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by tricky 17y ago
You can always put Felix Dennis' "Mexican Shoot-out" clause in place. If the owners are in a deadlock, one can chose to execute the clause. When that happens, each owner places a sealed bid to buy the entire business. Whomever has the high
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by tricky 17y ago
"Poor Charlie's Almanack - The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger" is a fun read. Probably not worth buying, but your local library should have a copy.
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by tricky 17y ago
There is a mention of this in "On Writing Well" where Zinsser tells a story about speaking at a conference along side an author who was able to write publishable first drafts. Sure, they're out there, but the skill is extremely rare.
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by tricky 17y ago
Not sure if you realize this, but a lot of kids really hate school. Its just that most of them drink themselves silly or start smoking the crack. You're lucky in that you have enough self control not to lose it. You want advice? Graduate, b
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by tricky 17y ago
have a look here: http://www.bme.cornell.edu/bme/cms/people/grad/upload/Lewis-... I work in an ultrasound imaging research lab (at wash u, but at the med school, not engineering). Hit me up jordan52 at gmail if you get serious. I've wante
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by tricky 17y ago
I second the idea of being able to find the boxes you created. I immediately lost the link to the admin page. It needs to be idiot proof... Would it be bad PR to make people create a premium account if they want to find their admin page bac
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by tricky 18y ago
that plus a few disposable parts and you're in business. It might take some time to convince the health dept, though.
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by tricky 18y ago
would you settle for a real doll rental service?
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by tricky 18y ago
Here's a tip if you would like to quit but can't because the withdrawal is awful. Wait until you get food poisoning or the flu. You'll probably take some time off work and you'll probably (and should) be under the care of a doctor. You migh
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by tricky 18y ago
If you've ever soldered anything in your life you can build one yourself. They're really easy to build, kits are available, and parts are VERY cheap. Of course, be careful. Getting shocked by 750 VAC is... interesting.
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by tricky 18y ago
I like the idea of a stand-alone stomp box i/o port. This might make an interesting practice amp, too. Much like the Line-6 GuitarPort. I think the idea would be get the software started then license it to a Line6 or M-Audio. I wonder wha
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by tricky 18y ago
who wants to partner up and build an iPhone app that does this? [edit] - I was half kidding before, but I looked into it and well, I think it is a great idea. no?
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by tricky 18y ago
How about Jesusonic? http://www.jesusonic.com/ I haven't tried it because my tone goes to crap every time I throw something digital in my signal path. Build a programmable analog device and I'll come running with an open wallet.
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by tricky 18y ago
This article was posted in June 2006. How much innovation has happened since then? I ask because I've been throwing together a toy django app that lets users manage arbitrary data using a filing cabinet metaphor because I figured some user
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by tricky 18y ago
I'm not so sure giving up on a city would work so well unless you leveled it, ripped out the entire infrastructure and planted a lot of flowers. At any rate, abandoning and ripping down historic architecture and craftsmanship is a terrible
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by tricky 18y ago
I never said it was easy. It took me two years to figure out _how_ to eat less when my metabolism magically changed. There is nothing in any book could have helped me with that. Each day was an experiment. Still is, but the bottom line is I
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by tricky 18y ago
I'm right there with you. All you need to know about losing weight is this: Don't eat so much. Problem is people won't believe you and it is unmarketable. So, companies go out and produce candy bars, market them as diet food by slapping a l
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by tricky 18y ago
Does anyone else keep the pot covered? I find that I can bring the water to boil faster. Once it is boiling I drop the heat to low and still maintain the heat. There's a bit of an art to keeping it from boiling over, but I'm "sure" I use
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by tricky 18y ago
That is so sad. Pandora? Rhapsody? Radio? Really? You won't find (much) art there or in any of the bands that are playing amphitheaters. Find the bands who are living out of their van. Find the frontman who is so mentally ill he can barely
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by tricky 18y ago
You are completely wrong. Music isn't in a rut. You are. Find someone who is into new music, ask some questions, borrow some albums, and really give it a chance. You'll be shocked at what you are missing just because you believe there's no
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by tricky 18y ago
wait, no, it isn't AUPitch... There's a slider there that says, "enhance tuning" that is similar to auto-tune. sars.
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by tricky 18y ago
No. Apparently it kills your career (and it took him a long time to get enough connections to get that gig.) Similarly, I heard the guy who ran Ashlee Simpson's sound on SNL was kind of booted out of the business.
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by tricky 18y ago
I saw a band called "Metrostation" a few months ago. The place was sold out with tweens who were having the time of their life loving this amazing band. Funny thing was, the band was not playing. Everything was tracked on 2 macs run by a c
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by tricky 18y ago
A lot of performers run auto-tune real time when they play live. I got to sit behind the board when a friend of mine ran sound for nsync. He let me hear the signal before it went thru the autotune box. hi-larious.
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by tricky 18y ago
If you want to play with this, fire up GarageBand and check out the AUPitch effect. (make a real music track, then look in the track info, go to Vocal effects and try "Male Basic with pitch")
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by tricky 18y ago
I grab a camera and take pictures of things that were obviously put together by someone who knows color. There is a neighborhood full of very well-painted homes that has inspired a few of my designs. One time I pulled a color scheme from ma
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by tricky 18y ago
Someone named Robert Shields documented every 5 minutes of his life for 25 years... The nutbar typed 37.5 million words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shields_(diarist) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/us/29shields.html?_r=2&#38..
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What wave are you trying to catch?
4 points by tricky 18y ago|3 comments
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by tricky 18y ago
The Road is brutal and amazing. thanks for mentioning it.
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by tricky 18y ago
depending on the size of your model, right? If your dataset is huge, your domain model app can shard the data and provide a nice entry point to tune performance without touching any of the n apps who are dependent on the data. I'm not sure

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