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by spydez 18y ago
This is why I wish more software jobs had flexible hours. The vast majority of programmers have absolutely no need to be in their office at some predefined hour. So if you had to work late one night, it'd be nice to be able to sleep some of
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by spydez 18y ago
What did you do to combat the effect of that "dull jobs numb the mind" study that was on here last week? ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7358863.stm ) I don't think I could stay interested in your n-back test for a whole 20 minu
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by spydez 18y ago
The problem I have with those del.icio.us type urls is that I have a really hard time remembering where the dots go. Way back when del.icio.us was just getting popular, someone told me about it. When I got home, I tried "delicio.us", "delic
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by spydez 18y ago
Anyone know what a "presentation deck" is? He says it's the most important thing it the world to have for a talk you give, but it's the first I've heard of it...
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by spydez 19y ago
One of the problems is Git cannot handle multi-gig files, so if your home includes some virtual machines that you want backed up/sync'd amongst computers, then Git can't be your whole solution.
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by spydez 19y ago
Yes. With proper help, you could add a few more to your list.
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by spydez 19y ago
Do you disconnect/reconnect your laptop to the external monitor much? I.e., does it switch nicely between single and dual monitor use? I looked into doing that for my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop, since I have an extra monitor lying around, but it go
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by spydez 19y ago
If your site is the kind that can be of use to both persons and businesses, you can set up a pricing/features structure that encourages businesses to pay a decent amount, but lets individuals get by for free or cheap. I believe DHH touched
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by spydez 19y ago
I can vouch for the quality of his work. He also can do logos and stickers and such if you need those.
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by spydez 19y ago
Linux. Debian on my shared server and Ubuntu 7.10 on the laptop and dev server. I've been looking into Solaris (for ZFS), but debian-based distros is what I know, so it's what I'll use for now.
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by spydez 19y ago
Cool I didn't know that. That'd make finding the spammed address even easier... But... FastMail costs money for anything more than a 10 meg inbox. I prefer the 6+ GB (and growing) of inbox space for free that Google gives. And all the power
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by spydez 19y ago
One reason to grab your own domain, use Google's Apps For Your Domain, and set up a catch-all address. The pizza guys know me as papajohns@<domain>.com, Best Buy knows me as bestbuy@<domain>.com, my bank knows me as bank@&#6
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by spydez 19y ago
I thought Joost's strongest point was it's interface. I loved the interface. Not being browser-based was a plus for me. Having control of the video's size (beyond YouTube-esque postage stamp or full-screen), video that looked decent full-sc
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by spydez 19y ago
4.2.2.2
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by spydez 19y ago
I'd like to know who you moved them to and then off again. (Either here or in the 'Favorite Registrars' thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561 ) I'm about to buy another domain, and am considering not going with GoDaddy (due t
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by spydez 19y ago
My problem with Dynadot is this: In order to get their bulk pricing, you have to prepay $500. And you may not ever get any of your $500 back ever again. So for me, with my half dozen or so domains, that means I have to decide that Dynadot w
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by spydez 19y ago
So UI is 'user interface', but what is UX?
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by spydez 19y ago
It works relatively well if you keep an eye out for "(scribd.com)" after the post's title... But yeah, it would be cool if pg auto-tagged PDFs. Wait... why am I getting the PDF and not the iPaper?
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by spydez 19y ago
Blocked by my IT department already... Ya'll may be on to something. ;)
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by spydez 19y ago
Careful about paying per unit of work. Your workers might throw quality out the window in order to get more quantity and thus more money...
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by spydez 19y ago
Haven't read it yet, so I can't comment on how good of a book it is, but "Basics of Compiler Design" is free to download. http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/
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by spydez 19y ago
Agreed. I avoid clicking on tinyurl.com links for this very reason. And are long urls a big deal? I found a titanium spork the other day on Amazon, and my friends were fine with the giant honkin' link I IMed. On blogs, forums and the like,
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by spydez 19y ago
"Lord of the Rings" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", because seriously... you need to read something fun every once in a while.
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by spydez 19y ago
Foxit is good - I have it at home... But at work, IT has the computers really locked down, so anything that avoids Adobe Reader (the only IT-approved PDF reader) is great.
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by spydez 19y ago
I'd like to keep it up to date, so just a harddrive is inadequate, since all my trusted friends and relatives are 3 hours away. I'd need a whole computer, on 24/7 with some ports forwarded and stuff. I don't want to impose the... 8 or 10 bu
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by spydez 19y ago
That's my problem with all these online storage things. It's too expensive to save my 150 gigs of FLAC/mp3 on their service. Not even S3 is cost effective. And I do not want to waste all the time to rerip all those CDs if my computers gets
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by spydez 19y ago
Sorry this is unrelated, but I must see the integration in action. Lorem ipsum pdf: http://jedidiah.stuff.gen.nz/marbles-presentation.pdf Hm. Guess iPaper integration ain't in comments. That's kind of sad. Why not? EDIT: Someone else made
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by spydez 19y ago
Yeah, NEC funded it, but the study was vetted by the University's research board, so it theoretically shouldn't be too biased.
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by spydez 19y ago
This sounds like the article from yesterday ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133356 ), but the conclusions this one draws are a lot more detailed. They both reference the same study.
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by spydez 19y ago
Here's to hoping my bosses read this. There are so many engineers here working on single 18 or 19 inch monitors it's not even funny. I consider myself lucky to have two 19 inchers... But it's still very cramped compared to my set up at home

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