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by wlievens 16y ago
In the first few years, I'd say the following three things: LEGO, LEGO and LEGO.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Not really. If you have reasonable savings, but lots of doubts about any idea you can come up with, you fit in this category. I do. I would probably donate up to $500 for this prize, but mr Graham would have to fly to Europe :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
So now he has two accounts he wants to delete.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Absolutely. In fact, I think you can extrapolate this to many other things. We've become so accustomed to the idea of the future that we're not noticing the fact that we've well entered it. XKCD regularly features this as a topic so I'm s
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by wlievens 16y ago
Are you saying the Apollo program was entirely impractical?
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by wlievens 16y ago
There are almost 200 different countries in the world. You will never visit the vast majority of them. There are six and a half billion people in the world. You will only meet a tiny fraction. I still care about this planet and what it mean
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by wlievens 16y ago
Extrasolar planets are one of the major discoveries of the last century. I don't understand why most people don't consider that as one of the most awesome discoveries ever.
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by wlievens 16y ago
This is absolutely genius. Please expand to Belgium pronto. I'd have no problem with a commission as high as 30%.
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by wlievens 16y ago
World of Warcraft has prepaid cards. I think even Ultima Online had prepaid cards. That's 1996.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Could you elaborate on that? Is it someone else with the same nick?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Synch all my crap on all my devices. I own a desktop PC, a macbook pro, a GPS device, a cellphone and an ipod touch. When I want to drive to a friend, I have to look up his address first, write it down, and then go to my car. Why doesn't my
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by wlievens 16y ago
You can probably account for that by timing how long your mouse was near that area, no? You'll have to re-blur the areas when you leave them of course so that the reader goes back to the other content.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Exactly. That kind of slopiness makes this more confusing than it needs to be.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Genuine question: does that depend on what "striking it big" means? If you consider making, say, an amount that's a <10 multiple of what you would have made with an ordinary job in your league, does that consistute "striking it big"? It
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by wlievens 16y ago
Tangentially related: the downside of using your functional environment to map an expression evaluator on, is that your instruction stack is out of your control. If your expression language doesn't contain loops or recursion that's fine, be
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by wlievens 16y ago
I hate SMS. My fingers are too unwieldly to type long messages on a cellphone.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I absolutely agree. I do think this counts more for a community like HN than it does for something like (for instance) Something Awful.
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's like saying colonizing Mars should be a top priority to combat overpopulation.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> This practice is rendered impossible by this proposed technology. Put a fifteen second delay on it. Problem solved. I have that habit too, actually, in the workplace for instance.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Yeah, everything is someone else's fault!
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by wlievens 16y ago
If that's a salary , it's a pre-tax number. I don't know the tax code in the Netherlands, but in Belgium that would amount to about EUR 1700 after taxes. That's enough to live a comfortable life, but don't even think about buying a house w
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by wlievens 16y ago
Smart people typically underestimate their skill while dumb people overestimate theirs. However, by acknowledging and discussing this, we're probably both thinking we're smart, so maybe we're overestimating ourselves and are really dumb. Or
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by wlievens 16y ago
Typically the problem is that the desk won't adjust to my height.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Journalists typically don't "get" percentages, so they just throw them around and hope it's correct. Other examples: "Crime rate drops with 8%!" ... compared to what and when? "Inflation now 2% higher" ... does that mean inflation went fr
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by wlievens 16y ago
Oracle consumers have never heard of Oracle? I don't get it. Or are you talking about other (less relevant?) consumers?
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by wlievens 16y ago
dude, I know. I played the demo on my PC a year ago. I did only buy it for my iPod Touch though. It fits the touch platform really well. I played through every single level except the last arcade level which I can't seem to beat. Damn gra
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by wlievens 16y ago
Reminds me of Osmos. Neat game for the iOS.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I'm 1m94, most desks are too low for me :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
"kah-plah-yeh" Say that out loud and tell me this isn't Klingon.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Sometimes, when you learn new things, your expectations of yourself grow faster than your practical skills. You read about great things, and then you want to be able to do those too, but your practical skills and experience hasn't caught up

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