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"six months of Rails and JS" sounds like the average HN reader. There's probably someone building a Saas with a REST-api for converting text betwen upper and lower case. Join them, post the link here and get your 10 remaining minutes of fame.
No joking, people who wanted to could easily take advantage of this.
I'm a bit minimalist, and it sounds like you are too. I hate carrying more than one bag when I travel, and the thought of having a ton of stuff I don't need makes me really, really uncomfortable. It's surreal.
To me it's like material things takes up valuable space inside of my head that already cramped more important. It's like even if you don't use the stuff you own, it still takes energy to keep track of it.
The paradoxical thing is that in a way I'm maybe more materialistic than everybody else because I get very attached to things. When I buy things it has to be perfect, and the process of finding the perfect product is sometime so cumbersome that even if it's something that I actually would need, I spend a week researching about what to buy and then end up just skipping it thinking "I managed so far".
Now I gotten so used to this pattern that I've started to actively buy as little as possible just to spare my self from this time consuming process.
Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement?Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement?
Yes, absolutely. As I don't look for endorsement from other people, and money does not either interest me, that's the thing that keeps me going. If perfection and personal improvement wasn't important, then I really wouldn't know what would get me out of bed each day.
I hate compliments. I become uncomfortable when people say nice things to me because I don't know if they are sarcastic or not. Probably because I'm never satisfied with my own results always thinking about how I could have done it better.
Secondly I hate everything material, even so money. I make just enough money to pay the bills and other essentials, but if someone I know even remotely would ask me for $100 I would never ever think about getting it back.
No one else who can relate to this?
Mask means worm in Swedish. Just saying...
Just because you feel things are easy doesn't mean you're doing it right ;)
Well as a common practice seems to be to always go trough google for everything, I'm actually not sure if it does matter?
Besides, even if it where some github.io page or something, I got the link here, now I can bookmark it.
Half a year from now i wont remember liquidapsive.com or http://www.yahoo.com/geocities/en/us/~liquidapsive/home.html anyway.
I actually don't think using domains instead of paths or sub-domains makes things easier at all. Here's an example. Lets say you wan't to know about the latest playstation. Where do you go? ps.com, playstation.com, playstation4.com or sony.com? As a non gamer, I have no idea but I know its made by Sony so I guess that's where I'd go.
Did this site really deserve its own domain? We (as the internet) really ended up misusing the domain system and the only one benefiting from it are those selling domains.
This i found interesting: http://intelcrawler.com/
"Hacktivism, Illicit Drug trade, Cyber Attacks, Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, and other areas - could have a set of predictive probabilities by analyzing huge volumes of data in virtual space and narrowing the common denominator IPs and other cyber prints."
Why do you need a SWAT team when there's a bomb-threat? Are they going to shoot at the bomb with their guns?
Even if we were free thinking individuals, able to make rational decisions on our own, we base those decisions on past events and the current situation. So even if you get to choose, you'd probably make the same rational choices as long as your past experience and the environment is the same.
This would be true one second ago, and a second ago this would be true about the second before that.
Hey man, you were pretty fast trying out all those distros already!
Looking at movies from the 80's and even the 90's it's kind of painful to see the perception of technology. Not because the technology is obsolete today and that in some way is hilariously funny, but because you can feel the hubris at that time as people thought of them self as being at the forefront.
Now I used to think that we the humanity grown out of that hubris. That our kids will never be able to mock us because of the old technology we once perceived as cutting edge, simply because we gotten more distanced to our self no longer perceiving our self as being on the forefront in a world that's always changing.
But right now I feel like we're back in the hubris of the 80's. We will tell our kids about the time when every one was supposed to have a 3d printer at home. The material was super expensive, the material didn't hold up to anything, and who is going to have time to manufacture stuff at home when we don't even make our own food any more? And our kids will laugh at us for ever getting so out of touch with reality.
I remember most of my childhood. I also know I have clear memories before the age of 3, because we moved to another country at that time, so it easy to distinguish the memories before/after the move. Talking to other people about this tough have made me realize it's quite unusual.
I know tough that before age 25 all memories where real, but now getting older the memories are becoming memories of memories, and it saddens me a lot.
Then I'm a "No, because" type of person. The thing is tough that most often it's not because I don't think things are possible but that I make assumptions based on who I'm talking to. For example, if I'm talking to my boss I know what costs his willing to take, so if he has an idea and I know hes not willing to pay for it, then I can just say no directly instead of getting a doomed project on my neck.
And to be honest, most projects actually go way out of time and budget. The realist would have said no, because the scope was not realistic. Now if you wilfully or just by ignorance accept the terms and scope thinking you can always stretch other peoples time and budget, that's in my book immoral, but then again, those people will end up getting the jobs i decline.
Also, if you are a registered member there is always the buy one get one, buy two get two free and so on deal. So essentially you always get 50% of on O'Reilly which is great but when you know this all other deals become redundant... :p
It's easy to find good programming e-books, but e-books about mathematics are harder to find. Does anyone know if there's a equivalent of O'reilly for math-books?
While on the topic, does any one have a good strategy for building the gstreamer-bad/ugly plugins on Fedora? I don't like the rpmfusion repository as it always seems to mess up the system sooner or later.
How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.
Because you can't create aliases in bash, or make your own file to source instead of ./activate?
How can it be easier to install more packages then just setting an environment variable?
I don't see why people keep on with virtualenv when all you need to create a sandbox is to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable...?
I've used their VPSes for a long time, and I must say I really like both their services and the company.
I don't know if this was just a random comment or if you missed that this phone does not run windows? :)
This is perverted.
Sponsored article?
This is Go's biggest problem right now. New libraries crop up and gets abandoned just as fast.
This is not pure CSS. This requires Markup, and Markup is something that Marks Up Text to give it semantic meaning.
This didn't work in my browser. FF 24 on Fedora.