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You can be quite sure I know exactly what the word means.

The website: http://www.iphonefreelancer.net/

I disagree entirely. If I was pessimistic I wouldn't have met and talked to anyone. It was instead the opposite situation. Eventually I couldn't attend all my usual spots to get an…

I was talking about the specific plan to monetarily support such a place. Seems like it would be a time suck to engage in this kind of place a lot -- and therefore the self interes…

This boat circumnavigated the world on renewable fuels which included human fat: http://www.earthrace.net

I am not trying to be super cynical here, but... The problem I see with this kind of thing is that it looks like it would probably be against someone's self interest to make too mu…

Awesome thanks. Two coincidences: this fun mud thing is in Python (works via RPC)... and the entry method name is "hammer," heh.

I have a screenscraping thing in place that targets an ASCII only environment (LambdaMOO mud). Manually replacing unicode stuff like this has been a pain in the butt. Luckily that …

Interesting, Argentina suddenly popping up here a lot, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408190 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407853

It's highly likely that you a) explicitly agreed to this default when you signed up and b) their terms of service (which you agreed to when you signed up) is written in such a way …

I see downmods on above comment without explanation. On a whim, this prompted me to say a little more: The more OSX crosses into mainstream consumer territory, the better. I only r…

(original submitter here) I care. I care about end-user personal computing trends. They a) amuse me and b) affect my income. That's why I submitted, to see discussion on a topic I …

It was actually accepted as a "poster" which is not a rigorous thing. I still think it's an embarrassment. This has been done before, and accepted as a full CS paper (search for "s…

Pretty cool, thanks. Coincidentally... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408190

Does your buddy need to travel back to consult with customers in the US (assuming that is where he is from)? Was he an established consultant before the move?

laptop, huge-normous battery for laptop, water

Teaching is a skill on its own, it's orthogonal. I've read, and believe through my own intuition/experience, that being a "true expert" in most things is often such an intuitive pl…

What is the value of this over Google CSE (Custom Search Engine)? http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

s/affect/effect/ I know, you already knew that. But if nothing was said, we would descend into chaos.

From the article: * 92 percent of VCs thinks investments will slow in 2009. (Translation: We are all going to be hiding under our desks.) * 19 percent say they are going to invest …

Led me to http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ Funniest single serving site ever. You need to try it out, for example: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=something

I also won't store my backups in anything but my own S3 buckets (they are encrypted, privacy is not the issue). Is duplicity stable in your opinion? I am usually one to use alpha/b…