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baconface··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··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··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··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··on [dead]
$60k in Denver >> $90k in Palo Alto
baconface··on XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public
"Very" in all caps?

Go to walmart please.

baconface··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··on Ask HN: How much do you pay software engineers?
Oops, meant to specify the bay area.
baconface··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··on Research into hallucinogenic drugs begins to shake off decades of taboo
Thanks.
baconface··on Speed up your eclipse as a super fast IDE
How does the Sun JDK significantly outperform the GCC-GCJ?
baconface··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··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··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··on House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera
Sounds perfect for a RepRap :D
baconface··on Card.io - fast and easy mobile credit card scanning
Is anyone aware of any direct competition in the credit card "scanning" space?
baconface··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··on Sound Based Near Field Communication without NFC Chips
Also, I thought Shopkick would have locked up these patents?
baconface··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··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.

baconface··on Ask HN: How to wget pages with javascript?
Thanks. I really want to get this done with the command line and it looks like Phantom JS will do the trick.
baconface··on Ask HN: 1000 signups a week, but how to gain long term engagement?
You could ask people what they hope to get out of your app before they quit using it. Maybe after their first return or a few page clicks?
baconface··on Marco Arment & Instapaper’s Reading List
This cache-hit data would actually be interesting to look through.
baconface··on No wallet, no problem?
Agreed. It's smelling like Google: http://phandroid.com/2011/03/15/google-reportedly-buying-up-...
baconface··on No wallet, no problem?
Mobile payments are no longer interesting or exciting to, but mostly frustrating. Hopefully, Google throwing a couple billion at ubiquitizing NFC terminals will stir things up.

Japan has been doing it for years while US giants hold each other in a stalemate. At least Square is happily trotting forward while Visa and Mastercard miss another Paypal.

baconface··on Ask HN: Starting your day at office
I love having a solid hour for this, but can't always make it happen.
baconface··on Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge
Ya, huge difference imo. Macbook Air has a decent 1440x900, which amounts to an extra 17% vertical increase.
baconface··on Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge
I did wait for the Series 9, but it had 1366x768 :(

Hilariously, Sony omits this tidbit on their own page. See it here: http://techdraginfo.blogspot.com/2011/01/samsung-9-series-ul...

baconface··on Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge
I waited a long time for Sony, Dell, or Toshiba to compete with the Macbook Air. Finally, they did and even with Sandy Bridge. Unfortunately, every single one of them settled for shitty 1360x760 displays forcing me to get an Air.

The Air has been perfect, though installing ubuntu without a superdrive or external cdrom was a preposterous nightmare.

baconface··on Buy Newegg gear using Bitcoin
Seems like another good technique for mining bitcoins.
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