rhaphazard

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by rhaphazard 12y ago
University of Waterloo (one of if not the biggest tech/entrepreneurial oriented universities in Canada) has pretty progressive IP policies. Namely that it is "creator-owned" https://uwaterloo.ca/research/
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by rhaphazard 13y ago
If you put in the requisite time and energy to learn photography and achieve a certain level of skill you could theoretically do 1 or 2 $4000 weddings a week. This is of course considering that you have a portfolio, good reputation, steady
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Software engineers volunteer to teach coding(code.org)
1 points by rhaphazard 13y ago|0 comments
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by rhaphazard 13y ago
I think it less about who you are more afraid of, but who you can do something about. It's not so simple to change the government that you're under.
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by rhaphazard 13y ago
I think it is difficult for most people to conceptualize how short a time period that is since they haven't even lived that long.
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by rhaphazard 13y ago
I believe there was an article a while back that showed it was trivial to track a person by their use of vocabulary and grammar style. But it's probably still better to use a pseudonym, even if only to deter the laziest of tracking.
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by rhaphazard 13y ago
I'd like to point out that alcohol does reduce inhibition but doesn't actually cause you to perform any action you wouldn't willingly do sober.
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Github and the future of VCS(linkedin.com)
1 points by rhaphazard 14y ago|0 comments
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Tips to create a useful user-manual(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by rhaphazard 14y ago|0 comments
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by rhaphazard 14y ago
Monopolies never work. Check out 'The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires' by Tim Wu http://amzn.to/JGc0zv History will only repeat itself, but with greater and more severe repercussions for our apathy and ignorance.
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
Could someone perhaps take the relevant suggestions from this HN discussion and modify a fork of the repo? I would do it myself, but I don't think I am proficient enough at CSS to sift through the comments effectively.
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
Is this why ebooks in general are so expensive? I always wondered why digital copies cost as much as the physical ones, and I always thought the publishers were just being greedy.
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
I think the OPs concern is more with his lack of experience combined with his age. Not just that he's in his 30s, but that he's in his 30s and has almost no work experience. I'm pretty sure there is a general consensus that young people lea
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
I don't have first-hand, or even second-hand experience of war. I can only go by what I read in articles like this. But logically, the author is making a lot of sense. Any apathy or desensitization to killing is either a result of social co
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm not a frequent user of Appsumo. How long do deals like this last? Do you have to be logged in to take the course: as in, can only the purchaser take the course?
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How do you find a good copywriter?
2 points by rhaphazard 15y ago|6 comments
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
My initial reaction was DON'T BE EVIL. But after some thought and some reading, I realize that technology advances and we don't know what the results and consequences will be until quite a bit of time has passed. I really want to trust Goog
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
A bit torn on the issue and don't have a strong opinion either way. I slightly lean towards they shouldn't have to hand over the password, but I really thing courts should try to be flexible (is that even possible?) and go case by case. Wil
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Advice for a Nigerian Engineer(sebastianmarshall.com)
1 points by rhaphazard 15y ago|0 comments
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by rhaphazard 15y ago
Could the higher IQ scores be a result of the popularization of the internet in the last couple decades? Moving from a platform that spoon-feeds you information to a platform which encourages the user to actively seek out the information th
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The Importance of Precision(simonpayne.name)
1 points by rhaphazard 15y ago|0 comments
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Europe issues alert over "more or less potentially harmful" cell phone radiation(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rhaphazard 15y ago|1 comments