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mike

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mike··on The WELL, Birthplace Of Online Movement, Is Up For Sale
Minor point, but Pine is one of the console email clients, the conferencing software use for the actual forums on The WELL is PicoSpan [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoSpan

mike··on Why Do Startups Do This?
Give it another try.. it was down for me too but seems to be back now. Or try http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sugexp=chrome,m...
mike··on Smart people don't think others are stupid
Just a quick recommendation for "A Mind Of Its Own" by Cordelia Fine (especially Chapter 3 = The Immoral Brain) for anyone who would like to read more about this, or for anyone already familiar who would like a short, readable book on the subject to recommend to other people.
mike··on Light Table Is On Kickstarter
Just in case it's useful to anyone else, an HD version of the video (where the code is legible) is available on vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/40281991
mike··on Cleaner Hacker News
news:yc has a small text font setting and a nested comments setting which shows all comments rather than just one level at a time.
mike··on Ask HN: how many years have you "wasted" on failed startups? And any regrets?
I think the quote is from Tom Preston-Werner's post "How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub" http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
mike··on OhLife: A Personal Journal You Might Actually Keep Updating
There is an export facility (link on the "past" page) that you could use for backups.
mike··on Reasons to hate any programming language
It's only at the end that the value of x is 3. The puts x immediately after x = :foo does print :foo
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