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Not sure where you're writing from geographically, professionally or culturally but I can't imagine doing this to anyone. In a professional environment, grabbing someone's arm and …

"A Stable (but perhaps unexciting) Business - This is where most people end up." Really? "Most people" with a new business end up with stable but unexciting businesses? I suspect m…

This seems unlikely as Prometheus is being directly by Ridley Scott, not James Cameron.

I've done quite a bit of looking around re: 433 Eros's composition. I have found very little to suggest to me that there's large amounts of valuable minerals there. Can you cite so…

As someone who works in higher education, I'm most excited about this: "...operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving an…

Try your local public library, it's free. You may have to wait a day or two for ILL or movies to get to your local branch if they don't have what you're looking for right there. Th…

I can second the recommendation of that book, I've heard a lot of good things, though I haven't read it. It's recently been updated in a 2nd edition [1], though I have no idea if t…

This seems like a really good idea, except that for me, it destroys two of the main reasons I send post cards when I travel: * The physical mail is moving from where I am travellin…

It seems to me, at least as far as my Google Autocompletes and general beginning linux searches, that many people who are new to linux are searching "problem $x ubuntu" not "proble…

Thanks for responding, I certainly see where you're coming from, as you've said, you can't change an entire industry over night, but that won't stop people like me from wishing tha…

I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing th…

That's an interesting question. My [minimal] understanding of copyright law suggests that whether the book's in public domain in Britain has no bearing on the rights granted to Ame…

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seconded. I live in Boston and I am almost never further than a single block from a BofA ATM here. Their ATMs now allow me to make deposits at nearly all ATMs, so until I move out …

If you find yourself to be interested in this sort of thing more broadly, in the justification of violence or it's utility, I recommend William T. Vollmann's exhaustive, intricate …

I think the thinking here is that hard drives are cheap and ubiquitous. I have a whole drawer full of old hard drives, and though most people don't, I'm sure a lot of boxee's event…

well, it looks like the Boxee Box _should_ be supporting Netflix "by the end of the year" and they appear to be in talks about Hulu+. http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/netflix-and…

I haven't been paying attention, but has eyetracking software gotten that good? Can you point to people or companies who are working on this, or currently available solutions? I've…

It's true: the old ones are very good, the recent additions to the Ender series for instance are terrible, they're an obvious cash in on his brand, I suspect he writes them quickly…

I know this article isn't about the content of your resume, but is your experience as a BSA camp counselor relevant programming or design work? Very few employers will understand t…

I did something similar the summer I also got my first on-the-books job. My mom had met a local business owner at a party and she's recommend my "skills" as a "web designer," I put…

I'd love to know what sort of infrastructure you're running this on. I'm in a course for my Masters for library school that deals with similar sorts of problems in maintaining and …

re: the OLPC, what were you running on it? I have one in my closet and I've been meaning to put something that isn't the stock software on there for a long time.

I've gotten in and things are loading, but slow. That the thing is still running at all seems nice given the ass-kicking I suspect their servers are likely receiving.