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Ideally, that "figuring out" would have happened before the marriage part, no?

Do you have an S.O.? While you may have one who is anti-V-day (which is fine), but I'd imagine that even the one who "doesn't really care much" would probably be a little disappointed if you made NO effort to do something just a little special.

Of course, you should be nice every day, too. I think that's pretty understood.

Very interesting and thorough analysis. It's not just someone making wild speculation based on a rehashing of network news, but rather, he seems to be a seasoned small craft pilot with legitimate knowledge and understanding to add.

I agree with you. I certainly feel that I read a lot online now, but so much of it is in small bursts. I find it hard now to maintain decent concentration while trying to read long documents/books offline.

Like others have been mentioning here, Metafilter has a fee like this, and from what I hear, it works really well for them. Thinking about it more, though, I can see how it would could really prevent new users from wanting to join. I'm not sure exactly what would happen. I'd be willing to support an experiment and try it, though.

God Bless Australia. I love that country, and I really liked how tax is already included in all prices and payment is rounded to 5c since there are no 1c pieces. It makes payments so much simpler.

Poor sleep habits.

Arlington, VA? What makes that area particularly good?

Duke, BSE (ECE & CS) '07

I find that NewEgg is more than adequate for any sort of tech purchase. I guess that if people are going to be spending a lot on expensive tech equipment (and nearly all of it is expensive) then they'd probably like to see it in person first.

Does anyone else feel that the play/pause button is backwards? For me, the button displays the "Play" arrow when the music is playing and it shows the pause button when it is paused. I know that sounds like how it should be, but I think that's the reverse of most other players that show the Play button when music is not playing, and, after clicking, the music begins and the button switches to give you the option to pause.

Also, I noticed that the album art was constantly flickering for me.

(I'm using FF 3.0.5 on OS X 10.5.6)

Well, those houses being rented out seem to be in the range of ~$3000/week. That's what's nuts. There would be more people going that route if that price wasn't so high.

Girlfriend (civil engineer in Fairfax), desire to move out of Orlando after growing up here and living here for 16 years (though that still includes four years of undergrad in NC), my company also conveniently has offices in and around Fairfax, too.

Amazing...thank you! Are there any other specific groups that you'd recommend (any python groups)? I'm planning on moving to Fairfax, VA in the first quarter of 2009, so I want to know what would be a good way to get familiar with the area (tech-wise) and to meet some people. You can also use my contact info listed in my profile.

I suppose you could start it yourself. :) If you feel so strongly that way, I bet there are others out there like you, too.

Are these conferences still happening? I can't seem to reach any more recent than 2006.

So true about those other sites. I'm so happy to have found HN, and I no longer even remember how it happened.

Can't you easily make this yourself? Does anyone know of a good tutorial for doing this?

They could also be trying to avoid tons of poorly built apps that overwhelm the market. I seem to feel that this is somewhat the case with iPhone apps.

True, but only at the beginning. I think if you were a great programmer, you would likely build something that made money and you would no longer be poor. This does seem like a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma, though, by not being able to develop something without easy access to docs. Apple Developer Connection is free, however.

Pratt '07 here...where's your contact info?

I'm upgrading from a PB G4, too.

If Blizzard were to really make this legitimate, new users would probably be turned off to the fact that they, too, are sweating to boost their character when others are just buying it. If it is somewhat underground, many people don't see it as legitimate and won't be turned off or notice that others around them simply buy their status.

I love his innovative use of github. It's clever, and it works surprisingly well!

And then he steps on the grill one day, no? Haha! Bad idea...

I'm there with you on the lack of a matte display. I find it hard to believe that glare is not an issue to those with glossy screens. I think people simply deal with it because of our inherent draw towards that which is shiny...

Multi-user editing can be really great sometimes. That's something that the desktop apps don't have or don't use effectively.

Behind-the-scenes version control is in Google Docs, so I'd expect it to be in their presentation app, too. That can be really handy, as well, and while you can do versioning decently in Powerpoint, I don't think may people use it.

I'm really impressed with the online team at LJWorld. It still surprises me that great work, like Django, came out of a relatively small town in Kansas.

It's not like these newspapers aren't still available somewhere in their dead-tree form. I assume Google isn't the only place where these newspapers are archived. They just made it easier to access and search the papers.

I would have loved to stay close with my friends from college, but the problem with graduating from college is that you all tend to go your own way (which is typically to various cities around that US). It sucks that I can't see any of them more often than maybe once a year.