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by sspencer 19y ago
I guess if you want to, you can think of it that way. I had OpenBSD on my old PowerBook for a while; I never really felt constrained by the platform. It's only "just a dongle" if you let it be just a dongle.
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by sspencer 19y ago
"...such as why we walk up stairs but not escalators: " I actually walk up escalators. I have never seen anyone else do this, and I always wondered why. You get to the top even faster!
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by sspencer 19y ago
Anyone who trashes SICP can probably safely be ignored. See Norvig's review of SICP here ( http://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per... ) for an explanation of why people either love it or hate it.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I'm not sure Paul Graham meant "publicly admitting to fraud" when he said "best non-computer hack." This would make me drop you like a sack of armpit hair if I were a VC...
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by sspencer 19y ago
I would be curious to know this as well. Any time I see a bug, I feed it (or a search-friendly variation) to Google as well, and my success rate is equally high. And while I enjoy making up fraudulent email addresses for sites that have n
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by sspencer 19y ago
I still have one of those Apples, though mine is now running Linux. I never thought they were all that funny-looking.
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by sspencer 19y ago
+1 Hell Yes. I am so sick of Rails advocates. Take a page out of Theo's book: "Shut up and hack!"
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by sspencer 19y ago
Hmmm. I'd say about half of those 30 I see on a regular basis. The rest I either converse with in emails or IRC or whatever. The core 30: Very often = 50 % Sometimes = 50 % The other 30 or so (business associates): Not often = 100% Hope t
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by sspencer 19y ago
Facebook friends weigh in at around 65. There are really only about 30 I give a damn about, though. The rest get a very restrictive, business-purposes only profile. I am extremely hesitant to release too much information online, and only
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by sspencer 19y ago
You may even want to crank out some legalese about precisely what is done with the info: how long it is retained, what exact circumstances would compel you to release it, etc. Sounds like you have the right idea, though.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Is there any guarantee of confidentiality? I looked in the FAQ and saw nothing. This seems like a very sensitive test; I would not submit anything to someone who did not _absolutely guarantee_ confidentiality. Even then, I would be a lit
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by sspencer 19y ago
People in sales, you mean? I would not call that everybody. To contribute, I'm not sure this website does anything that I would want. It seems like sort of an address book + note-taking utility. Even if I had an online address book (I do
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by sspencer 19y ago
Wonder what the fine print of THAT agreement is like... I can't help but think they may have accidentally sold their souls for free copies of Visual Studio.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I was hoping for something a little more substantial. What was the point of that pressure sensor?
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by sspencer 19y ago
I sent an email since the link to submit was broken for me this afternoon. I'd love to try building something. smspencer.kernel (AT) gmail (DOT) com Hope I can try it out!
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by sspencer 19y ago
I really like Hans Zimmer's soundtracks: "The Thin Red Line" and "Gladiator" are both particularly good.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Not a bad idea at all. I'd need a pretty eclectic library to please everyone here, though.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Is there a better song for working on a startup than "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"?
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by sspencer 19y ago
Earcup headphones all the way. Noise canceling is an added bonus.
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Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming?
11 points by sspencer 19y ago|61 comments
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by sspencer 19y ago
I felt vaguely ridiculous as an American traveling in London for this exact reason. I have decent shoes that I wear all over the place: they are made of leather, they are (I guess?) relatively stylish. But in England I felt like I was a
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by sspencer 19y ago
I can't help but wonder if there is a dusty film in someone's basement of Alan Turing swing-dancing to Glenn Miller in front of Bletchley Park sometime in the early 1940s. Because that is how people will view this in 50 years or so. Awesom
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by sspencer 19y ago
Not to mention the "Integrated Battery." If the batteries are as failure prone as normal batteries, this would worry me. And what about traveling? Is TSA going to take me to a windowless room for not removing my laptop battery? Also, th
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by sspencer 19y ago
Any flavor of ubuntu ought to work well for a beginner. I would get the latest stable version, but be ready to have some possible driver issues. It's become better over time, but the laptop driver scene is still kind of dicey for Linux.
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by sspencer 19y ago
True.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Translation/summary: Zed asked me to cover up for his angry rant. "All those profane indictments were actually just little jokes! He's an okay guy, really!" All this just makes me want to learn Rails that much less. I progam with creati
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by sspencer 19y ago
Cool! I love looking at these when I am on the Red Line. I like the overlapping chain of movies one the best, and have even gone so far as to fiddle around with some CL code to solve it. Sweet company.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Some would call that a feature, not a bug.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Believe me, I know. I would gladly work for a substantially lower salary under a great manager than a higher salary under a micro-managing idiot.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I had one boss who was incredible. He let you do your own thing as long as you got results, and he worked his way up from the bottom. He detested meetings and preferred to just drop by for a few minutes a week to make sure we were happy.

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