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A Clutter Too Deep for Mere Bins and Shelves(nytimes.com)
1 points by tristian 15y ago|0 comments
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by tristian 15y ago
Wow, I just saw this nugget in one of the comments: VI mode for the standard Terminal. Add "set -o vi" to your profile and you get access to same modality and commands of VI. Damn, I wish I knew about this option earlier.
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by tristian 17y ago
Hmmm. I don't think that a completely profile-less site would work. Users would be too worried about meeting a weirdo, someone they found deeply unattractive, or someone with highly different creed. Er, think of a strongly Christian person
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by tristian 17y ago
OpenOffice.org: Calc (spreadsheet) I keep a running cashflow listing with a row for each day and columns for each of my major accounts. Plus totals and a moving average. Along with that I track all of my incomings and outgoings, with monthl
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by tristian 18y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. Given the great talent in the Asian region we're sitting on a people gold mine. Also given the already short-supply of housing it would invigorate the property sector as well. But I don't think the media and public w
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by tristian 18y ago
Well actually the labor government in Australia is currently reviewing the migrant intake policies mentioned in the main article ... http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/18/business/ozjobs.2-410... But it looks like we're going to keep up
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by tristian 18y ago
Through HN I have learnt that sophisticated discussion with a large number of participants is achievable. Which, up until this point, is something that I didn't really consider to be possible. Certainly not over a long term. Moreover the si
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by tristian 18y ago
This could be an attempt by companies to become more efficient by replacing positions in HR and Support with software solutions. So while this might be representative of the SaaS industry I strongly doubt that it would represent the tech si
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by tristian 18y ago
Well by "corrupt" I mean to alter it from its original form or intention. Probably not the best choice of words I must admit. "Decoupling" is a very useful tool. I think Joel's point of view was that unit testing often takes it to an extrem
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by tristian 18y ago
I find that unit testing can really corrupt a program's structure. Especially dependency injection which takes a normal top-to-bottom flow and flattens it out to a degree that makes it hard to decipher what is actually happening. So instead
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Open letter to XHEO: That is not a good way to do business(ayende.com)
4 points by tristian 18y ago|0 comments
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by tristian 18y ago
Adventure. Although it isn't commonly ascribed to people now days, throughout history it's been quite common for a young man's life choices to be driven by their desire for adventure. Be it running away to sea, joining the army, becoming an
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by tristian 18y ago
I don't understand how this would work. If you had a form of currency that was continuously losing value, wouldn't you simply exchange it for something equally liquid that wouldn't lose its value? Such as gold or silver?
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by tristian 18y ago
I don't find this at all. Most of the .Net tools and things I use are free and open source: NHibernate, Rhino.Mocks, NUnit, CruiseControl.Net, NAnt, Wix, Windsor, Quartz, log4net. Admittedly good profilers aren't free, and nor is the obliga
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Lean hiring tips(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
4 points by tristian 18y ago|1 comments
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by tristian 18y ago
If it's an investment property the tax advantages are very nice. Deductions for interest, depreciation, insurance and maintenance can seriously add up. Add rent to that and the yearly cost compared to the medium-long term capital gains turn
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by tristian 18y ago
My take: If you are starting a business which will make a profit from the outset, in which you have complete control: - After a while you may want to do something else other than run the business. + A good way of doing this is to sell the b
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by tristian 18y ago
I'm wondering if there is anyone here who could refute the claim in this article: that once a chronic procrastinator, always a chronic procrastinator? Someone who has managed to overcome their innate procrastinationess and can be a source o
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by tristian 18y ago
I'd be happy to pay for Rescue Time and Hacker News, but having said that I'm not sure that I would pay for either if I hadn't used them for free first.
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by tristian 19y ago
Cool. This has come at a good time for me. I've been working on a problem where I've been going down quite a few dead ends. Conceptually the problem shouldn't be that hard to solve, so I've been berating my self a bit about failing to hit o
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by tristian 19y ago
"Maybe it is only my problem because I frequently don't sleep very well and on some days am almost too tired to work." If I was you I'd see a doctor about that. Motivation, focus, and energy are heavily influenced by your hormone balance an
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by tristian 19y ago
# no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no # no. fuck no. I am a fucking # moron. I love this comment. It reminds me of the times where I had been banging my head against a problem for a while, trying out different solutions, but none of the ones I
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by tristian 19y ago
Ahh, but was the diagram created while procrastinating, or is it actual work?
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by tristian 19y ago
Really nice. It does suffer from a lack of keyboard shortcuts. Just for simple things like holding down shift while drawing an oval to get an exact circle. I can't see it replacing any of my current tools yet, but it's well on the way.
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by tristian 19y ago
I've always wanted to be able to write notes on top of emails I receive. So say I receive an email about a new bug, I could just jot down more details into another layer on top that email in transparent font/colour. I've noticed other peopl
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by tristian 19y ago
If I'm just working alone: ToDoList by AbstractSpoon Software http://www.abstractspoon.com/ For small projects it's enough to manage all my tasks, including bugs.