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by scottw 17y ago
I have a short list of businesses that I absolutely adore because of how they treat me as a customer: L.L. Bean, Costco, Apple, and Pat Metheny (yes, yes, a musician, but he really delivers the goods). For me, all these follow one rule: mak
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by scottw 17y ago
Amen. This should be titled "What's your level of formal educational attainment." I know more than a few people who never graduated from college and have far more education than I do.
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by scottw 17y ago
HN readers are a vastly different audience than Joe Student. I would bet that over half (or more) are autodidacts, extremely capable learners with few mental obstacles to motivation or learning. All of the good research I've read on onlin
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Flu shots aren’t good science(scott.wiersdorf.org)
11 points by scottw 17y ago|27 comments
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by scottw 17y ago
My never-fail recourse: sitting down in an uncomfortable chair for a few hours at a local smoothie shop with lousy background music and telling my self I can't leave until something good comes out of me.
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by scottw 17y ago
You'll want to check out dotfiles.com also, btw. I considered putting this in a separate link, but thought that since you asked, it wouldn't be too terrible to post here. There are a few things I include in every .emacs file I have across
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by scottw 17y ago
Ditto. I've found keeping a pair of nailclippers in all of the locations where I sit regularly (work office, home office, next to my bed, etc.) helps a lot. Nail trimmings everywhere is my next challenge.
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by scottw 17y ago
fetchmail/procmail/mutt. All of my addresses forward to a single imap account (some via gmail for spam filtering).
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Goodbye Quicksilvεr, Hello Google Quick Search Box + Proxi(scott.wiersdorf.org)
1 points by scottw 17y ago|0 comments
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by scottw 17y ago
It was a UPS failure, yes, but this was in the late 90s when the UPS industry wasn't as robust as it is now. Competency is what you get when you learn from your incompetency. We learned something valuable from it (and our UPS people did too
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by scottw 17y ago
I foresee a sharp drop in July profits... unless they weasel out of it by differentiating between "uptime" (i.e., does the CPU have power) and "reachability" (i.e., "Our network died! Sorry about that, but no soup for you").
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by scottw 17y ago
Well, in this case because the power never went out (the UPS only thought it did), none of our usual "the freakin' power is out—send out the diesel trucks and keep the tank full" alarms went off. It was truly an unexpected case (which was
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by scottw 17y ago
It is b.s., but the good news is that you can often get a credit annually for whatever percentage they're down from their SLA (I don't know if RS does this). Before you buy from a web host, check their SLA and ask how they cover SLA breache
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by scottw 17y ago
I used to work for iServer (later bought by Verio; in full-disclosure, I'm now a contractor for Verio). I remember one time the city had shifted their output by 90° (or something like that...this was years ago). Our datacenter UPS was tied
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by scottw 17y ago
I'm a long-time blosxom user. I can't stand not having plain-text files for my entries (via Emacs). I use Markdown and Smartypants for HTML styling. The plugin architecture is still unrivaled in blog software, imo. I've used three or four o
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by scottw 17y ago
... and mean people suck!
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by scottw 18y ago
I'm similar; I have a day job that I do 7-4ish (usually 6-7 solid hours of "work", occasionally 8-9) and then 1-2 hours consulting and 2+ hours on my bootstrapping startup. About 10-12 hours total work.
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by scottw 18y ago
If you do decide to give it to someone, you can use a dead man switch ( http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ is a good example, or write your own) that would email all your account information to someone you trust completely. You could give them
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by scottw 18y ago
I have a little bash script I use on OS X: screencapture -x screen.png && scp screen.png myserver:www
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by scottw 19y ago
"Are you ready for some hard core rejection?" lol. That and some hard core misinformation apparently (at least according to a few of the VCs we've talked to). We'll keep at it; where does one shop for good VCs who would look at someone in o
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by scottw 19y ago
We appreciate all the feedback; thanks!
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by scottw 19y ago
I didn't even know such a thing existed...thanks for the tip!
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by scottw 19y ago
You can see several sample games in the youtube videos on that page. Because it's a social game (i.e., you can't play alone), registering is more of a quality control than anything, like news.ycombinator, for example. Registration is extrem
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Glass Bead Network launches (finally)
8 points by scottw 19y ago|18 comments