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by techiferous 14y ago
Interesting. The arrow keys worked for me to flip the pages. Google Chrome + OS X.
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by techiferous 14y ago
Although not really "nearby", you can also try to view a launch yourself: http://www.marsspaceport.com/ I saw a satellite launch from this site a few years ago. It's one of my favorite memories.
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by techiferous 14y ago
Very creative. I would expect the biggest win for this campaign to be in the very beginning when the novelty attracts people. I don't think this would be sustainable, because the QR code sculptures would require continual adjustment through
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by techiferous 14y ago
Good point. Or that 200k would be better spent in an X Prize style contest for a better JavaScript web framework.
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by techiferous 14y ago
The "penalty", as I understand it, is neither a fine nor a record of wrongdoing, as paying at the end of the year is not illegal. The penalty is the IRS saying that it would like to have the interest back that it otherwise would have earne
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by techiferous 14y ago
I love this skeptical and evidence-demanding attitude. You may find evidence to support this (and other information about habits) in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-What-Business/dp/14000... Fro
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by techiferous 14y ago
A one-hour old account with negative karma. Sounds like HN needs an auto-delete algorithm.
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by techiferous 14y ago
GPL requires you to give back; MIT gives you the choice. Developers are by nature creative people. And humans are not incapable of altruism. Even with an MIT license, I expect a lot of community contributions to pour in. In fact, I expec
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by techiferous 14y ago
As a Rails developer, your comment baffles me. We are practically drowning in open-source Ruby gems, many that are very useful and of high quality. > If you completely open source a new system, developers will just rip it off, contribu
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by techiferous 15y ago
"Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days." This is true if you are already an experienced web developer. You already know the problem space well and have an in
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by techiferous 15y ago
Computer Engineering, so I clicked "Yes".
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by techiferous 15y ago
I agree with your reasoning that it might not be worth the time, but I think spending five hours a month on server upkeep is a little steep. I've got two Linodes running and I rarely spend more than an hour a month on server-related issues
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by techiferous 15y ago
Yes, the "empty quarter" or "outback" of Oregon is mentioned, especially the amazing challenges of census workers in the region. If you like geography, this book is a good read. It's a bit dated, having been written in the early 1990s, but
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by techiferous 15y ago
This sounds like an extremely high-cost environment. How would you compete with high tech R&D centers around the world that may have 1/10th or 1/100th the costs? I'm not saying you can't compete, but I think you'd have to offer someth
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by techiferous 15y ago
True. And yes, please keep thinking of alternatives to brute force. :) I recently read a fascinating book called "Miles from Nowhere" which described life in the least populated counties in the U.S. One recurring theme is that counties wi
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by techiferous 15y ago
> I would offer 50.000k$ to every citizen to abdicate authority trough democratic process and move off the island (or possibly stay and work for me). History teaches us that there will always be hold-outs and that the most effective way
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by techiferous 15y ago
You'd have to be creative with the economy. Nauru is literally made of shit. The phosphate-rich soil has been basically completely mined, so it has very little natural resources. It's very expensive to have humans living on an island wit
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by techiferous 15y ago
> With this environment, you can easily work in private, no distraction mode, or in full social mode... Bingo. It seems that so many people operate under the assumption that there is only one way to work (social or private). The truth
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by techiferous 15y ago
Also useful: a comparison of languages, cookbook style: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
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by techiferous 15y ago
Yes, the idea of biking in Boston scares me. About 90% of the people I know who ride bikes in Boston have gotten in at least one accident. The streets are very crowded. "In general I found having a car was a pretty key part of living in B
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by techiferous 15y ago
The choice between (1) 12-year-old operating system and (2) current operating system seems like a no-brainer. But I suspect the choice for some people is between (1) upgrading 12-year-old operating system and (2) paying rent/eating.
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by techiferous 15y ago
Check out the Sublime V8 package. It comes with a JavaScript console and JSHint support. https://github.com/akira-cn/sublime-v8
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by techiferous 15y ago
Agreed. It's a good first step, though. To learn about how a web server actually works, I'd suggest setting up your own VPS on Linode. They've got a great library of information to help someone get started: http://library.linode.com If
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by techiferous 15y ago
> best name Best (1) currently available (2) 5-letter domain name. I think they did well for these standards.
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by techiferous 15y ago
Good point.
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by techiferous 15y ago
Best thing to do would be for Linode to generously reimburse these people, but they have no obligation to do so. As a policy, it would neither be good business nor appropriate for Linode to assume all of the risk in a situation like this. A
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by techiferous 15y ago
Reminds me of this Zen koan: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/1acupoftea.html
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by techiferous 15y ago
> Since everybody in the Ruby community seems to think that it's okay for major breaking changes to occur on a minor version bump I would say this is true for Rails, but I think (or hope!) there is a consensus (or at least a majority op
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by techiferous 15y ago
> make a breaking change to the gem versioning system to force all library, framework and gem authors to use versions properly. I really like the RubyGems rational versioning policy ( http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/7 ) and wish
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by techiferous 15y ago
Slightly off topic, but there are some insanely convoluted borders in the world, the worst of which is Cooch Behar: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21160?page=all Also, the border between Belgium and Netherlands: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/sm

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