starkfist

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by starkfist 16y ago
Here are the downsides to the MiFi: - it gets really hot - the battery only gets about 2.5 hours, max - in NYC area, it is slow. - it's not really cheap, it's $60/m for 5GB. Plus you have to pay $150 to buy it in the first place If that sti
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Ask HN: what is the best perl book?
2 points by starkfist 16y ago|2 comments
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by starkfist 16y ago
In my experience, that combination works. :)
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by starkfist 16y ago
You have to be too close to the face in order to throw out the background with a 20mm 1.9. It's going to make the nose look weird and accentuate a double chin, if you have one. (I have the same camera and lens)
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by starkfist 16y ago
Is the self portrait in a bedroom mirror really more sad than these photos that look like they were semi-professionally staged? In my experience with OKCupid "good" photos are often the least "accurate."
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by starkfist 16y ago
A 20mm lens is not an excellent portrait lens. It will make your face look fatter.
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by starkfist 16y ago
4. Nobody wants to have sex with the Android wielding sysadmin
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by starkfist 16y ago
but my blood panels were dramatically better on a low-carb diet My blood panels were exactly the opposite - bad when I ate cheese, meat, fried, oily stuff... good when I switched to a diet consisting mostly of rice, noodles, fruits and ve
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by starkfist 16y ago
I'm sure it's cool but it's a topic I have no interest in.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Yeah I've read that. He's an interesting guy but still kind of the textbook definition of patent troll.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't think academia is really like that. One of my former roommates was a Physics PhD student at MIT, so I know him and his colleagues. They all drank beer and played chess and cards in this one basement bar in Cambridge, did stuff like
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by starkfist 16y ago
When I was broke I read lots of books but certainly didn't care about what a patent trolling dong from Microsoft thought about Sous Vide (still don't). Maybe that's what t.ptacek meant?
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by starkfist 16y ago
There's a lot of glycemic index nonsense out there today. There is a low carb meme which will have you believe that just a few ounces of "carbs" will throw your metabolism out of whack and you won't lose weight even if you keep calories low
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by starkfist 16y ago
I love coffee, but when I go on a cutting diet, it makes me feel much more anxious than normal.
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by starkfist 16y ago
You just need to eat a lot more calories. You might be doing the wrong weightlifting routine. If you can do egg whites, those work pretty well. I went from 150 to 180 in college on a "hard gainer" program. My diet back then was: egg whites,
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by starkfist 16y ago
Has anyone here ever tried hypnosis? I got sick from food poisoning a few years ago, and ever since then have had an on again off again issue with hypochondria. I've heard that hypnosis can help with this, but as a natural skeptic I'm... sk
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by starkfist 16y ago
My intro to computer science class had 12 people in it, and was structured the same way as 6.001 at MIT, using SICP, and whatnot. Subsequent courses had about the same number of people and used the top textbooks at the time. Cormen for algo
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by starkfist 16y ago
I work in NYC, notorious for crappy at&t coverage. 30 people in my office tried to replicate the problem and nobody could.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Bill Gates went to a private high school with tuition 2.5 times more than Harvard at the time, and computing facilities comparable to Stanford or MIT.
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by starkfist 16y ago
"Lifestyle company" now seems to mean any business built without the intention of making money for a board of investors...
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by starkfist 16y ago
It's easy to get tossed on any bike with an aggressive geometry if you are going fast and slam the front brake. Personally, I do not think the most popular bike styles in the USA have the right geometry for commuting in the city. The defaul
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by starkfist 16y ago
I've ridden a fixed gear bike exclusively for the past 15 years. (alright, that's not exactly true... I have a dutch bike for groceries and recently bought a Brompton for traveling) It was built for me by the patron saint of internet cyclis
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by starkfist 16y ago
Legally, they're obligated to protect shareholder value People regurgitate this all the time, but there is no such "law."
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Ask HN: retraining for "computational science" and modeling?
1 points by starkfist 16y ago|0 comments
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by starkfist 16y ago
...augmented reality visors/goggles bluetoothed to your smartphone with useful advertising... ...walking down the street and an advert shows above a cafe saying "half off coffee today"... ...You could walk up to your friend, the goggle
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by starkfist 16y ago
Loopt has a pretty good rep on HN. Other YC companies would probably hire you. Might want to try that new service where you can apply to 25 YC funded companies at one time.
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by starkfist 16y ago
too late
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by starkfist 16y ago
Schengen only requires a transit visum for citizens of a small number of states. Schengen requires a transit visa for citizens of 140 countries. There's only about 40 countries that don't need transit visas. The USA has visa waiver progra
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by starkfist 16y ago
For example, when the iPhone came out, ... in New York, it was almost a non-event; Really? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iSE0bBgUsQ
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by starkfist 16y ago
You can wear a scarf all summer long in San Francisco.

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