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NearlyFreeSpeech.Net is always my goto.

This is great and shows real promise, do you have a mailing list so we can be subscribed for updates/when you reach 0.5?

also I'm paying my mum rent after I bought property wtf?

https://www.fastmail.com/

You can see how long you've been a LinkedIn member by going to your Privacy & Setting page, where it displays at the top.

https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/

Does anyone have any good books or resources to help someone determine a match between possible niches and their skillset?

I think this is the money quote -- noting that these effects are noted on neurotypcial, and not on ADHD brains and therefore may or may not be generalizable:

These results can only be interpreted in the context on normal brain structure and function, and thus would have direct implications for the illicit/neurocognitive use of MPH. Since the underlying anatomy and biochemistry of ADHD has not been definitively characterized, our findings may or may not be generalizable to the vast majority of humans who are properly diagnosed with ADHD and are prescribed methylphenidate. Nevertheless, this work supports studies [51], [57], [58], [59] that demonstrate that drugs shown to increase the levels of dopamine in the synaptic cleft can contribute to degenerative changes in the basal ganglia.

I'm a writer and I'm not sure why I need this.

If I'm doing something collaboratively, I'll either use a DVCS or meet with people in person. Or hack something together via Google Docs. (OK, I'm starting to see how this could be useful).

That said, I use Draft on a daily basis and it's awesome.

I'd be curious on cperciva's take on this.

I so wanted this. :(

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/LifeStrategy...

or

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/TargetRetire...

What is an instantaneous launch window?

Igor's point about distros trying to "own" 20K packages is well-taken; it's simply not possible.

In my own life the 'solution' I have found is to use FreeBSD; I get a stable, well-maintained core with a sharp distinction between core, userland and third-party (the ports system).

I have found the ports system to be a lightweight, agile alternative to GNU/Linux package managers:

When you install FreeBSD you are left with a kernel, standard UNIX command-line utilities and everything you need to hammer the system into a finely-honed tool.

Right now, I'm using it exclusively on my servers because I'm willing to accept the trade-offs of Ubuntu (beta 12.04 on my dev box, XUbuntu 11.10 on my netbook) on the desktop; a little instability and fully-automated updates is OK in exchange for not having to fiddle with graphics drivers, sound, Flash, etc.

I like the Lenovo ThinkPad X120E w/ an SSD. However, you could get a better lenovo with longer battery life for more than 500.

Or batch all commits into one update. That way it doesn't matter how much you commit, or push, it's a max of one entry per day per repo per user.

Then, make tags the exception -- since they are likely being used for releases.

http://cloudhead.io/toto (Ruby)

http://github.com/may/yabe (Scheme. Barely started.)

Can someone explain to me why Nginx is faster than Varnish with static assets?

I am assuming that this is because Nginx is faster at basic HTTP serving than Varnish. However, I am further assuming that if you have dynamic content served from a cache will always be faster than from the webserver; even if your webserver is super-fast you still have to wait for the page to be generated by your CMS, webapp, etc.

I ask because I am working on some blog software (http://github.com/may/yabe) and one feature I'd like to incorporate is super-fast page loads -- implemented via cache.

As the site will be .. "half-dynamic" -- new posts are added every day or so -- I would like to re-generate the HTML on every request, but cache the results for a few hours. I was planning to rely on Varnish, Squid, etc. to keep the load off my webserver.

Thoughts?

This.

Use a USB stick?

Sounds cool. Thanks!

What didn't you like about Delicious?

Yeah, I've thought about signing up for pinboard before. Have you released the extension anywhere?

Step one, stop reading Hacker News. Step two, go do something.

Did anyone else misread this headline as "Snoring" into 2011? #justme?

This. I have a '88 Toyota Land Cruiser that still runs like a dream (well-maintained), but still -- with over 240K on it.

laughs Indeed.

Exactly. That part was implied, I just forgot to say it. ;)

As soon as I saw the word "startups" -- plural -- I thought "he's doomed". However, while the popular wisdom is to focus soley on one thing, one startup, I often find that leads to imbalance. Perhaps having two ventures is a good thing.

What I'm doing right now is a 5-6 hours/day job for the bills and working on my projects the rest of the day. Balances out pretty well -- I get physically tired from work and get some social interaction/out of the house/out of my own head. And the rest of my time -- and all of my headspace -- is free to write and code.

But, to get back to you, it sounds to me like you really would rather be working on your projects.

Here's what I'd suggest -- you don't want to leave your boss in the lurch, and you still need some money -- so why not just talk to your boss about working reduced hours, say half-time, so you can help them and have more time for your startups?

Check out http://www.ProjectWonderful.com It's an auction-style online advertising site, used heavily in webcomics (but you can find ads on all kinds of sites).

We write web-based software to make people's lives better.

Thanks!