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There goes the neighborhood!

I'm hosting some projects on my own box. It's a mix of svn and bzr repositories fronted by Trac.

Trac is awesome, but it doesn't really understand bzr branches and such, so linking to code from inside Trac is a little weird. If you'll be using DVCS, shop around for something more congruent.

Also, browsing a bzr repo from Trac is pretty slow.

P.S. The entire thing's version controlled so I can view and edit from any of my systems. I also collect ideas on paper, and later enter them into this system.

I use Org Mode for emacs. Each project idea gets its own org file in an all-project-ideas directory. Each file is added to an Org Mode meta-file that specifies the location of the org files.

I go through my ideas directory about once a week to keep things fresh.

Org Mode has built-in outlining support, date tags that bring items onto your calendar in several ways, and a ton of other features.

I tried it out for GTD a few months ago and got very quickly hooked. Until then I had been planning on writing my own web-based system.

The default qmail install will accept and queue incoming messages for accounts that don't exist on the system, and bounce them later (usually to an unrelated, innocent address) if the account isn't created.

Did you do anything in your installations to address that problem? If so, what was it?

"... I was trying to challenge the general perceptions of when you can start a start-up."

I prefer to think in terms of "personal industry" rather than "startup." Personal industry used to be the normal case, with people building their own house, planting their own fields, and so on. I think it's rather odd and sad that so many of us get caught up in corporate life. I have more feelings about this, but am having trouble articulating them

Anyway, to answer the when?: Until I'm so old and decrepit that my children are taking care of me.

The US version might be "you reap what you sow," which I like because crops produce more than what they were planted with.

Pick a venture that lets you get out more than you put in, eh?

What about this? Put every document in a directory called 'All' or something. Want to tag foo.txt as vacation? 'mkdir vacation && ln All/foo.txt vacation/'

Maybe a lot of those programmers don't even realize how stressed out they are---they've probably been acclimated to it over a long enough period of time to not really notice.

I think that depends on the company. I'd say, especially in the software industry, that if a company rejects you simply because you don't have a traditional resume, then they probably aren't looking for exceptional people.

tar's specialty was writing archives directly to tape (Tape ARchive) and minimizing tape-seeks as much as possible. Yeah, it's a pretty old program.

English is my favorite novel language, but I didn't have much time for reading fiction in school. ;)

I have noticed that learning math from lectures (and similar means) versus learning math by reading a math book are very different skills.

Learning from lectures may be very good to get a handle on the basics. You may learn the facts faster, and keep motivation up.

But to learn beyond the basics, especially areas that are less likely to be covered at your local community college, you should learn how to learn from a book (this is different than learning from books in other subjects).

Perhaps, if you take some lectures, you may want to read a chapter or two ahead of the lecture, to get used to reading a math book as a primary source.

Good luck! Math is beautiful!