tdavis

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by tdavis 17y ago
Well, I wouldn't say I'm quite "there" yet either, but I understand it enough to realize that you can't find something you already have (e.g., a "path"). Empirical thought still assists me too, but the point is he's looking at meditation an
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by tdavis 17y ago
Merely by presenting his arguments in the way he has, he shows that he doesn't actually get the point of meditation (or at least the Eastern philosophies which generally practice it). If he did, he'd realize that all those people were miser
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by tdavis 17y ago
You know, it has yet to occur to me that I might not be able to do whatever I want. I'm not even sure what that would feel like.
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by tdavis 17y ago
(a) I think you mean "fewer and fewer examples"; saying "less and less" makes you sound like an idiot. (b) The latter part of (a) may only apply when read by educated people, but since they're the people that make all the decisions, you sho
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by tdavis 17y ago
Killing zombies.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I've found there are generally four stages to my own designs: 1. This is shit 2. Okay, I'm getting somewhere 3. This is pretty good! 4. This is shit I don't know why, but if I look at a design for too long I end up hating it, e
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by tdavis 17y ago
In somewhat related news, William Shatner is my favorite actor (and person) ever.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Yes, Softlayer prorates everything.
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by tdavis 17y ago
You must be talking to the wrong startups, then. We've never claimed to be making the next Google. I didn't get laid much in high school, but I quickly made up for lost time afterwards. I already am someone in this world by virtue of existi
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by tdavis 17y ago
Yes, and the clip was hilarious despite being inaccurate, though the inaccuracy doesn't change the point. And since I don't visit reddit, I must have found it here ;)
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by tdavis 17y ago
Perpetual Satori. Trying to prove it only proves I'm not yet allowing myself to understand it. Therein, as the saying goes, lies the rub.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Of course I do, but only because I've experienced life without them and understand that they are not ubiquitous. If there were an infinite supply of clean water and computers I wouldn't really need to cherish them, would I? Without death, l
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by tdavis 17y ago
You're only disappointed because you're looking at the future from a perspective of the present. People from the future won't understand why you think you're missing what they have. If you're disappointed by the generation in which you live
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by tdavis 17y ago
DB dumps exist for a reason Indeed they do, and that is the "faultless" way of creating a backup. Depending on your RDMS (and luck perhaps), the backups can be fine or they can be unusable. In my experience, MySQL databases backed up this
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by tdavis 17y ago
At which point we will cease to cherish it.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I know what you mean. Yeah, I could do this, or I could just rely on automated iSCSI snapshots to seamlessly and automatically backup the entire machine whenever I want.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Okay, so I guess I'm saying it should be easier ;) You have places like Elance where people can find freelancers / contractors to do work for them and you have places like LinkedIn for finding employees, but there doesn't seem to be anywh
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by tdavis 17y ago
This is actually pretty sweet. When I was freelancing there were times when I was presented with pieces of a project that I didn't feel like doing, wasn't efficient enough at to warrant it, or didn't quite feel qualified to do. I thought, "
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by tdavis 17y ago
I've never seen the advantages of programming put so succinctly! Also, you can say "shit" on HN. Mark Bao: earmuffs!
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by tdavis 17y ago
If the curses bindings didn't force me to make a console app, this sure as hell did. Thanks a lot, HN!
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by tdavis 17y ago
(250 megabytes of data transfer, 10 cents a megabyte above that) Some day we'll tell our kids we paid 10¢/MB for a ubiquitous Internet connection and they'll commit suicide.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I always run trunk as well, seeing as how it always has more kickass stuff than the release. The only bug I've ever had to directly work around is the "EmptyQuerySet sucks" bug ( http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/7235 ).
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by tdavis 17y ago
The last interactive cli app I wrote was on a calculator, but I might have to make one for site maintenance tasks now, just for the hell of it. I've been writing Python since 2007 and I swear I still discover a new standard library almost e
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by tdavis 17y ago
I smoked for 6 years; quit cold turkey on a whim earlier this year. Edit: For those looking to quit, the first 3 weeks are pretty shitty, but after that not so bad. I still get the rare craving and occasional dream about smoking, but that's
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm not a fan of outliner software personally, but I do keep yelling at them* to support Markdown or Textile so I can compose and send my e-mails straight from vim. One of the beautiful things about Posterous is that it is basically just...
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by tdavis 17y ago
It's about time. Posterous is the best blogging platform ever. Times five.
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by tdavis 17y ago
They're jobs held by founders, not employees. It was an employee count.
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by tdavis 17y ago
(1) I attempted to sign-up (2) Was met with some obscure error and a failure to authenticate my card (3) Clicked on "feedback" to report the issue with GetSatisfaction (which is awful, by the way) (4) GS Double posted my issue (5) I clicked
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by tdavis 17y ago
This is awesome. I was getting ready to migrate us to EC2 for the reserved instance savings, but we're already with SL so it might be cheaper to stay if they're offering monthly plans (which is basically like reserved). Can't wait for prici
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by tdavis 17y ago
This doesn't take into account wider resolutions such as 1920x1200 which is what I've been running at for years. My browser takes up 2/3 of the screen and only 3/4 of that space is actual viewable page. Having it wider than that is generall

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