southpawflo

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   by southpawflo 9y ago

   get a digital ocean account and a domain name. start a lamp server (or equivalent), use the excellent (imo) documentation to get things running. add services as you go along. I learned a lot from just that, now I have my own webserver, sour
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   by southpawflo 9y ago

   ice water is an american thing, room temp water european. stems from the history of ice production, if you're interested the book 'imbibe!' by david wondrich talks about it
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   by southpawflo 10y ago

   bartender here. studied biology in college, no formal CS/EE whatsoever. stumbled on paul graham's essays and that led me here. started reading slashdot back in 2003 and kinda gave up on it 3 or 4 years ago, to me HN is like slashd