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tjic

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September 11, 2007 (19y ago)
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  1. Garfield creation story: 13 hrs/wk drawing, 60 hrs/wk marketing (slate.com)
    1 points 0
  2. XKCD 1190 - broken?

    Does it do anything for anyone? In the chrome console I just see a long list of GET http://xkcd.com/events/connect_start 404 (Not Found)

    6 points 4
  3. Heroic IT folks in NYC hauling fuel to keep servers alive shut down by unions (twitter.com)
    4 points 1
  4. Ask HN: my GF is a graphic designer - how should she find work?

    My GF is a graphic designer (HTML, CSS, AJAX, PHP, Wordpress, Illustrator - that sort of thing). Her current employer is cutting her hours back, and she's asked me how to get work (ideally contract work). As a…

    1 points 1
  5. Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup (part 2) (morlockpublishing.com)
    9 points 3
  6. Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup (morlockpublishing.com)
    23 points 9
  7. Doitfuckingnow.com - email harvesting?

    Several months back someone posted about doitfuckingnow.com here on news.yc. I signed up, gave a throw-away email address (tjic_doitfindnow_com@...), and never heard of them again. ...until today, when I got spam sent…

    1 points 1
  8. Getting things done (tjic.com)
    5 points 0
  9. Your career is a game of Dungeons & Dragons, not Monopoly (tjic.com)
    79 points 32
  10. Tell HN: the Milky Way has 16 smaller galaxies orbiting it (en.wikipedia.org)
    4 points 1
  11. 37 Signals profiled in Slate.com (slate.com)
    22 points 7
  12. Suggest to HN: user profiles / links to homepages

    A few times recently I've found a HN commenter who seems particularly intelligent or insightful, and have clicked on their profile name, hoping to get a link to their home page. (Yes, yes, a smarter person would only do…

    1 points 1
  13. Lawyers are trying to get HeavyInk.com to suppress a comic book (heavyink.com)
    6 points 1
  14. Ask NH: Hobo vs. ActiveScaffold for Rails

    I blogged about writing my own super-duper-meta package for Rails that abstracted out all the common CRUD/REST stuff that one does over and over in each project. Someone came along and suggested that I check out…

    3 points 2
  15. Ask HN: what do you think of the "can't see points on replies" feature?

    It looks like there's a new feature: you can't see points on replies. This is an interesting experiment - it probably removes some group-think, because folks are less inclined to judge a reply based on how others have…

    1 points 0
  16. What lies beneath New York's rivers (nymag.com)
    105 points 20
  17. Unexplained red flashes on the moon's surface (en.wikipedia.org)
    17 points 2
  18. Battle of Los Angeles - WW II alien invasion hysteria (Feb 1942) (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points -1
  19. How to Get Rid Of Orbiting Space Junk for the price of one shuttle launch (online.wsj.com)
    2 points 0
  20. NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered passenger ship, built in the late 1950s (en.wikipedia.org)
    4 points 0
  21. Ask HN: how to learn principles of DB schema design?

    I've been working with MySQL for several years, and I'd call myself pretty competent (I grok and use temporary tables, sub-selects, multiple types of joins, explain, etc.), but my knowledge of the * principles * of…

    5 points 1
  22. 30 second productivity hint that has saved me days (addons.mozilla.org)
    5 points 1
  23. Larry Lessig moving to Harvard (boston.com)
    4 points 3
  24. Every book that Art Garfunkel (from Simon and Garfunkel) has ever read (artgarfunkel.com)
    19 points 12
  25. How you deal with it is called character (tjic.com)
    27 points 2