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by tdavis 17y ago
Also, http://www.chunkhost.com is, AFAIK, still running a Beta deal where you can get 512mb chunk for $15/mo, which is pretty sick. Hell, for the Beta period it costs nothing. Hello, permanent screen session and homepage!
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I can certainly appreciate that because there was a time I felt the same way. Also -- and maybe this isn't a big deal for you either -- working hardcore like that for a year straight without getting paid a dime becomes rather stressful, des
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Or Openmoko which is even more neglected.
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As a matter of record, I don't think everything I write is really Hacker News material, even if this does partially relate to startups. That being said, I still thank my buddy John for submitting it without my knowledge, and hope those who
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I read all your articles that make it to HN, despite never understanding a damn word. I doubt some pictures would fix that ;)
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It might be a personal thing, but I never submit anything I've personally written. I leave it to others to figure out if it warrants being on Hacker News. (in reference to posting stuff from one's own blog lines)
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A small part of me wants to read what must be a profoundly ridiculous argument for this. Thankfully, I'm not that masochistic.
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Cool, though I must say your option naming bugs me. a flag like "-popular" suggests adding/using "popular", not removing it. An irrelevant nitpick, but I was compelled ;)
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Rather ironic that being in a hurry to complete things ruins productivity, don't you think? Although it seems entirely fitting, given what used to be my normal outlook on life. I remember when I was never in a particular hurry, and the worl
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I tried exactly what you're saying, actually; I grabbed a task planner, put tasks for "Today" in it before I went to bed, then did them when I woke up. And I took a break when I was done. And spent the whole time telling myself, "you have e
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Damn, one of my favorites and I forgot about it. Eating, period, makes me feel guilty. Maybe because it costs time and money and sometimes I'll watch The Daily Show or something while I do it? This is one of those I considered too ridicul
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Seems I wrote quite the touché-inducing comment. First timezone guy, now you!
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You sorta picked a crappy time. Mostly only people wound as tightly as me are awake and reading Hacker News right now. I hope you get more than 5, otherwise I will have to write something with pictures of cats to make up the "good cheer" di
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Strangely enough, the only thing it has changed for me is that it basically allows me to SMS people for free via DMs. That's really Twitter's main purpose for me and I spend all day on a computer. Rather strange that the media thinks it is
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I already pay for MobileMe. Which allows me to get emailed pushed to me via my MobileMe email. Which I don't use.
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Granted, I haven't really educated myself on this whole "Push vs. Pull" thing, but is there some good reason I can't get mail pushed to me? Is it up to the mail provider (i.e. Google) to supply that functionality? I've heard it can be don
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Now he should invest in some screen cleaner. My God .
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Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 – right out of the box. Oh, right. I forgot . Edit: no, wai
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That's generalizing a bit. As a "hackelor" myself, I can tell you I don't function well at all in small spaces and can't productively live anywhere that lacks copious empty space. I live in a three-bedroom apartment with one other person, e
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Yes. How do you write a good story like that then just not finish it. For nine years .
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Monetary reasons.
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sniff I miss you, Softlayer :(
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Maybe it was just me, but the 5th time I read "my book" was the time I had to stop reading entirely. It was incredibly annoying. You, of course, have every right (and need) to promote your book and doing so with the intention of also being
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What's wrong with it is some of us still think the English language (in this case) exists for a reason and hate attempting to read vowelless nonsense created by lazy teenagers. I've seen some pretty poignant and hilarious stuff fit into 140
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I find it somehow cool that there are people who have studied poop-eating plants for 20 years. Are there really 20 years worth of knowledge there?
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The entire race is heading in the wrong direction, I feel. The best sites I've ever visited were ones where I got linked to an article or essay and found myself stuck on the site for an entire day, reading multiple years worth of archives.
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by tdavis 17y ago
PEP 8 has an opinion on everything ;) The best reason to do them at the top of a module, at least to me, is so you know where all the imports are. The only reason I'd ever put them in functions is to avoid circular import issues. There's re
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because you throw out years of real-world testing and bugfixes Very true, but you also get to trade in on the experience and information gleaned from the use and development of a product over many years. I think it is safe to say that All
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There are actually a few nagging bugs in Textmate which require fundamental changes to address. Allan also seems to be somewhat of a purist, given this rewrite and the fact that he can't get a simple blog post "good enough" to put out there
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Perhaps not, but they do allow me to arbitrarily name URL routes! Hallelujah!

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