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How do you like TimeSvr? (Thinking of getting a VA as well).

[In "Fat Tony" voice]: That is a lovely University you've got there. It would be a shame, if something were to... happen...

Wanted: Someone who can solve problems and write solid code. If you lie about these qualifications, you must fight our stable of real ninjas, who have never heard of the web, becau…

"Making it" is a journey of several steps: 1. Realizing you haven't been checking price tags on food or household items for a while now. 2. Making money faster than you can find th…

> You should meet my Grandparents. My Grandma especially is a firecracker. She's done more this past year than some do in a decade. Must... resist...

And all this time, I've been injecting it into the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Oh, what a fool I've been!

I'll do it later... Edit: I was reading this article while procrastinating taking my sister-in-law to the DMV. Meanwhile, she discovered that she had forgotten to bring her passpor…

Why buy, when you can found?

Then his "offtopic" disclaimer is apt.

I am Spartacus!

You might accidentally end up volunteering that way...

> Offtopic : I am frustrated with people ignoring no free lunch theorem and trying to use GAs everywhere. GAs don't violate No Free Lunch. After all, you're a genetic algorithm...

> What were the odds I'd get to say that twice in one day? Just don't say it a third time, lest you create an unkillable meme...

No, interest usually compounds. This is more like a one-off currency trade of now-dollars versus future-dollars.

I wonder if there's a way around this: instead of an explicit interest or profit, make it a trade-based market: I'll give you X dollars-today, in exchange for 1.1 X dollars-N-month…

> My loan was one of the success stories: I couldn't have gotten a student loan through a traditional lender ("Your brother is going to cosign this? From Japan? Via fax? Pull the o…

> Man was that snarky. Yes. We methane-breathing anti-gourmets are known for our occasional lapses into snarkishness.

> And I don't like reading stuff that's interesting. I mean I do occasionally, but it rarely holds my attention. I can totally relate: I hate food that tastes good, and breathing o…

If you look at "sleep"'s response: Dear Sir, You have found the right person to do the job. I am a representative of a company that has recently completed a large enterprise commer…

Read your Joseph Campbell before categorically dismissing half of all fiction in human history.

[SPOILERS and SHAKY HYPOTHESIS below] I think that if you look at the claims in the essay through the lens of Card's Mormonism, a very different picture emerges. Ender's celibacy u…

Yes, they work wonderfully. Start with simple, quick-to-solve and quick-to-check problems, since the vast majority of applicants can't actually code.

Start with simple and fast screens, then progress to more fine-grained tests. A simple programming question will filter out a huge chunk of the candidates (i.e., those not smart en…

No, thank you! You can take your good food and functional health-care system elsewhere!

If he's programming before he's potty-trained, it's all your fault. ;)