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baconface | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

I'm working on a modern divorce site that helps couples work together with professionals to quickly and safely reach an equitable resolution for this incredibly difficult event. There are lots of creative symbols in marriage and divorce that could make for an interesting photography project.

baconface | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does your life have a purpose?

I'm in my late 20s.

I feel there are only 2 decisions because 1) I've felt the unparalleled creative power of controlled, maniacal dedication and 2) I may suffer from typical cognitive distortions despite reasonable achievement and lots of introspection

baconface | 13 years ago | on: A Developer’s Year in Review

> Get better at design.

> Learn a new language.

> Do more open source.

> Write fewer blog posts.

> Focus (utterly failed here)

These seem like prime examples of "bullshit goals" [1] that aren't actionable. For goals to be useful they should be quantifiable and accountable.

*[1]: http://www.two-shay.com/articles/avoid-bullshit-goals

baconface | 13 years ago | on: Poll: Should we push the YC deadline back by a day because of the storm?

How about a day for each day the market remains closed.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: What Can You Expect to Earn in the Valley?

$60k in Denver >> $90k in Palo Alto

baconface | 14 years ago | on: XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public

"Very" in all caps?

Go to walmart please.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much do you pay software engineers?

What are the equity ranges for seed and series A? I've heard up to 4% for seed, but not sure if that was correlated with a high-end salary or not.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much do you pay software engineers?

Oops, meant to specify the bay area.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Providence Equity Partners To Acquire Blackboard For $1.64 Billion In Cash

There are some notable open source EMS' (educational management system) like moodle.org.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Research into hallucinogenic drugs begins to shake off decades of taboo

Thanks.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Speed up your eclipse as a super fast IDE

How does the Sun JDK significantly outperform the GCC-GCJ?

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Research into hallucinogenic drugs begins to shake off decades of taboo

Regardless of how effective drugs like LSD and psilocybin are, they make it difficult to maintain traditional societal hierarchies of power and control and thus will be stamped out.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Why I don’t use Linux as a desktop OS

What about VMing Windows? VirtualBox works great for me and its seamless window integration is pretty good.

Also, I've heard good things about Crossover, but never tried it myself.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera

This still seems like a valid low-tech hacking technique. Simply take photos of anyones keys (easy to do if you are planning it out) and run some software. This seems like a potentially big problem for any facility secured by only lock and key (schools, homes, safety deposit boxes, PO boxes, cars, storage, etc.).

baconface | 14 years ago | on: House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera

Sounds perfect for a RepRap :D

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Card.io - fast and easy mobile credit card scanning

Is anyone aware of any direct competition in the credit card "scanning" space?

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Club Penguin Goes Down After Disney Fails To Renew Domain Name

Anyone know how much it cost ClubPenguin to get the domain name back?

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Sound Based Near Field Communication without NFC Chips

Also, I thought Shopkick would have locked up these patents?

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Sound Based Near Field Communication without NFC Chips

What's really cool about Zoosh is what it does for p2p or m2m behavior.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to wget pages with javascript?

Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea how to accomplish this task without using JS?

I'm surprised chromium, konqueror and firefox don't offer this functionality for offline browsing.