentation But perhaps people don't write solely because of the audience's need. Writing a tutorial is the fastest way to ensure you more fully understand
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
It's not a zero sum game. You can both grouse about those things AND contribute at the grassroots or whatever level you choose. It's entirely consistent to express dismay at the system as a whole in response to an article like t
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
Every day, it becomes more apparent that our democracy has been thwarted and overrun with oligarchs and special interests. Each party is beholden to its own oligarchs and the best solution I see is term limits of some sort. Politics shoul
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by scotch_drinker 12y ago
Once upon a time, when a neighbor had a peach tree, that neighbor often shared with the neighbors the extra peaches every summer because unless you're into canning and freezing, you can't use all the peaches from a tree. I think t

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