jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack.
Actually, it's Toccata and Fugue in D Drive. Common mistake.
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jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night
"Nathan Cohen made this discovery..."
He's the reason you don't have a stubby antenna sticking out of your cell phone anymore. Really cool story.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night
"...too young to remember the fun of constantly adjusting TV rabbit ears..."
Too young, ha! I use rabbit ears on my HDTV (no cable, just netflix + locals is enough for me) and laugh when I go to Best Buy and see "state of the art high definition" antennas for anywhere from $20 to $100. The same laugh hits me when I go down the gold plated monster cable isle, but that's a different story.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed?
The article said that this was the original recipe, which the article also said contained alcohol. The article also said that as prohibition started, the alcohol was removed. So says the article.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
Agree completely. The point is that food producers are playing (wittingly or not) into the fact that our human biology is geared towards the storage of fat. Your body's primal survival mechanism is a hard thing to overcome. In more scarce times, people spent most of their energy in the pursuit of finding something to eat. Now you use about 8 calories to reach out your car window, grab your 1500 calorie supersized meal, and set it on your passenger seat.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
As I responded above, happy wife = happy life has more to do with how you think about and treat your wife than being subservient to her. As long as you've found the right person that has your best interests in mind, I don't see how it's a bad thing to show her you love her by doing things for her.
It is known that in general, women respond most to emotional stimulation and men respond to sex. When my wife asks me to do something, she's really asking me to show her that I love her. And when she gets that feeling, she's very receptive to the idea of sex. Win-win, as they say.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
Happy wife = happy life only works if your wife thinks "Happy husband = happy life". The premise of the phrase, for me, is that you're actually married to the right person.
But way to read too far into a silly little phrase and call me a coward, Mr. Anonymous Internet Man.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
The other (unwritten) upside being that therapy can help with a lot of other problems too... Of course you should openly talk about it. But sometimes an appeal to authority does wonders to get the point across.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
I agree that in the end it's personal responsibility that determines whether you're overweight or healthy. But it has to be said that it has become more difficult to be thin (at least in western societies) given the ease with which most of us can obtain high energy/fat foods. Add to that the fact that most food producers have profit margins as their motivators instead of the population's health, and you can see why it's getting harder.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
You overlook the fact that making effort (and most importantly following through) gets you sex. Happy wife = happy life. It's not beneath you to try to make your partner happy. And if she responds the way you're implying - I'm sorry, something is probably wrong with her.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much
Family therapists know this stuff already. Tell her that you want to make your marriage everything it could be and more, etc, etc, and get her to a therapist, where she'll learn it for herself. Worked for me ;)
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women
How can you, or anyone else, profess to know what's normal in bedrooms?
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: "The web is considered 'public domain'"
I get the feeling it's a one-girl operation and there are no higher ups.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you do to relax?
I was going to say StarCraft II, but then I remembered that it actually causes me stress.
jobrahms | 15 years ago | on: I've built this. Is it worth pursuing or just mad?
I think it's a pretty awesome idea, although I found myself wanting a bit of inertial scrolling happening with my mouse (not a touch pad, an actual mouse).
jobrahms | 16 years ago | on: Building Scalable Databases: Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg
Really? You left a {TODO} in your article?
jobrahms | 16 years ago | on: US man 'stole 130m card numbers'
I've heard of SQL injection attacks to log into websites, but this new use on firewalls is unprecedented! This man is a hacking GENIUS. We have our next Kevin Mitnick right here...
jobrahms | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN : What would you do if you had to switch to a "manual" job?
Yep. I'd try to get some actual paying gigs playing piano. Or I'd tune pianos. I tried that once for a while, kinda fun.
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