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by sspencer 19y ago
Saw the word "enterprise" and stopped reading.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Rats. I was hoping someone found out some of the details about PG's pet language!
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by sspencer 19y ago
It's very beautiful. I wonder how far they intend to restore it? I would pay quite a bit to see it as it is now, let alone further restored.
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by sspencer 19y ago
He's like a tiny Paris Hilton. Except even more worthless, if that's even possible.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I like that picture of Dijkstra, but the one on lemonodor is better: http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/10/youre_doing_it_wrong.h... Zach Beane is awesome. PS: And where is Linus? I guess he doesn't dress stereotypically enough.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I don't even know where to begin. Any app that attempts to masquerade as something other than what it genuinely is earns immediate blocking and deletion from my page. I am hesitant enough to add any application unless I can see its source
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by sspencer 19y ago
Read his other stuff, it is equally good!
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by sspencer 19y ago
Same, and with special emphasis on The Diamond Age. Also Douglas Adams, Vernor Vinge, Richard K. Morgan, and all kinds of other stuff. I like to read almost as much as I like to program. Best nonfiction I have read in a while: "Leaving Mi
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by sspencer 19y ago
I'm way, way more excited about the Peter Seibel talk coming up after this one, but I will still be tuning in live tomorrow.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Pfft. Anyone who would ridicule me for buying porn is right to do so. Porn is freely available on the internet. Seriously, though: I could care less about what shows up on the feeds. Anyone who would criticize or judge me for what I buy
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by sspencer 19y ago
I would argue that it is perhaps the most important quality of all. Always remember that this is someone you are _starting a business with_. Anything less than true friendship is likely to cause grief later on when the going gets tough.
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by sspencer 19y ago
As someone who has never used a Lisp machine, it interests me to hear about the complexities of the machine. I have been considering buying one, perhaps through the same detailed here: http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html . I don't think I'
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by sspencer 19y ago
I met one of the RescueTime guys at the Miracle of Science meetup in Cambridge (his name escapes me, unfortunately) a few weeks ago. They are very bright and seriously committed, with an excellent product and idea. Good luck! Can't wait
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by sspencer 19y ago
Probably getting enough funding up to start working full time on it. I am loathe to quit my day job before I have at least enough cash to last 6 months or so stored up.
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by sspencer 19y ago
That's an amazing thought. When I was a freshman, no one had heard of facebook. When I was a sophomore, it was literally everywhere. It is interesting to me to think about whether or not it made any difference in my life at college. My
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by sspencer 19y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding you, but are you saying beyond 35 the risk plateaus? This graph seems to say otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trisomy21_graph.jpg I wouldn't even consider starting a family later than 35. And loo
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by sspencer 19y ago
It doesn't really seem like you are doing much that couldn't be accomplished with an existing social network. Or at least an OpenSocial / Facebook app.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I kind of wonder if there is a middle ground. There are two different posts on the front page right now: one deriding the idea of co-founders and one from someone desperately seeking a co-founder. My (worthless) advice is to let it happe
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Giggling Robot Becomes One Of The Kids(technology.newscientist.com)
9 points by sspencer 19y ago|0 comments
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by sspencer 19y ago
$55 seems quite cheap for a million addresses. I wonder if you can get a volume discount. Buy 3 databases, get the 4th free!
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by sspencer 19y ago
What do you expect? He hangs out with John Markoff, who I consider one of the stupidest humans alive. Check out "Freedom Downtime" sometime for a good example of the light in which he paints his subjects.
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by sspencer 19y ago
I'm amazed new parents would have time and energy to catalog every aspect of the kid's early existence with twitter like updates. Also I really hope the content you post is downloadable in some form. It would suck to have a hard drive cras
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by sspencer 19y ago
Tanked my back button as soon as I tried to back out of the first page. I'm going to chime in and say that this doesn't seem like a very good idea. Of all the things to cram into the social trend, waking me up seems like the worst. I cann
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by sspencer 19y ago
I will probably go. That bar looks incredibly cool.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Vim and SBCL.
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by sspencer 19y ago
This looks like fun. I'm in. Any other YCers going?
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by sspencer 19y ago
Seconding this option. Gentoo is the way to go if you are used to BSD.
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by sspencer 19y ago
Ha, sounds just like mine! The only differences were that I upgraded mine from a 486 to a Pentium 90(!) and bolted an internal Iomega Jaz tape drive to the outside of the case for more storage. It ran Windows 3.1, which allowed me to wile
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by sspencer 19y ago
As others have said, eat some really healthy food and do some serious exercise. This is the best medicine known to man for burnout. If I begin to feel even slightly burned out, I make a beeline for Wagamama in Harvard Square (or Faneuil Ha
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by sspencer 19y ago
Vernor Vinge had an excellent novel named "A Deepness in the Sky" that dealt with the development of intelligent life on a planet whose star would extinguish and re-ignite itself predictably. Something like 3 decades of ignition and then 7

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