puppetsock

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by puppetsock 4y ago
https://archive.ph/5qSrB
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by puppetsock 14y ago
You're being a bit unfair. It's equally inappropriate for me to speculate about his motives, but I recall there being an undercurrent of melancholia in Aaron's writings even pre-indictment.
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by puppetsock 15y ago
If you were a driver, wouldn't you want to be that awesome of a driver?
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by puppetsock 16y ago
(def check-usernames (u) (or (nil? u) (and (has-email? (user (car u))) (check-usernames (cdr u))))) or something
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by puppetsock 16y ago
Try many, keep few?
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by puppetsock 16y ago
In other words, we should dismiss a priori the possibility of any racial correlates ?
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by puppetsock 16y ago
The filtering phenomenon is obsolete; as you note, GM probably still cares because it's old fashioned, but modern companies don't care at all. Even if the filter exists/existed, that's hardly a sufficient or effective motivation to start a
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by puppetsock 17y ago
Find a good therapist (psychologist) to talk to about this. Working through shyness will be a long process, and having a smart caring person to coach you through it will be a big help. Therapists are people who are genuinely interested in h
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by puppetsock 17y ago
Can we declare this "startup scenester" thing to have officially jumped the shark now?
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by puppetsock 17y ago
Exactly right, and a self-deprecating meek geek with bad posture who comes to realize that the world works this way can use this information to his advantage. First, observe that social skills can be learned the same way as anything else: b
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by puppetsock 17y ago
Take http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034351734@N01/137275735/ , subtract the black sweater and microphone, and you get what I call "canonical PG", in an orange polo shirt and khaki shorts.
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by puppetsock 17y ago
A full-time job? Sounds more like punishment than a prize. Mental freedom is worth more than $150k/yr.
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by puppetsock 18y ago
Or just use Vimperator (firefox addon), and get keyboard shortcuts for the whole web.
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by puppetsock 18y ago
The OP understands that XMPP provides pub/sub message queues. He's asking what XMPP provides over the other MQs.
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by puppetsock 18y ago
"stateful xml protocol" makes as much sense as "stateful ASCII protocol" or "stateful bits protocol".
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by puppetsock 18y ago
I assume YC owns "Hacker News". YC's partners are pg, rtm, tlb, and jl. I don't know whether they all have an equal share.
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by puppetsock 18y ago
You just need to respect copyright. So if they explicitly allow you to scrape the data, or if you're operating within the "Fair Use" doctrine, then you're fine. (IANAL)
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by puppetsock 18y ago
The problem is that the versions of the non-macports Ruby/Python/etc aren't managed by the ports system. So you're in for weird dependency mismatches if you upgrade your system version of Python. Self-contained keeps it simpler. Just use a
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by puppetsock 18y ago
When I started asking interesting questions. :)
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The Hacker Manifesto(phrack.org)
5 points by puppetsock 18y ago|5 comments
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by puppetsock 18y ago
Yeah, I saw him standing in line right next to Elvis.
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by puppetsock 19y ago
Shock! horror! I might see a picture of a human !
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by puppetsock 19y ago
"The only thing I can point to is that one great teacher we've all had (or I hope you've had). That one teacher who was able to just turn you on completely." Yes, I had one of those! I absolutely LOVED going to her class every day. I didn't
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by puppetsock 19y ago
Those questions belong in a late-night dorm room discussion in between bong rips, not Hacker News...
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by puppetsock 19y ago
You're doing a software startup, so your costs should be minimal. You should be able to cover these costs by consulting for a few months at the beginning, then living off of this cash. Just move in together in a cheap apartment, buy food in
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by puppetsock 19y ago
John Baez has developed an index for quantitatively judging revolutionary discoveries in physics: http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html Doesn't look like Wolfram scores very high on Baez's index, although Wolfram does get the 50
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Turns out Google may just be your garden-variety monopoly after all(money.cnn.com)
6 points by puppetsock 19y ago|3 comments
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by puppetsock 19y ago
A few years back I was toying with the idea of applying citation-based ranking to ranking webpages... sigh ...
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by puppetsock 19y ago
" has anyone seen anything written by Casnocha that's in any way remarkable? It it just the age thing? " He is remarkably good at self-aggrandizement. Hm, wait, no... just remarkably persistent at self-aggrandizement.