sachmanb

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Refactoring legacy projects using scaffolding(blogs.agilefaqs.com)
2 points by sachmanb 17y ago|0 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
regardless of whether it is the right thing to do, what he is trying to do could be improved by being more like pagerank. i don't have an opinion on whether it is the right thing to do; i haven't given that much thought.
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by sachmanb 17y ago
this is almost pagerank for academic publications, and would probably be improved by being more like pagerank (where it also took into account how often citing papers were cited)
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by sachmanb 17y ago
if it is AGPL (notice the A), then you must provide source to to your users, whereas with GPL it's when you distribute the code (can't send precompiled webapp)
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by sachmanb 17y ago
they're still useful. they provide a good exercise for the designer, and although it may not be something that can be implemented/will be implemented they can experiment with ideas and present new patterns or just a particular arrangement
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Welcome, Wired. We call this land "Internet"(gadgets.boingboing.net)
7 points by sachmanb 17y ago|1 comments
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GE to Start Selling (Energy) Smart Appliances This Summer (ecogeek.org)
1 points by sachmanb 17y ago|0 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
I tried reformatting the original title so it was <85 characters but couldn't. Interesting thing to think about - good comments in the article.
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Something to think about: developing world and science(badscience.net)
1 points by sachmanb 17y ago|1 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
other species get depressed too, though. got a link about this? i tried searching around but didn't find anything useful.
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by sachmanb 17y ago
you can do as i do: for password hint: "none" first elementary school: "root mean square" favorite food: "spiraling out of control" if it's important, like a bank site, there's a way to unlock your account if you did ever lose your password
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by sachmanb 17y ago
that and buffett has been outspoken against quants. he has also been accused of 'being in the right place at the right time' or 'lucky' quite a few times, but this is not the case. another good book on buffett which has some sections dedic
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by sachmanb 17y ago
Eurocentric some? Thanks for the sagan quote, though, and the thoughts about euclid, ramanunjan, siddartha, bodhidharma, proudhon, and the vague admiration for people's names that i don't know, people who comprehended before there were equ
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by sachmanb 17y ago
You're onto something, and crash diets/extremes are no good, but there is a lot of value in giving it all up for periods of time. I wish I had opportunities to do this more frequently, once a year for a month would be very nice. I don't m
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by sachmanb 17y ago
currently have 3 screens, and i thought about adding a 30" (for the continous document, then vertical stack two of the 22" screens next to it), but at the moment i have to turn my head to see the left monitor. i mostly work on the two righ
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by sachmanb 17y ago
so far i like everything about it. key points (1) found all the info about the service i was looking for real fast, and my patience level is low for the review my site stuff (2) fast and simple registration (3) encouraged me to try it out
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by sachmanb 17y ago
look into "INTP" personality type if you haven't already. the way i see it is that between people, we want to communicate ideas. in order to communicate we have to meet at a shared context, and shared semiotics. the way i'm writing this i
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by sachmanb 17y ago
found this article interesting for its insight on why some people enjoy meetings for the sake of meetings. summary: Those people who like meetings for sake of meetings: "emotional drama-conflict, blaming, flirting, one-upsmanship, random ou
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Why we love and hate meetings(secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com)
1 points by sachmanb 17y ago|2 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
im amused that the highscalability.com domain being linked to is not responding to my web request. timed out too many times. i'll heed ulf's comment and move on. if it's that good, i'm sure it'll come up 20 more times....
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by sachmanb 17y ago
in a previous post about marketing, i placed a quote from bill hicks that if your in advertising, kill yourself. i like this guy, though. he's not marketing scum. this leads to my question: are there terms that distinguish between what thi
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by sachmanb 17y ago
yes, but not everyone in the world currently has this set of things: [1] shelter,[2] food, [3] water. there are some things that are basic to our survival and experience, and from there we build the 'more.' when i think post scarcity, i t
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by sachmanb 17y ago
although people here may have an aversion to the word 'anarchy' - "Post Scarcity Anarchism" is a great book on this topic: http://www.amazon.com/Post-Scarcity-Anarchism-Working-Classi...
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by sachmanb 17y ago
"profound views but never let it out" - sounds like an intp to me ( http://www.intp.org/faq.html ). there's a chance there's a lot of intps around these places. intps like to hack, i know i do. probably some intjs as well - they get more
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by sachmanb 17y ago
i meant to upvote you, clicked downvote by accident, seems to be no undo -- sorry about that
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by sachmanb 17y ago
Number of times I have contacted my politician since becoming of voting age: 4 Number of times I felt it did anything: 0 Number of times that I received a response which gave me the impression that at most, i gave them additional marketing
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by sachmanb 17y ago
another instance of upvoting an uninteresting article due to the comments within hacker news being worth reading
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by sachmanb 17y ago
perfect emotional ad indeed - edward bernays would be proud. they avoided talking about rational things like giving consumers more information so that they can make a good decision, and instead, plays on their emotions and ignorance. macs
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by sachmanb 17y ago
"Every now and then, someone tries to find them. So far, no luck." my first thought: i wonder if someone has already taken them....quietly....
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by sachmanb 17y ago
What often is the case is that your hosting provider will open up Remote Desktop for you to your server (in hardware/software firewall, whatever you have). Then you install the remote administration application of your choice, and if you'd

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