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by terra_t 16y ago
I made it halfway through Meisner training in acting before life got in the way. One thing I got out of it is this trick of overlaying my avatar in the virtual world with an image of somebody else, often a cartoon character. It may sound c
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by terra_t 16y ago
the people at the Sears by me (the shoppers and the workers) look like this everyday. i remember the time I bought four tires and the guy who sold them to me was struggling with the cash register. he only charged me for one tire and argued
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've worked at two places that did this. One place was run with an iron fist by the meanest physicist on the planet, a guy who eats nails for breakfast and always asks the toughest question at the seminar. His attitude was "delete 'em all
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've had people try to offer me stock options in the kind of companies that would never go public too. It's a very popular option for shady businesspeople with M.B.A.'s.
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Did an article about Car Insurance Really get 337 Diggs?(flickr.com)
4 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
I think of myself as Rocky Bilboa making a comeback. I've got to go up against you punks and win, so I train hard and watch my diet. And who's to say what's natural? The withering muscles of a pencil-necked geek who sits in front of a com
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by terra_t 16y ago
white flour, poor quality fat, sodium, and a massive wallop of MSG. practically no protein. my partner was busy last night, so I fed the family. I cooked whole-wheat cous-cous, mixed it with fried peppers and onions, and steamed a p
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by terra_t 16y ago
Doing what I was told.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Hey, you've hit the big time. Become an angel investor and give me the $1.01, I'll turn it into $5.27 by next Tuesday.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I did the math for my own applications and found that Amazon's system is competitive pricewise with something I can set up in a data center that has acceptable reliability (RAID1 + "enterprise backup" that may or may not pull through in a p
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by terra_t 16y ago
It depends on why they failed. I was involved in a project that failed because of a moral mistake I made. You could blame it on the culture (my whole team, my boss, my bosses boss, and the director of the organization were all "fired" b
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Why the New Rich are turning their backs on "Atlas Shrugged" [video](finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
Not object oriented? PHP 5 is just as object-oriented as Python, Perl or Javascript. Sure, you can have global variables and functions that aren't tied to classes, but you can do that in the CLR too (you just can't write 'em in C#.)
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by terra_t 16y ago
So what if they did. The Digg frontpage could use a serious makeover.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I think there are two kinds of people: (a) people with a lot of time and little money, and (b) people with a lot of money and little time (Ok, there are two other quadrants, but no money, no time people are useless to use, and lots of
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by terra_t 16y ago
I wasn't surprised. But it reconfirmed my convictions in a memorable way. I'm pretty sick and tired of the "hate muslims" wave that's sweeping the U.S. as the election nears. What makes the U.S. great is that people come here from all ove
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by terra_t 16y ago
I remember a time I was sitting in a restaurant run by some Egyptians, watching a satellite channel aimed at the middle east. There was a show on that was something like "American Idol"; they listed numbers that you could text to, in dif
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by terra_t 16y ago
stop looking for a non-technical co-founder, learn to sell yourself ;-)
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by terra_t 16y ago
http://ookaboo.com/ I've got an amazing image acquisition pipeline that finds thousands of images a day with little human intervention, but there's barely any user-visible categorization, the navigation sux, the full text search sux,
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Gosling: "standards are viewed as competitive weapons rather than stabilizers"(nighthacks.com)
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|1 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
Aw dammit, Turk is great. I spent $300 in one day on Turk and Amazon gave me a personal account manager... And that's the problem, if you spend $300 on Turk in a day you're a high roller, Turk just isn't that big of a market. I've had
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by terra_t 16y ago
yes
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by terra_t 16y ago
somebody's been taking seth godin way too seriously
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by terra_t 16y ago
hell yeah!
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by terra_t 16y ago
I end up talking to recruiters from D.E. Shaw just about every six months. One time I showed up at a conference Sun put on in the city and asked a question about using the hardware for main memory databases and that got the attention of on
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by terra_t 16y ago
The funny thing is that I think his job hunting strategy is essentially correct. However, you just can't be so brazen, arrogant, and transparently narcissistic about it. Narcissism is the new "N-word", but it's not a bad thing. It's r
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by terra_t 16y ago
You know what pisses me off. There's this continuous drumbeating that we need to produce more scientists and engineers. So I went and got a PhD in Physics. By the time I got my PhD, the American Physical Society announces that they estima
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by terra_t 16y ago
There's a scene in N.Y.C. too. As an upstater I'm almost tempted to say that we ought to just scrap all our laws in New York and start all over again.
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by terra_t 16y ago
No. I'm not worried about the people who think REST = !SOAP. I'm worried about the people who think they understand REST, build systems, and discover too late that they've got to rebuild their whole communication protocol because performa
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by terra_t 16y ago
Also, the term REST is usually used by people who don't know what the hell it actually means. For instance, people say that Twitter, Amazon, Ebay, just about everybody have "REST APIs" but they really have "POX" (Plain Old XML) or "PO

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