stalcottsmith

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by stalcottsmith 9y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Does this still exist in some meaningful form? We used to have an amazing thing there... I remember before Endless September. alt.* was about as free as it gets.
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
We (family of four, parents 40ish years old) are fortunate enough to be somewhat location independent with the stipulation that we have to be in US/Pacific timezone to keep sane hours. We looked at the Bay Area one more time this year
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
Ha! Workers over 35 tend to have dependents who spend the money regardless and in fact may spend more the less time you spend with them.
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
This might help. http://www.davidsongifted.org I have no experience with them yet.
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
$1 million for middle class/working class housing built in 1964 sets it apart from most sleepy college towns.
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
On a sailboat "autopilot" generally means "keep this heading" or "keep this point of sail." I'm pretty sure in aviation it means "take me to this way point and elevation" or a sequence of such m
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
The general price of goods plummeting would be seen by most modern economists as something of a disaster -- so occupied are they with engineering inflation. I don't think any mainstream economists have models or theories of economic d
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
It is very interesting to me that the founders have agreed to pay people in very low-cost-of-living areas almost as much as people in San Francisco. I'm pretty sure USD$95k in South Africa, Croatia, or Italy beats the pants off $120k
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by stalcottsmith 10y ago
No one seems to be asking what was done to education to produce the higher graduation rates. Is it really true that everyone is now "smarter" or were standards changed to achieve the desired outcome? What good is it to have a co
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
Of course they can. This has nowhere near the wealth spreading effects of an IPO though. First of all, most employees do not own shares but rather options. Option-holders do not receive dividends. You must exercise options to become a s
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
I wish they would be happy to service accounts like mine at $100/month. I prune all the time to stay on my grandfathered plan and not get bumped to $300/month. That said, we are moving most of our private repos which do not requ
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
I started with the conviction that I wanted to be the owner of a successful business. I did this at an age where I already had experienced plenty of wonderful ideas. Ideas always come. I never worry about that. What is important is to b
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
Agreed. People make more of a deal about this than it is. If you are actually doing business overseas or own an actual operating business corporation overseas employing people (depending on the country), US paperwork looks relatively beni
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
More attention to production and productive activity rather than consumption would help. Industry and thrift is what lifts people's fortunes. Not consumption and debt. The U.S. has many factors contributing to economic competitivenes
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Architecture is Politics(medium.com)
1 points by stalcottsmith 11y ago|0 comments
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Turbolinks 3 and ActionCable – Why Ruby on Rails Is Still the Choice(blog.aelogica.com)
2 points by stalcottsmith 11y ago|0 comments
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
Synology offers mobile apps to access the shares.
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by stalcottsmith 11y ago
My four year old does this. "So, daddy... , you know?" wherein he states something he as learned, deduced or conjectured.
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To Rewrite or Not, That Is the Question(blog.aelogica.com)
4 points by stalcottsmith 11y ago|0 comments
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
Yes. Reddit 9 years ago was different. Usenet 15-25 years ago was quite different than any significant forum today. Sometimes it feels like I grew up in a country that doesn't exist any more.
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
Well option #1 and #2 are untenable and result from uninformed naivete or deliberate head-in-sandism. You could rationally go for option #3 but you'd be rooting for the dark side. Cheers.
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
Google bought the company that had the archive and for a while it was searchable as part of Google Groups. Now it is gone. I hope archive.org can put it online if it isn't lost forever.
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
I remember all this fondly since I became a young adult during the early years of the Internet when I setup up my first Unix system with a public TCP/IP address in 1990 and read Usenet back before endless September. I read the first y
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
Or you could buy a Synology like I did and forget paying rent per user. Integrates with LDAP. Comes with a ton of useful software but I bought it mostly for CloudStation and a local file server for large files/collections we didn&#x2
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
Thanks, we will have a better front/landing page soon. If you're interested, go ahead and register to be notified when we launch a public beta. Right now we have a Wordpress-like-but-cleaner CMS with import capabilities, user ma
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
The author is not a dummy. He is CEO of a top tier polling organization. Surely he understands U3 and U6, etc. He may have partisan leanings to the extent that this can be taken as a criticism of the current administration. Current poli
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
Duckduckgo has had this feature for a while... is Google playing catch up?
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
I keep asking, if the science is so sound, why can't we treat it as an engineering problem and create a global thermostat and climate regulating system? If the models are solid then the matter of getting or keeping Earth dialed-in to t
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
It is argued that one implication of Coase's Theorem[1] is that firm size is inversely proportional to transaction costs. If transaction costs are falling due to Internet enabled communication, this may contribute to reversing the tid
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by stalcottsmith 12y ago
I found the happy medium when I designed our company's office layout. I called it "Cave and Campfire" -- blending collaborative team rooms connected by sound-isolating glass and half-glass walls to a common area with standup

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