abyssknight

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by abyssknight 11mo ago
I loved this movie, and I appreciate the overall premise of the letter -- simplicity can be freeing, because it allows you time to breathe and discover what really fulfills you. That said, I will never have just 3 hobbies. That's not w
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by abyssknight 14y ago
I came here to ask the same question. Honestly, I was hoping for proper encryption. That's the only feature Day One does not have that I want so very badly. I have no desire to upload my secrets to your server. No offense, but that's just i
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by abyssknight 14y ago
Saw this yesterday, and was truly moved. There's just so much hope in her voice; in her life. I can only endeavor to experience that kind of unconditional love and support in mine.
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by abyssknight 14y ago
I do this, and occasionally I catch flak for it. I put in 8 hours, and that 8 hours happens to be fantastic -- regardless of how busy I look, what I work on, or who I work with. The problem is that casual observers don't see that. They only
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by abyssknight 14y ago
I just picked up the TI EZ430 dev kit, and then this hits the web. I tried for days not to back it, and then it hits HN. Oops. There goes the money, and my pride. ;) Hopefully its as awesome as it looks!
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Sounds like what tawlk does. Wonder if their training data/method is better, though.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Why do startups do this? I've seen this a few times over the past few years, and every time I find it loathsome. Dirty laundry isn't something you just go around airing because someone sent you a C&D letter. It could have been a mistake
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I had a chance to see the tech demos for Tawlk, as lrvick is a member of our local hackerspace, and I have to say I was blown away. This thing is amazing, and the way the infrastructure works is pretty sick too. Definitely worth saving the
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I, also, cannot edit the doc at the office. I agree with you 100%, the language and platform is not what the client needs to be concerned about -- its the features, business cases, and what they 'need'. If this is one of those anti-Microsof
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by abyssknight 15y ago
You really have to admire these guys. They've managed to make money and give away everything they've designed at the same time. This is the critical mass I want OSHW to achieve, and we're seeing it happen more and more. I know a few folks w
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by abyssknight 15y ago
My assumption is that after Arrington was ousted, they went back to their old ways. Kind of sad, really.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I have to disagree. A college education costs about $26,000 for Florida residents here in Orlando for a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Compare that to my first year's salary which was roughly double that, and the cost begins to lo
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by abyssknight 15y ago
This smacks of silliness. People are using their development devices as their business and personal phones. This is called out in the developer agreement and every beta software agreement. Don't do that.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Ubuntu was always about giving the every-man a usable operating system. Describing the typical new user as "a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons" is extremely rude and misguided. Not everyone is a terminal guru, and not everyo
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Loved that essay, and continue to cite it to coworkers who feel trapped in a schedule that makes no sense.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I'll just leave this here. :) "I’ve gone back and forth on whether managers should code and my opinion is: don’t stop coding. Each week that passes where you don’t share the joy, despair, and discovery of software development is a week when
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I think it was a post on HN awhile back that got me thinking like this. If I don't want to do it, and the opportunity cost for me is greater than the cost to hire someone else to do it, then I should just pay them. The key here is the oppor
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I wholeheartedly intend on starting my own company at some point, but I'm on my fourth year of salaried experience. Why? Because there is so much to learn from big corporations, problems to solve, and impact to make that you would never kno
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Good for Ryan, this is a great way for him to monetize an already awesome service.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Trust me, I noticed. I've been getting 10+ new followers every hour for the past week. Crazy. Need to find a way to keep S/N ratio up.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I'll just leave this here. Just replace the name Google with Facebook. http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Applying collective intelligence to news aggregators? Sounds like a start up idea to me. Go for it, I'll subscribe if it works.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Now see, I did what you did and was down voted into oblivion. I posed an insensitive question prefaced with a disclaimer. Instead of a polite answer, I got what you got, a bunch of trolls.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I can't believe anyone would post this, even with a disclaimer. That said, what's your Meyer-Briggs? For my own personal research, not being snarky, I just have a hypothesis. :)
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by abyssknight 15y ago
You have to remember what they pay for other technological services like Point of Sale and such -- Hint: it's a lot more than $19/month. ;)
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I still have my TI-83+ from my highschool days. Honestly, I couldn't survive without it. When I have to do hard core matrix algebra or graphing, and I need to be in front of my book, I can't use the PC or tablet -- it just doesn't fit in th
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I'm willing to bet Heello is TwitPic's backup plan. What I mean by that is, when you base your entire product on another platform, and that platform ceases to exist (or in this case, doesn't want to play nice with you anymore) you can do on
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Interesting to see Amazon on that side of the fence. If they ask people to report on their own, it won't happen. As much as I hate the idea of taxes online, this makes sense -- collect what is already due.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Our hackerspace members have built a couple of these. They are very cool, but also require a lot of upkeep. Who knew that the current RAMPS firmware doesn't stop printing when the thermistor reports a bogus temperature.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Anything you could do to promote the Greater Orlando Hackerspace, FamiLAB, would be awesome. :) We're building our reputation right now, but really need to expand our membership so we can move to a bigger location (to house our bigger machi

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